An annual tradition as we recap some 2025 highlights for the D-E-F Ltd artists roster.
Fever Ray
In February, Sydney Opera House published the full Fever Ray performance from the prestigious venue as part of 2024’s VIVID LIVE on their YouTube channel along with individual songs “I’m Not Done” and “If I Had A Heart.” You can watch the full performance here. The following month, a final remix from the Radical Romantics album campaign arrived with producer and DJ SAOIRSE reworking “Looking For A Ghost.”
June saw the arrival of “I’m Not Done (Therapy Session),” an all-new take on the track from Fever Ray’s eponymous 2009 album based around the live version that became a fan favourite during the 23-24 There’s No Place I’d Rather Be tour. After some online teasing, the track was introduced via the below music video directed by Martin Falck which depicts the various characters (Main, Romance, Demona Lisa, Snusis and Fever Ray) led through a group therapy session by a “human improvement and performance boosting guru” named Ebba. Amongst the press coverage for the single, NPR paid particular attention to the video in an edition of All Things Considered.
The following month, a second Therapy Session version arrived, “Now’s The Only Time I Know” with another Martin Falck-directed music video that continued the group therapy sessions between the characters and Ebba along with the announcement of a live album. Entitled The Year of the Radical Romantics, the album was recorded during Fever Ray’s tour in support of Radical Romantics. Complementing this new album, Fever Ray and Martin Falck announced a new publication, also titled ‘The Year Of The Radical Romantics,’ which dives deeper into the creative process of the Radical Romantics universe.
The digital release of The Year of the Radical Romantics in July saw Fever Ray emblazoned on the billboards in Times Square, NYC, whilst the video for “I’m Not Done (Therapy Session)” was part of the pre-show programming for horror film M3GAN 2.0 in Alamo Drafthouse theaters across the US. Building on the therapeutic themes of the two main songs, Fever Ray’s social media indulged in some strong meme output as well as offering some insight into the characters’ favourite films. Ebba had her moment in the spotlight too, participating in an interview with online publication The Quietus.
At the end of the summer, Fever Ray shared a club-focussed Therapy Flip of “I’m Not Done” from Young Marco which landed after the Dutch producer and DJ had closed out performances at Dekmantel and Boiler Room Festival. Listen here.
M83
2025 saw M83 reward fans with original soundtrack scores for two films. The first, A Necessary Escape, arrived in June and was an original M83 soundtrack score for Jalil Lespert’s Dakar Rally documentary, The Dakar Chronicles. Speaking on his work for the project, Anthony said it had ”been a deep and powerful journey — musically and emotionally. Bringing sound to this story, its landscapes and silences, was a real privilege.” Listen to the lead track “A Necessary Escape (Part 2)’ below.
In December, M83 returned with Resurrection, an original soundtrack score for Bi Gan’s new science-fiction film of the same name. Anthony had the following to say about Resurrection:
“I’m very proud to be part of this odyssey. Working with a visionary director like Bi Gan was a rare gift, and the trust we shared throughout the process was a blessing. It’s a film that inspires you every step of the way, and I’m grateful to have been a part of it!” Listen to lead track “Sullen Passage” below:
Prior to these two soundtrack scores, March saw M83 unveil a new composition in the form of “Bodies/Refuge” which was released as part of the PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 8th Anniversary video game. In addition to his own music, M83 continued to build and develop his record label, Other Suns, with new artists albums from Kaela and Villeneuve released in 2025.
moby
Whilst moby pod, would go on hiatus as 2025 progressed, it did open the year in a strong mood with a NYE DJ mix from moby that featured the music he had released over the course of the preceding 12 months. Other moby pod highlights include an episode delving into the inspiration behind his classical piece, God Moving Over the Face of the Waters, a celebration of Everything Is Wrong on the album’s 30th anniversary and an interview with legendary primatologist and planet-saving superhero Dr. Jane Goodall which arrived a few months before her passing in October.
