By diving into musical subcultures early on, music quickly became AGILY’s outlet for creative expression. AGILY (she/her) is a Berlin based DJ with Iranian roots and co-founder of the FLINTA* collective Hot Cue. After years of passion for House and Techno, she started exploring subgenres like Acid House, Progressive House, and Breakbeats. These diverse influences have shaped her musical style, which she describes as a multi-genre experience: AGILY likes to break musical boundaries, combining her favorite beats with melodic tunes and uniting them with her usual touch of Acid House. Her sounds take you on a multi-genre trip with fast, energetic tunes and a wide range of sound diversity.
Ceren Saner is a Berlin-based, self-taught lens-based artist, originally from Istanbul. Through her deeply personal and socio-autobiographical visual storytelling, Ceren explores themes of queer intimacy, memory, and identity. Her works have been exhibited internationally, and she was recently awarded the Neukölln Art Prize 2024 for her ongoing series Inside The Ring.
At BLADE 2025, Ceren presents her photo-series Liquids — an intimate, autobiographical work from 2014 that centers queer sensuality and fluidity from a femme gaze. Liquids flows through sweat, tears, blood, and memory, the liquids of love, as they pass through the body like rivers of care, desire, heartbreak, and grief.
Come experience Ceren’s tender, powerful world at BLADE 2025 💜
Flvgmodvs (they/she) is an alchemist of red and blue, approaching sound as color and creating sets from a place of deep connection to emotion. Their music explores the energy of existence beyond binaries: channeling spectrums of chaos and meditation, sex and spirit, rage and release.
Embracing sounds from progressive acid house, tribal rhythms, warm-hearted grooves, cvnty vocals, and impassioned melodies, Flvgmodvs seeks to create moments where your presence becomes medicine and your heart takes flight through the beat.
As a member and resident DJ of Sublime collective, Flvgmodvs creates experiences that reimagine the dancefloor as a space for connection, revolution, play, and collective healing. Through their work with BLADE collective, they strive to build utopias that resist mainstream hierarchies and uplift queer-feminist voices🔥
KollektivBar ES is a collectively run, left-wing, anti-capitalist bar and collective from Berlin.
With a group of around ten people and a circle of helpers, the collective organizes everything to do with the space - from shift work and events to bookkeeping.
Everything is organized and managed collectively.
The group makes decisions together and, where possible, by consensus.
No one at ES is paid.
There is regular bar service on weekends so the space can be made available to groups and left-wing initiatives free of charge during the week.
The KollektivBar ES Crew will not only be running the bar at Blade Festival - they will also be bringing plenty of fun, special drinks and surprises!
Schelle is a freelance pole dancer and performer based in Berlin, with a focus on Heels Pole and Hardstyle.
She teaches at various dance schools, including Motion*s and redlightdance Berlin.
Her performances are known for powerful moves and impressive drops.
Together with Jasmin Locke, she regularly performs as a duo, appearing at events such as Licious at Kater Blau and Club Ost.
Basti and Felix from Sublime Collective explore the repurposing of old technology like the overhead projector. Through adding interactive parts, familiar tools are being turned into dynamic and open systems.
Liquid Trip Machine
Liquid Trip Machine consists of a projector, a dish for storing different kinds of liquid, and interactive elements like translucent vessels, which connect artwork and subject. The projector is an enhanced version of a classic projector used in Liquid Light Shows, which emerged in the early 1960s to accompany electronic music and avant-garde performances.
Leo is a non binary/multiethnical/multicultural creature with indigenous ancestry. They explore the fluidity of identity, decolonisation and body memory as a source of a collective clan wisdom through visual art, poetry and performances.
Artwork title: Pt of collision
Leo has qirimqaraylar roots (Crimean Karaites): one of turcic speaking indigenous people of Crimea, together with Crimean tatars and Krymtschaks. Crimean natives are heavily treated by the Russian occupation and settler colonialism. Leo raises questions about destroyed ecology without indigenous people and water distribution as a colonial tool.
SHXODDIO is a spontaneous performative collective of three creatures who come together to embody with rage, eroticism and softness a fracture in the extractivist normative regulation of life.
