Yo DC ravers — what's good?

This one's heavy. Sara Landry makes her Echostage debut Friday night with Factory 93 behind her — if you've never caught her live, understand that she does not let up, ever. Same night, Maceo Plex and DJ Tennis are going back-to-back at A.I. Warehouse for Nü Androids, which on paper is one of the best underground bookings of the year. Then Saturday, Echostage rips the stage out entirely and goes 360 in-the-round for a full drum & bass lineup — Bou, Delta Heavy, Fox Stevenson and more — while Jai Wolf brings the feels to Culture and the actual Fluffy Cloud from Burning Man fires back up at BERHTA. Friday is for the techno heads, Saturday is for everyone else. Make your plans before stuff sells out.

FRIDAY, JUNE 12

Sara Landry (w/ Zorza, Conrad Taylor, JSMN) @ Echostage – hard techno / industrial techno

Gremlin tip: Echostage debut, Factory 93 production - you're not going to want to leave the floor.

Nü Androids Presents: Maceo Plex x DJ Tennis @ A.I. Warehouse – melodic techno / tech house / indie dance

lostboyjay @ Flash Rooftop – house / tech house - 6pm–10pm

DJ Vibe (w/ Chris Nitti) @ Flash (Main Room) – house / deep house / melodic techno

Gremlin tip: Same play as last week — golden hour on the roof, then straight down to the main room. DJ Vibe is a legitimate legend of Portuguese club culture and Flash runs until 4am, so this doubles as your Echostage afters.

TONED ft. Jubilee, QRTR, Amelia Holt + more @ Transmission – club / breaks / bass

Nu Wav 004 @ Vera Cocina

SATURDAY, JUNE 13

DNBNL 360: Bou, Delta Heavy, Fox Stevenson + more @ Echostage – drum and bass / jungle / dubstep

Gremlin tip: Brownies & Lemonade running an in-the-round setup at Echostage means the booth is center-floor. Same advice as the Layton show that got postponed — get on the floor, not against the rail. The surround is the whole point.

Nü Androids Presents: Jai Wolf (w/ Shankz, H&RRY) @ Culture – future bass / indie electronic / melodic house

Fluffy Cloud: Joezi (w/ MOBU) @ BERHTA – afro house / melodic house

Gremlin tip: This is a Burning Man fundraiser under the actual Fluffy Cloud — 15 tons of 360-degree overhead sound, back at BERHTA on an extended residency. Per the event page, this is the only Cloud concert currently on the calendar, so if you missed the April run, this is the makeup exam. Enter via W St NE.

HDC Presents: Detroit In Effect @ Transmission – electro / ghettotech / detroit techno

Distrikt: Eskuche (w/ Ben Seagren) @ Flash – tech house / house

Matinée Presents: Ero808 @ Flash – 4pm–9pm

HBD Cultur FM @ A.I. Warehouse

Amapiano To The World @ SOST – amapiano / afro house - Free

Club Ghetto Tech Vol. 5 @ Sinners and Saints – ghettotech / juke / booty bass

SUNDAY, JUNE 14

Sunday Love x Foam & Feathers: Unders, Lola Villa, Yannis @ Flash – organic house / melodic house / deep house - 2:45pm–11pm

Pronto @ Transmission – 4pm–9pm

Garrix at The Anthem, both nights, and I'm calling it: the best Garrix sets I've ever seen. Two full hours each night — not the 60-minute festival sprint we usually get — and he switched the setlists up enough that doing both nights actually paid off. The production was insane and the mixing was masterful.

The Anthem itself? Different conversation. Night one, security was blocking injured and overheated dancers from exiting through the back center near the media box — a shameful enforcement of a questionable house rule, and one I suspect a fire marshal would see differently. Night two, two EMTs were trying to move through the crowd and instead of escorting them through politely, a bouncer started shoving people out of the way. Questionable behavior at best. If this is the culture The Anthem is building on its security team, the EDM community should take note. Dancer safety isn't a house rule debate.

The DnB show Saturday is in the round. Floor spot, center of the room. Don't post up at the bar and complain the mix sounds weird.

A.I. Warehouse wraps at 3am both nights it's active this weekend. Flash runs until 4. Sequence accordingly.

Sara Landry sets are physical. Earplugs are not optional this week. Your future tinnitus-free self says thank you.

Transmission has a genuinely insane Saturday — Detroit electro upstairs from H St. Pull up early; HDC nights have been filling up.

Sunday Love is the correct way to close this one. The wellness session at 3pm is free and your body will need it.

That's the weekend, y'all. Landry brings the hammer Friday, the warehouse gets hypnotic, Saturday is wall-to-wall from amapiano to jungle, and Sunday Love is there to put you back together. There's no version of this weekend where you stay home.

Hit reply and tell me what you're doing — I genuinely read every one. And for scene takes between issues, I'm at @plurtatochip.

See you on the floor.

– Jimmy