Originally hailing from Ukraine’s Odesa, project bijū arose from a need to explore the intersection of machine and body, the need to blur the boundaries between dehumanized electronic music and the natural environment. Both his selection and production are a constant search of balance between the minimalist and the dense, dynamic and slow, sharp and blurry. bijū blends together industrial dubs, unexplored IDM, psychotropic breaks and slow-burning, esoteric electronics. Inspired by the melancholic vibration of synthesizers, enriched by echoes emanating from the abyss, his performance transforms the soundscape into a psychedelic spectacle.

 was released on Berlin-based Sons of Traders Records. He is a curator of Healing Machine radio show on Mutant Radio, dedicated to slow-rolling experimental music.

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cccore, fka Mickenik, is a DJ and producer that has been a stable figure in the Amsterdam scene for years now, due to his extensive experience in the nightlife industry and his deep and multifaceted passion for music.

He has held a long-term residency at the esteemed underground venue Garage Noord and was previously a resident at the old Red Light Radio. His performances extend to renowned establishments such as De School, Radio Radio, and the Dekmantel's Lente Kabinet Festival. On the international stage, cccore has visited venues like Ankali, Drugstore, and Tresor West.

cccore's musical expression revolves around leftfield hypnotic techno, sonically drawing inspiration from deep, glitchy, and crunchy elements that captivate the listener. As a meticulous curator, cccore understands the significance of timing and cohesion in his DJ mixes, avoiding the distractions of being multi-faceted.

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Charlie, the Berlin-born Polish DJ & producer is an active member of the underground dance scene in Krakow. Known for her event series Szum with unique and diverse line-ups, she also caters to Krakow's visual art scene as the co-director of the project space 

 (Handbook for City Dwellers) being this year honored as the most original and influential art initiative in town.

Locally she appeared many times at Krakow's influential Unsound Festival, Warsaw's Jasna 1 club and just recently delivered a live performance at this year's Up To Date Festival with a complex analogue set up. As an expert of Krakow's local scene, she presented some of the city's insights at this year's online panel at Sonar Festival.

While she has lived in Krakow for 10 years, Charlie's second home has always been Berlin, where she played many times at Griesmühle, ://about blank, Tresor and at parties as Staub, Synoid and Mechatronica. The latter released her latest track on the Aid II compilation, which came out just after her debut track called ‘

’, released on Warsaw's label Dom Trojga in September.

Charlie’s work has been acknowledged internationally: she has played in European clubs such as Kaiku, Closer, La Machine or Salon Des Amateurs, and has appeared at The End Festival (part of Detroit’s Movement) or Mexico’s Yuyu club. Additionally Charlie also participated in several educational programmes including the music production workshop featured by Native Instruments and Crack Magazine.

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San Francisco-born, Berlin-based artist Chloe Lula has been involved with the electronic music scene for more than a decade, helming record labels and throwing parties for years before beginning to DJ.

She started producing her first live sets in 2019, when she completed a month-long artist residency with Drew McDowall of Coil. The experience ignited her confidence in composition and allowed her to combine her classical cello training with electronics, melding granular synthesis with acoustic riffs and metallic percussion to create an alloyed brand of droned-out industrial electronica. Many of these jams ended up becoming tracks on her debut EP with 

, where she’s been a resident for 4 years.

As a DJ, Chloe has played at Berghain, Tresor, Reaktor, Movement weekend in Detroit, and countless clubs, festivals and DIY parties across the world. She’s performed regularly alongside artists like Ron Morelli, Silent Servant, DJ Hell, Broken English Club, Reka, and Thomas P. Heckmann, becoming known for atmospheric sets that dig deep into niche releases and span electro, wave, industrial, techno, acid, and synthy experimental. In addition to her career as a DJ she is also a music journalist and collaborates with the newly established online radio 

Chloe Lula

daisy cutter combines a fresh zeal for electronic music with classical music education, providing her sets with diverse selection and a special sensitivity to harmonies and rhythmic runs. With a steady penchant for techno sounds, genres are blurred into a total that primes over units. From fast paced club tools, to house, bass and breaks, she easily finds a balance between sonic curiosity and the guiding purpose of captivating the dancefloor.

