KI/KI plays Monterrey and Austin this weekend, then five festivals over New Year's

KI/KI plays FuturFestival México in Monterrey after midnight on Saturday, then Seismic in Austin on Sunday evening. About sixteen hours between the end of one set and the start of the next.

That's the warm-up. Over New Year's it's five festivals in two countries.

What KI/KI sounds like

What's a Girl to Do in '25 is the one the app pins to the top of the artist page. Going Existential In The Rave and Here With Me both came out this summer.

The genre tags on the artist page are trance, acid techno, hard house and techno, which is close to the whole story. Big trance melodies over squelching acid lines, with hard-house drums underneath, and fast.

Got an hour? Boiler Room filmed this one at AVA Festival in 2024.

Five hours at a time

KI/KI runs her own label, slash. Its first release came out in July 2022, and more of her records come out there than anywhere else: 10 release credits in our index, plus three on its sub-label, club slash. Since 2024 slash has been a joint venture with Armada Music.

Her headline show is called 5 HOURS, and it's what it says: one DJ, five hours. In September 2025 Untitled Group brought it to Sydney and Melbourne, and she put the whole Melbourne night, at the Wool Store, on YouTube.

Here's why that matters for New Year's. Untitled Group also puts on Beyond The Valley and Wildlands, so three of her five New Year's festivals come from the people behind that Melbourne night.

In October the show went to the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, a five-hour headline set during ADE.

The count

Eleven festival bills this season. That's third on our Most Booked board, level with NOVAH and one behind Jackie Hollander. MPH is first with 13.

Two of the 11 arrived this week, when Coachella's 2027 lineup came out with her on both weekends.

All-time, we hold 72 festival bookings for KI/KI, an act from the Netherlands, going back to 2019. That's 240th of the 27,788 acts in that count.

The name you'll keep seeing next to KI/KI is MPH, on six of the 11 bills: Seismic, Beyond The Valley, both Wildlands and both weekends of Coachella. On Sunday at Seismic they're on the same stage, MPH first and KI/KI straight after.

Where to catch KI/KI

This weekend:

• FuturFestival México — Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, Voyager stage, 12:30 to 2am Saturday night
• Seismic — The Concourse Project, Austin, Tsunami stage, 6:30 to 8pm Sunday

New Year's:

• Beyond The Valley — Barunah Plains, Australia, Dance Dome, December 28
• Rhythm and Vines — Waiohika Estate, Gisborne, New Zealand, One NZ Vines Stage, December 30
• Wildlands Brisbane — Brisbane Showgrounds, December 31
• Wildlands Perth — Arena Joondalup, Perth, January 2
• Lost Paradise — Glenworth Valley, Australia, December 28 – January 1

Rhythm and Vines bills it as her only New Zealand show. Lost Paradise hasn't said which day yet.

Then Time Warp in Mannheim in April, both weekends of Coachella, and Sónar in Barcelona in June.

Follow KI/KI in the app and it'll tell you when the Lost Paradise day lands.

Tickets

None of her festivals are in our affiliate feed right now, so there are no ticket links here. Each event page in the app has the festival's own.

Every count here is ours, from the lineups and set times in our own catalog on 12 November 2026. Days and stages for Beyond The Valley and Rhythm and Vines are from the festivals' own lineup pages. Label history is from slash's and Armada's own pages. Labels mean release credits, matched to lineups by name. Previews and artwork are Apple Music's.

Electric State is free on the App Store, on Google Play, and at electricstate.app — the artist pages, the labels and the lineups this post is built from.

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