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  Eli Verveine

  Switzerland · 8 bookings since Aug 2025

  “As a DJ, Eli Verveine is widely respected for her ability to build her own dancefloor wherever she is in the world.”

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  As a DJ, Eli Verveine is widely respected for her ability to build her own dancefloor wherever she is in the world. Always engaged with the crowd, Eli sees communication as integral to the art of DJing: whether it’s warm-up, peak-time or after-hours, she captures the collective energy and applies just the right doses of drama and restraint until every dancer is locked into a unified groove. Eli’s versatile blend of genres and moods has brought her to some of the most iconic stages around, from the clubs Bassiani, Panoramabar, Fabric and Closer to the festivals Garbicz, Rainbow Disco Club, Waking Life, and delivering the prestigious closing set at Organik Festival in Taiwan. She has a B2B project, Among Trees, with Andrey Pushkarev. As a live performer, Eli Verveine collaborates with Berlin-based DJ/musician Gwenan on the experimental live project Gin & Tonic. With a setup combining modular synthesis, drum machines, effects pedals and more, the duo tease variegated musical textures out of extended improvisations. This open-ended approach, grounded in close listening and a strong mutual understanding between the two, leads to intriguing musical dialogues in which the machines do the talking. As a producer, Eli Verveine’s discography stretches back to the Ness EP (2012) on Tardis Records, the label she runs with Oscar Schubaq. In 2023, she released the track ‘Morning Dub’, on a VA from Chateau Chépère, and ‘Reverie’, a track resulting from a project with school children in Basel. Eli has been having a lot of fun in the studio, so we can expect more solo material on the way.
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  Their RA profile lists Tardis.

  Recently at Berghain, DSTRKT Club Berlin, Club der Visionaere · often with Volkan Akin, Gwenan, Elia Nafzger, none of them here that night

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  Huerta

  Los Angeles, United States of America · 8 bookings since Aug 2025

  “Steve Huerta is at the vanguard of the house music underground.”

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  Steve Huerta is at the vanguard of the house music underground. Ever since relocating from L.A. to Berlin a decade ago, Huerta's been refining a deep, groove-based sound, equal parts nostalgic and futuristic. His productions wiggle with old school tech house funkiness, but are polished with lush technicolor sound design. Landing on some of the underground's most esteemed labels, like Slow Life, SlapFunk, and Small Hours, his records have become buy-on-site necessities for DJs and listeners who like their house sunkissed and swung. Recently he’s released many of his biggest tracks to date on his own label, Leizure, where he's knocked out a series of all killer, no filler 12-inches since launching in 2020. Alongside this steady diet of club gems, he also isn't afraid to venture into the chill out room. Across two LPs, 2020's Junipero and 2023's TV Slang, he's experimented with dubby, breakbeat, downtempo, and ambient textures, showcasing a more introspective, but no less accomplished set of production skills. Regardless of whether he's turning out a slinky tech house groover or a moody dub burner, his records sound just as good in the big room as the living room. As well as his impressive and prolific production credits, Huerta continues to rack up gigs at some of the world's finest clubs and festivals. With his bag of dusty, under-the-radar digs, custom tailored edits, and ever present new original productions, Huerta has carved out signature DJ experience. In a clubland landscape saturated with sameness, Huerta remains a singular figure. Both in the booth and studio, he displays an intimate and deep knowledge of house music past, present, and future.
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  Their RA profile lists Fuse London, SlapFunk Records, Oscillat Music, Slow Life and 3 more.

  Recently at Kater, Club der Visionaere · often with Eric Cloutier, Fantastic Man, Youandewan, none of them here that night

• Truly Madly

  2 bookings since Aug 2025

  Last at Berghain in Aug 2025 · often with Miguel Gallardo, We Are DND, Etien Hai, none of them here that night

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  Viikatory

  10 bookings since Aug 2025

  “Viikatory’s sound spans progressive, trance, and electro with touches of techno, focusing on energy, pacing, and tension.”

