Katja Ruge
We are CAN LOVE BE SYNTH band, synth music lovers , dj`s (synthpop, dark disco, spacepop, new wave, Italo, disco, ebm, 80s & electronics)
Hailing from Hamburg Katja Ruge & Frank Husemann are better known as Can Love Be Synth. They are in love with old analogue machines and define their specific sound in the legendary Synthesizer Studio Hamburg. A synth collectors paradise owned by Frank & Sunny and hidden behind the big grey walls of the Bunker and the club Uebel & Gefährlich between the Reeperbahn and Schanzenviertel district.
Katja runs her party series „Kann Denn Liebe Synthie Sein?“ for almost 10 years where she plays the music that she loves from Italo, New Wave and Cosmic Sounds to Dark Disco. She invited Essaie Pas, Cosmetics, Josh Cheon (Dark Entries), Wolfram, Italo Brutalo, Curses, Neil Landstrumm, The Emperor Machine, Perel, Local Suicide and many more. Many people also know Katja ́s portrait photography mainly in the fields of Electronic Music.
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Frank played in several bands and was running a store where he sold analogue gear. He also works as a sound technician in clubs as well as for big and important projects like The Fridays For Future Movement.
The two got together to enjoy the machines and sounds in the Synthesizer Studio but started quickly doing remixes for artists such as Cerrone, Ruede Hagelstein or Polly Scattergood. In 2017 they had their first own release with ‘Megapulser‘ on Bordello A Parigi and continued in 2020 with own releases on Ombra INT. and TAU. 2021 they released their track Bunker with remixes by Richard Fearless, Terr & quadratsachulz on A Clean Cut and made a Remix for Erasure.
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Records out on Mute Records, Watergate Records, Bordello A Parigi, Ombra International and TAU. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Tue 13 OctElectric Lights /AV Live Berlin - Lady Starlight (Live) & Katja Ruge (DJ)Zeiss Grossplanetarium · their 3rd night · Katja Ruge
- Tue 24 FebElectric Lights /AV Live - Nadia Struiwigh (Live Modular) IKIGAI album release, Katja Ruge (DJ)Zeiss Grossplanetarium · their 2nd night · Katja Ruge
2025 — 1 night
- Tue 28 Oct 2025Electric Lights - Vol 2 - Cinthie (Live) & Katja Ruge (DJ)Zeiss Grossplanetarium · first time · Katja Ruge
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.
- Zeiss GrossplanetariumOct 2025 – Oct 20263 nights
Who they play with
Three nights on the books, and no name on more than one of them.
- Tue 28 Oct 2025Cinthie
- Tue 24 Feb 2026Nadia Struiwigh
- Tue 13 Oct 2026Lady Starlight
Three people have stood on one of these bills; none has stood on two.
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