ANOTR, JAMIE JONES AND MAHMUT ORHAN TO PERFORM ON BAKU’S WATERFRONT FOR F1 WEEKEND AT APEX AFTER DARK OPEN AIR

FOMO Baku, Baku City Circuit and iTicket unite for three official Azerbaijan Grand Prix nights in a spectacular 2,500-capacity open-air waterfront setting overlooking the Caspian Sea

FOMO Baku is taking its Formula 1 weekend celebrations outdoors for the first time this September, with ANOTR, Jamie Jones and Mahmut Orhan set to headline three huge open-air events from 24th-26th September during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend.

For this special Grand Prix weekend, a 2,500 capacity open-air venue directly on Baku Boulevard and the Caspian Sea has been confirmed for APEX AFTER DARK OPEN AIR. The waterfront setting creates an incredible backdrop for three evenings of electronic music in the heart of Baku.

The purpose-built setting will combine FOMO’s high-impact production with open-air views across the Caspian Sea, bringing a new dimension to the venue for one of the biggest weekends in the city’s calendar.

Running across practice, qualifying and race day, APEX will bring three major names in electronic music to the city for three very different nights, creating a new destination for the thousands of international visitors descending on Baku for Formula 1 weekend.

Kicking things off on Thursday 24th September, ANOTR will take control of the waterfront for a sunset session showcasing the full spectrum of their sound. Expect the Amsterdam duo to move effortlessly between rolling house, disco, funk, soul and deeper late-night cuts as daylight disappears over the Caspian.

On Friday 25th September, Jamie Jones steps up ahead of race day. Hot Creations founder, Hot Natured member and the DJ who shaped Circoloco at DC-10 across two decades, Jones arrives mid-season from Ibiza. He will bring the unmistakable energy of his Paradise parties to FOMO’s outdoor setting. With thousands gathered on Baku Boulevard and anticipation building across the city, expect rolling grooves, deep house and peak-time records built for a packed open-air dancefloor.

The weekend reaches its finale on Saturday 26th September, as Mahmut Orhan closes the run on race day itself, taking over within hours of the chequered flag. After headlining the final night of FOMO’s 2025 Grand Prix weekend, Orhan returns to Baku for an even bigger open-air show, bringing his signature fusion of electronic music, melodic house and globally influenced sounds.

Anastasia Hajiyeva, FOMO Baku Co-founder says "We didn't want to just throw a party for Grand Prix weekend, we wanted to give Baku something it's never seen. APEX AFTER DARK takes everything FOMO has built inside the club and moves it out onto Baku Boulevard, right on the water's edge, with ANOTR, Jamie Jones and Mahmut Orhan headlining three nights that'll define the weekend. This is Baku stepping onto the map.” 

APEX represents the next step for FOMO, taking the experience beyond the walls of the club for the first time and placing it against the backdrop of Baku Boulevard, with three nights built around the energy and spectacle of Formula 1 weekend.

Tickets are available via iTicket. More information and tickets here: https://fomo-last-version-iythirgs.on-forge.com/apex

DATES

Thursday 24th September
ANOTR

Friday 25th September
Jamie Jones

Saturday 26th September
Mahmut Orhan

FUNK TRIBU RETURNS TO NYC FOR KNOCKDOWN CENTER DEBUT WITH RUSH PRESENTS - FUNK TRIBU AND FRIENDS: DAY N NIGHT

The Colombian-born, Berlin-based artist will host a 14-hour takeover on October 17 at Ruins by day and Knockdown Center by night, joined by Afem Syko, Innamorati, Ksenyeah, LOVEFOXY, Supergloss and x3butterfly

Funk Tribu returns to New York this October for his Knockdown Center debut, taking over the Queens venue for Funk Tribu & Friends: Day & Night on Saturday, October 17. Running from 3PM to 5AM, the 14-hour event will span Knockdown Center’s outdoor Ruins and Main Hall, with Funk Tribu joined by Afem Syko, Innamorati, Ksenyeah, LOVEFOXY, Supergloss and x3butterfly for a day-to-night marathon of groove-driven club music. The event will be presented by RUSH, Knockdown Center’s popular event series which brings together artists from across the globe for immersive, high-energy experiences built around pounding rhythms, collective energy and cathartic release.

