ØTTA

The map of PELE DE MAR

A circle of sticky notes—Portugal, Brazil, London, Paris, and Barcelona—was the first blueprint for PELE DE MAR, ØTTA's debut album. Before producing a single track, the Portuguese artist set the concept like someone designing a building: each track is a place that has left a mark on her. The eight-track record, released on September 18, 2026, on HOTTIES, was largely conceived over four months in Brazil and incorporates vocals from FIAH, Lua de Santana, and Bibi Babydoll. The title speaks to what the sea leaves on the skin: salt, humidity, rhythms, and people who remain even after one has left. It is not a genre album, but a portrait of an identity made of traces.

From Possession to the groove that asks for no permission

Around 2020, she burst onto the scene with the Plus One EP and Silence Is Oppression on Possession, and in 2021 with the WOMXN EP, still anchored in industrial, fast, and distorted techno. In 2015, she had moved to London after a master's degree in architecture and six years in an orchestra, and she trained at Point Blank. There, she co-founded Orpheus with P RISCO, Metaraph, and Olha Korovina, a platform for rave, gabber, and hard techno. Her Manchester Boiler Room with Teletech—a set of nearly an hour—put her on the international map. Instead of cloning that moment, CANDY22 and In My 2024 Era (2024) opened up to Brazilian percussion, old school trance, UK garage, and vocals. She grew up in 1990s Portugal soaked in Brazilian television and music, with family and recurring trips to Brazil: that pulse is not an ornament, it is the ear with which she writes.

HOTTIES, DJ booth, and identity tour

HOTTIES has operated since 2024 as a label and party series: a queer club home that has traveled to Bogotá—its first major event, with about six thousand attendees—and dates in Spain. In the DJ booth, she has strung together Awakenings Festival 2025, a second Boiler Room at Glitch Festival, Tomorrowland 2026 within Amelie Lens's EXHALE, and Madrid Pride. In 2025, she released Mão Na Parede on Boys Noize's ONES and ZEROS. Today, between Barcelona and Paris, she maintains a sound of hard techno, trance, and Brazilian bounce that treats the dancefloor as a portrait: a London decade, Portuguese roots, and a scene that prefers groove over molds. The PELE DE MAR tour is, for the first time, an entire night built around that universe.