Moby’s Always Centered at Night album campaign concluded in February with the release of Airrica and Kilimanjaro remixes of the Benjamin Zephaniah collaboration ‘Where Is Your Pride?” Following this, 2025 found moby in a productive and collaborative mood, musically-speaking, with a new floor-focused version of “Natural Blues” with BLOND:ISH and Kiko Franco released on Defected Records in June the first of several collab projects. To complement this release, moby spoke to BLOND:ISH for an episode of moby pod; took us through his biggest influences in House Music on a Defected Selectors playlist; and released a 60 DJ mix featuring house/4×4 remixes and collaborations of moby’s music with tracks/remixes by Chris Stussy, Anfisa Letyago, Paul Woolford, Olav Basoski, Raul Campos and more. Watch below:
Exercising his breakbeat chops, moby then released “Stereo,” a drum & bass track produced with UK artist Goddard and vocalist Lovelle. Watch a YT short breaking down how that track was made here. Remixes of the track from High Contrast and Bladerunner would surface later in the year, whilst moby would also drop a Complete Jungle DnB Breaks Remixes Playlist. Switching up genres again, moby worked with 19-year old ambient sensation Øneheart on the track “Lagrange Point,” which was released in late July as the lead track from the latter’s new album Samsara Passengers. Both artists were interviewed about the collaboration in The Sunday Times.
This was followed by another stylistic pivot in August with the arrival of “E After Next,” a collaboration between moby and Avalon Emerson which reworked his early 90s cut “Next is the E.” Released as part of Avalon’s Perpetual Emotion Machine project, the track featured prominently in her summer dj sets. A zoom interview between moby and Avalon discussing the release can be watched here. In late August, moby released “Lift Me Up” with production duo Silver Panda – listen here.
Amidst all of this music activity, June saw moby relaunch his mobygratis site. 500 new and unreleased tracks “completely free no strings attached for anyone to do whatever they want with them” have been added, whilst the site functionality has been upgraded. All tracks are available as high-resolution multitrack files in WAV formats, and you can now search based on genre and mood. A video from moby explaining the relaunch can be watched below:
After his European tour activities in 2024, moby’s live commitments in 2025 were more modest. May saw moby perform at Cercle’s Odyssey event series in Los Angeles. Cercle described Odyssey as “a transformative experience through an immersive concert” in “the world’s first nomad concert structure of its kind.” You can relive this to a certain extent with 3 songs from moby’s performance available to watch on Cercle’s YouTube channel. Moby’s other live performance was at Portola Festival in San Francisco – this Instagram reel should offer a flavour of the show. 2026 will see moby undertake a more comprehensive touring schedule with numerous festival appearances confirmed in Europe as well as Coachella. All shows can be found on moby’s website.
As 2025 entered its final weeks, moby published a video interviewing Micheal Mann where they discussed the director’s iconic film, HEAT, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in December. Moby’s track, “When It’s Cold, I Like To Die” was once again used in the Netflix show, Stranger Things, appearing in the 7th episode of the fifth and final season which premiered over Christmas Eve. Ahead of its feature in Stranger Things, moby shared a brief video breaking down the chords used in the song, whilst “When It’s Cold, I Like To Die” jumped to his most-streamed song on Spotify.
Moby will return with a new album in 2025.
Olof Dreijer
Olof was on the Jamz Supernova show on 6 Music in February to discuss his recent solo output – full info here – and also spent the month doing shows in Mexico, Montreal and New York City for Bahirdora, New Speak and Nowadays respectively. You can watch a brief excerpt of Olof’s hybrid performance with Diva Cruz at Bahidora here. As the year progressed, other notable DJ bookings for Olof included FWD at FOLD in London, Making Time Festival in Philadelphia and Gop Tun festival in Sao Paolo.
Olof shared some highlights from Gop Tun on his Instagram page, whilst his DJ set from the festival was later archived on the festival’s Soundcloud page. On a similar note, Olof’s DJ sets from the 2024 editions of Homobloc and Club To Club festival were made available to stream exclusively on Apple Music.
March saw the debut of Guerilla, an immersive dance performance that Olof collaborated on with Brazilian choreographer and dancer Renan Martins for Swedish international dance company Cullberg. Described as a “journey that challenges the conventional separation between dancers and the audience,” Olof provided the music for Guerilla. Debuting at Stockholm’s Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, the dance piece would be performed in venues across Sweden over the course of 2025. Watch a trailer for the piece here.
In July, Olof announced a new EP for the Dutch label Dekmantel entitled Iris, with two original Olof productions – the title track and “Blood Lily” – accompanied by remixes from Nídia and Veracco. The title track described by Resident Advisor as an “other-wordly synth excursion” and a visualiser for “Iris’ by Shezaana Sadikeen can be seen below. Olof’s creative process with costume designer Suelem de Oliveira da Silva for his new press shots for this release was explored here whilst he also broke down the production process for “Iris” in this video.
