/// BIOGRAPHY · V2.1 · 2026
AXEL / DTKS
Axel — DTKS on the decks — 15 years obsession with electronic sound.
Bordeaux → Europe.
/// IDENTITY
Based in Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France). Playing hard techno, acid, mental tekno, frenchcore. Tours clubs, warehouses, free parties — from south-west France to the rest of Europe.
/// ROOTS · WHAT RAISED ME
Electronic music in the ears years before the decks. First controller at eleven.
- THE PRODIGYbig beat, the original rave energy
- ROBERT MILESmelodic trance · 'Children'
- FAITHLESSprogressive trance · 'Insomnia' · 'God is a DJ'
/// TIMELINE
- Age 11First controller. Self-taught on DJ software, first mixes recorded at home.
- 2015 · age 16First vinyl decks. Starts playing local free parties.
- December 2016First public set. Hasn't stopped since.
- 2021Release of Musiques Interdites × Ipernezik, pressed on vinyl by Underground Tekno (Tekno Trip 07 comp). Total streams across all platforms: +1.2M.
- 2022 → 2024Original tracks released as free downloads: Le Flambeau, Morbid Mind, Exil, Exo, Distorted Minds, Chamunda. Acidcore, mental tekno, hardcore, frenchcore.
- 2026EU booking open. Self-published site at dtks.tech.
/// RELEASES · DISCOGRAPHY
All DTKS originals, most available as free download on SoundCloud.
/// INSPIRATION
- LUCAS RHT ↗frenchcore · active IDF / Centre / BZH · free-party circuitSOUNDCLOUD ↗
- RADIUMpillar of French tempo-terrorism · hardcore historic
- AMÉLIE LENSindustrial precision · international main-room formats
/// TODAY · MISSION
No manager, no myth, no marketing — just the records and the 4/4. The rave is a ritual: better to deliver it right than often. Next chapter: international.