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  Viikatory’s sound spans progressive, trance, and electro with touches of techno, focusing on energy, pacing, and tension. Her DJ sets unfold as evolving narratives, each approached as a form of storytelling. Moving fluidly between styles, she responds to the energy of the dancefloor, allowing the direction to develop naturally. Alongside DJing, she performs live sets built around her own productions, expanding her sonic range beyond the DJ format. Her releases have appeared on labels including Tresor, International Chrome, Mechatronica, UTTU, Warning, Trust, and others.
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  Their RA profile lists Tresor, TRUST, dame-music, Tooflez Muzik and 4 more.

  Last at RSO.BERLIN in Oct 2025 · often with TaronX, ElectroDon, DJ Spit, none of them here that night

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  Bailey Ibbs

  London, United Kingdom · 12 bookings since Aug 2025

  “Bailey plays a crucial role in helping shape the landscape of contemporary techno and electronic music.”

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  Bailey plays a crucial role in helping shape the landscape of contemporary techno and electronic music. Spanning across all fields of DJing, producing, and curating with his own label Night Service, he showcases a visionary approach that seamlessly blends elements of techno, breaks, and rave music. Having dedicated years to exploring and experimenting with sound, Ibbs made his entrance into the Techno scene in 2022 with the release of his 'Volta EP', which garnered the attention of heavyweights such as DVS1, Ben Klock & Marron. Building on this success, Ibbs continued to make significant contributions for KiNK, Token, Frenzy, and SLAM. His presence has become solidified on the global circuit alongside another impressive release, 'Not Into It EP,' on Night Service in 2023. In 2024, Bailey has been unveiled as a resident at the iconic Tresor, poised to continue evolving and refining his distinctive sound. As a passionate follower of the music's history, Ibbs harbors no inclination for nostalgia. Instead, he has immersed himself in the legacy of techno, fully committed to propelling it into new and innovative territories.
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  Their RA profile lists Agora Records and CATALOG 01366.

  Recently at RSO.BERLIN, Tresor / Globus, Else · often with Matrixxman, JKS, SUMME, none of them here that night

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  Sandwell District

  Berlin · 2 bookings since Jan 2026

  ““We don’t write music, we make it.””

