Eight Emerging Artists On Our Radar: July 2026

Welcome back to On Our Radar, Beatportal’s monthly roundup of the DJs and producers we can’t get enough of.

Cameron Holbrook

4 min •

Jul 21, 2026

Arky Waters

Sydney-based DJ/producer Arky Waters came out of rock bands before diving into jungle, DnB, 140, techno, and breaks, finding a knack for creating bass / club music that will fry a raver’s nervous system and leave them wanting more. After breaking through with Johera EP and pushing further with the bustling breaks behind “UGETME?,” he now arrives with his debut album Holdin’ On – a record he describes as a journal entry on his education in electronic music and life in Sydney through his lens. It’s rooted in joy, intensity, late-night movement, and the mechanics of bass itself. With support slots for Buunshin, G Jones, and Eprom behind him, Arky feels like he's shaping up to become one of Australia’s next serious club exports.

BrokinPaper

BrokinPaper, the NYC project of Asian-American producer Harrison Lee, sits somewhere between UK garage, industrial techno, electro-punk, and scorched runway music. He’s built the whole thing independently, with releases catching Timbaland’s attention, a global ZARA campaign placement, and a mix for Rezz’s HypnoVizion pushing the noise and attention even louder. His “Antidote Remix,” a rework of Minsk-based artist Jenasi, is razor-sharp and nasty: distorted synths, UK vocal incantations, percussion with a jaw clenched too tight. You can hear flashes of Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize, Gesaffelstein, and Brodinski in the grit, but BrokinPaper drags those references into his own cold, modern frame. Distorted, DIY, and glowing red at the edges, this is dark club music that pulls you toward the warehouse like an alien tractor beam.

EMJIE

EMJIE is moving with serious bounce right now. The Belgium-based DJ/producer has been pushing her own strain of house and indie dance: retro leads, basslines with shoulders, drums that don’t politely ask permission. Her 2026 track “Spirit Higher” with LP Giobbi flew past 500K streams in a month, and the BBC Radio 1 love didn’t hurt either. Nor did the Future Star nod at the Femmy’s x Billboard ceremony during Miami Music Week. Now she’s back on Exploited Club with “Yeah, I’m Okay” featuring NTJ, a motivating hip-house heater with organ stabs, shuffle, vocal bite, and just enough sweat on it to leave you with scuffed shoes on your feet and a dazzling grin on your face.

Fundido

Fundido are Brooklyn lifers. The kind of people who keep showing up, decorating rooms, booking friends, and stretching a party until it has a pulse of its own. Latane Hughes and Billy Scher started a decade ago with a residency at Baby’s All Right, then worked their way through the full sprawl of New York dance culture, from The Lot Radio to their Good Room residency, with stops across Hot Mass, Making Time, A Club Called Rhonda, Electric Forest, III Points Miami, Skyline Festival, Coachella, and beyond. Following their Get A Grip record with Emma Dufaux on DFA earlier this year, they now step onto DJ Tennis’ Life And Death with Melt EP, a four-track EP featuring remixes from Papa Nugs and Retromigration. Fiery piano riffs, soaring Italo flashes, balearic heat, proper songcraft: Fundido know how to make a dance floor feel open, loose, and genuinely looked after.

Kloyd

Kloyd makes electronic music that feels intimate without going small. The Yorkshire-raised, London-based artist, real name Kate Lloyd, pulls from Bonobo, Four Tet, Air, downtempo, bass music, and lonely piano-room feelings, then turns them into something soft-edged but quietly massive. Her debut mixtape New Love has arrived on Anjunadeep after 18 months of writing alone in her London flat while holding down a full-time job, which gives the whole thing a lived-in weight. Built from improvised piano, found sounds, candid songwriting, and vocalists Winifred and Tonguetied, the record traces love from first spark to hard acceptance. It’s tender, hopeful, and absolutely not background music.

Scotia

Originally from New York’s Hudson Valley and now based in NYC, Scotia works with drum machines, analogue synths, and a sound she calls “transsexual acid.” You can hear it all over her 2024 debut EP Giving Chase on Acid Camp: raw, tangled rhythms with enough 303 firepower to knock the wind out of you. This year, she’s kept the pressure high with releases on The Bunker New York and Ran$om Note, while booking shows across the US. Her fierce set at Club Toilet during Detroit’s Movement Festival earned RA’s Mix of the Day for good reason. Now her upcoming Lithophonix EP lands on Chinotto Records with Octo Octa and DJs Pareja on remix duty, already picking up support from Paranoid London, Mike Servito, and Heidi Lawden. Scotia feels hardwired into the queer rave circuit: not just moving through it, but pushing its sound somewhere to new and tough territory.

SIMMS

SIMMS is helping to catapult jungle into its next phase. Plain and simple. The 22-year-old London producer/DJ has become a key name in the city’s new wave of junglists, with furious sets and a sound that flips R&B, garage, classic jungle, and video-game-coded atmospheres into something widescreen and deadly on a system. His debut project Traversal Tapes has landed via the newly launched Passionfruit Records, paying real respect to the genre’s foundations while forcing the sound into new zones. You can hear flashes of Adam F, Roni Size, and LTJ Bukem in its depth and movement, but the record pushes outward: modern textures, sharper drums, and a younger London voltage running through it. Sherelle, Nia Archives, Charlie Tee, and Tyler, The Creator have all paid attention. That’s not random. SIMMS is building jungle with taste, speed, and an actual visual world around it.

Cameron Holbrook

4 min

Eight Emerging Artists On Our Radar: July 2026

Cameron Holbrook

Arky Waters

BrokinPaper

EMJIE

Fundido

Kloyd

Scotia

SIMMS

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