Having relocated to Barcelona earlier in the year, Olof built a new recording studio space which was documented visually on his Instagram account in August. The next month saw the release of “Blood Lily” from the aforementioned EP for Dekmantel, with kcrw describing the track as “rave nostalgia reimagined through alien choreography: kinetic, floral, and delightfully unclassifiable.” Olof shared a production breakdown video for “Blood Lily” which can be viewed here.
Following the full release of the Iris EP in October, Olof’s remixing chops were on display with a rework of the Model/Actriz track “Cinderella” released on Dirty Hit/True Panther. Speaking of the remix, Olof said the following: “I instantly got a vibe when I was sent this request, I could already imagine something, I also loved their video for ‘Cinderella,’ so fun and cheeky and has a different queer identity I like.” Model/Actriz band-member Cole added: “We’ve been long time admirers of Olof’s work both as part of The Knife and on his own, so getting his take on Cinderella is an honor. The energy in his version feels both sexy and absolutely feral.”
Olof rounded out 2025 in style with the 501st edition of Dekmantel’s mix series, described as “a full-throttle mix ranging from carnival house to experimental club music, mutant bass and thumping techno.” You can listen to that below.
Olof will release his debut solo album in 2026.
Planningtorock
With new music from Planningtorock due in 2026, the past 12 months have seen Jam focus on a forthcoming documentary created in collaboration between Vic Lentaigne & Posy Dixon (directors), Liv Proctor from LUCA films and Archie Sinclair from Grey Moth (producers) and Jam themselves (music maker and storyteller). First ideated in 2024 as a documentary short by Vic themed around a new Planningtorock album Jam was working on, it has grown into a feature-length experimental film that mixes documentary, re-enactments and dream sequences; a psychedelic rollercoaster through Jam’s life, past and present. A Kickstarter for the documentary was launched by the film producers in September and successfully raised the funds necessary to film key scenes for the documentary. A video for the kickstarter published on Instagram should give you an idea of what to expect from the forthcoming film.
Fans of Planningtorock did have some new music to savour in the shape of a remix of Tom Rasmussen’s “Shugs” which landed in June as part of the latter’s High Wire (Remixed and Reimagined) album. You can listen to that below. The same month, Planningtorock modelled for Charles Jeffrey Loverboy’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Prepared Piano, a live, unscripted tribute to music making, staged inside Abbey Road Studios. You can see some behind the scenes photos from the show on the PTR Instagram.
Planningtorock performance highlights in 2025 included performing a cover version of Fever Ray’s “Keep The Streets Empty For Me” with English singer Anna Calvi at Hackney’s EARTH, singing live at the missfitte queer party in Brussels, and DJing at Capc Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux and South Wales music festival Camp Trans.
Rex The Dog
February saw Rex The Dog celebrate his Kompakt modern classic “Change This Pain For Ecstasy” with some Limited edition poster prints of the artwork dropped via his online store. An edition of 30, each poster print was hand numbered and signed by Rex The Dog with a little drawing of Rex in the corner, each one slightly different. Watch a timelapse video detailing the numbering process here!
After first teasing the track in late 2024, March saw Rex The Dog release “Not Going Home” on the VOD label operated by Keinemusik’s Rampa. Some video footage of the track being played out can be seen here, whilst you can hear “Not Going Home” below.
The aforementioned “Change This Pain For Ecstasy” was licensed to the PIAS Electronique label for two remixes that arrived in the Spring. The first by New Zealand trance producer SIEGE, and the second from afro-house duo LAZARE and Addam.
July saw Rex introduce the RTD-004, described in his own words as “a bare bones mini-modular synth for those shows where I can’t take the full size modular synth. The sequencer synchronises to the club CDJs using a time-code or rather an analogue clock signal recorded as an audio file.” For anyone without the technical proficiency to understand this, a video demonstrating the RTD-004’s capabilities can be seen here.
The RTD-004 would later be taken on tour by Rex The Dog for a series of shows in Mexico in late November and early December – a recap can be seen here – but RTD’s touring highlights in 2025 can be described as FBTBM aka From Berghain to Burning Man. Late August saw Rex The Dog return to Berghain’s SAULE for a live performance with his full modular synth before departing to the US for a series of shows that included a set at the Mayan Warrior stage at Burning Man festival. This live performance can be viewed in full on YouTube below.
