Björk is really doing techno in 2026. This isn’t a curveball: She’s been doing it longer than almost anyone. Her entire career is predicated on twisting and stretching club music into unrecognizable forms. Debut remains one of the most prescient and enduring house records in history; Post, one of the most adventurous; Homogenic, one of the most sweeping and cinematic.
Each of these records spawned multiple singles featuring spates of remixes by the most legendary producers in house, techno, and IDM (among others), pushing the form in a zillion directions. Even when she’s pivoted into more abstract, experimental terrain, she’s remained committed— more than any major pop figure besides perhaps Madonna— to the remix.
I’ve been lucky to witness loads of Björk’s DJ sets over the years: in 2010, at an auto garage in Bushwick; in 2013, at a Pitchfork Music Festival afterparty in Chicago’s Lincoln Hall; in 2014, at the Brooklyn metal bar, Saint Vitus; and— at least online— the solar eclipse rave she held this past week in Iceland.
It’s always sparklingly clear that Björk loves to DJ. She’s a delight to watch on the decks, smiling big in outrageous couture, bouncing happily to hard-as-fuck international rhythms delivered at breakneck BPMs. And yet, when folks hear “rave,” most expect functional dance music. That’s not always Björk’s definition, and that’s okay. Her sets are still wild, unpredictable, and gloriously fun.
Yet, because Björk has so many mindblowing remixes that absolutely destroy on a massive soundsystem, it’s fun to imagine a night where she pulls up with the heaviest-hitting club mixes of all her greatest tracks. Like how she dropped “Berghain” last week and sent the crowd into euphoric paroxysms, but stretched to fill an entire set. So, after years of listening through nearly all her hundreds of remixes, and always finding new favorites to get lost in, I decided to pull together a playlist of what that two-hour set might look like.
So, from Debut-era bangers reworked by Fluke, Underworld, Speedy J, and Masters at Work, to Post cuts respun by Todd Terry and Alan Braxe, to Homogenic glow-ups by Plaid and Skothus, to a spate of Volta-era indie sleaze reboots from Simian Mobile Disco, Modeselektor, XXXChange, and Soft Pink Truth— and even a couple throwbacks to her Sugarcubes days— here is Club Björk.
You can also find the Club Bjork playlist on Apple Music here.
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This mix would be perfect for running .