HUGEL is performing in Greece this summer — Athens on June 26 at the Melina Mercouri Theatre in Vironas, and Cavo Paradiso in Mykonos later in the season. For a DJ who has sold out Red Rocks, holds residencies at Hï Ibiza and XS Las Vegas, and earned the title of Beatport's Best Selling Artist of 2025, Greece is a natural stop. His Latin house sound, built on four-on-the-floor rhythms, Afro-influenced percussion, and melodic hooks, was made for open-air Mediterranean stages.
Who is HUGEL and why does he keep coming back to Greece?
Florent Hugel grew up in Marseille, which goes some way to explaining why his music sounds like it belongs on a coastline. He started DJing at 16 and credits Daft Punk, Carl Cox, and Laurent Garnier as early influences — a combination that captures the tension in his work between French electronic precision and the looser, groove-first energy of house music. He runs his own label, Make The Girls Dance Records, which focuses on Latin house, Afro house, and Afro Latin — a niche he essentially owns in the European festival circuit.
His breakthrough was a 2018 remix of El Profesor's "Bella Ciao" that went platinum in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. His 2024 collaboration "I Adore You" with Topic, Arash, and Daecolm became his most commercially successful single. By 2025, he had over four billion career streams and his first DJ Mag Top 100 entry at number 54. The Greek market, with its appetite for quality open-air summer programming, fits his trajectory exactly.
What is the Athens show on June 26?
The confirmed Athens date is June 26, 2026, at the Melina Mercouri Theatre in Vironas — an open-air amphitheatre south-east of the city centre, built into a hillside overlooking Athens. It is a different kind of venue from the beach club circuit: larger capacity, amphitheatre acoustics, and an audience that travels specifically for the show rather than passing through a club. The combination of HUGEL's high-energy Latin house with an open-air summer night in Athens is the format his sets are built for.
Tickets are available through GO-OUT and Mood. Based on HUGEL's recent tour history — selling out Red Rocks Denver (capacity 9,525) and headline festival slots — Athens tickets are worth securing early.
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What about the Mykonos date at Cavo Paradiso?
Cavo Paradiso is one of the most recognisable club venues in the world — built into the cliffs above Paradise Beach, its dancefloor faces the Aegean Sea. The venue has hosted Solomun, Armin van Buuren, and David Guetta, and sits at the intersection of the electronic music mainstream and the Mediterranean summer circuit where HUGEL operates. His Cavo Paradiso date is confirmed for summer 2026; the exact night can be checked on Mood and the venue's own events calendar.
Mykonos and Athens are a natural double for anyone who wants to catch both shows in a single Greek trip. The Athens show on June 26 makes a logical starting point, with Mykonos as a natural continuation later in the summer.
What does a HUGEL set actually sound like?
HUGEL plays at the intersection of Latin house and tech house. His sets are driving and energetic without being aggressive — the four-on-the-floor kick is constant, but the percussion layers are Latin and Afro-influenced, and the melodies have a commercial brightness that makes the music work in large outdoor spaces as well as intimate club settings. His motto for Make The Girls Dance Records — "Don't do it for the money. Do it for the Latinas." — is a reasonably accurate description of the energy. It is festival-sized house music with a heart.
If you are familiar with his Hï Ibiza residency sets, the Athens and Mykonos shows will have that same open-air energy but with a different crowd dynamic — Greek summer audiences bring an intensity to electronic shows that is specific to this part of Europe.
How do I get tickets for HUGEL in Athens and Mykonos?
Athens (June 26, Melina Mercouri Theatre): Tickets are available through Mood and GO-OUT. The show is confirmed sold-in-progress, and based on prior Athens open-air show patterns, availability should be confirmed as soon as possible.
Mykonos (Cavo Paradiso, date TBC): Tickets through the Cavo Paradiso events calendar and Mood. Cavo Paradiso releases summer dates on a rolling basis; set an alert on Mood to be notified when the specific HUGEL night goes on sale.