SHXODDIO is a fragile but resistant body that contains a part of Kulshedra (they/them)
Albanian-Italian movement artist, whose work relates to politics of embodiment as in violent dances, erotic liberation and practices of care. A part of Guxor (he/him) trans multidisciplinary artist from Buenos Aires, who pulsates the body and emotions as a survival strategy, embracing monstrosity and cringe. And a part of Addis (they/them) queer Ethiopian emerging artist who uses movement to embrace rage against survival scripts, systemic erasure, and religious shame.
DJ Pabloma Blanca (↗@pablomablanca) is an artist and DJ based in Leipzig, navigating the intersection of music and visual art.
In her work, she frequently explores ironic self-representation — often transcending into post-irony.
Her musical style is driven by energetic trance and techno beats, with a strong focus on bouncy basslines, interwoven with hiphop edits, breakbeat, ghetto tech, and hard groove elements.
Her goal as a DJ is to bring people together — through fast-paced, uplifting music that fosters connection, reminding everyone not to take themselves too seriously! Together with Südost-Achse Kollektiv (↗@suedostachse) she brings new energy into the local music scene.
Shaw Cain is injecting her voice into the dance floor with a refreshing sound that captures the raw edge of the club scene and radiates runway-ready confidence.
Blending influences from techno, house, hip-hop, and early 2000s pop, she creates a unique style that feels both nostalgic and forward-thinking, resonating deeply with fans of dance and pop music alike.
The Detroit native is carving her own path, reclaiming space in pop culture and media that have long overlooked trans and queer artists of color.
With a sound that is bold, authentic, and unforgettable, she is redefining what it means to be a visionary artist in today’s music landscape.
D’Nice is a binary-defying, Berlin-based DJ duo that blends the unique yet complementary energies of Manta and Qualia Trax.
Drawing inspiration from classic Power House, Latin rhythms and UK Garage, their sound and style is dripping with queer femininity with tracks full of sexy vocals and catchy basslines.
Essex raised, Berlin Based Drag performer is a central figure in the German capitals queer underground.
Creating parties, shows & festivals.
Starting out in a burlesque bar in Stockholm she entertains with a fiery mix of punking, stripping & speeching.
A regular host of Berlin club nights, drag shows with a loud point of view.
Justyna expresses herself in the media of drawing, painting, installation, art action, & intervention.
She focuses on little and insignificant things, so common that almost invisible, on people or spaces that are forgotten, excluded, their voice is suppressed.
Artwork title: The wave
In her work Justyna would like to affirmate the moment of breaking from social & cultural structures and giving oneself the opportunity to experience the wave of creativity, wild feminine intuition, and unconsciousness.
The moment when you’re maybe dancing in a river and the water takes away all your clothes and all your worries.
soft spot is a berlin-based collective exploring awareness as a practice of care, resistance and collective effort.
Together with other collectives, we want to try out new ideas, build resources and co-create more inclusive spaces.
GRĒTA (she/her) is a Swedish DJ and producer known for her high-energy, genre-blending sets that move effortlessly between hard trance, psytrance, dark grooves, and breakbeats.
With a distinct sound rooted in emotion and playfulness, she’s become a standout in Stockholm’s electronic scene and continues to captivate crowds across Europe.
After making waves in cities like Berlin, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam, where she debuted her first hybrid set with live vocals, GRĒTA continues to push boundaries, both in the booth and in her productions.
Her recent releases on Berlin’s Para//e/ label and DJ Traytex’s Dead Boy Magic showcase her signature mix of dreamy vocals and euphoric, indie-influenced electronica.
Energy, emotion, and playfulness. GRĒTA brings it all.
Rac00niara is a Warsaw Mermaid from the Vistula River.
She works with space, costumes and creates sculptures inspired by the dark side of nature.
She is also a body activist, primarily through the Vinted app, empowering women to embrace their own bodies and fighting against sexual violence.
Artwork title: Pt of collision
Pt of collision is an art installation which invites you to dive into an ephemeral space where participants experience a frozen moment in time - a suspended cascade of water droplets.
EROS IN FURS (they/them) is a dancer, dreamer, and performance artist of many forms:
An alchemical chaos witch of ritual, drag, poetry, contemporary dance, and queer cabaret.
