The 23 Best Boiler Room Sets of All Time (2026 Update)

Last updated: 23 October 2026

Boiler Room changed how dance music is watched. Since 2010 it has filmed DJs in packed rooms with the camera where the crowd is, and a handful of those broadcasts have become the most replayed hours in electronic music. This is our list of the best Boiler Room sets, from the 2013 Ibiza villa and Montreal sessions that built the platform’s reputation to the hard techno and UK garage sets that dominated it between 2021 and 2026. Rebuilt in October 2026, every entry links to the artist’s page in our artists directory and embeds the full set.

New to the format? Read what a Boiler Room is first. For the platform’s recent troubles, including the November 2025 layoffs, see our report on the Boiler Room crisis.

How we chose them

Three things: the set has to stand up as an hour of music without the video, the room has to be part of the story, and it has to have mattered, either by breaking an artist, defining a moment or simply being watched more than anything else that year. View counts quoted below are from YouTube in October 2026.

The best Boiler Room sets of all time

Carl Cox: Ibiza Villa Takeovers (2013)

The second most watched Boiler Room set ever, at just under 75 million views. Filmed in a sun-lit villa during the 2013 Ibiza season, with people dancing by the pool and Cox grinning through techno, house and everything between. It is the set that proved the format could carry a superstar without losing its intimacy, and it is still the right place to start.

Kaytranada: Montreal (2013)

The set that made Kaytranada. An hour of hip-hop-leaning house and funk played to a room of friends in Montreal, with the DJ bobbing behind the decks and a crowd that looks like it wandered in from a house party. Twenty-five million views later, it remains the best argument that a Boiler Room is about selection, not spectacle.

Nightmares on Wax: London (2013)

London is the platform’s home, and George Evelyn represented it with a studio session that feels more like a jam than a broadcast: downtempo, jazzy hip-hop and warm electronic textures. Proof that a Boiler Room does not need to be loud to be essential.

Chet Faker: Melbourne (2014)

Nick Murphy played live, with keys, drum pads and his own vocals, in a small Melbourne room and turned the format into a concert. The crowd goes quiet when he sings, which almost never happens on a Boiler Room stream, and the set remains the platform’s best live performance of its early years.

Solomun: Tulum (2015)

Seventy-seven million views and counting, the most watched set in the archive. Solomun on a Tulum beach at sunset, moving from disco through deep house into melodic techno for two hours while the crowd barely notices the cameras. It is the set that made Tulum a destination and the one that defined the Solomun sound for a global audience.

Bonobo: Live at Alexandra Palace (2015)

A rare arena-scale Boiler Room: Simon Green’s full live band at Alexandra Palace in London, filmed with the usual close-up intimacy. Strings, brass and a crowd of thousands, and still one of the platform’s most cinematic hours.

Fatboy Slim: Brighton (2016)

Norman Cook on his home seafront, mixing big-beat classics into house and acid with the showmanship of someone who has played every stage in the world and still enjoys a basement most. The crowd reaction is the whole point.

Honey Dijon: Sugar Mountain, Melbourne (2018)

Filmed at the Sugar Mountain festival in Melbourne, this is house music played as history. Honey Dijon opens on disco, builds into hard Chicago house and threads in a fragment of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech, a reminder of where the music comes from. Twelve million views.

Richie Hawtin: Buenos Aires (2018)

Hawtin layering loops, drum machines and effects in a Buenos Aires warehouse, drifting in and out of minimal territory for over an hour. It is as close as a Boiler Room gets to a live set, and the best document of his hybrid DJ approach. For more of his work see our minimal techno DJs guide.

Sama' Abdulhadi: Palestine (2018)

Fifteen million people have watched the set that introduced the Palestinian techno scene to the world. Filmed in Ramallah, it is a driving, unbroken hour of techno and a reminder that the platform’s reach is cultural as much as musical. Sama’ Abdulhadi has headlined festivals ever since.

Folamour: FLY Open Air (2019)

Disco house in the Scottish sun at FLY Open Air, with Folamour grinning through classic disco cuts and modern house and a crowd that looks like it would follow him anywhere. One of the most joyful hours the platform has broadcast, and the set that turned Folamour into a festival headliner.

Peggy Gou: Streaming From Isolation (2020)

When the pandemic closed every club, Boiler Room streamed DJs from empty rooms. Peggy Gou’s set from Seoul is the best of that series: dreamy house building into bright, lively peaks, played to nobody in the room and tens of thousands at home. It captured the mood of April 2020 better than anything else the platform made that year.

Fred Again..: London (2022)

Fifty-six million views, the third most watched set ever and the one that turned Fred Gibson into the biggest electronic act of the decade. Filmed in a tiny London room in July 2022, it is an hour of his own edits and unreleased material, with the crowd singing hooks back at him and climbing on each other by the end. If you have only seen one Boiler Room clip on social media, it is probably from this.

Mall Grab: Melbourne (2022)

Jordon Alexander back home in Melbourne, moving between emotive house, breaks and the harder edges of his Looking For Trouble material. A personal, warm set from an artist who rarely plays it safe.

