Max HeyraudThis week’s entry to the Mix Of The Week comes from Yasmin Gardezi live from Australia’s coveted Pitch Festival, where the Kerry native weaves her galloping selection of tribal kissed techno and trance for the duration.
Yasmin Gardezi is an artist who has spent the best part of a decade steadily refining her sound, rising through Cork’s underground scene before becoming a regular fixture on Ireland’s festival circuit and, more recently, establishing herself as a headline act in her own right. She’s currently in the middle of a packed schedule that looks set to intensify as summer approaches, a clear reflection of both her work ethic and the ongoing evolution of a sound that now feels fully realised, striking a confident balance between techno and trance.
Her latest mix live from Pitch captures exactly where she is as a DJ right now. Gardezi opens in her trademark high-velocity style, bursting out of the gate with a selection of early-2000s UK-adjacent techno in the vein of Dave The Drummer, Chris Liberator, and Glenn Wilson, raw, driving, uncompromising music that wastes no time in taking control. This direct, full-throttle approach has become something of a signature for her in recent years.
From there, she threads in bouncing UK techno-inflected cuts alongside euphoric, anthemic trance selections, peppered with edits, noughties classics, and unexpected turns that keep the momentum sharp without losing cohesion. The result feels built for peak festival chaos, big, physical, and unrelenting, delivered with the kind of confidence that suggests she’s more than comfortable pushing the energy all the way to the limit.