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  “We don’t write music, we make it.” As befits someone who has never been shy of proffering an opinion or three, Karl (Regis) O’Connor has some thoughts about the state of today’s electronic music scene. Particularly when it comes to the overly commercial attitudes associated with what passes for most of modern-day dance music. “If you make something, it’s your dinner date with eternity,” he rails when discussing Sandwell District’s new album, End Beginnings. “That’s what you should be doing, you’re making a record. It’s not about making a track to fulfil something. No, that’s the difference between people who are in it for the music and the art and those who are just in it for the sesh.” Make no mistake, Sandwell District, the shadowy techno collective, of which O’Connor is the lynchpin alongside Dave (Function) Sumner, have always been about the art. If they hadn’t parted in such bitter circumstances, one would describe End Beginnings as a hotly-anticipated comeback. But, quite simply, no-one ever expected their return. “I was always really averse to it,” he reflects. “It was always a very fractious relationship between me and Dave in particular. It was this rock’n’roll escapade, it wasn’t really dance music. Everyone left on bad terms, everyone walked out. I was left on the decks at Fabric. Dave didn’t turn up and that was that. There was all this hyperdrama nonsense. We didn’t speak for 10 years.” They are, then, the real deal. In truth, they always were. They were the genuine article back in the early-00s, when Regis and his long-time confidant Peter (Female) Sutton established the artistic co-operative, first as an offshoot label to O’Connor’s influential Downwards imprint to release sonic missives by themselves, and then Function and Juan (Silent Servant) Mendez among others. Unsurprisingly, Sandwell District remain true originals today. Over a decade since their last acrimonious blow out – Sumner not turning up to DJ alongside O’Connor at Fabric might have been the final straw, but in reality, it was death by a thousand cuts – Sandwell District are back. Older? Certainly. Wiser? Arguably. Still outspoken?Absolutely. “To get beyond the spectacle you remain silent,” O’Connor avows. “You do nothing. And that’s effectively what we did. We didn’t release records. You’ve got to get beyond the spectacle, once you get dragged down into the whole messy soup…” The result is End Beginnings, a majestic coming together of cinematic techno and mind-bending dancefloor dynamism; an album that marries Drexciya’s idea of techno being an act of seditionary innovation to a sense of unbridled fun, an imperative that means an awful lot to O’Connor. “Having a good time is pretty much why you get into it in the first place,” he notes wisely. “And it is fun. I think we feel a lot more fortunate now, especially with what happened with Juan. We’re grateful.” End Beginnings then is also a moving requiem to a fallen soldier – Juan Mendez. At the beginning of 2024, Mendez tragically died just as things were moving in the right direction for the collective. Mendez’s stunning artwork and visuals were always a central pillar of Sandwell District; indeed, he was working on a piece of art entitled ‘End Beginnings’ that was mooted to be the album cover. That work was never finished, but O’Connor and Sumner took the title to honour their friend’s contribution. It remains a fitting tribute to the stop-start nature of this rebel alliance. “We were a real gang,” O’Connor reminisces. “We used to come into town, tear it up and go home. We got banned from about three airlines for fighting with each other. We used to turn up at the airport, get hammered and it would go downhill from there.” No wonder they were described as techno’s answer to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young by online music organ, The Quietus. O’Connor laughs when that interpretation is put to him. “That’s brilliant,” he says. “It’s probably very accurate. As long as I can be Nash.” Back in the early 2000s, this gang, fuelled by the spirit of unfettered collaboration had become a transatlantic clandestine super group comprised of Regis, Function, Silent Servant and Female centred around the techno mecca of Berlin and culminating in the release of 2010’s revered Feed-Forward album. The album sold out immediately (as did 2023’s long awaited box set reissue), but by then, the tumultuous alliance had come apart at the seams. The kinetic energy at the heart of the Sandwell District project couldn’t hold. Theirs was no post-acid house loved-up dynamic – this was pure, reckless rock’n’roll abandon. Something was bound to give. The time to remain silent is now over. The catalyst for their reunion might come as a shock to some, mind. “I struck up a really close friendship with Mark Lanegan before he died,” explains O’Connor. “Which was weird. Mark Lanegan, king of grunge, friend of Kurt Cobain. He told me to keep going, to revisit Sandwell District.” Even though O’Connor and Sumner had been blood brothers – metaphorically and literally at times – Karl couldn’t envisage working with his old sparring partner again; couldn’t see past the drama that had come to define their relationship. Lanegan had other ideas. “He said ‘it’s more than the sum of its parts and it’s important’. I began to think maybe it was a good idea.” He continues: “The last time I saw Lanegan was at the Roundhouse. As I was going into the dressing room to meet him John Paul Jones from Zeppelin was coming out the other way. I remember thinking this is certainly something. I knew then it was something special and I had to listen to him because it’s good to listen to people and get over yourself sometimes. That’s what it was – getting over yourself.” Even then it took time for relations to thaw. Mendez was the conduit between the friends-turned-adversaries. After much umming and ahhing on both sides a plan was set in motion to re-release the collective’s Feed-Forward album. The limited nature of its initial release, the mythology that had built up around it in the intervening years and its importance and influence upon everyone from Mute’s Daniel Miller to techno poster boy Daniel Avery meant their reformation was no exercise in nostalgia. “You have to decentralise the ego for the good of the project,” O’Connor says. “And then it’s about reframing it in some way. You are going back to rebuild something, but the way things are now and people’s attention spans are so short in general, that it’s almost like it’s new again.” The new album itself has its roots in underground techno - long-time connoisseurs will recognise Motor City impulses and 80s European industrial electro, while recent disciples will appreciate the post-Berghain rush – but it’s also a considered, dare-you-say, mature home listening experience. It verges from the ethereal psychedelia of ‘Citrinitas Acid’ to the hypnotic tribal drums of ‘Dreaming’, by way of the propulsive futurism of ‘Hidden’ and the widescreen electronica of ‘Least Travelled’. With the lessons of the past learned, Karl and Dave worked on the album remotely – in London and Berlin respectively. A buffer was also put in place in the shape of Simon Shreeve, formerly of the dubstep outfit Kryptic Minds. When the final hurdle just couldn’t be surpassed and before stasis set in, mixing was handed over to Mika Hallbäck (Rivet). Seth Horvitz (Rrose) and Sarah Kranz (Sarah Wreath) were also enlisted to add to the collaborative spirit the collective has always benefited from. Welcome back, Sandwell District, we have missed you. Your time is now…
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  Their RA profile lists Sandwell District, Surface Records and Balans.

  often with Henry Chow, Agonis, Regis, none of them here that night

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  Sarah Wreath

  Berlin · 10 bookings since Aug 2025

  “Few artists move as fluidly between club culture, sound research and practice as Sarah Wreath.”