Her involvement in the dance music scene includes a residency in renowned Polish club Jasna1 – where she hosts the Wild At Heart series – and co-founding both the first Polish community radio station Radio Kapital and the urban school Radio Academy. As a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and performance researcher she’s interested in the community-building and performative approaches to club culture. This includes the organisation of charity events with a refugee focus within the FLAUTA collective, of which she’s been a driving force by curating parties and events at squats and cultural institutions.

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, exemplary of the new blood pulsing through Prague’s dance music veins, are musical descendants of unorthodoxy and underground values.

Most often seen and heard playing together, the pair founded Radio Laude, a small streaming crew which in 2020 moved from irregular and spontaneous events to its static broadcast location on top of 

 (a cultural & community hub established by 

). As resident DJs of the station, DeSteffan & Volume Sphere are both regular selectors and also curators of the newborn radio, which seeks to represent Prague’s colourful music scene.

DeSteffan’s DJing typically lies on an intersection of old-school analogue sound with a futuristic approach. His digging doesn’t stop at 4/4, but when playing to a dancing crowd his caustic, bass-intensive register comes to the fore. His monthly shows on the radio have brought colorful diversity to his selection, which is now blended into his more club-centric leanings. Volume Sphere’s selection spans genres and styles, but he’s most comfortable flicking through tracks infused with an old-school spirit, always with the steadiness and calm that characterises him as a person. Their most palpable influence is that of Prague’s Endless Illusion label, which has been grooming their attitude, taste and style over the years.

While their solo performances stand on their own, their back-to-backs are what sets them apart from the rest even more. Their joint musical development and inseparable friendship helped them evolve their own sonic communication, relying on the never-disappointing back and forth.

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Diamin is a DJ, vinyl collector and environmental scientist born in Chile and based in Berlin.

She has been working in a record store located in Buenos Aires for many years, where she started weaving her style and mixing techniques. Diamin sets cover a wide range of musical genres. She is a perfectionist, very much concerned about the musical environment and atmosphere. Her particular cartography of electronic music explores the roots of techno, focusing on how these sounds intersect with bleep, breakbeat, electro and acid. However outside the nightlife context, and in a more radio-friendly approach she proposes a profile in more experimental directions. From ambient to industrial tribal explorations.

From 2014 she is part of the foundation of the DJs collective Family Affair in Buenos Aires, which is active and influential on the local scene and beyond. A few years ago, she was also running a party called Transitions at the mythic club Cocoliche in Buenos Aires. Now she is a resident at MARICAS (Barcelona), Mutant Radio (Tbilisi), Lacura (La Plata) and recently she has launched a record label called Tecnologías Elementales.

Diamin

domizako is a Slovakian DJ and producer part of a new wave of fresh talent coming from the area. Her production includes percussive heavy-hitters of Latin echoes and bass-intensive frequencies, an influence that also infiltrates her DJ performances. Asides from her fertile self-releasing, she has also put out material on the VA compilation for the YUKU label.

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Jędrzej Dondziło, also known as dtekk, is a polish DJ, promoter, cultural activist and an occasional radio host from Białystok.

Since stepping behind the decks of the famed Metro club in 2000, he has become one of the most consistent and experienced DJs in the country. His versatility allows him to mix a very broad spectrum of what’s best in techno and electro music. However, his interest reaches further to experimental and ambient music, or to italo disco, which holds a particularly special place in his repertoire.

When DJing he aims at striking a balance between the authentic hunger for the deepest forms of artistic expression in music and the spreading of his love to the audience. His commitment and ever-rising quality brought him to stages all over Poland and Europe, including Unsound festival, Audioriver, Berghain, Ohm or Porto’s Gare.

Jędrzej is a founder and programmer of the 

 held annually in Białystok, as well as the city’s go-to nightclub called 

. He has been involved in the now defunct Technosoul music label and his promotional activities include Salon Ambientu event series. Dtekk is also the author of the Pozdro Techno slogan and father of custom built Pozdro Techno Sound System.

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Dzuma is a DJ and music producer specializing in post-punk electronics, murky synthwave and dirty electro. He made a name for himself by creating 

 - a series of events that became a must-see in Polish underground scene and gradually evolved into a prominent record label.

, the most important record shop in Poland when it comes to electronic music, where he keeps broadening his musical scope, learning the tools of the trade and selecting records and tapes for the local community of electronic music fanatics.

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On weekdays she is an engineering lecturer at the National Technical University of Minsk. Her weekend audiences are rather different – Elena Sizova shares her musical knowledge with the crowds at underground events across Russia and whole Europe.

