Gravity Berlin #2 will take place in the German capital on March 3, 2023. Sherelle, Gigi FM, Tijana T and network’s residents Claudia and Elena Sizova are billed for the upcoming event.

Berlin’s RSO will hold the 5th edition of Gravity events, the series of club nights, discussions and educational formats.

Reflecting its annually selected themes, this year’s 

the RSO team is bringing together a group of industry experts including Christine Kakaire, Caroline Whiteley, Killa, representatives of Beatport, Groove Magazine and more, to discuss ghost producing, safety and awareness of sex positive dancefloors, and the longevity of the scene’s  recent transformations.

Later in the afternoon Sherelle will lead an intermediate level DJing workshop hosted by Femme Bass Mafia and the educational platform Home of Sound will organize an introductory music production session.

Critical discussions on the club culture with industry professionals were held during previous Gravity events, including talks and panels focussed on night life’s economy, harm reduction and awareness, queer cultures and safer spaces amongst others. A recording of a panel previously held at RSO titled 

, which has seen the likes of DVS1 and RA’s Chloe Lula amongst others, has been published as 


Co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Gravity Network’s aim is to develop electronic music culture by sparking off artist and knowledge exchange through an expanding network of venues across Europe and beyond.

Gravity Berlin #2 announced!

In a 4-part special put together by Gravity Network, we offer a closer look behind the scenes of Extra Muros, the globe-trotting music residency enterprise run by Olivier Duport and Alan Marzo, who accepted our invitation to organise a week-long residency at Planeta Za as a part of Gravity Prague #2 event. 

Gravity Network collaborated with Radio Punctum for a special broadcast dedicated to Extra Muros, the music residency which was a part of our 2nd event in Prague.

 on December 26, the broadcast includes an interview with Olivier Duport, one of the masterminds behind the residency as well as 

, the publishing house for Extra Muros album releases. 

Interviewed by Jonáš Verešpej, Olivier explains the origins of the residency, the inspiration and selection process for each edition, and gives insight into the label and Prague's edition.

Second part of the special is a recording from the residency's closing concert. Six participating artists who worked on collaborative music pieces during the week gathered for a rather improvised live performance, which took place at Planeta Za on December 1, 2022. 

As a Prague-based musician and Gravity Artist, 

 was invited to take lead in the residency and was joined by 5 artists selected via open call. 

Extra Muros Prague artists:
– Andriy Kostyukov (UA)
– Haich Ber Na (UK)
– Jay Glass Dubs (GR)
– Oliver Torr (CZ)
– Rlung (RU)
– timmi (SK)

Oliver Torr

Additionally, Olivier Duport and Andriy Kostykov recorded 1-hour DJ mixes each for the broadcast.

Radio Punctum Special

Prague’s Ankali will host the 4th iteration of Gravity events organised in collaboration with Warsaw’s Jasna 1 and Berlin’s RSO. Gravity Prague #2 will take place in Czech capital on December 1 and 2. 

Gravity Network announces 2nd event at Ankali, Prague. The European club platform will host panels, workshops and a club night in early December.

The programme of the upcoming event includes a week-long music & sound art residency, workshops, panel discussions and club night. On Thursday 1st, RA’s 

 will host panel discussions delving into topics of music collaboration and online radio.

Chloe Lula

The line-up will see Sustain Release boss Aurora Halal make a return to the city with a DJ set on Friday 2nd, joined by Gravity residents – Ankali’s 

 of Jasna 1 and Chloe Lula, representing RSO.

Dtekk

fleika

For the 2nd room (Planeta Za) Ankali teamed up with Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide which is currently touring Europe and will bring the likes of radio residents and affiliates, including Gramrcy, Mor Wen and O.N.A. The radio will also hold a DJ workshop co-organised with AIAIAI the same day.

Prior to the public event Ankali will also host a week-long music & sound art residency organised by Extra Muros, an itinerant creative residency program. A small group of musicians and sound artists will set out to create a collaborative music album to be released in the near future. A handful of artists selected via open call will join several Gravity Artists to experiment and compose music in a temporary studio setup at Ankali. The call is open for everyone to apply, the deadline is November 10th.

You can find more detailed information in our 

Gravity Prague #2 announced!

 in the Polish capital, Gravity comes back with a new round of panel talks on September 15th. For this upcoming edition, the focus is put on topics of political relevance such as LGBTQ+ club culture in Poland, night economies in countries at the periphery of Europe or, given its proximity, the impact and ongoing bearing of the Ukrainian war.

Gravity Network finally arrives to Warsaw to organise its 3rd event, which will take place on September 15–17, 2022, at Jasna 1. 

🚩 The panel will explore the complex relationships and issues the night clubs and other cultural organisations have (or lack) with their surroundings, audiences, and other cultural, state or private institutions.

