ANOTR have released the full recording of their September 18 performance at Alexandra Palace, offering fans a chance to revisit one of the Amsterdam duo’s biggest headline moments to date.
The sold out London show formed the second half of a two night run at the historic venue. Originally centred around the September 18 date, demand led to an additional performance being added for September 17, turning the appearance into two consecutive nights at one of the British capital’s most recognisable live music spaces.
For ANOTR, the scale of the shows reflects just how far the project has travelled from its underground house roots. What began as a club focused partnership has gradually expanded into an increasingly ambitious combination of DJ culture, songwriting, musicianship and large scale visual production.
Two Nights at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace provided a suitably monumental setting for the duo’s latest chapter.
The North London landmark, widely known as Ally Pally, has hosted generations of concerts, cultural events and electronic music gatherings. Its vast interior presents a very different environment from the intimate clubs where ANOTR developed much of their early identity.
Rather than simply enlarging their regular DJ setup, ANOTR created a dedicated audiovisual production for the occasion.
The shows featured giant illuminated rainbow orbs carrying the ANOTR logo, suspended above the crowd as part of a visual environment designed specifically around the performances. Against Alexandra Palace’s enormous indoor dimensions, the installation transformed the room into something closer to a temporary ANOTR universe.
The music remained at the centre, but the surroundings reflected the increasingly immersive direction of the duo’s live presentation.
September 18 Preserved in Full
ANOTR have now made the complete September 18 performance available online.
Explaining their decision to release the recording, the duo wrote: “I thought this would be the right one to share with the people who couldn’t make it, or the people who just want to relive the night with the same joy as we do.”
Sharing the entire set also gives the Alexandra Palace shows a life beyond the thousands who experienced them inside the venue.
Full DJ recordings have become an important archive of contemporary electronic music culture. Unlike individual tracks or short social media clips, a complete set preserves the architecture of a performance, including pacing, transitions, tension and the gradual changes in energy that define a night.
For ANOTR, whose music increasingly moves between house grooves, vocals, instrumentation and more expansive songwriting, that longer format provides a particularly revealing snapshot of where the project stands in 2026.
From Amsterdam Clubs to International Stages
ANOTR is the Amsterdam based project of Jesse van der Heijden and Oguzhan Guney.
The pair built their reputation through house music, developing a sound centred around groove and rhythm while gradually introducing a broader range of musical influences.
Their evolution has been particularly visible through their albums.
ANOTR released their debut album, The Reset, in 2023. Rather than remaining locked into a conventional club formula, the project demonstrated an interest in live instrumentation, vocals and songwriting alongside the foundations of house music.
That approach continued with On A Trip in 2025.
The album emerged from psychedelic creative retreats across Ibiza, Los Angeles and the Netherlands, with the duo using changes of environment as part of the writing process. The result pushed their music further into a space where the boundaries between electronic production, musicianship and song structure became increasingly porous.
“Withness” Returns the Focus to the Dancefloor
January 2026 brought another chapter with ANOTR’s third studio album, Withness.
The record has been described as their most dancefloor focused album to date, reconnecting the experimentation of their previous work with the physical immediacy that originally shaped the duo.
That balance is important to understanding ANOTR’s current trajectory.
Their albums have progressively expanded their musical vocabulary, but the club has remained the gravitational centre. Rather than choosing between songwriting and DJ culture, the pair have increasingly allowed both to coexist.
The Alexandra Palace performance provides a natural environment for that philosophy. The room is large enough to support an ambitious visual production, yet the fundamental relationship remains familiar to electronic music: DJs, records, sound system and crowd.
When Club Music Grows in Scale
The two Alexandra Palace shows also illustrate a wider shift taking place around contemporary house music.
Artists who developed through clubs are increasingly building headline productions capable of occupying arenas, warehouses and major concert spaces without abandoning the continuous structure of the DJ set.
ANOTR’s approach fits naturally within that movement.
The enormous rainbow orbs and bespoke production create spectacle, but the show is still constructed around the progression of a DJ performance rather than a sequence of isolated songs. The visual language grows while the basic grammar of the club remains intact.
That distinction matters.
Electronic music does not necessarily need to become a conventional concert when it enters a larger room. It can preserve the flow, unpredictability and collective momentum of club culture while using scale to create an entirely different physical experience.
A Milestone Preserved Online
Selling out Alexandra Palace once would represent a significant moment for any electronic act. Turning the appearance into two nights because of demand makes the achievement particularly telling for ANOTR.
Yet releasing the September 18 set ensures that the story does not end when the venue empties.
The recording captures ANOTR at a point where several strands of their career are converging. Three albums have progressively reshaped their musical identity. Their productions have moved beyond straightforward house without losing their relationship with the dancefloor. Their shows have grown from club environments into increasingly elaborate audiovisual experiences.
Alexandra Palace provides the scale for all of those elements to meet.
For those who were there, the full set offers a route back into the room. For everyone else, it provides a document of two Amsterdam selectors discovering just how large their world can become without leaving the dancefloor behind.
📸 : Cover Photo / Courtesy of ANOTR
📸 : Additional Photo Credits / Courtesy of ANOTR
