Rave is a state of being / Jazzy
Somewhere between rave culture, cybernetic fantasy and the raw physicality of hard techno, Jazzy has built a universe that operates on its own terms. For NASTY, this world takes on a new physical dimension, shot by Marco Giuliano.
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/by Editor NastyJeff Mills Brings Techno to Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
Audio Obscura’s film sees the Detroit techno pioneer reinterpret Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece through original music and dance at the Rijksmuseum, premiering on October 21, 2026, with public screenings from October 22 to 25 during ADE.
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/by Editor NastyGirls Like Angels / CLOUDY
At ten years old, Claudia bought a piano with the first money she had saved herself. Years later, performing as CLOUDY, she still speaks about music with that same sense of ownership. Music cover story shot by Marco Giuliano and styled by Anca Macavei.
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/by Editor NastyUnder A New Moon / Voodoo Village 2026
Under a New Moon, Voodoo Village turned a Belgian forest into a temporary world of music, nature and altered perception. For three days, Kasteel van Humbeek became a place to step outside the usual rhythm of life and listen to something deeper.
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/by Editor NastyA Sound Without Expectations / Øneheart
Øneheart moves beyond the atmospheric sound that defined him, opening up to new genres, shifting influences and a side of himself kept hidden for years.
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/by Editor NastyDid Youth Culture End in 2000? / Mark Leckey
From acid house to SoundCloud, religion, archives and AI, this conversation asks a simple question: Where does youth culture exist when everything is already online? Read our cover conversation with Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey.
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/by Editor NastyOutside Reality / Voodoo Village 2026
There are places that only make sense after sunset. VOODOO begins where the familiar dissolves: a forest lit by fire, sound echoing between the trees, strangers moving as if they've been following the same ritual for years. Nothing asks for your attention; everything pulls you further in. This autumn, the ritual returns.
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/by Editor NastyThe Power Of Music / Freddy K
He came out of punk, where saying no is a discipline, and then spent forty years declining to fight anything from outside. Virus went on air in Rome in 1993 — eight until midnight, every night, eight years — named for what enters a system unnoticed and changes it from inside. KEY Vinyl runs the same way: he turns down more records than he takes and sends honest feedback with every rejection, because a door was closed on him once in Berlin and he was told the DJ doesn't know you. He left Rome at the moment the city stopped letting him grow. Everything he has made: the radio, the label, the fifteen-hour closings is a way of getting back to the side of the booth he came from.
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/by Editor NastyReclaiming The Antipop Roots / Neopop 2026
NEOPOP Festival 2026 returned to its original name, ANTIPOP, for its twentieth edition in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Across three days inside the historic Santiago da Barra Fort, the festival brought together techno pioneers and a new generation of artists, proving why NEOPOP remains one of Europe's most distinctive destinations for electronic music.
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/by Editor NastyAggressive Tenderness / Callush
Callush exists in a constant pull between intensity and softness. Her music is relentless and the person behind it speaks with surprising openness about doubt, instinct, boundaries and the parts of herself that success has sharpened. For the Nasty Cover, she looks back on seven years of building an artist identity, what Berlin continues to give her, the habit of adapting to everyone else, and the moment intuition became more valuable than perfection. Photographed by Marco Giuliano and styled by Anca Macavei.
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/by Editor NastyStudio Is My Place Of Solitude/ Amotik
At Stone Techno Festival 2026, Amotik played b2b with Lea Occhi, bringing a track they had made together in a single afternoon to a crowd hearing it for the first time. For someone who has spent the past decade working largely alone, it felt like a small departure from the system he had built around himself: his own label, his own release schedule, sets stripped to five or six sounds. A technical constraint became a method, then a philosophy. Through AMTK+, he eventually opened that system outward, becoming a curator of other people’s music too. Anil Chawla has spent his career protecting a very particular part of the process: the moment when the music still belongs entirely to him, before it has to become anything for anyone else.
