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Fifty Hour Pulse / Wire Festival 2025

Music | Spotlight
For 50 unrelenting hours, Knockdown Center, a former glass factory, pulsed with energy. Orchestrated by nightlife pioneers GeGa Japaridze and Téa Abashidze, Wire is no fleeting rave. It’s a deliberate act of cultural reclamation, as New York’s former industrial spaces now transform into playgrounds for misfits, queers, and dreamers.

Dare To Be You / Alex Nantaya

Music | Interview
A former classical musician and dancer-turned-producer, she speaks of the urge to sabotage perfect form, to weave her voice into the fabric of sound, and to find, in the blur of genres, something more truthful.

The Pulse of the Night / Helang

Music | Interview
Helang is part of a new wave of electronic artists who balance vulnerability with power, drawing on her cross-cultural upbringing between America and China to create music that is both fiercely independent and emotionally charged. A classically trained pianist turned DJ, producer, and label founder, she has carved out her own lane in a scene that often resists definition.

Synths of Euphoria / Funk Tribu

Music | Interview
Funk Tribu is an emerging talent from Bogotá’s thriving electronic music scene, known for blending emotional depth with vibrant energy. His sound moves beyond typical club beats to create immersive experiences rooted in personal stories and cultural identity.

Road to Wall 2 Wall Festival 2025

Music | Spotlight
Four days non-stop where RSO Bberlin is swallowed whole: every floor, every wall, every shadow claimed by the crews that keep this city alive.

Road to Berlin Atonal 2025

Music | Spotlight
Berlin Atonal returns to Kraftwerk Berlin, Tresor, and OHM this August 2025 with a five-day program that transforms the city’s industrial core into an experimental laboratory for sound, image, and collective experience. This year marks the festival’s debut as part of the International Biennial Association, anchoring its position as a global platform for sonic and interdisciplinary avant-garde. It’s a return, but also a reinvention, driven by the same radical spirit that first pulsed through these concrete chambers in the early ’80s.

Ferropolis Reimagined / WHOLE Festival 2025

Music | Spotlight
From July 18–21, Ferropolis hosted the seventh edition of WHOLE Festival, a leading gathering of queer electronic culture in Europe. Under the theme ‘WHOLE New World,’ the post-industrial site transformed into four days of music, intimacy, and collective care.

The Pulse We Shared / Stone Festival

Music | Highlights
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

Ritual Sound and Sonic Communion / LOST Music Festival

Music | Spotlight
Between the 4th and 6th July 2025, LOST Music Festival returned to the Labirinto della Masone, the world’s largest bamboo labyrinth, for three days of experimental electronic music, communal dreaming, and immersive rituals.

Sorry for Being So Sexy / CatMint

Music | Interview
“My image is not a marketing trick or provocation,” says DJ and multidisciplinary artist CatMint when asked about the challenges she faces due to her body being the central part of her artistic practice.

Architectural Frequencies for Concrete Music / Neuf Voix

Music | Interview
Polished, yet bearing the dust of time, it occupies space with an imposing sculptural stillness. Composed of many elements, each object carries the power to produce a sound with a soul of its own—one that cuts through everything it touches, be it walls, air, or flesh.

Ahead of WHOLE / A chat with Miss Bashful

Music | Interview
The Whole Festival is about to get Bashful’d — raw, loud, and fully alive. Miss Bashful is set to hit the stage like a summer storm, turning sweat, sound, and lingerie into her own kind of gospel. We caught up with her ahead of the chaos.