The day-to-night format will see Funk Tribu showcase two sides of his sound across the venue's distinct spaces. From 3 PM, Funk Tribu will make a big world debut playing a house set at Knockdown’s outdoor space Ruins, setting the tone for the daytime session before moving into the Main Hall at night for a techno set, bringing his signature high-energy sound blending trance, techno, and fast BPMs. The extended format reflects the versatility of his sound and the communal, immersive energy at the heart of his music.

Colombian-born and now based in Berlin, Funk Tribu has been one of the most exciting names to watch in today’s electronic music, emerging as a defining figure in the new wave of trance-inspired club sounds. His music draws on the emotion and euphoria of classic trance while channeling it through the groove, energy and immediacy of contemporary club culture. Across his productions and DJ sets, he has built a sound that prioritises feeling and connection as much as dancefloor energy. His rise has taken him to some of the world's most influential clubs and festivals, including EDC Vegas, UNVRS, Fabric London, Watergate, Tomorrowland, Awakenings, and Lollapalooza. Now, as his international fanbase keeps growing rapidly, Funk Tribu’s return to New York City is set to be yet another landmark performance.

The Knockdown Center debut follows a defining period for the artist, who is fresh off the release of his latest EP, “LIFE”, released on his own imprint TRIBE. The three-part project explores the interconnected worlds of soul, mind and body, offering a deeply personal reflection on renewal, introspection and hope while further defining the emotional and conceptual world of TRIBE.

Launched in 2025, TRIBE is built around the idea of music as community, serving as a label and collective for emotionally led, identity-rooted club music with a visual language to match. Its first releases, including “Azul” and “Hold On”, alongside releases from rising global voices such as Afem Syko, Linds and BK, have quickly established TRIBE as something larger than a traditional record label.

For RUSH Presents - Funk Tribu & Friends: Day & Night, that sense of community will take centre stage as Funk Tribu and his handpicked lineup take over Knockdown Center for an extended day-to-night experience. His debut at the venue marks another step in an international trajectory that continues to connect audiences across continents through a shared love of emotionally charged, forward-thinking club music.

For tickets and information on RUSH Presents - Funk Tribu & Friends: Day & Night on October 17, 2026, at Knockdown Center in Queens, NYC, please visit the event’s official website.

ÄGAPĒ FESTIVAL NYC REVEALS FULL LINEUP AND DAY-BY-DAY SCHEDULE FOR DEBUT EDITION AT INDUSTRY CITY, SEPTEMBER 5 + 6, 2026

Two days, two stages, and eighteen hours of nonstop music per day; Brooklyn’s leading underground techno collective unveils a 34-artist program spanning hard bounce, hard groove, hard techno, and hypnotic techno, led by Kobosil, Somewhen, Clara Cuvé, Volvox, Bad Boombox, Adrián Mills, and O.B.I., with a Sunday indoor takeover from Berlin's 44 Label Group.

After five years of warehouse nights and an ever-growing dancefloor family, ÄGAPĒ is putting the full shape of its first festival on the table. The New York event platform and record label reveals the complete lineup and full day-by-day timetable for the highly anticipated debut of ÄGAPĒ Festival, a two-day celebration of underground electronic music taking over Industry City in Brooklyn, New York on September 5 and 6, 2026. Built across two stages and running a remarkable eighteen hours each day, from noon until 6 AM, the inaugural edition marks the biggest moment yet for a collective that has built one of New York's most devoted dance music communities. 