An Aquarian fist raised high in the air and a lovesong for the tenderhearted dreamers, EROS dives through a portal of death and rebirth to explore gender, belonging, and the erotics of liberation.
Whether through the dark or the divine, their work reimagines creation as an act of both rebellion and celebration, inspired by expression that pushes the boundaries of societal norms.
Indigo Plateaux (they/them) is an American, Berlin based DJ and producer.
Their diverse palette ranges from ghetto tech to classic house and techno, always integrating mainly original productions.
Indigo’s journey began sitting on Keith Haring’s lap as a baby, listening to an eclectic record collection.
After honing their craft in the vibrant underground scenes of New Jersey and New York, Indigo made the bold move to Berlin, drawn by its reputation as a melting pot of creativity and diversity.
It was here that they found their true voice as a producer and DJ, seamlessly weaving their own unique genre-bending style perfectly crafted for any dancefloor.
We are extremely grateful for ↗@noibau_official collective for standing by us and supporting ↗@blade.festival from the beginning with their love, kindness and knowledge. 💚💜
Noibau is a Berlin-based collective of architects, carpenters, and designers.
They design and build furniture and spaces through collaborative processes.
They work hierarchically free, encourage exchange, and focus on a responsible use of resources.
Since the beginning, they have been closely involved with the Blade Festival community, supporting its unique approach to bringing people together.
Joonam’s sets are bouncy, genre-fluid invitations to move and connect – blending breaks, Latin bass, groove and anything that gets your booty shaking.
What started behind a bar in Bolivia has grown into a deep love for high-energy club moments rooted in joy and care.
As co-founder of the awareness collective ↗@initiativenachtlicht, Joonam is committed to creating safer, discrimination-sensitive spaces – on and beyond the dancefloor ⭐️
Blazing through clubs from Berlin to London, Paris or Madrid – and recently, across North America – Caniche is becoming a key name in Europe’s Hardgroove circuit.
Her sound fuses tooly textures with rough, funky rhythms, Rap-inspired vocal chops, and tribal elements, all grounded in punchy old-school percussion.
Beyond the decks, Caniche co-runs PUSH Network and holds a residency at Tresor’s New Faces series.
PUSH hosts workshops and recurring events in Berlin and Vienna, fighting for greater visibility and equal treatment of FLINTA artists in electronic music.
Building bridges across Europe, PUSH is both a platform and a movement – and Caniche is right at its heart.
DJ Tonic b2b kiko enchant with a decadent selection of breaks, hard groove & g tech.
With bouncy basslines & cheeky vocals, no booty remains unshaken.
They are part of the new Leipzig FLINTA* DJ collective Beso Babes.
Miu Ling, a DJ with South Korean roots, delivers a hypnotic blend of mental, raw and soulful techno.
After several years as a DJ and creating behind the scenes in Freiburg and Basel, she is now starting a new chapter in Berlin.
Beyond the decks, she has engaged with various facets of clubculture, always driven by her belief in the power of community and the goal of fostering meaningful connections on the dancefloor.
Behind the Berlin-based DJ duo C2C are Clara & Clara – friends since their school days, co-founders of the Bambule collective, and partners behind the decks. Since 2020, they’ve been playing together, blending bouncy progressive techno with deep, dark tech-house. Always part of their sets: a solid dose of fun and just a hint of trash.
DINA is a Berlin-based producer, DJ and co-founder of Nachtcrew – a label and party series fusing rave sounds, art and 3D mapping in order to provide a totally immersive sensorial experience.
DINA’s production spans spacey ambience, punching basslines, and ethereal trance. She has released music on her own imprint Nachtcrew, and illustrious labels such as Amniote Editions, Space Trax, Live From Earth. DINA also hosts her own monthly radio show ‘Boarding Gate’ on station N10.AS and holds a residency at Munich club Rote Sonne.
Coco Klein (he/they/she) is a Canadian-born, Berlin-based, gender-bending, boundary-pushing, shape-shifting performance artist.
Coco has been focused on the art form of drag for the past 11 years of their career, as it gives them a primary artistic outlet that encapsulates all of their creative abilities.