Charli XCX: PARTYGIRL, New York (2024)

A pop star in a Boiler Room, and it worked. Filmed in New York in February 2024 as a preview of the Brat era, PARTYGIRL had Charli XCX playing hyperpop, club edits and throwback bangers to a room that behaved like a house party. Nine million views, and the moment the platform crossed fully into pop culture.

The sets that defined 2021 to 2026

The platform’s second decade belongs to hard techno, UK garage and a new generation that treats a Boiler Room slot as a debut album. These are the sets from the last five years that have already earned a place beside the classics.

Brutalismus 3000: Possession, London (2021)

Nine million views for an hour of EBM, gabber and screamed German vocals at Boiler Room Festival London. The duo’s set is the point where the platform’s audience discovered hard techno, and the clips are still everywhere.

Sara Landry: Teletech Festival (2023)

Twelve million views and the single most important hard techno Boiler Room. Filmed at Teletech in Manchester in 2023, Landry’s hour of industrial, 150 BPM techno turned her from a rising name into a headliner within a year, and it set the template for every hard techno broadcast since.

Marlon Hoffstadt: Melbourne (2023)

The DJ Daddy Trance set. Hoffstadt in Melbourne for an hour and a half of trance, hard house and Eurodance edits played with total conviction, and the moment the trance revival stopped being a joke. Nearly three million views.

Interplanetary Criminal b2b Main Phase: SYSTEM, Berlin (2024)

UK garage in Berlin, from the producer behind B.O.T.A. and one of the scene’s best selectors. Ninety minutes of 2-step, bassline and breaks at Boiler Room Festival Berlin that confirmed garage as the platform’s second language.

Sammy Virji: Denver (2024)

The UK garage revival’s biggest star in a Denver room, playing his own bassline anthems to an American crowd that knew every one. Filmed in November 2024 and already past 1.7 million views.

¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U: Tokyo (2025)

Twenty-one million views in under two years, the most watched Boiler Room of the 2020s after Fred Again… The Japanese producer, dressed as Sonic, plays an hour of chaotic jungle, hardcore and pop edits in Tokyo while the crowd loses its mind. Nothing else on the platform looks or sounds like it.

KETTAMA: London (2025)

Galway’s KETTAMA in London in September 2025, an hour of hard house, trance and Irish rave nostalgia played at full throttle. The clearest sign that the trance and hard house revival had become the platform’s mainstream.

Novah: Teletech, London (2026)

Published in January 2026 and past three million views by October, the Novah set at Boiler Room x Teletech in London is hard techno’s latest breakout moment: an hour of relentless, melodic hard techno from the producer we profiled after her Tomorrowland 2026 Avicii tribute.

Honourable mentions

• Skrillex in Shanghai (2016), almost seven million views of bass music played to a room that had never seen anything like it.
• Partiboi69 in Bangalore (2023), ghetto house and electro with the usual chaos.
• salute in Melbourne (2022), the breaks and garage set that launched his run.
• Boys Noize at DGTL Amsterdam (2024), techno and electro at full weight.
• Hudson Mohawke b2b Nikki Nair at SYSTEM Berlin (2024), glitch to bangers.
• Logic1000 b2b DJ Plead b2b Big Ever at Sugar Mountain (2024), a triple back-to-back of percussive house.
• Ross From Friends presents Bubble Love at DGTL Amsterdam (2024).
• Masters at Work in London, DJ EZ’s garage marathon, Sherelle’s footwork and jungle assault, Mixtress’s 90s rave homage, So Solid Crew’s anniversary show and Skream b2b Disclosure, all from the archive’s first decade.

Boiler Room FAQ

What is a Boiler Room set?

A DJ or live set filmed in a small space with the crowd around the booth and a single camera placed where a dancer would stand, streamed live and then archived on YouTube. The format started in a London office in 2010. Our full explainer covers the history.

What is the most watched Boiler Room set?

Solomun’s 2015 Tulum set, at 77 million views on YouTube as of October 2026, just ahead of Carl Cox’s 2013 Ibiza Villa Takeovers set at 75 million. Fred Again.. in London (2022) is third with over 56 million.

Where can I watch Boiler Room sets?

The full archive is on the Boiler Room YouTube channel and at boilerroom.tv, with audio versions on SoundCloud for most sets. Everything on this page is embedded from the official channel.

Is Boiler Room still running in 2026?

Yes. The company confirmed substantial layoffs in November 2025 and restructured for 2026, but broadcasts have continued, including the Novah and Enzo Siragusa sets published this year. Read our report on the Boiler Room crisis for the background.

The TA view

The best Boiler Room sets are rarely the technically best DJ sets. They are the ones where the room and the music fit each other: a villa for Carl Cox, a beach for Solomun, a shoebox for Fred Again.., a Manchester warehouse for Sara Landry. That is why the format survived the pandemic, the layoffs and a hundred imitators. The next classic will come from a city and a scene most of us have not heard of yet, which is exactly how Kaytranada and Sama’ Abdulhadi arrived. For performances played live rather than mixed, see our best techno live sets of all time.

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