The Belarus based artist is probably best known for the collaboration with Heinrich Mueller (Gerald Donald) for a conceptual Der Zyklus mini album on Wémè Records. On the album, her scientific background pollinates her artistic self, informing the creation of compositions derived from quantum physics theory. She is also a part of Donald’s collaborative project titled 

. Elena has co-produced a track with FOQL for their release on CGI Records and has appeared on a recent compilation of The Black Lodge label.

In DJ sets she employs her intelligent music taste and a well-crafted sound while weaving together old and new, rare and obscure, electro and techno. Together with Blackoon 77 she co-hosts a show on Lyl Radio called 

Elena Sizova

An eager sonic explorer who binds her various sound influences into mystical adventures, Eva Porating regards music as the universal language. While she doesn’t overly dwell on formal structures like genre, rhythm or tempo, she’s perfectly capable of working them to her advantage.

Born in Slovakia, Eva spent her teenage years playing bass guitar and singing in hardcore and punk bands. Her affection with dance music culture developed later, when she took up DJing in Brno, quickly becoming involved with the local scene. One of the highlights of her presence there were the MUAH events, a locally unparalleled club phenomenon, which she co-organized with Psj & Møreti.

Currently residing in Prague, Eva is a resident DJ at 

. Regular appearances on Radio Punctum, including her own Anemone show, reveal the true scope of her musical knowledge and interest. Her refined selection holds a mirror to Eva’s life experiences, and whether playing house, breaks, ambient or IDM, her sets contain whimsical turns, Middle-Eastern colour, ancestral goosebumps and mental healing — along with those euphoric hand-in-the-air moments.

Eva Porating

Exhausted Modern is the discomforting and thought-provoking alias of Ladislav Zensor, a Czech musician, DJ, head of the 

He has released pieces on labels such as brokntoys, Veyl, and Rotterdam Electronix, and has appeared on numerous compilations, including Power Station’s recent ‘Currents II’ and Syntetyk’s ‘House of Troubles’.

As his moniker suggests, Ladislav is mostly interested in dystopic sonic constructions that rely heavily on analogue technology, industrial feel, and rawness of character. In his musical narratives Exhausted Modern observes and abstracts the fata morganas of our civilisation, dissolving them into his musical compositions. These owe their influence to all nonconformist genres developed with electronic means, whether it be 80’s Detroit or Holland’s later West Coast scene.

His high productivity culminated in 2020 with his first full-length album released on Endless Illusion. ‘The Year of the Rat’ uses metaphors from the Chinese zodiac calendar to amplify comments on broken societal mechanics, capitalistic hierarchies, and the frustrations of its victims – the people. Despite Exhausted Modern’s dystopian sound, one which ranges from fast melancholia to simmering rage on the LP, there are hints of a brighter future scattered in EM’s musical output or his artistic presence.

His label Endless Illusion is an internationally acclaimed imprint which he founded back in 2011. It became a platform for event promotion and music publishing, connecting the Czech scene to the wider world by releasing music from like-minded freaks. With an ever-lasting need to dig deeper, the label has released several records of local electronic music pioneers under the Jupiter 08 sub-series, and Ladislav’s curation of the Endless Illusion mix series brings monthly guest appearances from unsung creators around the world.

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Facheroia is Zoi Michailova, sound artist and DJ originally hailing from Ukraine’s Crimea, land surrounded by rough and stormy sea. Now she calls Warsaw her second ‘home turf’, where since 2017 she’s been putting parties with 

, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focusing on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice.		

While preferring to remain mainly out of the spotlight, she has forged her personal style heard at different spaces & venues in Poland, Switzerland, Germany and Ukraine, where she has also qualified to resident status at Kyivʼs ∄ club.	

Her DJ sets are agile and unruly in a way that feels natural and challenging at the same time; she relies more on the narrative rather than genres whilst never taking her eye off the dance floor.

Zoi is also active as a sound artist, writing music for theatre plays, performances and audio visual installations, letting herself be grabbed by the limbo currents into unrevealed areas of sound.

Facheroia

Throughout his growth from a fan of music to DJ, and DJ to event creator, fleika’s selection of techno as his weapon of choice was a natural one, owing to the endless nights spent partying in the various warehouses and one-shot locations of Prague’s techno renaissance.

