Eight Emerging Artists On Our Radar: February 2026
Welcome back to On Our Radar, Beatportal’s monthly roundup of the DJs and producers we can’t get enough of.
Cameron Holbrook
Casey Club
Casey Club isn’t easing into 2026 - he’s tearing straight through it. After “Papi Riddim” camped out in Beatport’s Top 10 Dubstep chart for five months and saw him finish 2025 as the 4th best-selling Dubstep artist on the platform, the Bristol bass disruptor just dropped Borehole on Zeds Dead’s Deadbeats. It’s five tracks of guttural low-end, warped wubs, and pure peak-time damage. With Chase & Status, NGHTMRE, Subtronics, and Zeds Dead backing him, plus Taiki Nulight tour support and major festival slots locked in, Casey Club is making damn certain that the rave and bass heads around the globe knows his name.
CAY
Cologne-born producer CAY has been grinding in the background for years, and now he’s stepping fully into the light. His debut album Another Life, landing on Mind Against’s HABITAT, pulls away from straight-up peak-time formulas and dives into something more personal - melancholic, euphoric, and layered with his own vocals for the first time. If you caught his UPPERGROUND releases with ARTBAT “Breathe In” climbing the Melodic Techno charts and racking up millions of streams, you already know he can move a dance floor. But this feels different. It’s cinematic without being cheesy, emotional without losing drive - club music with heart, risk, and something real to say.
Isaac Carter
Isaac Carter plays house like it’s alive. Rooted in Chicago and Detroit but sharpened by London’s restless energy, the OCHI boss has built a reputation on deep groove, warmth, and that rare sense of lift that feels earned, not forced. Since his 2025 Boiler Room breakout, he’s been on a steady climb - from Phonox and Rinse FM to DC10, Lost Village and Love International - with support from Ben UFO, Joy Orbison and Floating Points backing his stellar deep house cuts. Now, he links with Callum Asa for Last Call on Bradley Zero’s Rhythm Section - four polished rollers that balance depth, detail, and pure dance floor heat. It’s the sound of two seasoned selectors locking in and letting the groove do the talking.
Khadija
Berlin’s Khadija moves with purpose. DJ/producer, creative director, and founder of the Rafiki collective, she’s building spaces as much as she’s building records - weaving her Eritrean heritage into a deep, soulful house sound that feels both grounded and expansive. A resident at Heideglühen with sets at Robert Johnson, Tresor, Fusion, and beyond, she’s steadily carved out her lane through intention, not hype. Now she lands on Radio Slave’s REK’D with Dunya I, the first chapter of a personal trilogy shaped by resilience and reflection. It's deeply personal and here to feed your soul with groove and dance floor delight.
Marco Maldarella
Bologna’s Marco Maldarella isn’t making polite, predictable techno. He’s building pressure systems. Sitting somewhere between psychedelic techno, tribal pulse, and glitch-heavy IDM, his tracks feel like they’re mutating in real time - drones swelling, rhythms locking into something primal, voices flickering through the mix. He’s been testing that energy live, pushing sound and visuals into the same chaotic yet calculated orbit. His recent Omen Wapta album, Silent Logic, show a producer obsessed with tension and texture. It’s hypnotic, elegantly detailed, and built for dancers who want to get lost inside the noise.
Smokey Bubblin’ B
Smokey Bubblin’ B is an artist who is driving the UKG-to-house crossover wave with heat from every angle. The London-born producer closed 2025 with his stellar ATW030 three-tracker on Interplanetary Criminal's imprint, a joint tune with Lu.Re with “Want It To Be” and “Temptation” - deep, rolling heater that shot to #3 on Beatport’s House Top 100 and #11 overall, picking up serious love from Chris Stussy, Michael Bibi, and Patrick Topping. Add over 25 million Spotify streams in a year and viral moments that stretched from Boiler Room clips to Circoloco dance floors, and the momentum feels undeniable. Now he storms into 2026 with “On The Run” via Armada - a bouncy, soul-laced roller that pairs chopped keys with pure, open-sky energy. It’s bold, bright, and built for hands-in-the-air chaos - Smokey is locked in and not looking back.
Soreab
The Italian-born, London-based DJ/producer Soreab returns with CU - short for "Completely Unstable" - a 10-track release on POLAAR that fuses techno, dub, ambient and industrial soundscapes into something stripped, tense, unconventional, and deeply physical. Built from repetition and recorded in just four takes per track, the album feels like a stress valve cracking open in real time. Loops stretch, mutate, and grind forward with purpose. It’s radical minimalism with muscle - instability harnessed into something raw, relentless, and strangely therapeutic.
u.r. trax
u.r.trax is on a mission to twist the club inside out. First spotted by Nina Kraviz on Trip Recordings and now teaming up with Because Music, the Paris DJ/producer moves between raw techno pressure and razor-sharp sound design without blinking. Her new single “chelsea girls 2.0” with Vladimir Dubyshkin is sweaty, queer, dangerous and wonky in all the right ways. Founder of the ultra rare label and allergic to predictability, u.r.trax feels like the future - already happening.
