Sol Ortega

Techno and house blurred into thunderous, hypnotic grooves with old-school rave energy

Sol Ortega (Maria Sol Ortega) is a DJ and producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose sound dissolves the line between techno and house, folding thunderous, dubby grooves into hands-in-the-air melodies drawn from Detroit and Chicago. A product of the Buenos Aires underground, she plays much of her music on vinyl and leans on old-school rave energy and acid inflections rather than passing trends. Her earlier tracks include Return to the Classics and the acid workout Pray to 3o3, both from 2018, with releases across labels such as Concepto Hipnotico and Rhythm Nation. She broke through with a 2018 Boiler Room set in Buenos Aires and has since played Creamfields Argentina, a marathon back-to-back with ANNE at Stone Techno Festival in 2024, and Berlin's Berghain, sharing bills with Richie Hawtin, Ben Klock, Jeff Mills, and Nina Kraviz. A regular at Buenos Aires' Under Club and a champion of emerging Latin American artists, she has become one of Argentina's most visible techno exports.