Between his membership of the Polygon collective, regular exposure at Cukr events and performances at Prague’s Stalin plaza, fleika has become one of the local scene’s most sought-after selectors. Each of fleika’s performances is a humble lecture in subtle mind control, the precision of his fingers when leaning over the mixer indicative of the high complexity of thought. Characterised by pristine atmosphere, trance-inducing percussion, and a controlled perplexity of unidentified synth sounds, each performance is unlike the last.

fleika’s skills have been rapidly developing in 

’s DJ booth thanks to his involvement as club resident from the beginning. His commitment manifests in persistent digging through vast worlds of music, and in extensive, marathon sets.

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Under a myriad of aliases, Berlin legend Franklin De Costa has been quietly releasing challenging, forward-facing house and techno for the best part of 20 years. Always operating in unconventional territories, he is well known in underground circles as one of the most consistently interesting and innovative DJ-producers at work in the city.

Day to day, De Costa spends his time running the 

 parties, which took place at Berlin’s sleaziest club spot, Griessmuehle, and will continue with the series at 

. Together with Hodge he started the Mother's Finest Label in 2020 presenting modern Bass Music.

Franklin De Costa

Originally from Georgia, Irakli’s early descent into the German capital has seen him corner and develop a side of the local scene and turn it into something of an international fare. 8 years ago he co-founded STAUB, one of Berlin’s most celebrated techno parties. As a part of the production duo I/Y, he has been releasing music under the synonymous co-founded label. But most of all, Irakli’s craft behind the decks has been weighed upon by the likeliest of Berlin’s underground venues, namely Tresor, Berghain and Griessmuehle, with his vision of electronic music taken further afield in Europe, and the Americas. In 2017 he founded the 

Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound

 with artists like Stanislav Tolkachev, Natalie Beridze, Rezo Glonti and many others.

Irakli also heads up a burgeoning convey diving into exploratory concepts of ambient, hued by the tones and colors of his homeland, Georgia. Adding orchestral collaborations and sound installations to a field of work outside of the club, Irakli’s expanding platforms and industrious connection to Berlin has seen his entry point into the scene now serve as an outlet into the more abstract, experimental realms of techno. With new endeavors afoot and a creative repertoire to boot, Irakli’s DJ sets, labels and parties always display unique qualities. It does not matter whether he is exploring beatless soundscapes or high energy techno music, Irakli always manages to create something special.

Irakli

JD J is a veteran Georgian DJ who has carved a distinctive niche in his current local scene. His most remarkable work encompasses co-running of Vodkast records (both a record store, party series and a label) and hosting of the show and event series 

Furthermore including the Ghost Note label and Tbilisi records (Vodkast’s new sister label). The defining features of his work are a taste for eclecticism and a strong sense of community, expressed through the support of newcomers.

His musical prowess extends beyond the dancefloor, making his music accessible to a broader audience. His sonic palette spans a wide range of genres and moods, making adaptability one of his greatest assets but not leaving behind a penchant for risk-taking.

JD J

just claudia’s attentive ears started scrutinizing every corner of the local scene and pushing it forward ever since moving to Prague a couple of years ago. One of her most outstanding contributions is her supervision of 

, a club night and podcast series focusing on nonconformist sounds, and the development and exploration of DJing as an art form.

As a DJ she binds the old world with hints of the future, blending entrancing hooks from various genres with fragments of anger and fatigue. Achieving an almost storytelling quality with her sets, each is an uniquely introspective and occult journey, playing with and empowering the audience at the same time.

In the last 2 years she became a recurring presence in Prague’s music scene, and started gaining international respect via meticulously constructed recordings contributed to various online outlets. In 2020 she joined the 

 collective as a resident DJ and club programmer.

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Raised on a strict diet of beats and sass, KILLA is a vinyl-only DJ whose sensitive ear for the more unconventional crossovers between groovy techno, high-brow electronica and the B-side oddities of dance music is helping her flesh out a sound uniquely her own. Killa came to Berlin in 2010 and started mixing publicly a few years ago, earning a quick-fire reputation for the uncompromising musical integrity of her selections, frequently served with a dash of diva “je ne sais quoi”.

