Kontext x Closer w/ Space Afrika, Torus, Daura, DJ Python, Marco Shuttle & Co. [3 Stages]
Haus der Visionäre, Berlin
This night happened — Sat 28 Mar
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Who was billed19 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
- next: Berghain, Sat 31 OctTobias.
- Yves B Golden
- next: Volksbühne, Mon 2 NovLudwig Wandinger
- Torus
- Defled
- next: Volksbühne, Thu 22 OctSpace Afrika
- next: Signal in NYC, Fri 20 NovDaura
- next: Hoppetosse, Sun 1 NovMarco Shuttle
- next: Signal in NYC, Fri 30 OctKarine
- next: Signal in NYC, Fri 30 OctShakolin
- Timur Basha
- Yone-Ko
- Triš
- DJ Python
- Eleftheria
- next: Wed 4 NovSignificant Other
- Alex Savage
- 20:50 Mug Live
- live A/V
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
158 of the 171 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Karine and Shakolin — 13 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 13 Jul 2024.
- Yves B Golden and Ludwig Wandinger — 5 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 1 Oct 2025.
- Karine and Timur Basha — 3 shared bills before that night, first on Fri 1 Aug 2025.
- Eleftheria and Significant Other — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 28 Mar 2026.
- Timur Basha and Yone-Ko — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Fri 1 Aug 2025.
- Triš and Eleftheria — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 28 Mar 2026.
- Shakolin and Timur Basha — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 28 Mar 2026.
- Torus and Significant Other — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Thu 13 Mar 2025.
- Timur Basha and Triš — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 17 Oct 2025.
- Ludwig Wandinger and Torus — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 4 Oct 2025.
- Yves B Golden and Torus — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 4 Oct 2025.
- Triš and Significant Other — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
- Karine and Yone-Ko — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 1 Aug 2025.
Who they are
“In the case of Tobias Freund, all the answers are there, yet they will most probably not apply to anybody but him.”
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In the case of Tobias Freund, all the answers are there, yet they will most probably not apply to anybody but him. Sure, it might help to gather encyclopedic knowledge through the years about music ranging from Post Punk to Stockhausen and all points in between (and much beyond), but if you are not able to shape that into a personal artistic vision, it is very likely that your potential audience might prefer the artists your very knowledge consists of. In the works of Tobias Freund, inspirations are more to be suspected than to be pinned down. You feel they must be there. They just have to, if only for lack of better explanations. Still, his works are so original and individual that they have become a part of said knowledge themselves. Nobody else sounds like him, they just try to. He owns his sound. Certainly, it might help if you know what you are doing in terms of creating music. Tobias Freund’s process of learning what you are doing stretches back to 1980. Since then, he worked as engineer in the high-end studio of German producer legend Frank Farian for many years, getting to know everything on the mixing desk you could tweak. And he gathered more analogue hardware than others have plugins installed, and got to know it as well. And when he felt he was ready to become an artist himself, he knew exactly what to do with the ideas he had in mind, and thus his music made an impact right from the very start. Transferring his overground work into underground output, his aliases since the early nineties read like an inventory of German electronic music: Metazone, Zoon, Phobia, and especially Pink Elln. Then he put the full stop behind his first name and started releasing tracks that refined the live approach to his broad variety of music between Acid, Ambient and Techno to reduced but jacking grooves that displayed as much attention to detail as to floor impact and became an integral part of the defining sounds emanating from Germany to rule the clubs worldwide since the turn of the millennium. And it might help as well to extend your abilities to the work with other artists. Tobias Freund already started this as part of the electronic cassette circuit in the 80’s in groups like Vo Ese or Hypnobeat, but a decade later his much loved group Sieg Über Die Sonne (with Martin Schopf aka Dandy Jack) graced the clubs with twisted and multi-faceted Techno Pop, and when it went on hiatus two decades later the project NSI. (with Max Loderbauer) and the Non Standard Productions imprint were initiated, to quickly become an institution for groundbreaking explorations in freeform electronic experimentalism. And there is Odd Machine, a joint venture with Ricardo Villalobos and Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom™) in particular, with whom he also forms a live and recording act that puts