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Pooja B

21 listings in 12 named rooms, over the last three years · one ahead

Pooja B's idea of techno is a skittish exploration of time and space in this Dystopian world. While futuristic, loopy, industrial sounds for dark clubs are the signature style, she can skilfully adapt to play music for outdoor spaces. Pooja is an Indian artist who is now based in Berlin. Notable shows she played are Berghain (Saule),Tresor, RSO, Ohm, Khidi, Womb, Magnetic Fields festival, Gegen, Mina Suspension, Bronx Sauna, Le Guess Who Festival among others. With performances at renowned clubs, festivals and for many queer collectives, Pooja is not just growing a following but building a community who supports her where ever she goes.

She hosts Majja, an inclusive event bringing her passion for food, art and music in one place. She also hosts a radio show on mental health in music spaces called The Coping* Club and is a resident on Refuge Worldwide Radio. She has also hosted New Faces at Tresor spotlighting artists from the global south as she believes BIPOC artists are still an under represented minority in electronic music.

The rest of it — three more paragraphs

She co-founded The EQ Way collective in India and curated 'The EQ Way' radio show on Flux Music (Berlin), which provided a platform for female-identifying & queer artists to showcase their music to a wider audience. She hosted a bi-weekly radio show called "ikigai" on India’s primary community radio, Boxout.fm which is a journey diving into realms of dark industrial techno.

She has been a resident at Analog Room a weekly underground party with a cult following in Dubai, where she was based because of her flight-attendant job. She also held residencies at Warped & Electric Days prior to that, also in Dubai.

Previously, Pooja released her music under the alias “ikigai”. Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means "the reason for being". She has had releases on Sonata Music, Underdub Records, Fabrik Music, SMR Underground, Fehlr Musik, 22.2, BLVSH and has had 3 Bandcamp self-releases. She also takes a firm stand against racism, sexism & environmental issues, which she expresses via her music.

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

SoundCloud ↗Bandcamp ↗

Records out on Sonata Music, Underdub Records, Fehler-Musik, female pressure and Regenerate Music. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

22 listings across 21 nights — one date in August 2025 carries two listings, and both are here.

2026

2025 — 6 listings

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.

Aug 2025Jan 2027
  • RenateSep 2025 – May 20263 nights
  • Crack BellmerFeb 2026 – Aug 20262 nights
  • OHMMar 2026 – Jun 20262 nights
  • ÆDENAug 2025 – Jan 20262 nights

Once each: Our Sake Club, KREUZWERK, Tresor / Globus, Orangerie Neukölln, Berghain | Panorama Bar | Säule, Ikii, Zur Klappe and Giri. Four of the 22 listings never named a room, and are not counted as one.

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.

Ikigai has stood on 1 of these bills. Ikigai is one of the names Pooja B records under, so they are named here rather than counted as company. — their aliases on Resident Advisor

  • GioskiCrack Bellmer ×2, and 2 more rooms · Aug 2025 – Aug 20263 nights
  • GLOBUSTresor / Globus ×2 · May 2026 – Oct 2026 · together again Fri 23 Oct2 nights
  • TRESORTresor / Globus ×2 · May 2026 – Oct 2026 · together again Fri 23 Oct2 nights
  • Viktoria SpielmannGiri ×1, Our Sake Club ×1 · Aug 2025 – Oct 20262 nights
  • substitütKREUZWERK ×1, OHM ×1 · Jun 20262 nights

The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.