KILLA’s sets are as diverse as the venues she plays at (://about blank, Griessmühle, IfZ, KHIDI, Tresor) and the crates she digs in. She is both a founding member and resident DJ of 

 – a queer-feminist posse/group/gang, community based rave and a platform for somatic expansion & collective transformation. She also co-organises local and international events with the Killasan sound system since 2014.

KILLA

Jędrzej Kowalczyk, also known as 'Kovvalsky', is a DJ, promoter, radio host and core member of 

 club in Warsaw, where he is the artistic director and one of the residents.

He has been active on the club scene for over 12 years and he was the driving force behind the inception of Jasna 1, one of the brightest clubs on the Polish club scene. While leading the programming of the club he doesn’t cut corners and never settles for anything less than his vision aims for. As a result, he has built a tight community around the club and a unique roster of its residents.

Outside of his work at Jasna 1, he has also been very prominent on the local Polish scene and has performed in most major clubs and festivals in the country. On top of it, he has also regularly played abroad in clubs such as: Berlin's Griessmuehle and //:about blank, Alphabet in Tel Aviv, Ankali in Prague, Korner in Taipei, Lizdas in Kaunas or Ballesta in Madrid.

Kovvalsky’s DJing can be characterized by a broad musical spectrum; from disco classics and italo experiments to house, electro, techno and songs that only few expect.

Together with Pitti Schmitti, Kovvalsky has been running his own club night called 

 (Disco Defence Committee), which quickly became one of the must-see series on the Polish scene. The main mission of these nights is to offer something new and exciting to a scene overly saturated with techno. Jedrzej and Pitti also host a radio show called 'Jasna 1 Presents' at Newonce radio - one of the most influential media platforms in Poland.

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LazerGazer is a conceptual artist and DJ that has been recently making waves in the underground scene of Amsterdam as booker of kanaal40 and frequent face in renowned Dutch venue Garage Noord. She weaves in sound patches in a seamless way, fluctuating between bass, percussion, breaks, electro and all of the other things that fall in between, translating all genders through an experimental filter. Adaptability is of her greatest assets, in addition to an obscure yet dynamic selection. Gaining momentum in the last few years, they have played in institutions like DeSchool, Ankali or Lente Kabinet.

LazerGazer

An emerging talent of prominence hailing from Mexico, Lokier, as a DJ & producer is cutting a stream into the estuaries of techno, industrial, EBM and electro afixed with new wave, and its denounced varieties. While running the gamut of Berlin’s underground, from off-location raves to Panorama Bar and Tresor, her breech into the European circuit, although clandestine, has seen Lokier gain familiarity, further expounded through spots on Rinse FM and Red Light Radio.

Lokier’s diversity in style throws down an array of dramatic soundtrack moves for the dancefloor, banging beats, weirdo synth, and power electronics. With her DJ sets she has already travelled around the world and, with gigs in numerous important music venues: Robert Johnson, New York’s Good Room, Amsterdam’s Reaktor parties, Rex in Paris, and Berghain’s Säule. Her early production came through labels like Squirrels On Film and Boyz Noise Rec and is now hitting the stride after a debut record on Rotterdam’s Pinkman.

Presenting a high voltage kinetic between heavier body music and the dark intergalactic romance of electro, her tracks over the years have made their way to the edit pits of Mick Wills, Solar’s giallo horror platform Squirrels on Film, aufnahme + wiedergabe and Sacred Bones with a remix of The Soft Moon. Amid the regalia of gothic, and post-industrial music, Lokier’s plunge into the deeper esoterics of this sound only adds a fresh and inspired ethos to her work, aesthetic and vision.

Lokier

As a relatively new face on Czech scene, Marie Pravda quickly became one of its most acclaimed talents. Her involvement with the night life began behind the bar of Metro club in Olomouc, but as she grew weary of the bar's routine, she relocated to the DJ booth in 2016, then discovering her passion for seeking new music. After moving to Prague she became a resident of Radio Punctum and later a member of 

 resident collective. Recently she became involved in the management of Prague’s 

Her original interest in indie music transformed into love for everything instrumental and psychedelic within EBM and slow electro, soon becoming an avid digger who follows threads of music others rarely stumble upon. With an understanding of DJing as a method of storytelling, or as a chance to guide the audience from point X to point Y, she attains a certain level of melancholia while simultaneously retaining empowerment and freedom of interpretation.

