Sim0ne's debut EP Zer0 revives rave heritage for the dancefloor

Sim0ne’s debut EP zer0 landed on June 26 via Odd Numbers, and the seven-track set has been framed as a direct link between British rave heritage and current club play. For listeners rooted in minimal techno, the pull is not in nostalgia alone. It is in the way Sim0ne uses hard house, techno, trance, makina and rave-rooted pop as forward motion, not as costume.

The Edinburgh-born, London-based DJ, producer and vocalist has built that identity fast. DJ Mag positioned zer0 as a love letter to the dancefloor and to British electronic music heritage, while The Line of Best Fit placed the release inside a run that has already taken Sim0ne through fabric, Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Boiler Room Ibiza, Terminal V and the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix. Her 2026 global tour dates were also pushed through Instagram, underlining how quickly the project has moved from local buzz to a wider circuit.

The strongest crossover point for minimal listeners sits in the record’s discipline. This is not rave as archival display. It is rave energy reactivated for real rooms, with the kind of momentum, physicality and emotional charge that still matters on a stripped-back system. That makes zer0 feel closer to the current underground conversation than a retro detour, even if its palette is brighter and more hands-up than the average minimal set.

The familiar singles give the EP its shape. Space Cadet, Freaky, In Ya Mind and Lights Down anchor the release, and In Ya Mind reaches back to Olive’s 1996 hit You’re Not Alone while threading in a breakbeat tied to 90s UK rave culture. That connection matters because it places Sim0ne in a lane where genre borders are secondary to impact, and where trance lift, hard house drive and techno pressure can all sit in the same club record.

The release also consolidates a longer artist story. Since 2023, Sim0ne has held a Rinse FM residency, sold out her self-run zer0 club nights, and built the project around a collective model aimed at smaller, up-and-coming artists and stronger local club culture. The same run that put her on SoundCloud’s First On campaign in 2023, when her Lana Del Rey bootleg topped the platform globally, also led to BBC radio guest spots and a viral HÖR Berlin set. zer0 sounds like the point where those threads lock together, with rave heritage turned into a working dancefloor language.