New Remix Platform Opens Doors For Women & Gender Expansive Artists In Electronic Music

A remix competition that puts gender expansive artists electronic music front and centre has arrived, and it comes from a collaboration worth paying attention to. Change The Beat, the organisation dedicated to equity in dance music, has teamed up with DJ and producer Sara Landry and HEKATE Records to launch a competition explicitly designed to create space for women and gender expansive artists in a scene that has long needed more of both.

Sara Landry is no peripheral figure here. She has built her name through a commitment to harder, propulsive sounds and a consistent refusal to let the industry set terms for who belongs behind the decks or in the studio. HEKATE Records carries a similar ethos, operating as a label with its roots planted firmly in the queer underground music world, where inclusive dance music scene building is a practice rather than a talking point.

Change The Beat has been doing the structural work of pushing back against the genre’s persistent imbalances for some time now. The organisation focuses not just on visibility but on practical opportunities, which is what makes a remix competition a smart vehicle. Getting your version of a track in front of an audience, and doing so under the banner of a respected artist and label, is a concrete step rather than a symbolic gesture. For producers who sit outside the default assumptions of who makes techno or house, those concrete steps matter enormously.

The competition invites participants to remix a track, with the backing of Landry and HEKATE giving the winner real weight in the experimental electronic diversity conversation rather than a certificate and a social media mention. The combination of a credible artist, an aligned label, and an advocacy organisation makes this feel less like a one-off campaign and more like an infrastructure moment for the inclusive dance music scene.

For anyone in the queer underground music world who has been making records quietly and waiting for an opening, this is the kind of opening worth entering. Details on how to submit and the specific track available for remixing are available through Change The Beat and HEKATE Records directly. The deadline and full submission guidelines have been published alongside the announcement from Electric Mode on 28 August 2026.