Beatport Landed Goes Inside Los Angeles’ After-Hours Engine

Los Angeles doesn’t just reveal itself; you’ve got to go looking for it. In the latest Beatport Landed episode, host Marie Nyx links with Bianca Oblivion, Masha Mar, Oza, DJ Kerry, and Juliet Mendoza to tap into a scene that lives off-grid and moves a little differently.

There’s this long-running myth that LA doesn’t have a proper dance scene. Truth is, it’s just not sitting in plain sight. With clubs shutting at 2:00 AM, the real action spills into the after-hours, where warehouses, backyards, and low-key locations get flipped into full-blown dance floors. Some run back consistently under the radar, others pop up for one night only, packed to the brim before disappearing without a trace. If you were there, you know. If you weren’t, you missed it. But there’s always another function around the corner.

At the center of it all are the people building it. Bianca Oblivion’s Warp Mode channels high-impact, genre-fluid energy into raw, sweatbox moments. DJ Kerry’s Basement leans intimate and transportive, dialing things into a deeper, heads-down groove. Masha Mar’s Take It Outside pushes that open-air, anything-goes spirit, while Oza’s Tunnel has become a vital space for queer expression and emerging sounds to cut through. And then there’s Juliet Mendoza, the Spiritual Systems Records founder whose fingerprints are across dozens of events in the city, quietly helping shape the connective tissue that keeps the scene moving.

That’s exactly why we tapped this group. They’re not just playing in the scene; they’re actively building it. In a city without a single epicenter, these DJs, producers, and promoters offer a real window into how LA actually works: collaborative, scrappy, and constantly evolving.

Find out more by watching Beatport Landed: Los Angeles in the player above.