The Dance Music Industry Pushes For Change With Sara Landry, HEKATE Records & Change The Beat Remix Contest

A change in dance music 2026 are taking centre stage in a collaboration that puts real creative power in the hands of artists who have long deserved more of it. Change The Beat, the advocacy initiative pushing for gender equity across the electronic music industry, has announced a remix competition run in partnership with Texas-based techno force Sara Landry and her label HEKATE Records. The contest is designed specifically to support women and gender-expansive producers, giving them a direct route onto a respected label and into the ears of the global club circuit.

Sara Landry is one of the most talked-about names in the current hard techno and industrial techno space, and HEKATE Records has built a catalogue that holds weight on dancefloors from Berlin to Ibiza. Pairing that platform with Change The Beat’s mission creates something more than a standard remix contest. It creates a genuine on-ramp for female DJs and club culture contributors who are making noise but not always getting the doors opened that their talent warrants.

The competition invites women and gender-expansive artists to submit remixes, with the winning entry set to receive support through HEKATE Records. For any producer navigating the women electronic music scene right now, a co-sign from Landry and a release on a label with genuine underground credibility is the kind of opportunity that can shift a career trajectory. Chart placement follows label placement, and label placement follows exactly this kind of targeted initiative.

Change The Beat has been consistent in its work to address the structural imbalances that keep dance music gender diversity as a talking point rather than a reality. Competitions like this one move the conversation from principle to practice. Instead of panels and pledges, there is a track, a deadline, and a prize that actually matters to working producers.

For the Ibiza circuit and the broader international club economy, the downstream effect of initiatives like this one shows up in bookings, in playlists, and eventually in chart performance. When more women and gender-expansive artists have label infrastructure behind them, their music reaches more promoters, more residents, and more record pools. The pipeline matters. Change The Beat, Sara Landry, and HEKATE Records are all betting that building it from the production stage outward is the most direct way to shift what dancefloors actually sound like in the years ahead.