Coco Klein is a highly conceptual artist that will always strive to do the unexpected and attempt to shift perspectives and expand human consciousness through their art.
The DJ, producer and Co-founder of Warum nicht? Collective ↗E2NMN presents a progressive, dark and atmospheric sound that blends diverse grooves and powerful synths, always with an emotional touch that immerses you in the music, not only making you dance but also evoking a profound connection. 💫
OZONA’s sounds are rooted in the sweat of the endless nights of Frankfurt’s Omen, where the ravers turned night into day.
Named after their favourite snuff tabacco, the DJ duo is based on years of love and precise selection of the hottest hard trance and acid tracks of the 90s and early 2000s.
OZONA also experiment with other music genres such as LatinCore, Hardstyle, Gabber and Happy Hardcore.
With passion and energy, OZONA will sweep you back onto the dance floor into the unknown and the familiar.
With vocals and dreamy breaks, their sets give you time to breathe and brings the feeling of freedom of the 90s back to the present day.
Rubén Nsue, Madrid-born with African roots, trained in contemporary, acting and urban styles across Europe and the US.
Choreographer and performer, he now explores groove decomposition, blending physical research, emotion, and rhythm in his work.
In this workshop, we deconstruct groove beyond stereotypes, exploring its emotional and physical layers through improvisation.
We’ll work with bodily echoes and intentions, discovering personal ways of moving and feeling rhythm. ✨
From Northern Germany to Leipzig’s techno heart — nøvae has been igniting dancefloors since 2017.
She founded her own collective, joined the renowned Brotfabrik crew, and is now part of the legendary 3000Grad family.
Her sound blends Melodic Dark Spacy Techno with genre-bending surprises.
Get ready to journey through sound.
DJ Zugzwang is a producer and DJ from Freiburg.
Inspired by cyber aesthetics, nostalgia, and her love of dancing, her sound ranges from sweet, dreamy trance to hard bounce, all the way to hard trance with a touch of hardcore that will send you into ecstasy.
Get ready for a set full of energy and good vibes.
Berfusra is a genderfluid performance artist whose work focuses on identity politics, using live vocal performances, movement, theatrical expression and poetry.
Their performances revolve around honesty, vulnerability and storytelling.
The subjects include race, immigration, womanhood, queerness, gender trouble, class struggle, love & loss, longing, sex, desire and complex trauma.
Through radical openness and using their personal experiences as material, they reach a point of vulnerability that is empowering and moving.
DJ and producer KIM SWIM loves to swim against the tide.
Hailing from South Korea and based in Berlin, she dropped out of law school to follow her passion: music.
Guided by her belief that “music is fluid and, in the end, it’s all about energy”, she seamlessly weaves together funky house grooves, up-tempo trance, bouncy techno, hard house, baile funk, and more.
With her innovative spirit and genre-fluid sound, KIM SWIM crafts high-energy experiences that connect with diverse audiences and invite listeners to dive into her dynamic musical journey.
Zurich-born, Berlin-based DJ AYA has a keen eye for finessing the vitality, sexiness and punch of any given dancefloor.
Their first love, UK bass, captured their imagination over a seven-year stint in London and brought her into electronic music’s binding fold.
Bass’ quintessential groove and playfulness have been a lens informing AYA’s gravitational pull towards different genres.
From immersive, clean techno kicks to diasporic motifs like grime vocals and reggaeton beats, AYA saw mixing as an opportunity to express the wide-ranging palate they’d long-cultivated as a listener.
Like the tracks she plays, AYA commands the desk with a joyous presence and sharp intuitiveness, channeling Berlin’s limitless energy and sense of possibility.
ACSID & Plateau Bitch are a queer, genre-fluid newcomer DJ duo based in Leipzig. Over the past year, they’ve become an integral part of the city’s underground and club scene, known for their bold sound and euphoric energy.
Their high-energy performances fuse elements of trance, uplifting (hard) techno, ghetto tech, breakbeat, club, latinxcore, and more.
With a shared love for fast, driving beats and emotional intensity, they curate unpredictable yet deeply intentional musical journeys.
Kaleidolicious moves between genders and cultures, climbing trees to catch the last rays of the evening sun and sticking their nose in jasmine flowers.