Marie Pravda

. As a DJ he tries not to limit himself to boundaries of one genre which allows him to oscillate between deep, dub, Detroit techno and acid freely.

 crew and co-founder of dype, a promotional collective responsible for inviting many brilliant DJs to the capital. He has presented his musical vision in almost all crucial clubs of the Polish scene as well as at several cult clubs and festivals abroad. His long-term collaboration with Dimensions Festival resulted in Dimensions Launch Parties in Warsaw and his performances at the adriatic festival.

Last couple of years saw Monster rise to national stardom, conquering parties and festivals across the country with memorable sets. Her meteoric rise was not a surprise - the talented DJ has a decade worth of experience under her belt and an omnivorous taste for euphoric and fun music—be it house, techno, acid, trance, breaks or... Rihanna.

Her career started in the late 00’s at Rozbrat, an anarchist squat and social center in Poznań, Poland. That's where she started throwing Squat The Electricity nights, working tightly with the local scene, popularising electronic music among activists and activism among electronic music fans. Today, she's a member of 

, a Polish platform supporting women, non-binary and queer people in electronic music. Their actions came to worldwide attention thanks to the Total Solidarity compilation.

In 2018, she won a DJ contest held by Catz 'n Dogz and performed at their Wooded City Festival in Szczecin. Later that year, she delivered a mix for Violet's Naive label that was picked up by Pitchfork as one of their mixes of the month to the delight of Philip Sherburne: “this 99-minute set of acid, breakbeats, cascading piano house, electro, and even very early trance is cause to wonder why we haven’t heard of her before.” A recording of her fierce closing party set at Unsound 2019 was featured in Resident Advisor's mix of the day series as well as in Pitchfork’s best mixes of January 2020. She was immediately asked to record a proper RA mix, the first Polish woman to do so since Magda.

She has performed in clubs all over Poland, and is a resident of 

 in Poznań. When not DJ-ing, you can catch her running workshops for DJs at feminist events such as International Women’s Day fundraisers, as well as ones hosted by Oramics and Granko.

Monster

Mor Wen’s activity oscillates between DJing, live music, performance, and community building, keeping the borders between blurred at all times. She is a resident DJ of 

Being an offspring of Vietnamese migrants, but born and raised in Prague, her life and art are an amalgam of two different cultural backgrounds. Among experiences informing her practice is a participation in physical theatre, intergenerational dance & movement workshops, and teaching Việt children in Prague’s cultural centre of Sapa.

As a DJ and music performer, Mor Wen rhythmically stitches unconventional genres to explore the melancholic and nostalgic state of ‘saudade’. She combines music from the past and future while providing a sound-body-mind connection to the audience.

Together with her brother Xynnh she has created 

, a collective aiming to initiate sincere connections between people by employing various techniques from performing and visual arts. Through intimate events they seek the reshaping of stale structures in common cultural events. Moreover, they rethink the setting of a temporary environment, intertwining media to blur visual boundaries and making one feel at home among friends and strangers alike.

Mor Wen

Shapeshifting MSJY continually changes form. After dark, a two-piece yellow tracksuit looms over the decks, unleashing a frenzy of electric beats. When the sun is up, her gentler touch is at play: fusing unthinkable combinations of genres into alluring, deliberate provocations.

She emerged from the OOST club in the north of Netherlands and took early residencies at Noorderling, Griessmuehle and later in Amsterdam’s De School. Her midnight selections are bass-heavy and unafraid to provoke. Her sets are characterised by pace, energy and balancing of different moods.

That balance is achieved delicately; easing listeners across an expansive style. With craft she makes otherworldly into the club-ready. Foresight and cautious preparation enable her to glide between genres that would formerly seem nonsensical – opening up her sound to distant tones whilst maintaining respect for the dancefoor’s natural order.

When the bass and darkness subside, her lighter daytime persona comes into being. Beneath the beats a conceptual side is unearthed. Her latest creation is 

 – a release series exploring the emotive nature of a club night's final hours. In her Red Light Radio slots called Jay-by-day this conceptual approach was further summoned; brought to life in strongly thematic, cross-genre explorations. Though Jay’s shapeshifting persona can be hard to pin down, her DJ sets are rarely off the mark: willing to unwind the norms and push the narrative. Each scene offers a fresh role for her to perform. A character which both owns and plays with the script.


MSJY

Nicole is a Prague-based DJ and a noteworthy part of the local club scene.

