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\n\t\u201cI would go to dubstep shows, I would go to house shows, I would go to trance shows,\u201d Landry says. \u201cI would go and experience these beautiful melodies and this euphoria and I just fell in love with it and wanted to learn to do it myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn 2020, she began streaming her thundering sets and developed a fanbase among young quarantined ravers. Hard techno searches among Gen Z listeners went up during the pandemic, Ronny Ho, Spotify\u2019s head of dance and electronic development says, as they craved music with harder kicks and faster BPMs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI thought Sara stood out because normally in the dance electronic scene, you\u2019re seeing a lot of players, emerging or established artists from the techno scene, coming from Europe,\u201d Ho says. \u201cBut for me, what was the real standout was she was a woman from Austin.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tLandry credits the new generation, who are now ticket buyers and concert goers, for helping her reach a career high. By 2022, she moved out to Berlin, capitalizing on the industrial sound before making her home in Amsterdam the following year. Flash forward to 2025, and Landry has launched the U.S. debut of Eternalism at Coachella, a high-octane experience described as a \u201csacred, ceremonial space amongst the highest of BPMs.\u201d She\u2019s carved out her own path, while adding a divinely feminine touch to the male-dominated sound.<\/p>\n
\n\tTechno, which originated in the late Eighties and Nineties in U.S. cities like Detroit and exploded in the European club scene, has largely been a boys\u2019 club. The genre\u2019s purists have occasionally turned up their nose at Landry\u2019s playful approach to the underground sound. When she first moved to Berlin, she played, mostly, by the rules to not upset the scene\u2019s techno originators. \u201cI couldn\u2019t have too many wild card moments where I would risk pissing off the techno bros and they wouldn\u2019t want to book me,\u201d she says. She\u2019s also had her share of fun. Her 2020 bass-boosted remix of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s \u201cWAP\u201d went viral in the European DJ scene. And at her 3 a.m. solo set during her Hekate Records showcase, she played ritualistic chants over straight kicks before upping the ante with a hard techno mix of Charli XCX\u2019s \u201cGuess.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if I talk about my 11 years of DJing experience, my 10 years of self-taught production experience, they don\u2019t care,\u201d she says. \u201cThey just see the way that I look and see that sometimes I\u2019ll play one pop track in a set of 60 tracks, and that\u2019s what people get upset about.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tShe\u2019s learned to stay out of the comments, where trolls accuse her of being an industry plant or overnight success. When she was about 50 pounds heavier battling hormonal issues, online users came after her weight. Following her Boiler Room set, some commenters assumed her show was prerecorded (which she confirmed was not the case). Techno vets Amelie Lens and Charlotte De Witte have coached her to ignore social media warriors and to focus on the support she receives from fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n