They turn childhood mischief into kaleidoscopic gender chaos, juggling gender norms, exploring multiple senses of belonging and shaking off old crusty layers of religious shame.
Inspired by the circus and mushroom networks, they resist borders with playfulness, rhythms and just a little trouble.
G:ERROR [it/it’s - none] is an interdisciplinary Artist based in Leipzig Germany
merging between design, sound and technology.
It is driven by the underground sounds of Tekno, Hardtek and fast lanes.
Mixing fun and playful trakks with hard bazzlinez and jumping kikks.
Contributing to it’s scene in curating non commercial events as founding the music platform < ultrakore > @ultrrrrakore in 2022 to represent unknown music and people - for more variety in the scene.
If it’s weird it’s fun.
Imagine a disco ball exploding in slow motion – what’s left is a set by Ciao 3lla & Francis FF.
These two queerdos stir up a shimmering cocktail of bass, house and indie dance, spiked with bittersweet Aperol emotions.
They dance you through the in-between spaces that aren’t supposed to exist – but absolutely do.
If you don’t lose yourself here, were you ever really present?
Bass with blessings, glitter with a side of glorious loss of control.
In the summer of 2023, ANKA created the event series called Disco Sprizz which is all about carving out a joyful space for qu33rs and FLINTA*s to connect and share the moments with.
Expect groovy tunes, funk & retro Italo Disco, Indie Dance, and House to make your hips move.
ANKA (fem*vak, italo fundementalo) @ankasounds and Goldie Palm (RBL Berlin) @goldie.palm will be serving sounds to make the floor bounce and your heart beam.
Get ready to sparkle with Disco Sprizz! at BLADE in June!
Get ready for an electrifying performance!
Lena XX & DJ Twerking Class from Leipzig bring fast trance beats and hard, energetic basslines to the stage!
Since 2023, they’ve been tearing up dance floors in Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig, creating unforgettable energy.
After meeting at a gig, these two powerhouses are joining forces for an epic b2b set that’s not to be missed!
GVEMEACD delivers high-energy dance sessions guaranteed to get you moving. With years of experience in the electronic music scene and a diverse range of styles, she knows how to keep the crowd captivated. Connecting through music and sharing visions is her favorite way of socializing.
Her sets blend wild, driving rhythms with hypnotic, tribal sounds—enhanced by vocal, acid, and percussive elements. Drawing inspiration from Berlin’s vibrant techno scene, she stays true to her own principles, ensuring an authentic and electrifying experience every time.
WARNING! Authorities have issued a public advisory against prolonged exposure to the sonic emissions of HOMOSOM XY.
Reports suggest that the hypnotic blend of trashy basslines an unhinged rhythms can trigger spontaneous gayness and a permanent increase in fabulousness.
If symptoms persist, do not seek medical help - let it consume you.
Immy is a lifelong student of music history with a big passion for the NYC music scenes
from 1969-1999 focusing mainly the Disco & House scenes, especially the Loft and the
Paradise Garage. She collects and plays everything from ambient, soul, funk, disco &
reggae to house, techno, electro, hardcore and progressive trance. A firm believer that
the dance floor can be a healing space, she often cuts and throws in acapellas in club
sets where she sees fit to emphasize her storytelling.
A Kurdish-Swedish music producer and DJ, born with roots in Syria and Turkey, dedicated to creating an inclusive space—whether on the dance floor or in your headphones. Zamara strives to raise awareness and foster connection in a world full of distractions, using sound as her medium.
Genres are fluid, as the vibe speaks louder than words. Join Zamara at BLADE for a DJ set where psytech, trance, and techno collide, charged with energy, emotion, and raw intensity!
Amnati’s sounds attempt to portray a state of mind and an understanding of the world, from the curiosity-driven perspective of a queer spiritual being.
They believe dancing invokes internal and external revolution.
No genre is a must, all genres are welcome. Sometimes soul touching, sometimes naughty.
Hailing from Bulgaria and now based in Poland, Lucyd is a rising techno DJ and producer known for her deep, hypnotic beats and raw energy.
With releases on MOTZ, HATE, Lost in Ether, and Polish technology, she’s redefining the boundaries of techno.