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  Few artists move as fluidly between club culture, sound research and practice as Sarah Wreath. With over two decades spent collecting electronic music and a DJ practice, her relationship with sound is the result of long, patient craftsmanship - rooted in vinyl, deep listening, and an intuitive understanding of atmosphere and flow. Sarah’s work resists fixed categories. Her sets and productions unfold as immersive journeys, navigating a wide spectrum of tempos and textures, from ambient and tribal rhythms to techno infused with a distinctly psychedelic charge. Regardless of form, her music is guided by a sensitivity to frequency, space, and the body’s response to sound. Through live sets, sound baths, and curated gatherings, she consistently explores sound as a connective force - capable of fostering introspection and collective experience. After dedicating her time to studying sound engineering, in 2024 Sarah released her debut LP Integration on the renowned label The Bunker New York, underscoring her commitment to immersive rhythm and sonic exploration. This path led to her collaboration on Sandwell District’s album End Beginnings, placing her within the current vanguard of experimental techno while continuing to explore sound as a tool for connection and transformation.
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  Their RA profile lists Sandwell District and The Bunker New York.

  Recently at Tresor / Globus, Berghain · often with Function, Sanna Mun, Ario, none of them here that night

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  Shaleen

  Berlin · 14 bookings since Aug 2025

  “Her artistic journey is a hypnotic dance, where vinyl-only sets have become her signature groove.”

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  Her artistic journey is a hypnotic dance, where vinyl-only sets have become her signature groove. With relentless passion, she pushes the boundaries, fusing the nostalgia of the '90s with daring, modern soundscapes. In Shaleen's world, the pursuit of perfection is a constant beat. Her relentless quest for sonic mastery has led her to the analog realm, where she's fallen head over heels. A modular system now pulses at the core of her creative arsenal, forging the path towards electrifying live performances. Her global conquest is well underway, with iconic venues like Tresor Berlin, the enigmatic Säule at Berghain, and the pulsating E1 London bearing witness to her magnetic sets. She's graced stages from Link Bologna to Radion Amsterdam, leaving audiences electrified and craving more. As a resident of the transcendent "We Are Not Alone" events, Shaleen regularly casts her spell over Revier Südost Berlin. Her residency with Seelen. Records finds her a frequent guest at the revered Institut für Zukunft and the legendary Distillery Leipzig, solidifying her status as a techno shaman of the highest order. In 2020, she unveiled her debut EP in the heart of this techno tapestry, soon followed by releases on the trailblazing Turkish label Primus, known for its unwavering support of women's rights, and the pulsating streets of New York's Whirlwindtraxx. Shaleen's beats have even rallied for important causes, contributing tracks to Deestricted's fundraising compilation for Save Life in Ukraine and the latest "We Are Not Alone" compilation. But Shaleen's journey transcends the decks and studio. Her event series SURD stands as the vanguard of the first feminine/queer movement in West Germany's Ruhr-Area, an indomitable force since its inception in 2016 and still reverberating with defiant energy. And that's not all - Shaleen's audacious spirit knows no bounds. She's at the forefront of launching an interdisciplinary label project rooted in political activism, amplifying crucial causes and spreading awareness with every sonic wave. To her, techno isn't just music; it's a pilgrimage to the roots, a homage to its origins that must never be forgotten.
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  Their RA profile lists SEELEN., Whirlwind Trax, Deestricted and Sektor Evolution \\ Revolution.

  Recently at Latitude Record Store, Tresor / Globus, Zur Klappe · often with Xiorro, ROBUS, SUMME, none of them here that night