Tag Archive for: techno

Dance Till We Die / Basilar 2025
Music | Spotlight
Every year, in the evocative setting of Barragem de Queimadela, Basilar takes place, one of the most original and unconventional electronic music festivals. A total experience, where location, lineup, and community create a continuous flow of energy, emotions, and sonic discoveries.

Hard Frequency / Negitiv
Music | Interview
Negitiv is not the typical hard techno DJ. She’s a force of nature. Over time, she transitioned from psy-trance and darker electronic styles before landing on the raw and high-bpm energy of hard techno, Schranz, and industrial.

Star Chronicle / Jeff Mills
Music | Spotlight
The Wizard expands his vision beyond music with Star Chronicle, an immersive residency at Spot Lite Detroit blending electronic music, visuals, cinema, and creative experimentation.

Road to Spatial Festival 2025
Music | Spotlight
SPATIAL Festival by Monom Studios returns to Funkhaus Berlin from September 12 to 14, 2025, with its most expansive edition yet. Spanning the venue’s iconic halls, the program brings together more than 60 pioneering artists for three days of deep listening sessions, live performances, and immersive installations.

The Heart of the Scene / Dekmantel
Music | Spotlight
Our exclusive reportage inside's Amsterdam’s electronic soul.

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.

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

Sonic Rite of Passage / Lauren Mia
Music | Spotlight
There are no words in Coda Sublimé, because none are needed. The new single from Los Angeles-based producer and composer Lauren Mia arrives August 8 on Armada Electronic Elements and speaks entirely through its synthesis. It carries no voice, yet tells a complete story.

Echoes Under the Skin / Madwoman
Music | Interview
MADWOMAN is a presence, part instinct, part ritual. She sketches tracks in moments of emotional chaos, paints to ground herself, and finds energy in unexpected places like American football.

Age of Venera / EMILIJA
Music | Interview
EMILIJA takes center stage in this NASTY digital cover story. No stranger to the shadows of the dancefloor, she’s a bold presence in the techno scene, weaving sound, style, and a raw feminine force that refuses to be boxed in. On the launch of her new party series Age of Venera, we tapped into her mindset to uncover the deeper vision behind the project: ritual, rebellion, divine rage, and the sensual chaos of becoming. This isn’t just nightlife. It’s initiation. Paired with an exclusive shoot by the NASTY creative team: Marco Giuliano behind the lens and Anca Macavei on styling, EMILIJA emerges in her raw, neo-Venus element.

Movement Is the Message / A chat with Sam Quealy
Music | Interview
Her world is built on distortion—of genre, gender, glamour. Raised in Australia, based in Paris, shaped by club nights, theatre stages, and a deep obsession with movement, Quealy merges hyperpop, techno, and raw performance into something that’s part spectacle, part exorcism.

Upclose 2025 and the New Rave Intimacy
Music | Spotlight
In the green heart of Spaarnwoude, the 2025 edition of Upclose proved that, in the swirling sea of summer festivals, it’s still possible to do something essential: cut the excess. Eliminate the distance. Put the human back at the center.