the weight of their experience into according action, Atom™ & Tobias. His latest collaboration is with his wife Valentina Berthelon named Recent Arts, an audiovisual project that explores the performance of audio and video in real time. He produced and remixed international stalwarts like Efdemin, Ellen Allien, Los Updates, Delano Smith, Margaret Dygas or Aérea Negrot, on seminal labels like Sähkö, Playhouse, Ongaku, Cadenza, Perlon, Logistic, Wagon Repair, Mule Musiq, and, of course, Ostgut Ton. And this is just an excerpt. With Tobias Freund a lot of things fall into place. He knows sound from the inside out, thus he is able to develop his own as well as lend his expertise to others. And even if the studio might be his favourite instrument, he knows so much about any hardware to produce electronic music that he can push the music forward any way he wants to. There is no need to divide his works into avant-garde or club contexts, because he effortlessly merges his whole spectrum into a performance that is all him, transforming the complex textures and gripping rhythms that make his music so fascinating into experiences where listening and dancing are one, and a whole life of music leads to ever new innovations. As it happens. On the spot. Tobias Freund may be non-standard, but he sure set many.Their RA profile lists Cadenza Records, Ostgut Ton, Wagon Repair, Logistic Records and 6 more.Last at Berghain in Dec 2025 · often with Berghain, Snad, Gerd Janson, none of them here that night
“She is Feminist Center for Creative Work’s 2024 artist in residence and her upcoming collection of poetry, prose and essays will be published by Tabloid Press (DE) and La Escocesa (ESP).”
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She is Feminist Center for Creative Work’s 2024 artist in residence and her upcoming collection of poetry, prose and essays will be published by Tabloid Press (DE) and La Escocesa (ESP). She is calling all angels and envisioning a Free Palestine in her lifetime.Recently at Festsaal Kreuzberg, Bar Neun, 8MM · often with Mug, Blessing, Stan, none of them here that night
“He has worked and performed with a variety of forward thinking musicians and artists such as Elvin Brandhi, Kianí del Valle, Luka Aron, Evita Manji, Grischa Lichtenberger, Brodinski, Female Pentimento, Yves B. Golden, Sara Persico, 645ar, Jim Black, Keith Rankin, the Notwist, Klahrk, the Berliner Ensemble, Kirke Karja, Dan Nicholls, House of Base, John Object, Zylva, Elias Stemeseder, Fausto Mercier, Petter Eldh, TAU, Roomer, Moran Sanderovich, Lucia Cadotsch, Nomi Sladko and many more.”
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He has worked and performed with a variety of forward thinking musicians and artists such as Elvin Brandhi, Kianí del Valle, Luka Aron, Evita Manji, Grischa Lichtenberger, Brodinski, Female Pentimento, Yves B. Golden, Sara Persico, 645ar, Jim Black, Keith Rankin, the Notwist, Klahrk, the Berliner Ensemble, Kirke Karja, Dan Nicholls, House of Base, John Object, Zylva, Elias Stemeseder, Fausto Mercier, Petter Eldh, TAU, Roomer, Moran Sanderovich, Lucia Cadotsch, Nomi Sladko and many more. His music got released on genre-defying labels Light Years, Orange Milk Records, Gin and Platonic, Creamcake, 3XL, Mutants Mixtape, Acna Rusd and Average Negative, accompanied by collaborational releases and co-production credits for releases on PAN, A Flooded Need, Squama, Genot Centre, BMC, Ware and SFX. Over the years he had the chance to go perform in Ecuador, China, Switzerland, Vietnam, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada, Poland, Indonesia, Iceland, Latvia, Austria, Romania, Finland, Estonia and Norway with highlight festivals being the likes of Jazz Fest Berlin, Moers Festival, Magnet Festival, A l´Arme Festival, Neue National Galerie, Berlinische Galerie, 3hd Festival, Punkt Festival, Jazzfestival Reykjavik and many more. His multimedia art gets released under the moniker "kirschbluetenimwind" and has been presented at the "Digital Fog" exhibition at Urban Contemporary in Berlin 2022, the Keyframe Digital Art Festival in Vienna 2022, the Pop Up Gallery Berlin 2022, the "Mana Exhibition" in Shibuya, Tokyo 2022, as a part of the collective “1_1pr_f2r_sm” showcase at Art Basel Hongkong 2023 and at the exhibition "The Staircase - Nah...Nobody Home" in Prague 2023 by Proto Gallery Systems. In 2024 he got selected as a signature artist of the Monheim Triennale.Their RA profile lists PAN, Orange Milk Records, Gin&Platonic and Squama.Recently at Festsaal Kreuzberg, 8MM, Studio1111 · often with Mug, Severin Black, Ville Haimala, none of them here that night
Recently at Haus der Visionäre, Kraftwerk, Tresor/Globus and OHM · often with presents "Chilling Bambino, Hania Rani, none of them here that night
“With their slow-stepping, spacious urban dubscapes, Space Afrika harness ambient, Detroit techno and shades of early nineties Sheffield with a fresh and open approach to composition — this is dub techno stripped-down, sealed in a time capsule and sent back from the near future.”