Her diverse club sets are always curious explorations of the emotional landscape and environment surrounding her. They can break your heart, uplift your soul, or both in one night. Either way, she never fails to deliver the punches. She also has a soft spot for all shades of disco and synth-heavy songs that she regularly unleashes at Disco Církev parties.

 show on Radio 1. She usually goes through the most recent additions in her club-oriented folders in the bi-weekly broadcasts. Every now and then, she invites her favorite selectors to contribute guest mixes and showcase their own specific tastes. Techno, electro, breaks and obscurities – everything goes, no rules, no conventions.

, a regular slot on the community-based Radio Punctum, gives way to her rather tender self: electronica, modern classical and subtle pop ballads, all wrapped up in an appropriate amount of introspection inducing nostalgia.

NCOL

Oliver Torr is a sonically hyperactive musician, music producer and composer working on intersections of leftfield electronica, avantgarde, visual arts and improvisation. After graduating from the British & Irish Modern Music Institute in London and studying audiovisual arts in Berlin, Oliver’s relocation to Prague has resulted in a harmonious coalescence of his numerous influences.

Oliver is a highly collaborative agent with deep involvement in numerous projects over the last couple of years. As a musician he has performed live regularly alongside several local artists including OGJ, David Herzig and Trauma, with releases appearing on local labels such as Nona Records, LBD Audio, XYZ Project and FM Label. He is a co-founder of 

, a platform for event production, music publishing and audiovisual art production, which has been active on and off since 2014.

’s artist residency programme in 2020, during which he organised the Trans Europe Postal Express project, which explores the idea of chance music using a four-track tape recorder, sent to SHAPE artists around Europe over the pandemic.

His elusive music emerges from an obsessive mind picking up sounds 24/7. After a period of club-inspired track production he has been progressively moving towards experimentation and ambient performances based on live sound modulation. Recently, he has diverted towards postmodern approaches and the usage of tropes borrowed from popular genres. These influences converge in his genre-elusive TraumaTorr live act with fellow producer Trauma (club rhythmics colliding with noise and autotune anxiety), or on his first full-length album titled 

Being a music and technology aficionado, Oliver collects drum machines, synthesizers, andmodules, combining them through creative process with assorted hacked devices, tape machines and field recordings.

Oliver Torr

Few DJs truly have a unique vision: a distinctive approach that draws on a myriad of interconnected styles to create a unified, otherworldly sound of its own. Olivia is one such DJ.

Initially best known for being one of the key resident DJs at the acclaimed annual Unsound festival that takes place in her home city, Krakow, Olivia has developed a trademark style that couples razor-sharp technical skills with an eclectic but interconnected approach to the raw, weighty and mind-altering music she mixes. Depending on the venue, event and vibe, Olivia might race through angular acid, loose-limbed electro, futuristic Motor City techno, concrete-clad industrial music, surging EBM, twisted Italo, glacial cold wave and metallic new wave.

This forward-thinking blend of 1980s-inspired styles and experimental dancefloor workouts has proved popular with peers and punters alike, leading to sets at such leading clubs and festivals as Berghain, De School, Tresor, Golden Pudel, Dekmantel and Nachtdigital. Olivia has also showcased her trademark style via acclaimed mixes for CRACK, The Ransom Note, Dekmantel, Cxema, Digital Tsunami and Inverted Audio, appearances on Boiler Room, and a regular radio show on fast-rising station Noods.

The Polish DJ/producer’s achievements are impressive, but no less than she deserves for her hard work and dedication to the underground over the last 16 years. She first rose to prominence as one of the most active DJs on Krakow’s electronic music underground, featuring in a number of collectives and appearing in clubs all over Poland before becoming a leading member of her home city’s 

 party collective. Olivia remains an active member of the Radar collective, which includes a mixture of artists, DJs, events organisers and live performers. She has extensive experience in booking and events too, where the depth of her musical knowledge once more comes to the fore.

Today, Olivia has her hands in many projects, collectives and live performance projects. These include Morskie Oko (a hybrid live/DJ project with Chino and Steffen Bennemann), Radiation 30376 (a live show with Chino that debuted at Unsound 2019) and Chrono Bross, a collaborative initiative with Kinzo Chrome. She also recently joined the 

 collective, a Polish initiative supporting the visibility of women and non-binary artists.

