WHP Marks 20 Years With a House Music Summit: Rossi., Luciano and Enzo Siragusa Close Depot Mayfield

Twenty years in club culture is a different metric than twenty years in most industries. Venues close, scenes fracture, the DJs who headlined the first year might be retired or reinvented by the twentieth. That The Warehouse Project has arrived at its anniversary while still staging 10,000-capacity shows — and still booking lineups that reflect movement in the underground rather than merely confirming its past — is the real story.

The flagship 20 Years of The Warehouse Project show takes over Depot Mayfield on Friday, November 27, 2026. Four stages, a programme that reads as a considered statement about where the series has been and where it currently stands, and a lineup that prioritizes the deep and minimal end of house music for its most prominent room.

The Depot stage — WHP's main space — is built around two figures who represent different but adjacent strands of European house music. Rossi., the UK-based minimal house specialist who has spent the last several years developing one of the more patient and architecturally precise approaches in the genre, headlines alongside Luciano, the Swiss-Chilean boss of Cadenza Records whose influence on the tech house lineage extends back to the early 2000s. Before both, Mella Dee — the Doncaster producer known for his ability to run an extended warmup that functions as its own complete set — plays for three hours.

The most anticipated pairing in the Depot programme may be the Enzo Siragusa and Saoirse back-to-back. Siragusa, whose Fuse London residency has been a reference point for educated house since the 2010s, and Saoirse, whose ear for tension and release in a four-hour set is quietly unmatched among UK DJs working in this register, represent exactly the kind of unlikely pairing that justifies the anniversary framing. Marsolo b2b Jamback completes the Depot programme.

The Archive takes a different direction entirely, handing over to Modern Funktion — the London collective whose curatorial sensibility leans toward micro-house and the French minimal tradition — for a takeover featuring Bullet Tooth, Sweely, and The Trip. Sweely in particular has earned his place among the more interesting voices working in this space: his productions treat silence as compositional material in ways that reward repeated listening.

The Concourse focuses on what WHP is describing as "next generation" electronic talent: Cam Stockman, the Dublin duo Obskür, and Boss Priester, alongside Locky b2b M-HIGH, Olive F and Emma2000. The VAULT rounds off the programme with Halfpint, Ranger Trucco, Jamie Fielding, Pach & Jhobei, Nautica and Lily C-D.

WHP began at Boddington's Strangeways Brewery in 2006, cycling through a series of locations before settling at Depot Mayfield in 2019. The architecture of Depot — rail infrastructure repurposed into nightlife geography — suits the anniversary framing: it's a room that knows it's old and makes no attempt to pretend otherwise. The decision to anchor the 20th anniversary show's most prominent stage around deep and minimal house — rather than the commercial spectacle that would fill the space just as easily — says something about where WHP's curatorial identity has landed.

Apple Music will broadcast selected sets from the broader WHP26 anniversary season, making portions of the programme accessible well beyond Manchester. The November 27 show is a one-off event, distinct from the ongoing WHP26 season calendar. Tickets remain available through the standard Warehouse Project channels.

Two decades of consistent programming at this scale, in a city whose nightlife has weathered its own pressures, is worth the ceremony. The Depot Mayfield lineup for November 27 suggests WHP knows how to throw a party for itself without losing sight of what it's celebrating.