ASA 808
Asa started making music at the age of six, first learning classical piano and guitar (despite being seen unfit by some peers due to a heredofamilial essential tremor), later specializing in music theory and composition, jazz and improvisation. As a teenager, the non-binary artist released a 5 track EP with their first solo project Hasta la otra méxico!, of which especially 'Túrána hott kurdís' attracted a lot of attention, hitting almost 1 million views on vimeo & youtube.
Driven by their love for electronic music, Asa started producing and DJing as ASA 808, releasing on George FitzGerald's ManMakeMusic, Soundspace, Blank, Yarn Audio and their own TOYS imprint and playing in venues such as ://about Blank, Tresor, Ritter Butzke, Le Java (Paris), Lehmann (Stuttgart), B90 (Gdansk), Corvin Club (Budapest), Menagerie (Belfast), Gewölbe (Cologne), Karlstorbahnhof (Heidelberg), Bahnwärter Thiel (Munich) & Baalsaal (Hamburg). Pushing the boundaries of techno, house and bass elements, ASA 808 combines classical instruments with analogue synths and drum machines.
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Featuring DJs such as Ada, Avalon Emerson, Breach, Christian Löffler, Dark Sky, Dauwd, Ejeca, Elkka, Frits Wentink, Glenn Astro, Huxley, Lando, Locked Groove, Lxury, Mike Dehnert, Moomin, Redshape, The Golden Filter, Throwing Snow, Tom Demac, Trikk, Will Saul, xxxy & Youandewan, ASA 808’s queer TOYS parties in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Düsseldorf have become a must go for all lovers of forward-thinking electronic music in Germany.
VICE / THUMP: "Rudolf is truly a man of many talents. Under his ASA 808 alias, Rudolf has honed his craft as a producer while simultaneously running some of Berlin's biggest house and techno events."
Data Transmission: "One of the city’s brightest new lights is Ansgar Rudolf, better known as ASA 808 (...) 2015 saw the release of his wonderfully eerie Ignorance EP via George Fitzgerald‘s ManMakeMusic, a record that insured our spotlight was firmly fixed on ASA 808 and will continue to do so this year.“
George FitzGerald: "a very talented man, a lot to come from him I think"
Local Suicide: „the future is looking pretty damn good for ASA 808“
BBC Radio 1: „Quality“
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
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Records out on ManMakeMusic, Yarn Audio and TOYS Berlin. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
- Fri 20 NovPalomatheir 3rd night · TOYS Berlin1 going
2026
- Sun 11 OctDOCK 11first time · TOYS Berlin
- Thu 30 AprPalomatheir 2nd night · TOYS Berlin
2025 — 1 night
- Sat 15 Nov 2025Palomafirst time · TOYS Berlin
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2025, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- PalomaNov 2025 – Apr 20262 nights
Once each: DOCK 11.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
- Mareike BautzPaloma ×2 · Apr 2026 – Nov 2026 · together again Fri 20 Nov2 nights
- TerezaPaloma ×2 · Apr 2026 – Nov 2026 · together again Fri 20 Nov2 nights
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