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/by Editor NastyI Still Feel Curious/ Sterac
45 years into a career that has helped shape the language of techno, Steve Rachmad is still driven by the same thing that drew him to music as a kid: curiosity. Ahead of his Basilar Festival debut, the Dutch pioneer reflects on four decades of music, his many aliases, analogue machines, Detroit, the freedom to experiment, and the constant search for something new. From the records that defined his early years to the music he is still creating today, Rachmad looks back at a journey shaped by technology, instinct and an enduring need to explore. A conversation about legacy, creativity and what it means to keep moving forward without losing sight of where it all began.
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/by Editor NastyNew Life / Funk Tribu
Twenty-five, and his work has been three steps ahead of him for two years. “Against All Odds” named the trajectory that he never planned. While “Reborn” was the version of himself he had to bury to keep going: the shy kid in Engativá who spent all day making beats, the one Berlin has never met till recently. He cites a quote: you can have excuses or you can have results, but you can’t have both. He truly believes and built a career on it: a degree abandoned, a continent crossed, a hundred shows a year. He also cut that number to sixty and said out loud that he needed to breathe. Somewhere between those moments is the part about success nobody prepares you for.
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/by Editor NastyWe Are Whole
Some places were built to make you feel free, safe, at home. WHOLE Festival is one of these places. Here, time stops for a while, music plays loudly in the background, bodies gather on the dancefloor, sweat connects the flesh and smiles connect the souls. Shot on film by Simone Piacenti and Giovanny Bilanzuoli, words by Lorraine Betta.
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/by Editor NastyTurning Wounds Into Light / Ultra Sunn
New Beat slowed everything down. Front 242 pushed everything forward. Years of Baroque training sharpened the discipline, underground culture sharpened the instinct and somewhere in between Ultra Sunn found the frequency that became their own.
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/by Editor NastyBarcelona awaits / Brunch Electronik 2026
Brunch took electronic music out of the sealed logic of the club and placed it in daylight, beside the sea and inside the weekly rhythm of Barcelona. Dancing became one of the ways the city recognises itself. The festival is the fullest expression of that shift, a temporary portrait of Barcelona as Brunch has helped imagine it: open, social and perpetually in motion.
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/by adminA Different Kind of Love / Stone Festival 2026
In the heart of Essen, amidst the remnants of an industrial past and the vibrant energy of the present, Stone Techno Festival organised by The Third Room collective took place. This event is more than just music; it’s a collective ritual blending history, technology, and underground culture. Three intense days in a place steeped in memory, where every beat tells a story and every sound becomes part of a unique experience
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/by adminPower & Control / Lee Ann Roberts
Some journeys are measured in kilometres. Others in the distance between who the world expects you to become and who you eventually choose to be. Lee Ann Roberts knows both. From modelling to music, from South Africa to clubs across the globe, every step has brought her closer to a version of herself that no longer belongs to anyone else's expectations. This is a conversation about freedom, identity and the long road toward becoming unmistakably yourself on the occasion of her new release "Take Control".
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/by Editor NastyAt the Threshold of Sound / Lost Music Festival 2026
The fifth edition of Lost Music Festival returned to Labirinto della Masone, the world's largest bamboo labyrinth in Fontanellato, Italy. Before the first experimental electronic music performance, the festival had already settled into its own rhythm. The bamboo, the gathering crowd and a programme of site-specific works shaped an environment where sound, contemporary art and nature dissolved into a single experience.
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/by Editor NastySpectral Grace / Chelsea Wolfe
Chelsea Wolfe returns with “The Dark” and “Death is Not the End,” the first glimpse into her forthcoming ninth studio album and a new era that expands beyond music into the spectral world of GHOSTS, her collaboration with Heretic Parfum. In this exclusive Nasty Cover Story, we explore the connections between sound, scent, transformation and the unseen forces shaping her unique artistic universe.
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/by Editor NastyPremiere: The Night Goes On / Lee Ann Roberts
Lee Ann Roberts was taught to survive the night. “The Night Goes On”, the third single from her Take Control EP, out July 24 in exclusive premiere on Nasty!
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/by Editor NastyThe Shape Of Sound
Your body has been lying to you about music. Or rather, your brain has. That thing you felt in the club, the one you filed under “this DJ gets me”, that was a pressure wave reorganising the sixty per cent of you that is water. Everyone around you was being reorganised the same way. Cymatics, the oldest science of sound you’ve never heard of, explains why.
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