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With their slow-stepping, spacious urban dubscapes, Space Afrika harness ambient, Detroit techno and shades of early nineties Sheffield with a fresh and open approach to composition — this is dub techno stripped-down, sealed in a time capsule and sent back from the near future. Driving, echo-laden deep beats form the bed for a heavily subaquatic sound palette with undercurrents of cybernetic dread. Friends for almost 2 decades, the two Joshuas formed Space Afrika after years of listening to music together, sequestered by harsh Northern winters. Heavily inspired by the industrial architecture of Northwest England and notions of travel, their sonic framework evokes images of rust and disintegrating concrete, and sensations of movement and redemption — exuding a distorted analogue soul offering escape into their overcast skies. Closely associated with Brighton/London label, Where to Now?, who slink along a vintage axis of post-punk, On-U Sound, minimal and no wave influences, Space Afrika's diverse and creative radio shows (notably their residencies on NTS and Reform Radio) also display a breadth of curiosities in experimental and avant-garde music, old and new.Their RA profile lists Where To Now?, Dais Records and Sferic.Recently at MONOM · often with Dopplereffekt, Nardus Williams, Hildur Guðnadóttir, none of them here that night
often with GNMR, ATEQ, Onirik, none of them here that night
“Marco Shuttle has always achieved a lot with a little, and that is the singular aesthetic that stands him apart.”
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Marco Shuttle has always achieved a lot with a little, and that is the singular aesthetic that stands him apart. His cinematic techno sounds are unusually organic: they build pressure in subtle ways and his meticulous grooves never fail to take listeners on a trip to somewhere new and exciting. As a result of this, he has become a firm favourite amongst the techno cognoscenti and has released on some of the most revered labels of the day, from famed New York club The Bunker’s new label to Peter van Hoesen’s untouchable Time To Express via Clone SOS and his regular home, Eerie Records. Italian born but London based, where he also gained his MA in Fashion at St Martin’s. What ties his creative work together is a focus on abstract yet organic texture and the same thing defines his tightly woven DJ sets from fabric to Berghain to Labyrinth in Japan. His eclectic cerebral sound takes cues from jazz and musique concrete as much as it does from acid house and Detroit techno. Early breakout records like his 'The Vox Attitude' have been followed up with great abstract outings on Clone and remixes for Third Side, whilst the future promises a collaboration with compatriot and fellow producer and friend Donato Dozzy as Anxur. It will land on Eerie, Marco’s own well-formed label and is sure to be another supple and succulent offering that proves Marco Shuttle to be a uniquely minded techno troubadour.Their RA profile lists Clone Records, Time To Express, The Monkey Bar, The Bunker New York and 5 more.Recently at OHM, Tresor / Globus, ZENNER · often with Erika, Ma.to, Ekkel, none of them here that night
“Karine is an integral part of Kyiv’s Closer club as its resident DJ and booker, now based in Berlin, continues writing the club’s story in Ukraine and worldwide.”
