SHFTD ✷ Significant Other, TAKAKO, Marylou, Observer
Kwia, Berlin
This night happened — Tue 9 Sep 2025
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Who was billed4 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
3 of the 6 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Significant Other and Marylou — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
- TAKAKO and Marylou — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Tue 9 Sep 2025.
- TAKAKO and Observer (uk) — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Tue 9 Sep 2025.
Who they are
“Significant Other, a UK-born DJ, producer, and curator now based in Berlin, has carved out a distinctive space in the electronic music landscape with his emotionally resonant productions and genre-resistant style of DJing.”
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Significant Other, a UK-born DJ, producer, and curator now based in Berlin, has carved out a distinctive space in the electronic music landscape with his emotionally resonant productions and genre-resistant style of DJing. Consistently operating at the fringes, his creative output is an at times chaotic fusion of the tough and more tender corners of modern dance music. Initially emerging from the Brooklyn underground scene, Significant Other co-founded the prolific NYC event series and record label Club Night Club, cutting his teeth as a covert curatorial presence behind-the-scenes of a new wave of late 2010s Brooklyn dance music. With sporadic releases appearing across a range of acclaimed UK labels, little artist information provided, he emerged from the shadows as an enigmatic figure within the ecosystem of off-kilter dance production. His debut album Residuum arrived via Manchester cult favorite YOUTH in 2021, representing a veiled departure from the club origins of the project. A ghostly, atmospheric full-length grounded in texture and stygian catharsis which revealed a different side to his sound, transposing the tension and release balancing act of dance music onto a listening geared LP format. In the interim years his sound and DJ sets alike have become even harder to define. His work seamlessly blends elements of ambient, dub, and rougher club sonics, creating immersive fugue-state listening experiences that are at once both introspective and dancefloor-ready. The consistently elusive nature of the project has imbued his long discography with a liminal quality, his production and live output alike forever skirting the margins of genre and utility. Over the years he has garnered a cult reputation for his slant on the skudgier, atmospheric ends of contemporary mood-driven electronic music. In 2024 he launched the record label and Berlin event series Pain Management, an anti-dancefloor outlet for outsider sounds spanning spoken word, hellish dub experimentation and avant-garde electronica; ‘body music for restless minds’.Their RA profile lists SPE:C, Youth, Well Street Records, Oscilla Sound and 1 more.Recently at Kraftwerk Berlin, Kraftwerk, Tresor/Globus and OHM · often with Eleftheria, Buttechno, Matana Roberts, none of them here that night
often with ELAYN, A Homsi, Tom Battery (Berlin Dub Cafe), none of them here that night
“Pleasure and repetition, declension of the word percussion, Marylou carves raw oneirism.”
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Pleasure and repetition, declension of the word percussion, Marylou carves raw oneirism. Raised between forests and ocean in the south west coast of France, her first languages are painting and cinema before she got involved in different ways (writing, drawing, promoting) in the parisian birthing scene in the 2010's. Her daring and psychedelic sets are always an experimentation of her true style : From Traditional music, improv jazz and Noise to dub, bass, footwork and jungle, there are always special instants in Marylou’s mixes which have already gotten the likes of edgy festivals & platforms like Terraforma, Freerotation, Intonal, CTM, Meakusma, or in clubs from Berghain to cafe Oto.. By hosting two shows on Rinse France and Cashmere radio, and regularly on NTS, she showcases her eclectic and vibrating sound and curates some incredible shows.Their RA profile lists Morphine Records, Ominira and OOH-sounds.Recently at Kraftwerk Berlin, Kraftwerk, Tresor/Globus and OHM · often with ophélie, Gavsborg, Rafush, none of them here that night
often with numerologist, Kop-Z, Different Shades, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Gavsborg4 with Marylou
- ophélie4 with Marylou
- Abibi3 with Marylou
- Bendik Giske3 with Significant Other
- Calibre3 with Marylou
- Carmen Villain3 with Significant Other
- Carrier3 with Marylou
- Coco Calypso3 with Marylou
The room
Kwia — 120 events and 457 distinct artists since Aug 2025.
Who put it on
SHFTD — 1 event and 4 artists since Sep 2025.