Eight Delhi Artists Shaping The Sound of Indian Electronic Music

New Delhi's dance music culture is more vibrant than ever. Where events once clustered around seasons, the capital now sustains a steady weekly club culture with some of the biggest names in global dance music touring regularly. With a population of over 30 million, it's a city teeming with talented acts that have shaped its local scene over the years.

But several restrictions and layers of bureaucracy have always held the culture back from reaching its true potential. Most clubs shut by 1 am (hotels being the exception), which remains one of the biggest barriers to a thriving nightlife.

The bureaucratic burden organizers and clubs face also eats into time and money that should go toward music-focused events and spaces. On the ground, challenges still persist in the basics: sound systems, stage setups, working conditions, and fair compensation for everyone involved. Despite this, artists and clubland enthusiasts keep fighting to enact change and push the scene forward. 

The following Delhi-based artists, from established legends to rising talents, are among those doing exactly that, and they have been integral in shaping what we now call Indian electronic music.

Midival Punditz 

Tapan Raj and Gaurav Raina have shaped Indian electronic music for close to three decades. As a duo, Midival Punditz were central to the Asian Underground movement, and they did it by building a cultural exchange from inside India rather than from the diaspora looking in.

Their music is built on long-form compositions that follow Hindustani classical progressions, laid over a serious analog and digital electronic framework.

The duo returned from a long hiatus in April this year with their fifth studio album, Love & Machines. It moves through ghazal, Sufi, folk and Indian classical, and runs all of it through modern electronica and club music. Our pick is "Nukhta," their collaboration with Rajasthani folk singer Kutle Khan in 2019. Bass music and Rajasthani folk should not sit together as naturally as they do here, and the track still sounds fresh.

The beauty of Indian music is its diversity, and their discography makes the case well. It moves across Hindi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Bengali and Urdu.

Monophonik  

Monophonik sits in a class of his own, and he has been integral to the underground movement in India. Live modular acts are rare in the country, and he is one of the few pushing that format forward.

His music moves fluidly across acid, breaks, techno and trance. Hardware experimentation and spontaneity sit at the center of both his production and live sets. The experimentation gets the attention first, but it is the depth of the discography that the wider world has started to notice.

His recent releases on Harmony Records, Qilla Records and Crescent London have become staples in clubs and venues worldwide. Our standout pick is "Uyire", made with Indian underground veteran and Quilla Records founder Kohra.

Monophonik is one of the most compelling names in Indian underground music right now.

Tech Panda x Kenzani 

Blending the richness of Indian culture with modern dance music is the core of Tech Panda & Kenzani's philosophy. The project has run for over a decade and has only grown stronger. Their sound moves through Afro house and melodic house, built on Indian folk influences.

They broke through in 2020 when "Khoyo" went viral. Clubs, festivals, cafes, fashion shows, the track was everywhere that year. "Dilbar" with Rusha & Blizza followed and cemented their place in the Indian electronic music landscape.

Their most recent release, "Jija", has started another wave by fusing Afro house with Indian electronica. The duo has moved from a regional act to a global one. They recently played at one of world’s most iconic clubs, Hï Ibiza for James Hype's Our House.

Blu Attic

Blu Attic is one of the most interesting young producers coming out of New Delhi. Blending the melancholy and emotional gravitas of melodic house with Indian vocals is his signature style, and nobody in the country does it better.

His catalogue spans respected international labels including Anjunadeep and Indo Warehouse. His Anjunadeep Explorations debut, "Till I Lose Myself", became a standout on the compilation and showed how cleanly he merges organic and electronic elements. He returned in 2025 with the Traces EP, featuring vocal collaborations with Adarsh Saxena and Shraddha Shree, expanding his identity as a melodic storyteller.

Nida 

India has a long history of disco woven into its dance music culture. Tracing the sound from the late '70s to 2026, the evolution of both the music and the experience around it is remarkable.

Nida is a rising name in Indian dance music, and her ambition is to carry that disco lineage forward through vibrant, dance floor-driven releases and her well-crafted event series, Paradisco.

Disco and house anchor her sound, branching into acid, cosmic house, UKG, leftfield, breaks, techno and electro. Her debut release, "Where Were You" on Dynamite Disco Club is infectious, and it establishes a funky, uplifting mood right from the intro.

Anhad Khanna / Sublime Sound 

Few Indian producers move between styles as comfortably as Anhad Khanna. Under his Sublime Sound moniker, he weaves together house, breaks, and UK-inspired sounds with ease and expertise. His other project with Tanner moves away from the dance floor entirely, toward deep, emotional downtempo work rooted in cultural textures. What persists across both is a sense of euphoria and a leaning toward introspective melodies.

His discography runs deep, but our standout pick is "Love Light," released on the esteemed Nervous Records in 2024. The old school blend encapsulates the nostalgia he reaches for, while the melodic structure sustains that feeling of euphoria.

The Anhad + Tanner catalogue sits outside the dance music space altogether, and it is a revealing entry point into how diverse the Indian scene has become. The Silent Days EP under that project earned global acclaim for its blend of regional and international sounds, and for the introspective journey it takes the listener on.

Bird

Jaipur/Delhi-based Bird came up as a DJ first, reading Indian dance floors for years and learning the landscape from the floor up. But the rhythmic instinct underneath goes back further, to years of Kathak, Hindustani classical music, and hand percussion, a grounding that's now shaped a sensibility entirely her own. Rooted in the spirit of old school progressive trance and techno, her tracks weave intricate percussion and groove through immersive synth movement.

Her recent EP Corrode Me Slow, released on Paris-based imprint adopt BAE, traces a slow burn across breakbeat rhythms, acid textures and trance-leaning momentum. It also carries remixes from fellow Indian producers Vridian and Haen.

UKato 

Bass music has long been the unsung hero of India's dance music culture, and UKato has stayed close to it for over a decade, strengthening its foundation from within.

Drum & bass is a genre that demands complete command of sound design, and Ukato has not only met that standard but brought his own signature to it. Releases on Noisia's Vision Recordings, RAM Records and 4NC¥ have established him firmly within the global drum and bass conversation. Beyond that, he has produced some of the biggest Indian releases in recent years, including work with popular songwriters and rappers King & Seedhe Maut. For anyone drawn to the precision of producers like Noisia or Skrillex, UKato belongs on your radar.