As the scenes all around the world develop and keep spreading, they have and increasing impact on their environment – on local cultures, communities and cities themselves. While the topic of nigh time governance has become an integral part of the discussion in many cities across the global west, where night mayors and club commissions are being established as infrastructures and mediators for common good, smaller scenes in eastern and central Europe often lack these structures and have to navigate through complex issues on their own. 

The panel titled ‘Club Culture & Night Economy’ will welcome several guests from the Polish scene, including 

 of Up To Date Festival and FOMO Klub, Łukas Warna Wieslawski of Granko Agency, Karol Czerniakiewicz and Zuzanna Gierszon of Pogłos as well as Sanjin Nesimi from Prague’s Ankali. The panel will be moderated by Dominika Sitnicka.

How to sustain a cultural venue in the current post-pandemic world, with growing inflation, private developers, money-oriented local governments and lack of audiences? What models of operation work and which have failed for our panelists? Are night time governance methods from the west applicable in their context?

🏳️‍🌈 Titled ‘LGBTQ+ Club Culture in Poland’ and moderated by Anton Ambroziak of OKO.press, the panel will discuss the country’s queer scene today, its evolution as well as the challenges it has to face in future. Our dear panelists – Krysztof Makuch aka Gladi of Metropolis Warsaw, Karolina Mełnicka of Mazury Club, Poko (Przemek) Madej of pozqueer and DJ Pepe Le Puke – will discuss the topic from their promoter, artist and activist perspectives to define the shape the queer culture has carved for itself as well as the part it plays in the highly conservative Polish society.

Ukrainian Electronic Scene During War & Beyond

🇺🇦 The last panel of the upcoming Gravity Talks in Warsaw will focus eastwards – on the electronic music scene of sovereign Ukraine which has been fighting since February for its freedom and independence after being monstrously attacked by Russian troops. The panel will host 3 artists from Ukraine, Bejenec, 

 and Nastia, as well as Eugen Skrypnyk, the organiser of Shum.Rave an event platform based in Sloviansk shining some light into the grim future.

Gravity Warsaw #1 [talks]: Bejenec, dtekk, Granko Agency, Nastia, Shum Rave, pozqueer and more

📬 The entry to Gravity Talks on September 15 at Jasna 1 is free of charge but a registration via info@jasna1.com is required due to limited capacity.

 that will include Nastia, locals Ola Teks and 

For the club weekend, artists from the Gravity roster like dtekk, 

 and Facheroia will be joined at the decks by Roi Perez, Valentino Mora and Vladimir Ivkovic.

Gravity Warsaw #1 [clubnight]: Eva Porating, Vladimir Ivkovic, dzuma / Facheroia, Roi Perez, dtekk

Gravity Warsaw #1 [clubnight]: fleika, Valentino Mora, Yan / Anna Borsuk, Bejenec, Dangermami

Artwork for the event was made in collaboration with 

Gravity Warsaw #1 announced!

Our network lands at its Berlin base RSO for the first time. We invite you to an afternoon full of talks approaching subjects relevant to its stakeholders.


What are the effects of the pandemic on the nightlife scene? Emerging from the COVID-19 crisis, we are seeing the revitalisation of large-scale face to face social events. But what particular effects and developments did it instigate for the nightlife scene?


Looking back at the tumultuous changes in our social coordinates over the past few years, it is often difficult to make an accurate assessment of what practices have really changed, and what conventions have been upheld and supported.


With some perspective on the scope and scale of the Black Lives Matter movement breaking into the global consciousness at the onset of the Pandemic 2 years ago, we investigate how the message has been processed and acted on in the club industry.

Techno Capitalism and the Instagram Economy


The western music industry operates in the wider context of a constantly progressing Capitalist economy. But how have the global economy’s developments changed the music industry to what it is today, and what part do radically modern social media platforms take in all this?

Detailed schedule and line-up to be announced soon! Following the talks Gravity will play host to a carefully curated line-up which demonstrates the atmosphere the project seeks to cultivate. The clubnight takes place at RSO.BERLIN on Friday 24th.

 will take place on June 23 & 24, 2022, at Revier Südost & RSO Berlin. It will be split into two days – an afternoon of panel 

 taking place on Thursday (June 23rd) and the 

Hailing from Hamburg, DJ Mell G has gone on to take her full-bodied sound to international audiences in recent times, interweaving the textures of electro and booty-bass.

DJ Stingray joins her to unleash his infamous channel of what the masked-man just calls ‘Techno’ onto the dancefloor. Staggered & relentless hi-tempo rhythms carry Stingray’s sets, owing to the post-industrial Detroit environment the legendary Drexciyan affiliate emerged from.

