Good news that should be passed on a few days after International Women’s Day on March 8th: the proportion of female DJs booked is increasing. At least if you go by the data collected at electronic music festivals worldwide as part of the “Facts” study by the feminist network “female:pressure”. While the proportion of female acts booked there was 9.2 percent in 2012, it had increased to 29.8 percent by the sixth edition of the report, which was published on International Women’s Day 2024.
This can now be celebrated at the set of the great Berlin DJ, producer and label operator Ellen Allien (March 16, Blitz Club), whose career goes back to the Berlin techno underground of the nineties. While her own sound is always based on a characteristic fusion of technoid hardness and sweetly chirped rave melodies, she also has a significant influence on that of the techno capital Berlin with the numerous releases on her BPitch Control label (including Marcel Dettmann, Paul Kalkbrenner, Moderat). shaped.
For all those who like it a bit harsher, the French set is available on the same evening DJ Cassie Raptor in the new DNA Club at Ostbahnhof. With her preference for hard-hitting industrial techno, the Parisian with the orange hair unfolds a cathartic effect that only techno in its violent pure form can offer.
The Blitz Club is celebrating a special premiere on March 21st with the Linz duo Attwenger An act from the venerable Munich indie label Trikont visits for the first time. While the new folk music of Markus Binder and Hans-Peter Falkner initially consisted of a rumbling Ziach’n’Drum hybrid between Gstanzl and dialect rap (often with socially critical messages that were subtly thought out of the box), their music is entirely their own have long since moved into electronic music – as can be heard on their current album “Drum”.
With Johannes Geller alias dot midi Two days later, on March 23rd, another person comes to the Rote Sonne who had already become familiar with the rhythm during his childhood in Munich. He started playing drums at the age of six and producing electronic tracks at the age of fourteen, which he now puts together as a Berliner by choice. When he returns home, he may also present his latest EP “28&TheEnd”, whose tracks are based on as much energetic exuberance as trance-like atmospheric sweetness. Sometimes it sounds as if a lovesick Duracell bunny has poured his longing into electronic music, but it’s always fun.
As is well known, you are still not allowed to have the latter on Good Friday, at least not when dancing. There are still loopholes for everyone who doesn’t have faith. Like this one “Great fun” in the railway guard Thiel, which was made possible by the Munich collective “Das Netzwerk”, the “Association for Freedom of Thought Munich” and the dearest Federal Constitutional Court. From 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on March 29th, six young underground DJs will be allowed to dance there – followed by a triple hallelujah.