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ABC News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
GiGi
Nipaluna/Hobart-based selector GiGi goes hard in her Mix Up debut. We're so excited to welcoming this rising star to the booth, off the back of recent appearances at Sonder Festival and support slots for Narciss and WOLTERS. Hailing from Mparntwe/Alice Springs and now based in NIpaluna/Hobart, GiGi has been turning heads with her slick blends and top tier track selections. Whether it's a festival set at the likes of DARK MOFO and The Great Escape, or she's working on a new productions – she'll always take you on a rhythmic journey. Loading Tonight on Mix Up you'll hear one of her forthcoming tracks as well as a whole heap of percussive techno, psytrance and bouncy bass bangers to keep you moving all night long. Get into it! Tonight on Mix Up you'll hear one of her forthcoming tracks as well as a whole heap of percussive techno, psytrance and bouncy bass bangers to keep you moving all night long. Get into it! Track list
The Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Tech DJ teams up with producer for powerful new release
FEW figures in electronic dance music carry the weight and legacy of Dr. Motte. The Berlin-born DJ, producer and visionary has been shaping the sound and spirit of techno for over four decades. 2 As the founder of the iconic Love Parade in 1989, which started as a small dance protest with just a few friends, Dr. Motte ignited a global movement. By 1999, the Love Parade had grown into the biggest dance music event in history, uniting 1.5 million people on the streets of Berlin in a celebration of peace, music, and togetherness. Dr. Motte's life's work is rooted in the belief that electronic music can be a unifying, cultural force. In 2019, he launched Rave The Planet, an annual initiative and parade aimed at securing techno's place as a recognised cultural heritage. Thanks to his ongoing activism, Berlin's techno scene was officially added to the German UNESCO Commission's list of intangible cultural heritage, a huge milestone in preserving the genre's roots and cultural impact. Dr. Motte & Marc van Linden – Our Future Is Now - STREAM HERE. In celebration of this year's Rave The Planet which takes place on July 12 in Berlin, and his unwavering dedication to the scene, Dr. Motte has teamed up with heavyweight producer Marc van Linden for a powerful new release: Our Future Is Now, the official anthem of the Rave The Planet parade 2025. It's a sonic manifesto built on iconic synth stabs, acid-soaked 303s and Dr. Motte's evocative spoken word. It pulses with unity, hope and the belief that the future we dream of is being shaped on today's dance floors. All proceeds go to Rave The Planet's non-profit mission to protect, promote and celebrate techno culture and to keep the spirit of the original Love Parade alive. On the decks, Dr. Motte is as captivating as ever. His sets are unpredictable journeys through the techno cosmos. Raw, energetic, and emotionally charged. Whether he's playing intimate underground clubs or headlining major festivals he continues to embody the essence of rave culture. Now, as he marks 40 years in music in 2025, The Night Bazaar is honoured to welcome Dr. Motte to The Night Bazaar Sessions with an exclusive DJ mix on Mixcloud. It's a powerful transmission from one of techno's true masters and a timely reminder of the music's enduring power. He told us: 'This mix is my little journey through different shades of our scene – from raw underground energy to classic rave spirit. Music connects us, no matter if it's fresh tracks, timeless remixes or our own productions. "For me, it's always about spreading the idea behind it: love, unity and positive energy.' And don't forget to check out the June edition of The Night Bazaar Drum & Bass Music Show with Promo ZO which is available to listen to now at HERE. 2
New York Times
23-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Goodbye to Berlin: New Novels Recall a City's ‘Poor but Sexy' Heyday
Berlin, they say, is dead. Kaput. Over. Not what it used to be. Then again, part of Berlin's modern identity as Europe's licentious, experimental, ultraliberal techno capital is that it has always been finished. A jaded, black-clad noise musician declared as much to me on my first visit to the German capital in my early 20s, two decades ago. Then, as now, Berlin existed in a perpetual state of disdain for its present in favor of a vanished, superior past — the precise years of which varied widely depending on whom you asked (and tended to coincide with the person's youth). Still, the consensus seems to be that Berlin is, if not quite over, no longer the anything-goes metropolis that, from the collapse of the wall to the 2010s, enchanted so many people seeking a freer, cheaper, less conventional way of living. I lived in Berlin for several years starting in 2018, and continue to spend my summers there. I still find it inspiring, more so than my native Dublin (a capital that's always felt like a village), but there's no avoiding the facts: The city is fast becoming as expensive as London or Paris, and a new nexus of capital and property speculation is erasing what's left of a bohemian utopia in its 'poor but sexy' heyday. Dark historical clouds once again swoop in. I regularly see footage of Berlin's Polizei suppressing pro-Palestinian protests with disturbing brutality, while a state-sanctioned cancellation campaign against critics of Israel's actions in Gaza has chilled the cultural sector. The sinister far-right party Alternative für Deutschland is on the rise. The other kind of party — the one represented by storied techno temples such as Berghain and Tresor — is now the stomping ground of tech and finance elites. I've just read a batch of novels set in Berlin, all published this year. While fiction is an imperfect receptacle for history, it tends to capture the moods, textures and sensibilities of a period far better than official records can. Novel writing being a slow-motion affair, only one of these four books is set in our evil decade. The others take place in the decade prior — when an image of the city solidified just as the reality underpinning it began to dissolve. Reading about Berlin at its most recent peak underscores the subtle manner in which a city can both vanish and endure — can be credibly declared dead even while retaining great promise and vitality to those who still flock there in search of a better life. The books speak less about the city itself than the desires, pretensions and last gasps of a 21st-century vanguard: the hedonistic cosmopolites and dropout creatives who once dominated the cultural discourse but now look very much like an endangered species within the current world order. While common themes emerge — gentrification, immigration, economic and political shifts — these four very different novels form something of a Cubist portrait of a place, and a people, receding into the mists of history and nostalgia. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
ABC News
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Surusinghe
Loading From cutting her teeth in Naarm/Melbourne's underground to tearing it up on global stages everywhere from India to NYC, this Unearthed act has quickly become one Australia's most in demand electronic productions have landed on labels including Steel City Dance Discs and AD 93, and she's gone B2B with scene-leaders like Moktar and HAAi in recent we're celebrating the release of her brand-new EP i can't remember the name of this, but that's ok on dh2 which has landed right in time for the weekend. The four-tracker is full of club weapons, dembow grooves and sultry techno, and we reckon it's some of her best work yet. Check it out here:
ABC News
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Ordley
UK-based Aussie producer Ordley sends it home with high nrg house, trance and techno. further! Since making the big move from Burleigh Heads in the Gold Coast to London, rising DJ and producer Ordley has been making waves with his emotive and forward-thinking club sound. The Unearthed act blends melodic electronica with house and UK garage and has dropped tracks with labels including Method 808 and POOLCLVB's LOVE CLVB. Check out his latest release 'ineedu' here: Loading If you're chasing feel-good sounds for your Saturday night party, look nofurther!Since making the big move from Burleigh Heads in the Gold Coast to London, rising DJ and producer Ordley has been making waves with his emotive and forward-thinking club Unearthed act blends melodic electronica with house and UK garage and has dropped tracks with labels including Method 808 and POOLCLVB's LOVE CLVB. Check out his latest release 'ineedu' here: We've invited Ordley to take over the airwaves tonight for an hour-long mix that packs in all the dfloor nrg you need to get you pumped for a big night out. Turn it up and get loose!
