It didn’t take Charlotte de Witte long to conquer the world of techno. Born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1992, she began DJing in 2010, and by 2017 she’d become a fixture at festivals like Tomorrowland and Awakenings, laying down pummelling but immaculately mixed sets. Her productions are as uncompromising as her DJ sets: Beginning with 2015’s Weltschmerz EP, she has explored dark, sumptuously textured epics, as moody as they are muscular. De Witte credits a chance encounter with Berlin’s Len Faki with turning her on to techno, and the cavernous, industrial clang of the Berlin capital is an obvious influence on her work. But she draws equally from the fast, euphoric sounds that defined the Benelux countries’ trance and techno scenes in the ’90s. In 2021, she and her partner, Enrico Sangiuliano, even put their spin on the 1990 trance classic “Age of Love”, updating its high-octane thrills for a new generation of ravers.