Co-owner of Calosc label and an experienced audio engineer, Lucyd has captivated audiences across Europe.
Get ready for an unforgettable performance!
Deviants is an installation of a photoseries from tranarchy graffiti which has been drawn wrong, in a sense, but in another sense celebrates the ‘wrongness’ of gender deviance.
Angelo Karle is a photographer and visual artist based in glasgow and leipzig. his work explores topics of transmutation, violence, masculinity, and the natural. angelo primarily works in the dakroom. his first publication is ‘the first word you see describes who you are’.
Plantopium
This installation invites you to take a deep breath and connect your senses to the natural world. Little plants grow on organic textiles, rooting through the material and becoming part of it, creating a space of kindness. Close your eyes, gently feel the plants, and experience their natural textures.
Antonia is a textile artist and designer interested in exploring the relationship between humans and nature. Through the seamless symbiosis of plants and textiles, as well as the incorporation of technological elements, her work encourages reflections on the role of nature in society and human relationships with it.
Social Currents is a sensory system that seeks to make sense of human connections on a larger scale by displaying people’s digital twins and removing their agency. Over the span of hours, the installation attempts to build a social graph by detecting bodies and connecting them with each other.
Felix Renken is a video and visual artist based in Berlin. His work involves cyber-physical systems that interact with and manipulate environmental stimuli. Underlying concepts include digital representationalism, systems science, and the question of how complex patterns emerge from seemingly fundamental sets of rules.
Postcards from Femininity Postcards from Me
What would be your personal message to the world? This is about feeling safer in our own bodies, with our thoughts as they are, being honest, authentic, funny, and expressing ourselves. What do you feel? You are invited to co-create the installation through your personal messages.
„I like being a woman…but I don’t have to do it all the time.“
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Justsyna Jakóbowska expresses herself in the media of drawing, painting, installation, art action, and intervention. In her art, she focuses on little and insignificant things, so common that almost invisible (everyday objects, forgotten places), on people or spaces that are forgotten, excluded, their voice is suppressed. Justyna believes in the power of interactive art.
Noam is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary creator. Her work is inspired by the wonders of nature, creatures, and poetry.
She explores visual art through making insect sculptures from recycled materials.
By reflecting different stages and cycles of the earth, her work invites us to deepen our roots to nature.
“May all of us see the necessity of practicing responsibility for our existence on this earth again.”
NOIBAU is an architecture, design, and carpentry collective that explores, designs, and builds spaces and objects on an equal footing. In collaborations, we share our experiences, seek exchange, and continue to learn.
We believe that societal values, production methods, and resource utilization must change. Through our projects, collective structure, and material choices, we aim to be an active part of our sustainable aspiration.
Eaters
The installation reveals its predatory side to devour patriarchy once and for all. Transparent jaws are ready to bite toxic heteronormative asses
Rac00niara is a Warsaw Mermaid from the Vistula River. She works with space, costumes and creates sculptures inspired by the dark side of nature. She is also a body activist, primarily through the Vinted app, empowering women to embrace their own bodies and fighting against sexual violence.
Recovering (with) bodywater
Material: analogue b/w film, natron, vitamin c, bodywater
This analogue b/w photo series exploring excessive bodies that themselves become part of the experimental development process: their image takes shapes through their own liquids. When do bodies flow into each other and where do they leave themselves behind? What do they tell us about norms, the transgression of boundaries and queer-feminist photo practice?
rocheuse collective
is a collaboration between vanessa and marie. Together they work on a queer-feminist photo practice, thinkings of fluidity and forms of excess. Their work has been shown in FLUT_Magazin für gegenwärtige Erotik ↗@flutmagazin.
Sonyamoria is a documentary and adult filmmaker, VJ, ecofeminist and pleasure activist.
Her erotic documentary film “Endless Pleasure” is currently on the festival circuit.
Her VJ shows are an adoration of nature: organic shapes in vibrant digital form, visual exploration of embodiment, eros, and interconnectedness.
Zinnia Nomura is a Berlin-based dancer, choreographer, and circus artist. Machine (Un)learning is an interactive piece in which the audience uses an interface to send commands to the dancer.
