Image by Hollie Fernando In mid-July, the UK reopened the country’s live music and festival industry after over a year of lockdown in the face of the pandemic. The aptly named “Freedom Day” was one eagerly anticipated by music fans and nightlife goers across the nation, and one which the
Image by Stefan Fähler Berlin DJ and producer Ziúr has quietly and quickly made a name for herself as one of the most formidable voices in avant-garde electronic music. Occupying a prolific status in the Berlin underground, Ziúr’s sound has been in a constant state of evolution since the grimy,
Image copyright Florian Schmitt Boris Brejcha once said of his infamous carnival mask facade, “starting with the mask makes people go crazy. Removing it later is even better.” It’s a sentiment that could easily be applied to the artist’s music as well. Brejcha has a particular habit for dropping multiple
Image by Seb JJ Peters You should be excited by Saoirse. The London based DJ and producer is one who is charging forward into the future of electronic music, alongside similarly captivating and invigorating acts such as Sherelle and TSHA. This group of diverse, non-cis-male innovators are shattering the boundaries
Image by Jerry Knies It’s not unfounded to assume Oscar Mulero moves in tandem with the culture of the dance floor. Lockdown and the absence of spaces for his music to come alive seems to have been a time of frustration for the Madrid DJ and producer, at least according
Image by Bethany Vargas Six years ago, Los Angeles producer TOKiMONSTA was diagnosed with a strange and rare brain disease which caused her to temporarily lose her hearing and her ability to perceive music. Two years and two brain surgeries later she mostly re-learnt the process of music making, an
Image: Seilscheibenpfeiler Berghain is basically the techno’s answer to Mecca. The venue is paradigmatic of underground nightlife and techno culture, the epoch seat of techno’s gods and tastemakers which has influenced the direction of the style and its endless sub-categories for decades. Marcel Dettmann is one such god. One of
Image by Klaus Wäldele Peter Kremeier chose a moniker that would speak directly towards his preoccupation with the soul at the core of house music. As Losoul, his obsession with the rhythms and electricity of disco, boogie and funk have seen the German producer consistently honour these elements as essential
Image courtesy LEITER records F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm are no strangers to collaboration. The renowned German experimentalists have consistently returned to each other time and again, feeding off one another’s respective points of view to produce increasingly mind-bending records. Though, it’s not hard to imagine the meeting of such
Image by Louie Banks Late last year while the world was deep in the throes of lockdown, German photographer, musician and multi-disciplinary artist Wolfgang Tillmans released his video work, Can’t Escape Into Space. Filmed on an empty dance floor on location at a venue in the iconic LGBTQIA+ haven of
