--- title: "Charlotte de Witte: Real Name, Raving George, KNTXT and the Ironworks Date" description: "Charlotte de Witte's real name is Charlotte Aloïs de Witte, born 21 July 1992 in Ghent. Raving George, KNTXT, the debut album and Ironworks London." author: "MNEEMO (Yaroslav Gorovoy)" section: "The World" published: "2026-10-09T08:00:00Z" modified: "2026-10-09T08:00:00Z" canonical: "https://www.mneemo.com/blog/charlotte-de-witte-real-name-kntxt-2026/" --- # Charlotte de Witte: Real Name, Raving George, KNTXT and the Ironworks Date _Charlotte de Witte's real name is Charlotte Aloïs de Witte, born 21 July 1992 in Ghent. Raving George, KNTXT, the debut album and Ironworks London._ ![Charlotte de Witte DJing an outdoor set in Ghent on 6 February 2026, phones held up by the crowd in the foreground](https://www.mneemo.com/assets/blog/charlotte-de-witte-real-name-kntxt-2026/hero.jpg?v=cf01616d) **Charlotte de Witte's real name is Charlotte Aloïs de Witte. She was born on 21 July 1992 in Ghent, Belgium, is 34, and for the first five years of her career she was not Charlotte de Witte at all: she DJed as Raving George, a name chosen so that promoters would book the music before they judged the DJ.** A decade after dropping the alias she is a top-ten name in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs, the founder of the KNTXT label, the owner of a debut album released last November, and the headliner of the last night of Ironworks' first season in London, on Sunday 1 November 2026, already sold out with a waiting list. This is the profile: the name, the alias, the Ghent years, the label, the album, the two-night hometown show for 23,000 people that opened 2026 and what the London date is. ## Charlotte de Witte at a glance - **Real name:** Charlotte Aloïs de Witte. - **Born:** 21 July 1992, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium. Age 34 in 2026. - **First alias:** Raving George, from 2010 to 2015, with a debut EP under that name in 2013. - **Labels:** KNTXT, launched in 2019; Époque, launched in January 2024. - **Album:** Charlotte de Witte, her self-titled debut, released on KNTXT on 7 November 2025, eleven tracks including No Division, The Realm and After The Fall, with collaborators XSALT, Comma Dee, Lisa Gerrard and Alice Evermore. - **The remix:** The Age of Love, reworked with Enrico Sangiuliano in 2021, the year's best-selling techno record on Beatport. - **DJ Mag Top 100 DJs:** first entry at 74 in 2019; career high of 9 in 2025. - **The hometown show:** 15 years of Charlotte de Witte at Flanders Expo, Ghent, 6 and 7 February 2026, 23,000 people over two nights, with 999999999, Armin van Buuren, Richie Hawtin, Enrico Sangiuliano and SHDW among the guests. - **Next London date:** Ironworks, Thames Wharf, Sunday 1 November 2026, 14:00 to 22:00. Sold out, waiting list open. ## What is Charlotte de Witte's real name, and who was Raving George? Charlotte de Witte is her real name, which makes the more interesting question the one about the other one. She found Ghent's underground clubs around 2009, started DJing in 2010, and adopted the alias Raving George, by her own account, to avoid the negative preconceptions that met female DJs at the time: a promoter reading a name on an email would book the music first. Under it she released her debut EP in 2013 and, in 2015, a single called You're Mine with the Belgian pop act Oscar and the Wolf that became a genuine hit. That was also the year she dropped the alias, started using her own name, and made the stylistic turn toward the harder, darker techno the name now means. It is one of the few cases in dance music where the switch from an alias to a real name is the beginning of the career rather than a footnote to it. ![Charlotte de Witte's stage lit by a wall of blue lasers cutting through trees at Rock en Seine, Paris, August 2023](https://www.mneemo.com/assets/blog/charlotte-de-witte-real-name-kntxt-2026/img-01.jpg?v=f9bac1b0) *FIG. 02 · ROCK EN SEINE, AUGUST 2023. Photo: ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.* ## Ghent, and the Belgian techno lineage Ghent is the point. Belgium has produced a disproportionate share of the techno that fills big rooms, from the new beat and Bonzai years to the current generation, and the two names at the top of it in 2026, de Witte and [Amelie Lens](https://www.mneemo.com/blog/amelie-lens-real-name-techno-2026/), both came out of the Flemish club circuit within a couple of years of each other. Where Lens built her platform through Antwerp and her Exhale label, de Witte built hers from Ghent and KNTXT, and the two have spent a decade being compared by people who have not listened closely: Lens is the more hypnotic and acid-led, de Witte the harder, more direct and more melodic at the peak. They answered the comparison themselves with the One Mind EP in February 2025 and a run of back-to-back shows. The Flanders Expo weekend in February 2026, marking her 15th year as an artist, was the hometown statement: 23,000 people over two nights in Ghent, with 999999999, Armin van Buuren, Richie Hawtin and Enrico Sangiuliano on the bill. ## KNTXT: from a night to a label KNTXT began as her event brand and became a label in 2019, and it is the structure the whole career now hangs from: the parties, the stage takeovers at the big festivals, the releases from Chris Liebing, Monoloc and Alignment among others, and her own records. In January 2024 she added a second label, Époque, a platform for remixes of classic Belgian tracks. The label model is the same one that made [Solomun](https://www.mneemo.com/blog/solomun-real-name-diynamic-pacha-2026/) with Diynamic and [Eric Prydz](https://www.mneemo.com/blog/eric-prydz-real-name-pryda-cirez-d-2026/) with Pryda: own the context your music arrives in and the booking follows. The record that proved it commercially was the 2021 rework of The Age of Love, the 1990 trance classic, made with Enrico Sangiuliano, which topped Beatport's