Across the weekend, the program charts a deliberate path through the breadth of contemporary techno, moving between the playful, melodic energy of hard bounce, the muscular swing of hard groove, the peak-time intensity of hard techno, and the trance-state pull of hypnotic techno - a range that few North American festivals attempt on a single bill. 
 

"Five years ago, we started with a vision, and a community slowly grew around it. Over 120 events later, this festival is where that journey has led us. Two days, two stages, 18 hours of nonstop music each day. We built this platform for the artists, many of whom grew in notoriety right alongside us. This event is for the people who have shown up for us since the very beginning, as well as those who are yet to come. Industry City felt like the right place for New York to experience this movement." 
- Andrés Daza  (alias Junkfile), founder of ÄGAPĒ

Day one belongs to two distinct worlds. The open-air Hot Meal stage carries the festival from afternoon into night with a run of forward-thinking selectors - Daybreak, Saint Velez, Madness Of, Ollie Lishman, Fumi, Mischluft, Bad Boombox, and HHunter - moving from brighter, melodic territory toward harder, heavier ground as the sun goes down. Inside, the Face 2 Face stage brings one of European clubbing's most talked-about formats to New York, placing two artists opposite one another in the center of a 360-degree dancefloor with no booth and no hierarchy, only the conversation between them. Saturday's room hosts six of these pairings, threatening hard groove and hard techno through the format: Ramsey Neville F2F Michelle Kay, Junkfile F2F Diossa, Flash Gea F2F Conrad Taylor, Cloudy F2F Serafina, Adrián Mills F2F Emilija, and Fenrick F2F Supergloss.

Day two raises the intensity. The outdoor stage gathers a cross-Atlantic spine of hypnotic and hard techno: Dalton Taylor, Marco Neves b2b Jay York, Future.666, David Löhlein, Aiden b2b Kobosil, and Triptykh, with NYC mainstay Volvox and German hardtechno institution O.B.I. among the names anchoring the programming. Indoors, ÄGAPĒ hands the room over for a full takeover from 44 Label Group, the Berlin label and brand founded by Kobosil that has become one of the defining forces in contemporary hard techno. The takeover brings its core family across the Atlantic - KAYA, Ueberrest, Somewhen, Clara Cuvé, and Kobosil - and closes the festival with a rare three-way Kobosil b2b Somewhen b2b Ueberrest that carries the weekend to its peak.

Industry City offers a fitting home for a debut of this scale. The 35-acre industrial complex on the Sunset Park waterfront, begun in 1895 as Bush Terminal, has been reborn over the last decade as one of New York's most distinctive cultural campuses, today home to more than 650 businesses and a rapidly growing slate of large-scale music programming, from House of Yes open-air takeovers to May's inaugural WHY NOT NOW? Festival. ÄGAPĒ Festival will operate across an outdoor courtyard stage and a connected indoor warehouse room, both built out with full festival-grade production, designed to flow into each other so the program can move from sunlit afternoons into deep, late-night warehouse hours without losing the thread.

With doors at noon and music until 6 AM both days, ÄGAPĒ Festival 2026 delivers thirty-six hours of programming across the weekend. Two-day and single-day passes are on sale now. For full timetable details and ticket information, please visit https://agape-festival.com/.

AGAPĒ FESTIVAL 2026 FULL LINEUP (A-Z)

ADRIÁN MILLS
AIDEN
BAD BOOMBOX
CLARA CUVÉ
CLOUDY
CONRAD TAYLOR
DALTON TAYLOR
DAVID LÖHLEIN
DAYBREAK
DIOSSA
EMILIJA
FENRICK
FLASH GEA
FUMI
FUTURE.666
HHUNTER
JAY YORK
JUNKFILE
KAYA
KOBOSIL
MADNESS OF
MARCO NEVES
MICHELLE KAY
MISCHLUFT
O.B.I.
OLLIE LISHMAN
RAMSEY NEVILLE
SAINT VELEZ
SERAFINA
SOMEWHEN
SUPERGLOSS
TRIPTYKH
UEBERREST
VOLVOX