Berlin-based country-hopper, club-goer, and experience-seeker who observes, asks, listens, and writes. Fan of all dance music genres – main thing: unapologetically slashing beats that make the chest shake. Find me on dancefloors around the world or at my desk writing about them.

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Grooves For The Mind brings together international DJs for a livestream on October 29, of which all donations go to the UK charity mental health organization Mind. The goal is to use music to create awareness of and fundraise £100.000 to support mental health issues within electronic dance music scenes. For that purpose, the Grooves of The Mind live stream hosts 34

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Remember when Elon Musk asked if people thought it was a good idea to throw a party at Tesla Berlin’s Gigafactory? Well, he actually did. Musk transformed the production site in Berlin into a one-day festival site to celebrate the launch of the new Gigafactory. The line-up featured the likes of Boris Brechja, who is as innovative in his sound

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'Lightning Over Heaven' by Amelie Lens & Anyma was featured as part of this week’s Ann Demeulemeester fashion show in Paris. Anyma is better known as Matteo Milleri, one of the two DJs comprising the Tale Of Us. Female techno stellar Amelie Lens teamed up with the Italian DJ to produce an atypical track for her usual style. 'Lightning Over Heaven'

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The monumental London nightclub fabric announced that they will launch a series of 24-hour-plus parties running under the name “Continuum.” Each event of the series will run for at least a day. Some events will run longer, implementing weekend-long party policies that are known from Berlin’s iconic scene. The first Continuum is scheduled for November 20, 2021, and hosts a

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Bart van der Heide, director of Museion, inaugurated the TECHNO exhibition, the first installment of a series of exhibitions under the name TECHNO HUMANITIES. TECHNO runs from September 11, 2021 – March 03, 2022, at the Museion in Bolzano, Italy. As a multi-media exhibition, it comprises an international group show, a day rave, a public program, a reader, an audio

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New data from the RIAA mid-year 2021 music industry revenue statistics showed that the U.S recorded music industry revenues grew 27% compared to 2020. The report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) indicates that listeners value and engage with recorded music: Revenues rose from $5.6 to $7.1 billion at retail value. Streaming accounted for 84% of the revenues generated in

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Armin van Buuren and Davina Michelle surprised the audience of the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Zandvoort with an unannounced performance that became the site for the official release of their new song: ‘Hold On.’ The unexpected release must have left fans of the Armada label co-founder and Dutch songstress in waves of intense euphoria. Even more so after announcing

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Massive Attack commissioned the production of a carbon roadmap with measurable targets that the music industry could adopt to meet the demands of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Scholars of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research fabricated that roadmap in which they outline “super-low carbon” touring practices. They argue that changing touring practices is necessary to make the

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Videos of Hardwell b2b Ran-D at a small private party in the Netherlands are looming around social media. Was it planned, or was it a coincidence? Were both booked? Did they spontaneously delve into the space of creative expression as guests? Without a doubt, Hardwell’s appearance behind the decks comes as a massive surprise to the electronic world. Surely enough, the

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