Although she has her hands full as a DJ and live performer, Olivia has devoted increasing amounts of time to music production over the last few years. She released her debut cassette, Skawa – a perfect distillation of her inspirations and influences in five forthright tracks – via K-Hole Trax in 2018, while her music has also featured on compilations from Pointless Geometry and the Wire Magazine. She says that new music is on the way; if her DJ sets and previous productions are anything to go by, it will be edgy, uncompromising, unexpected and undeniably unique.

Olivia

ophélie (she/they) is a France-born, Berlin-based DJ with a strong taste for bass-heavy music in all its forms. They are interested in the fluid, liquid, melancholic, and often emotional aspect of music, achieved through combining multiple layers of sounds, and weird (poly)rhythms.

As a producer, they enjoy experimenting with FX, textural sounds, and all different kinds of percussion. They released  a first track on Italian experimental and leftfield club label Early Reflex in June 2023 and have a couple more tracks  coming out in the next months.

ophélie’s monthly Refuge Worldwide residency, Therapy Dog, and event series at Kwia, allow her to experiment and  explore the different genres she’s into, while often sharing the decks with friends and artists she admires. As part of  Open Music Lab, a Berlin-based non-profit collective offering free music and production courses for people from  marginalized communities to connect and create together, she's interested in ways to support emerging artists outside  the mainstream, in the hope to build a more equitable music scene.

ophélie

phil in a maze is a musician, DJ and sound artist based in Prague, one of the residents at 

With an ear for breakneck syncopation and rattling low end, phil's work subverts genre conventions, writhing around a vast range of influences: from drone and noise to murky dub, oldschool dancehall and system-shaking dubstep all the way to halftime d'n'b and UK steppers. Always true to the DIY ethos, most of his work is 

 but has also appeared on several VAs and been transmitted on Rinse, Noods, NTS or Radio 80000.

phil in a maze

Radiation 30376 is the new live project from Poland’s Olivia and Chino.

They are both 80s children through-and-through, born towards the end of the Cold War, just before the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, and imbued at an early age with the aura of decaying communism. This was experienced as a time of suppression and prohibition, which in turn gave way to the wild, unchecked freedoms of the 90s, when the country and its inhabitants were pressed to search for new ways and modes of living.

With Radiation 30376 they seek to reflect the startling harshness of these transformative times. Their full-on hardware performance, combining the sounds of acid, techno and electro is complemented by the lights and visuals operated by Jan Dybała, together creating an impactful AV experience, evoking an intense, brutalist aura of the former eastern bloc.

Radiation 30376

Richii is a seasoned music lover who’s no stranger to the intricately tasteful fluxes of international underground club scenes worldwide. Starting out as a party promoter in Fukuoka, Richii has led a global\nomadic lifestyle spanning from Japan to Australia and most recently Berlin, allowing her to rack up a considerable portfolio of dancefloor miles in different scenes. Richii’s unique sense of club atmosphere and love for records has inevitably guided her towards the DJ booth, debuting during the high tension Pandemic Summer as a new member of the Sound Metaphors family in a series of events spanning from illegal forest raves to various clubs in Berlin. Fast forward a few years and her sense of style and aesthetics in music have catapulted her career into the status of a reference up-and-coming DJ in the Berlin underground scene, with consistent appearances in Berghain along with a residency with the legendary Cocktail d’Amore parties.

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Richii

 collective established in 2014 (and label in 2018), Yan has been inseparably involved with the development of Prague’s dance music scene. His crew has opened a more deep and organic side of techno to local audiences, building an impressive following as they go and moving forward musically over the years.

As a resident DJ of Ankali Yan co-curates the regular Yuggadus nights, with a fresh and friendly take on bookings, inviting personal heroes to his favourite club space.

Yan’s DJ sets are one of the reasons why Harmony parties became so successful. His ability to deliver precise and absorbing mixes has been growing hand in hand with the quality of the events themselves. With a crystal-clear technique he blends dubby and trancey techno and various house cuts with a strong emphasis on the groove & bass. Closing slots are undoubtedly his specialty. Also, his growing interest in digging 90s techno and progressive house or trance has been taking off recently. 

His care and attention to details has earned him an increasing amount of foreign interest, alongside a steady supply of bookings on home turf. All that, together with the strong ties made over the years with befriended labels and other crews, brought Yan and the Harmony brand around the globe, with several stops in Japan, Columbia and Netherlands.

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