Röyksopp
January saw Röyksopp announce a new 19-track album, True Electric, which in the duo’s own words was “meant to capture the essence of our live shows bearing the same name. The idea was to put an emphasis on the clubbier aspects of our music, as well as returning to our roots within the realms of electronic music.” The physical edition of the album offered a tangible connection to their True Electric live shows, with photography by Stian Andersen and Suie Le incorporated into the design and layout by Christina Huang. The project was introduced with a souped-up True Electric version of Röyksopp classic “What Else Is There?” featuring Fever Ray; you can watch a visualiser edit for the single, recorded at Release, Athens and directed by Stian Andersen, below.
To accompany the album, Röyksopp announced a series of True Electric DJ dates throughout the USA that complemented a run of shows in Australia, New Zealand and Europe first revealed in late 2024. To get a full flavour of the True Electric DJ experience, we recommend you watch Röyksopp’s set from Ritter Butzke which was recorded in full and published on the Berlin venue’s YouTube channel. Ahead of the full True Electric album dropping in April, Röyksopp shared further singles in the shape of “Do It Again” with Robyn and “Running to the Sea” with Susanne Sundfør.
March saw Röyksopp reveal they had scored the soundtrack for Facing War, an award-winning documentary from Tommy Gulliksen about Jens Stoltenberg’s last year as Secretary General of NATO. The film premiered at the opening night of the CPH:Dox festival in Copenhagen in March, and would feature in festival programming across Europe before a TV adaption was broadcast on SVT, NRK and DR channels throughout September. Röyksopp would go on to release “Adversity & Hope,” the lead track from their OST score, through their label Dog Triumph in September. A video for the track can be watched here.
Rewinding back a few months, the release of True Electric saw Svein and Torbjørn share a «Continuous Mix Visualiser» for the album conceived and captured with Stian Andersen, which is their preferred medium of experiencing the music. Watch that above. In the months following, Röyksopp shared a series of True Electric remixes that began in May with a DJ Tennis version of “What Else Is There?” which Pete Tong awarded his Essential New Tune. Subsequent releases saw Disfreq remix “Running To The Sea;” Notre Dame take on the Man Without Country collab “Sordid Affair;” Jennifer Loveless deliver a self-styled Collage of Time version of “What Else Is There?;” Oliver Koletzki and Aname both take on “Running To The Sea;” Innervisions artist Ivory deliver a signature refix of Jamie Irrepressible collab “Here She Comes Again;” new “Do It Again” versions from Joplyn and AFFKT, further “What Else Is There?” remixes from andhim and wh0; and finally a Colyn version of “I Had This Thing” feat. Jamie Irrepressible. In addition to all of these remixes of their music, Röyksopp also graced us with a remix of their own in June, reworking Alison Goldfrapp’s “Find Xanadu.” You can hear that remix here.
In amidst all this release activity, Röyksopp’s promotional commitments during their tour dates found Svein and Torbjørn delivering Perfect 10s from Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk for Pitchfork’s Perfect 10 series as well as joining the starred ranks of musicians to feature on Amoeba’s “What’s In My Bag?” video series, discussing their love of horror movies, the Think break, the holy grail of progressive rock, being inspired by Kubrick and more. You can watch the latter below.
The last quarter saw Röyksopp announce «Corybantic State» a party in their home town of Bergen they described as a “rare and intimate glimpse into RYXP’s club DNA with an exclusive three-hour DJ set.” At the other end of the scale, Röyksopp joined the likes of LP Giobbi, DJ Tennis, Ame and Anfisa Letyago on the bill for the 2026 edition of Cercle Festival in Paris, France in May with Svein and Torbjørn set to DJ. They are also scheduled to DJ on both weekends of Coachella 2026.
Finally, Röyksopp marked the one-year anniversary of Nebulous Nights (An Ambient Excursion into Profound Mysteries) with the announcement of physical editions of the ambient project. Slated for release on 27th March 2026 via Dog Triumph, the physical incarnation of «Nebulous Nights» will be presented on individually-numbered transparent 140g 3xLP vinyl and 2xCD with booklet. The visual world for Nebulous Nights first conceived by Röyksopp and Greedy Goons on the 2 hour visualiser for the album has been expanded across all new art and design by Christina Huang.
Susanne Sundfør
On the cusp of 2025, Susanne published some intimate photography by Shinji Otani captured at her two Oslo Spektrum shows earlier in the year. These can be seen here. With a second child on the way in the summer, Susanne’s sole show of 2025 was at Pipfest in June. In her own words, Susanne described the Pipfest performance as follows: “What a privilege to play for you, and what a privilege to share the stage with Norway’s best musicians!” Susanne has some Norwegian live shows scheduled for 2026, with performances in both Trondheim and Oslo already announced.