techno bestsellers for the year and became the peak-time record of the post-lockdown festival summer. The two married in 2022; on 25 July 2026 she announced the end of the relationship. Their professional partnership on that record remains one of the best-known things either has released. ## The debut album, and what it changed For a DJ who had been a global headliner for six years, the absence of an album was conspicuous, and the self-titled record that arrived on KNTXT on 7 November 2025 was built to answer it. Eleven tracks, No Division, The Realm and After The Fall among them, with guests who tell you the ambition: XSALT and Comma Dee from the club end, and Lisa Gerrard, the Dead Can Dance singer whose voice is on the Gladiator soundtrack, from somewhere else entirely. It is a techno album in the sense that the kick is where you expect it, and something wider in the sense that it wants to be listened to at home. The Flanders Expo weekend three months later was its launch party, at a scale most albums never get. ## Ironworks, 1 November 2026 The London date is the closing night of the first season at [Ironworks](https://www.mneemo.com/blog/ironworks-london-royal-docks-venue-guide/), the new warehouse on the Thames at the Royal Docks: Sunday 1 November 2026, 14:00 to 22:00, the day after Halloween. It sold out before the venue had opened and now has a waiting list, while the Jamie Jones and Eric Prydz dates were still on sale in late September, which is a reasonable measure of where she stands in London in 2026. A Sunday afternoon into evening suits the music better than it sounds: her sets are built on long, ascending arcs that need a room to be dark by the time they peak, and a 22:00 finish with the Jubilee line running is the kind of practical detail that makes a big daytime techno show work in a city that has lost most of its late licences. The whole month around it is in the [November 2026 club calendar](https://www.mneemo.com/blog/november-2026-club-nights-london-manchester/), and the harder end of the same weekend, from Terminal V the week before to Klangkuenstler at WHP on the 14th, is where the hard techno crowd goes next. ## Why Charlotte de Witte matters in 2026 She is the clearest example of the last decade's techno mainstreaming done without softening the music: the same kick drum that filled a Ghent basement now fills Tomorrowland's main stage and a 23,000-capacity expo hall, and the records did not get slower or sweeter to make the trip. What changed was the infrastructure, the label, the brand, the album, and the willingness to be a name rather than an alias. For the producers in [the rooms that still do this every weekend](https://www.mneemo.com/blog/best-techno-clubs-europe-2026/), and for the hard techno generation behind [Sara Landry](https://www.mneemo.com/blog/sara-landry-real-name-hard-techno-2026/) and the Terminal V bills, she is the proof that the path exists. The lesson is the same one Raving George learned in 2010: play the record first and let them argue about the name later. ## FAQ **What is Charlotte de Witte's real name?** Charlotte Aloïs de Witte. She performs under her real name, having DJed as Raving George from 2010 to 2015. **How old is Charlotte de Witte?** She was born on 21 July 1992, so she is 34 in 2026. **Where is Charlotte de Witte from?** Ghent, in East Flanders, Belgium, where she found the underground club scene around 2009 and began DJing in 2010. **Who is Raving George?** Charlotte de Witte's original alias, used from 2010 until 2015. She has said she chose it to avoid the negative preconceptions that met female DJs; she released her debut EP under it in 2013 and the 2015 hit You're Mine with Oscar and the Wolf before switching to her own name and to techno. **What is KNTXT?** Her event brand and, since 2019, her record label, home to her own releases and records from artists including Chris Liebing, Monoloc and Alignment. She launched a second label, Époque, in January 2024. **Does Charlotte de Witte have an album?** Yes. Her self-titled debut album was released on KNTXT on 7 November 2025, with eleven tracks including No Division, The Realm and After The Fall, and collaborations with XSALT, Comma Dee, Lisa Gerrard and Alice Evermore. **Is Charlotte de Witte married?** She married the Italian techno producer Enrico Sangiuliano in 2022, and on 25 July 2026 she announced the end of their relationship. Their 2021 rework of The Age of Love topped Beatport's techno bestsellers for 2021. **Where is Charlotte de Witte in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs?** She first entered the poll at 74 in 2019 and reached a career high of 9 in the 2025 ranking. **When is Charlotte de Witte playing London in 2026?** Sunday 1 November 2026 at Ironworks, the new venue at Thames Wharf in the Royal Docks, 14:00 to 22:00, closing the venue's first season. The date was sold out, with a waiting list open, at the time of writing. ## Sources - Wikipedia entry for Charlotte de Witte; DJ Mag Top 100 DJs 2019 to 2025 - Electronic Groove, DJ Mag and Techno Music World on the debut album and the Flanders Expo 2026 shows; KNTXT release information - Ironworks London (events and Key Info pages, checked late September 2026) for the 1 November 2026 date, its status and travel; Resident Advisor listing for Flanders Expo 2026; MusicBrainz for the album tracklist; Electronic Groove on the Flanders Expo line-up and 23,000 attendance This profile is part of House of MNEEMO's ongoing coverage of the electronic and club music scene, written by London-based DJ and producer MNEEMO, with millions of streams to his name and a party series running through some of London's best clubs. For the venue she closes, read the [Ironworks London guide](https://www.mneemo.com/blog/ironworks-london-royal-docks-venue-guide/). --- Source: https://www.mneemo.com/blog/charlotte-de-witte-real-name-kntxt-2026/ · © HOUSE OF MNEEMO. Written by MNEEMO (Yaroslav Gorovoy).