Why release an album about "unity" on her own label?
Sara Landry has announced her second studio album, "Divine Intervention," due October 16 on Hekate, the independent label she has run herself since 2021. It follows her 2024 debut "Spiritual Driveby," and she is framing the record as a straight continuation rather than a reinvention: "a continuation of that feeling that we are all energetically linked, and that sound can't be boxed into categories," she said of the record.
That she is saying it from her own imprint is the point. Landry signed to Mau5trap, deadmau5's label, in 2019. Two years later she walked away from that deal to start Hekate, named for the Greek goddess of witchcraft and crossroads, and has put out everything under her own name through it since.
What does the Alex Farell pairing say about hard techno right now?
The album's third single, "Angel Dust," features UK hard techno producer Alex Farell, her most repeated collaborator on the label. Farell already has a release in Hekate's own catalog, "On My Mind" (HEK016), so "Angel Dust" reads less like a marquee feature and more like a continuation of a working relationship built inside the label. It arrives after June's "Hands Up," a collaboration with Alt8, and July's "Shake That," both also Hekate releases.
This album is about bringing people together to dance.
Is hard techno still underground?
Landry enters the album cycle as the reigning World's No. 1 Hard DJ in DJ Mag's 2025 Top 100, and this summer she played both the Atmosphere Stage and the Mainstage at Tomorrowland. That is about as far from the genre's warehouse origins as a hard techno artist can get. What has not moved is where she puts the music out: not a major, not a bigger indie, but the same small crew and the same label she built from nothing five years ago. For a scene watching its most extreme sound get main-stage billing, that choice is the argument.