Complete interactivity means that the audience determines the sequence and choreography of the dancer’s movements. This participative work raises questions about manipulation, power dynamics and our relationship to technology.
Eros is a contemporary show fairy who brings to the stage a delicious mixture of dark cosmic cabaret, ritual performance, and circus madness.
This ex-ballerina turned one person circus in a rebellious mixture of performance art that celebrated creating at the intersection of misunderstood identities.
Elie Love is a musician, producer, and fairy seducing you with pastoral ambient and indie pop hits.
Born and raised in Panama, she draws from memories of the jungle that are “colorful, ancient, and very queer”.
When she is not casting spells on stage, she can be found hosting the monthly emerging musician series ↗@queerbedroompop at ↗@tipsy_bear_berlin.
Her new EP ‘Heavens No’ drops June 5, with irresistible visions of the future of independent music.
LIADLAND is a musician, an artist, a perpetual migrant, a queer trash diva, and a master of the margins.
Her debut album ‚Nothing to Declare‘ is a reference to her lifetime of being a political activist with a big mouth, and a signifier of crossing borders between nations, identities, worlds, and trying to contain them all within oneself.
Coco Klein (he/they/she) is a Berlin-based artist, activist and entertainer.
With drag as their focus for the past decade, Coco believes that visibly queer art is more important in communities that don’t often get to experience it.
Coco has brought the magic of drag to the stages of some of the top music festivals around the world and is delighted to be joining the lineup at Blade this year!
Widerklang is a Berlin based choir which supports grassroot struggles and actions.
This includes anarchist, communist, queer-feminist, ecological, anti-racist, anti-fascist and decolonial movements.
We are a self-organized group. Our music is destined to empower us and people of the radical left.
Dornika is a genrefluid Iranian-American artist, activist, producer, and icon in Berlin’s vibrant underground queer scene.
Rocking fierce looks and powerful messages of resilience that shine through her art, Dornika fearlessly pushes boundaries, carving out her unique path, and empowering listeners to break free from societal norms surrounding gender, race, sex, and beauty.
Adam Munnings is a Tasmanian born multidisciplinary artist working as a director, photographer and co-founder / resident DJ of ↗@lunchboxcandy. His Dj career took off in Tokyo and he has since played in Seoul, New York, Australia and his current base Berlin.
Adam’s sound explores energetic EBM, nu-disco, bouncy techno, house and a sprinkle of trance. Adam is a proud member of the queer community and finds joy in bringing people together for sweaty dance floor euphoria.
Having danced from early childhood, music is always connected to dancing for Corey.
So Corey’s mixes are all about being danced and the people who dance in a shared space with as much variety as possible.
From bouncy house, breaking the beat to faster forward tech plays, it’s all mixed for feet, hips and beautiful souls to move.
With spherical and dark techno Crline brings emotions to the dance floors. She likes to let herself be carried by the mood of the night and prefers to act on it spontaneously and above all diversely.
As a member of the feminist collective ProZecco, she has learned not to be constricted by genre boundaries and therefore also likes to cross the dividing line between Techno and Trance and harder sounds.
Since 2021, she has been running the label Unusual Suspects ↗@unusualsuspects.label with DJ colleague ↗@ostbam_pl, which aims to support and emphasize the existence of smaller, localscene figures, who are working towards alternative solutions and with creative processes that have not yet been influenced by the expectations of huge labels, fans and all that comes with recognition.
Dexy’s Midnight is a young emerging DJ based in Berlin. Beginning mixing in late 2020, she entered the Berlin based underground label MITSU2000. This supported her in becoming a recognized artist behind the decks in the club landscape.
Expect vibrant and emotional, yet hard and fast mixes with a fine ear for the special something.
Bekka, loves it to roam through Berlin’s night life since her school days. In 2021 she and some friends decided to get more involved in the party scene of Berlin and together they founded Bambule Kollektiv.
With her uplifting disco house music, she has been since behind the decks of various clubs, open airs, bars and festivals in Germany, Switzerland and Thailand.
DJ Hyaluron is a stellar, promising and up-and-coming DJ from the depths of what Berlin has to offer.