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Karine is an integral part of Kyiv’s Closer club as its resident DJ and booker, now based in Berlin, continues writing the club’s story in Ukraine and worldwide. Her exceptional musicality and an immense experience in mindful listening and dancing throughout the two decades we’ve known Karine, including ten years of working at Closer, have brought her to the position of a truly promising talent on the scene. Her records are a colourful spectrum of deep, minimalist, hypnotic, groovy, and quirky sounds depicting an array of periods and moods spanning multiple genres from house and techno to breakbeat, electro, and more: she would playfully blur the boundaries between genres anyway.Recently at Hoppetosse, Berghain, Club der Visionaere · often with J. Richards, XDB, Alexia (2), none of them here that night
“Shakolin is a long-time resident DJ of Closer in Kyiv.”
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Shakolin is a long-time resident DJ of Closer in Kyiv. Since his relocation to Berlin, he has opened a new chapter in his sonic journey with Delirious, a vinyl-only record label and party series at Panorama Bar, which he co-curates with his artistic and life partner, Karine. After decades of relentless digging and many sleepless nights spent on Discogs, running one of the finest underground record stores, showing an interesting approach to his productions, and bringing a fresh curatorial vision to Delirious, he has become one of the most prominent artists of the Ukrainian scene, widely recognizable worldwide. Music always takes a central place in Andrii’s life and has opened doors to some of the most discerning DJ booths in the world, including Houghton Festival in the UK, Funk in Mexico, Techworld parties in Melbourne, Ring in Seoul, and Dimensions Festival in Croatia, to name just a few. His records are always a journey, mystical and freakish, and we wonder how far he will take us…Their RA profile lists Delirious_Records.Recently at Hoppetosse, Berghain, Ipse · often with XDB, J. Richards, Burchan Acar, none of them here that night
“Co-founder and resident DJ at Closer Club (Kyiv / Ukraine)”
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Recently at Haus der Visionäre, Club der Visionaere · often with Lobanov K., So-Fi, Annyrock, none of them here that night
Recently at Bar Neun, Club der Visionaere · often with Yuzo Iwata, Masayuki Tomita, Serenne, none of them here that night
“Triš is a Ukrainian artist, producer, and DJ whose music combines emotional depth with experimental soundscapes.”
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Triš is a Ukrainian artist, producer, and DJ whose music combines emotional depth with experimental soundscapes. Now based in Berlin, Triš draws inspiration from electronic and pop genres, blending them with raw authenticity and experimental textures.Recently at Kwia, Platte.Berlin, NEW FEARS · often with XTCLVR, Carrier, Neue Medecina, none of them here that night
- Their RA profile lists Craigie Knowes, Kebrada, TraTraTrax, Carousel Records and 1 more.
Last at ZENNER in Nov 2025 · often with Mia Koden, NEW YORK, Umfang, none of them here that night
Recently at NBB Gallery, Blue Velvet, Bar Neun · often with Buttechno, Hermeneia, ON THE MIC, none of them here that night
“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 Kwia, Kraftwerk Berlin, Kraftwerk, Tresor/Globus and OHM · often with Buttechno, Matana Roberts, Klein, none of them here that night
Last at Tresor / Globus in Oct 2025
Recently at Kwia, Pas Berlin
names these artists often play with — not that night
- J. Richards4 with Karine, 3 with Shakolin and 1 with Daura
- So-Fi2 with Karine, 2 with Shakolin and 2 with Timur Basha
- Olya Smok1 with Eleftheria, 1 with Timur Basha and 1 with Yone-Ko
- Mug4 with Ludwig Wandinger and 4 with Yves B Golden
- XDB3 with Karine and 3 with Shakolin
- Alexia (2)2 with Karine and 2 with Shakolin
- Buttechno2 with Eleftheria and 2 with Significant Other
- DJ Fart in the Club2 with Karine and 2 with Shakolin
The room
Haus der Visionäre — 43 events and 338 distinct artists since Sep 2025.
Who put it on
Closer — 4 events and 42 artists since Mar 2026.
Kontext — 7 events and 96 artists since Aug 2025.