Sebastiaan Hooft

Midnighters, the Ibiza season is over, but this hour never followed the season anyway. It lands every Wednesday, summer or winter, and every week you’re there for it. That still gets me. This week you’ll hear Filter Science, Michele Conte, Adam Beyer, Mark Reeve, KØBALTT, Danny Fontana, Armian, Annie Hill, Zafer Atabey, A.D.H.S., Anna Tur, Rein (NL), Gonzalo Cavalli, Martin Kinrus, Kevin de Vries,...

Midnighters, this week I'm opening the hour with my own track. Golden goes first. You heard it in last week's episode before most people did, and since then, it has kept climbing in the promo lists. Now it has a release date: 15 October on IAMT. The pre-order is open, so if you want it in your collection or your sets the day it lands, this is the moment. Pre-order Golden: https://www.beatport.com/...

Midnighters, a new hour is here. I often wonder where you are when you press play. Some of you have told me you listen on the early commute, some at the gym, some in the kitchen, some late at night in the studio when everything else is quiet. From Amsterdam to Buenos Aires to right here on Ibiza, we're all in different places at different times, but we're listening to the same hour. That's what ma...

Midnighters, This one is personal. I've been playing Groovecreator's music for fifteen years. His records have filled countless hours of this show and many nights behind the decks. Bringing him to you as a guest on this bonus episode feels like a full-circle moment. He's sharing something special: a live recording from his set at Playground during Burning Man 2026, captured in Black Rock City. If...

Midnighters, There are three Faithless records in this hour. That was not the plan when I started building it. The first one went in, the other two followed, and by the time the hour was finished, it was clear the episode had a spine. We open with "Tarantula" in KASIA's hands. She has had the kind of year on Drumcode that most artists would take a whole career for, and she was the right person to...

Midnighters, Sixty thousand of you hear this hour on DI.FM every week, and that is before the podcast feeds, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube and every replay in between. The real number is bigger than I can count, and it grows in one way only. Someone sends the link to a friend on a night shift, someone drops the show in a group chat after a set, someone plays it in the car with the windows down. Tha...

A full room, Rocco's farewell party, and a set that was supposed to be one hour and ended up running thirty minutes after closing. The dancefloor kept asking for more, and this recording is the full ride. Shout-out to the engineers of Paradiso! Rocco, thank you for asking me to play your farewell. It was an honor to soundtrack your goodbye, and I hope this set takes you right back to that night wh...

Midnighters, episode 223 is here. Sam WOLFE opens the hour with Control Delete on Drumcode, and that label sets the tone for the whole show. Six Drumcode records in sixty minutes, more than I usually give one imprint, but Adam Beyer's A&R has been on a run this year and the selection made the case for itself. After Sam WOLFE I go into Atmos, one of mine, then Gonzalo F with Disconnect, also Drumco...

Midnighters, thank you for another week of showing up. Here is where the hour goes. It opens with something that is five days old. Zafer Atabey's Keep It Going landed on TRAGEDIE on 28 August, built by the Turkish producer who co-runs EXTIMA, and it does exactly what the title promises. Rino Cerrone follows with Afterglow, Italian discipline, no wasted parts. Then Avision with How We Do It, a Suar...

Midnighters, The rooftop session at Tomorrowland was last night. Thank you to everyone who came up. That crowd made the last hour of the night feel like the room was playing itself, and a good part of what you hear this week is what worked up there while it was still warm. We open on Drumcode. Volkoder and Korolova with "Waiting For You" sets the temperature straight away, no ceremony, just the pu...

Midnighters, Episode 220 is here, and this one moves with purpose. We open deep and hypnotic, then build steadily into the kind of driving groove that defines the peak hours. Along the way there is a proper surprise: a remastered take on a nineties classic that some of you will recognise from the very first bars. Hearing it reworked with today's production standards, sitting comfortably next to br...

Midnighters, this hour is for you. Last week you showed up in numbers that still make me smile, and the best way I know to say thank you is to raise the bar again. So this week we go deep into Drumcode territory. Pan-Pot's Diamonds Head sets the pace on Mobilee, then Adam Beyer takes over the first quarter of the hour twice in a row. Alto with Layton Giordani is rave kissed and written in a major...

