Disco never really left the room. It just changed shoes, sped up, and walked into a darker Berlin basement. That is the lane Mija is claiming with Hard Disco, the title track of her new four-track EP: not a museum piece, not a costume, but a physical club record that treats disco as something still in motion.
Mija is a Berlin-based DJ, producer and vocalist who has spent the last stretch of her career leaning into hardgroove and techno while keeping one hand on the disco and classic house she fell for first. Her own line still says it best: born to chill, forced to DJ. The work around that joke is serious. Earlier cuts like Summer Groove and the Soft Groove EP already showed a playful, funk-tinged take on faster club tempos. Hard Disco is the next step in that pocket, where Eurodance energy and rave muscle sit on top of a groove that still wants you to move your hips, not just your fists.
She wrote, sang, produced and mixed the whole EP herself. That DIY control is not a press-release flourish. It is the point. The four tracks — Feels Good, Hard Disco, On The Floor and Temptation — were built to feel like chapters of the same night rather than four separate singles glued together. Feels Good opens with immediate movement. The title track pushes the disco language into something tougher and more peak-time. On The Floor, which arrived first and picked up early support from House of Solo and Son of Marketing, is the infectious floor statement. Temptation closes the set with a different shade of the same world.
SubmitHub tagged the submission Alt Pop with an Electronica mood, which is a useful reminder that Mija has never treated genre as a fence. The record still lives on the dancefloor. Think rolling hardgroove drums, bright disco-adjacent hooks, her own vocal sitting in the mix instead of floating above it, and a tempo that belongs in rooms that stay open past sunrise. Disco here is not sequins and strings for their own sake. It is a way to keep the music light on its feet while the kick stays heavy.
That mix makes sense in 2026. Hardgroove and Eurodance have been cycling back through European clubs, and Berlin remains the city where those revivals get tested on actual floors instead of playlists. Mija has said she is taking early house inspirations and running them through the European records she has been living with since she moved. The result is nostalgia only in the sense that the references are old. The energy is current.
Independence runs through the rest of her setup too. She runs Never B Alone, a DIY community-driven label where new music is selected and voted on by the artists themselves. That same instinct — keep the process close, share the decision-making, do not wait for a gatekeeper — is all over Hard Disco. One person in the booth, four tracks, no committee polishing the personality out of them.
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Hard Disco is the kind of title that tells you the assignment before the first bar. Disco, but harder. Familiar, but not polite. If you have been waiting for someone to drag those old grooves into a faster, sweatier room without turning them into a joke, this is a good place to start. What do you think of this artist’s sound? Let me know in the comments.
