Pain Management
DJ LAG, Alys(Alys)Alys, Significant Other & Bruce
OHM, Berlin
This night happened — Fri 10 Apr
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Who was billed4 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
Who they are
- Their RA profile lists Goon Club Allstars, Overthinker Mob and Carousel Records.
often with Nick León, upsammy, Devon Rexi meets John T. Gast, none of them here that night
Recently at Sameheads, Panke, Studio1111 · often with Alys Alys, N3LYSTAR, Main Running Order, 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.”
their own biography
the whole biography
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 Haus der Visionäre, Kwia, Kraftwerk Berlin · often with Eleftheria, Buttechno, Matana Roberts, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Bendik Giske3 with Significant Other
- Carmen Villain3 with Significant Other
- DjRUM3 with Significant Other
- Eleftheria3 with Significant Other
- John T. Gast3 with Significant Other
- Marylou3 with Significant Other
- Torus3 with Significant Other
- ABADIR2 with DJ LAG
how this compares
- Median final count, Fridays at OHM87
- Middle half finished between44 and 135
- Past Fridays at this venue counted50
The room
OHM — 200 events and 727 distinct artists since Aug 2025.
Who put it on
Pain Management — 5 events and 18 artists since Nov 2025.