Midnighters, last week I told you we are bringing the groove back to Ibiza. Then Friday happened. The rooftop filled up, the sun went down over Playa d'en Bossa, and a lot of you told me you came through the show. That is the whole point of this project, and episode 218 picks up exactly where that night left off. We open with Per Hammar's "Shuriken" on Natura Viva Black. Sharp, stripped, straight...

Midnighters, this one is built on groove. It is late July on the island. The nights barely cool down and everything I play out here lately has that rolling, physical quality. Episode 217 came together with that in mind. We open with a KASIA double: "No Competition" with Equinøx on Arcane, then "The Realm," her Drumcode collaboration with Layton Giordani. After that it breathes. Pablo Say's "I'm a...

Midnighters, Four Natura Viva Black records in one hour. That was not the plan when I started digging this week, but the label is on a run right now and it shows. Daniele Papini's Hidden Source opens the show, AKKI and Kaspar hold the middle with Horizon, and DJ Dextro closes everything down with Unbalance. When one imprint bookends your whole set, you pay attention. In between, Drumcode does what...

Midnighters, We open with Achilles, fresh off the Panic release that Thomas Schumacher and A.D.H.S. dropped on Electric Ballroom last Friday. Four days old and already setting the tone for this hour: Berlin drive, no warm-up, straight in. From there it keeps rolling. Anna Reusch on Tronic, Pan-Pot with Gray Cosmo on their own Second State, and a Peak Mode mix from YellowHeads that does exactly wha...

Midnighters, Three days after the midyear special, we are back to regular programming. No looking back this time, just one hour on where techno is heading in the second half of 2026. This episode opens on Truesoul and works its way through Terminal M, Drumcode Limited, and Arcane before landing somewhere darker. Listen for the acid line in Arielle Free's Acid Love; it cuts through the middle of th...

Midnighters, Six months into 2026, and these are the tracks that never left my bag. This is a bonus episode of The Midnight Project. One hour of the records that defined my sets in the first half of the year. Recorded in one take from the studio in Ibiza. You will hear a lot of Terminal M, Drumcode, and Arcane in this one. That was not planned; it is just where the energy lived these past six mont...

Paws (Original Mix) by Sebastiaan Hooft

Midnighters, This week I've got two of my own in the mix. Transmitter sits in the middle of the hour, and Void comes in near the close. There's also a private edit I made of Rebuke's Along Came Polly, Horatio's rework. Around them, Truesoul from Selena, Drumcode from Kaufmann and Oliver Huntemann, Adam Beyer with Chris Avantgarde on Hyperreal, and Sam Paganini's label mate Belocca on Mainground. F...

Midnighters, What a week. Friday on the Tomorrowland rooftop with Lilly Palmer was everything I hoped it would be. The terrace filled as the sun dropped, the energy built hour by hour, and handing the night over to Lilly was one of those moments that stays with you. Thank you to everyone who came through, said hi, and made it what it was. Nights like that are why I do this. This week's show carrie...

Live from the Tomorrowland rooftop in Ibiza, the opening hour before Lilly Palmer. Recorded at Playa d'en Bossa, 19 June 2026. Driving, groove-led techno from the host of The Midnight Project, setting up the night as the terrace fills and the sun drops over the island.

Midnighters, This week I've got my own remix in the show. My version of Horatio and Angelica de No's Release, sitting right in the middle of the hour. And just before it I play I Am Machine by Thomas Schumacher and Lilly Palmer, four days before she joins me on the rooftop in Playa d'en Bossa this Friday. There's more Drumcode weight from Bart Skils with Deniz Koyu and from Simina Grigoriu, deep t...

Midnighters, Opening with my own Rain, extended version. Teenage Mutants and Tonino come in next with Oedipus Rex on Tragedie, then VNDX with Fabio Salvati on Furrier. Mattia Saviolo's Mindframe and Simina Grigoriu's Frame Control both land on Drumcode, holding the spine of the first half. Funk D'Void and Pig&Dan link up on Cocoon for Overdose, Alex Lentini & STOMP BOXX drop Kraken on 8693 DCLTD,...

Rain (Extended) by Sebastiaan Hooft