Let’s start 2027 BIG. On New Year’s Eve, house, techno and bass music take over two floors at SAT from 10 PM to 6 AM.
In the Espace SAT, Frankie Teardrop kicks things off with dub techno and tech house, before the acclaimed Montreal duo Jump Source takes over after midnight. Ben UFO brings the broken rhythms of UK rave into the mix with house and techno, then Objekt takes control until 6 AM with an inventive blend of UK bass, Detroit electro and post-dubstep rhythms.
Upstairs, from 11 PM to 4 AM, the dome’s 360° projections wrap around the dancefloor. Odile Myrtil and Djeity share the decks in a b2b, followed by Laurence Matte’s psychedelic grooves and Lia Plutonic’s bass-heavy house.
Ben UFO is one of dance music’s most adventurous selectors, moving between eras, genres and mixing styles with ease. Rooted in early dubstep, drum ’n’ bass and UK rave culture, his sets trace unexpected connections with house, techno and club sounds from around the world. In 2007, he co-founded Hessle Audio with Pearson Sound and Pangaea, helping shape a distinctive, spacious and percussive sound in UK dance music. Whether on Rinse FM or in the club, he brings warmth and curiosity to his selections, shifting from broken rhythms to driving four-on-the-floor grooves and dropping strange, joyful curveballs at peak time.
Objekt, the alias of TJ Hertz, draws on UK bass, Berlin’s club sound, Detroit electro and post-dubstep to find new rhythmic possibilities in electronic music. His debut white-label releases, Objekt #1 and Objekt #2, arrived in 2011 as dubstep was splintering into new forms, introducing tracks like “The Goose That Got Away” and “CLK Recovery.” He has also reworked tracks by Radiohead, SBTRKT and Call Super. Alongside his own productions, Hertz has worked as a mix engineer and built instruments and effects for Native Instruments, bringing the same ear for detail to the tools of music-making as he does to his records.
Jump Source – composed of Priori and Patrick Holland – venture through various strains of dance music in the studio, focusing on intuitive long-form recordings full of quirks. Though their independent work differs, the through-line of influence can be heard across the JS catalogue, and through their choice of records in the club.
Co-founder of Slut Island Festival and head of Lip Mixes, Frankie Teardrop has been a fixture of Montreal’s music scene since 2014, with a consistent focus on highlighting established and emerging talent. Frankie’s DJ sets come in the sounds of dub techno and tech house.
Originally from Montreal (Tiohtià:ke), Odile Myrtil embodies pure passion.
As a DJ, she skillfully blends diasporic rhythms, basslines, and electronic favorites. As a singer-songwriter, she pushes the boundaries of R&B and contemporary pop into velvety realms, shaped by both vulnerability and strength. With projects such as “Paradis Artificiel,” alongside band members Victor Bongiovanni and Ouri, and collaborations with Chicago footwork producer DJ Taye, CRi, and Rizzla of Fade to Mind, Odile’s trajectory as a multifaceted artist continues to unfold.
Djeity (she/they) is a Montreal-based producer, performer and DJ who builds sonic worlds through live audiovisual performance and community-based creative practices. Their work reimagines how artists and audiences relate to the spaces they share. Djeity has performed across Canada in settings ranging from festivals like Pique and Piknic Électronik to site-specific performances at Surrey Arts Gallery and immersive sets at the SAT dome and MUTEK. Following a PHI Nord residency, Djeity is in post-production on their debut album, Things are Not What They Seem, which pairs electronic production with acoustic instrumentation to explore the breadth of Black sonic identity.
It's brave to resist the crowd's lust for a big drop or obvious track, but that's what Laurence Matte does when she casts a spell on the dance floor on her own terms. She finds creative joy in contrasts. She explores the unexpected, makes people dance to music they don't know, and conjures familiar feelings with unfamiliar sounds. Her long and winding DJ sets are fluid and responsive trips that are often slow-burning. Genres become blurred as she threads together steamy jungle dubs, psyched-out and percussive grooves and loose-limbed rhythms.
Few others can transmute energy and disseminate love in such an impactful way as Montreal-based artist Lia Plutonic. Inspired by the beauties and complexities of the human experience, she hones in on soulful rhythms and rumbling bass across the spectrum of house and electronic music. Using these vibrations as a conduit for personal and communal healing, the Homegrown Harvest resident moves the body through the soul. She is recognized throughout the city for her performances at Piknic Electronik, Igloofest, Sans Soleil, Bar Datcha, and her monthly show on n10as radio. Armed with love, energy and timeless dance tracks, Lia will take you by storm.
Aphex Redditor is an emerging digital artist and VJ based in Montreal. Her work deals with the mass-cultural influence of the internet, focusing on the coded meaning of images in a post-internet society. Thematically, her visual influences are connected to online remix culture, pairing with fringe styles of electronic music that emerge on platforms like Soundcloud. Her visuals are often composed of found internet media, frenetic motion, and self-referential text.
Mostly Noise is a Montréal-based new media collective founded in 2022 by Johan Vagstedt and Danila Sergienko in collaboration with Hashem Ali, and joined by Olga Ionina in 2024. Their work ranges from cinematic environments to abstract compositions, using landscapes, graphic forms, textures and movement to play with the scale and architecture of immersive spaces.