The two show well-matching hard-nosed approaches are accompanied on the ROBUS floor by The Exaltics for a well-refined, acid-soaked live set, Warsaw’s 

, and the stimulating prospect of a back to back between 

Irakli

Toulouse Low Trax imports a live set of low-slung downtempo chuggers directly from Düsseldorf. His extended residency at Salon des Amateurs and his persistent output of uniquely sleazy but subtle sonics sets the tone for the SUMME floor.

The former De School resident upsammy is invited to display her mastery over the psychedelic downtempo sounds her name has become synonymous with. From latent half-time rhythms into the slower echelons of electro & techno - the form and content of her sets remain unmistakably pictorial.

, the art director and resident DJ at Warsaw’s Jasna 1 club joins from Poland alongside Krakow-based Charlie – while the head behind Prague’s Deviant nights, 

Gravity Berlin #1 announced!

The first event of Gravity Network will take place on multiple days at Ankali, Planeta Za and Ze Mě.

After a long time of covid-forced struggle, Gravity Network is proud to announce its 

, Oblaka (aka Exhausted Modern), Hiro Kone and Rabih Beaini are the acts taking part in a concert evening of deconstructive rhythms, noise and experimental melodies.

 the presentations, panel talks and discussions will begin with Terraforma’s Ruggero Pietromarchi and Ada Karayel who will present their approach to environmental sustainability in event-making. Later on, Oramics’ Monster, Lecken’s Killa, Steven Dei-Kwarteng representing Revier Südost and anti-harassment Czech organization Konsent will discuss different approaches to the creation of safer spaces.

Wrapping up the day, the Temporary Pleasure collective will present their research and activites, and expose the learnings of their week-long workshop on innovative ways to imagine a better club space for all.

 will take over both Ankali’s two floors and will include Gravity artists as Alfred Czital and NCOL from Ankali, Elena Sizova and Killa from Revier Südost, Monster and Olivia from Jasna 1. They will be joined by two music explorers with spellbinding abilities: Elena Colombi and Ece Özel.

Part of the internal Gravity programme will be a 5-day workshop led by Temporary Pleasure, a collective of architects, event producers, and club creatives generating new ways to imagine, build, and use the club – together. The team of TP is coming to lead a 5-day workshop with 12 participants who will work on re-designing & re-defining several of the rooms at Ankali club to create more shared, fluid and safer spaces for the local communities.

“Our club-building workshops empower club creatives to create DIY venues – replacing rigid spaces and barriers-to-entry with fluid spaces and co-creation, responding to the needs of local scenes and communities. We believe that real collaboration and inclusivity make for better dance floors, better music, and opportunities for community-building beyond the club.”

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Gravity Prague #1 announced!

Gravity is a European network of electronic music venues that share the same set of values, cooperate on different levels and aim to support emerging artists by bridging local scenes across Europe. That is why the incident regarding one of our founding members, Berlin-based Revier Südost (RSO), is of great concern to us. We have been in close contact and monitoring the situation since then, putting our live Gravity events on hold until we have a better understanding of the situation.

We oppose any form of discrimination or harassment, but also believe that actual change is possible and necessary. RSO has taken the time to address their issues and announced far-reaching changes; including training the entire staff on diversity and inclusion, setting up an external awareness team for future events and a complete reorganisation of their security team. They also hired a new club manager to further share responsibility and initiate further change. Read the 

 from the entire RSO team published last week on their website, explaining all the work they’ve done and all the changes in detail.

While we discussed all options on how to move forward as a network, the latest positive news from RSO make us hopeful that changes over there will make a difference. There is a lesson to be learned for other members of the network as well. We as a Gravity team will do our best to apply the knowledge we all gained to prevent similar situations from happening in the future. And as planned, we will discuss topics of inclusivity, diversity and awareness in club culture in the debates, panels and talks included in our Gravity events.

Together we continue to work flat out on what matters most to us: the Gravity artists. In the next weeks we are going to release several new 

 featuring Exhausted Modern, Franklin De Costa and Monster, as well as a feature interview with Olaf Boswijk, the founder of Amsterdam’s clubs Trouw and De School, who is currently running an art residency called Valley of the Possible. In the meantime we have started our quarterly collaboration with 

, which premiered with Chloe Lula, Eva Porating and Facheroia. Stay also tuned for our first live event early next year in Prague.

Gravity Network has put almost all of its activities on hold after the incident taking place in the summer at one of its co-founding members, Berlin’s Revier Südost. Read on below for an update on the situation, what we have discussed and learned, and how we are moving forward.

Gravity Network Update

Four Gravity Artists participated on our debut stream showcase at Berlin's HÖR radio on August 21, 2021. You can watch NCOL, Irakli, Dzuma and Mor Wen's hour long performances now archived on radio's YouTube channel.  

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