In her sets she seamlessly combines bouncy techno tracks, breakbeat and electro and creates astonishing energies that effortlessly make the crowd move.
Next to performing for promoters like Synoid, DURCH and Jupiter4 she also appeared in known national clubs like ://about blank, OXI, RSO, Waschhaus Potsdam and Zoom Frankfurt and had international gigs in Switzerland and Israel.
For more than 20 years, Donna Knispel moves around widely in the electronic periphery. Her turntables rotate through dynamic soundscapes, built in clear line – from the floor to the floor
For several years, the Unkul e.V, the Symbiostic Kollektiv and Tresor (Globus) were Knipselchens homebase in Berlin. An invitation to “Pillenrealität” (congress for irrational competences, 2016-2019) at IFZ led her to move to Leipzig. The FLINTA* collective “No Show” she became part of opened up new horizons and perspectives. Other mixers and consoles also have nice buttons: sound and lighting technology in clubs have reignited her passion.
E2NMN is a young talented artist, originally from Madrid, and co-founder of “Warum nicht? Kollektiv“.
With E2NMN, a strong and positive vibration emerges alongside with joyful, hopeful and encouraging moods, a natural extension of her personality.
A wide spectrum of fast ravy sounds and hard acid techno amplifies Eyad‘s tonality.
Syrian born and raised and now Berlin based, he believes in the congeniality and energy that materializes when people come together in music and wants to convey and deliver this with his sets - hard and fast for togetherness and excess.
Atanaum grew up in Berlin‘s techno madness and draws his inspiration and creativity from the vibrant scene of his hometown.
His driving sound is influenced by hardstyle and trance of the 90s and finds its best expression in modern rave and hard techno music.
He recently released his first track on ↗@waxxarecords and ↗@parallel.label.
Her take off was at CSD Parade in 2022. As a member and Resident DJ of Sublime Collective, she aims to create lovely spaces of celebration, care and community.
Combining Italo Disco and trancy tunes she captivates you with an uplifting energetic vibe that inspires you to appreciate life in festive spirits.
Do you sense this feeling of getting nudged slightly on your hip by driving bass? Sounds like Fred just started his set.
Instead of delivering from unified sources, fun comes first topped off with a smacking groovey attitude. Buckle up for nitty gritty sound that pushes you onto the dance floor.
Inspired by today’s drive and spirit, G:ERROR (none) positions between many different sounds. Bringing the double K to the floor on high BPM’s (160++), pumping and playful noizy. Therefore their mixingstyle varies between Hardktekk, Tekno, Tribecore, Psy and Gabber.
G:ERROR is the founder of ULTRASCHALL /// // / // - a platform for marginalised sounds and their people based in Leipzig. ↗@ultraschall__
She cultivated her passion for electronic music in the hometown of Warsaw. After moving to Spain in 2016, she converted from a raver to a DJ the moment she started missing the harder face of music in the area she lived. Berlin, the current home-base, invited her to explore different styles and genres, to go outside of the comfort zone.
The ever-evolving music interests and love for rhythmic variety brought GOŚCIŃSKA to delve into various styles that she blends in her sets. Melting moody electro with groovy techno; breakbeat with 4x4 rhythms or smashing a techno set spiced up with acid, breaks, punk, D’n’B is what you can expect.
Crafting her performances around the concept of the event, the location and the time slot is what she pays careful attention to. High empathy and crowd connection is what makes GOŚCIŃSKA a versatile DJ full of revelations.
GOŚCIŃSKA is currently hosting a radio show on the London Aaja Music radio under the szlag project ↗@szlag.my.pitch.up, where she invites prominent electronic music artists to show their non-club music selection they never get to play in clubs, all the while promoting promising newcomers.
Working on the program and organization of her brainchild ↗@sfora_art is what she does when not behind the decks.
Dana aka GVEMEACD grew up in the Cologne-Bonn techno scene, where she experienced her first raves and DJ gigs. Influenced by her eclectic taste and lifestyle, she moved to Berlin.
Today she organizes her own music events and exhibitions as a member of the Berlin cultural collective [KoPf].
Dana loves to play with different styles. She has a preference for wild, driving rhythms combined with hypnotic and snappy sounds, as well as vocal and acid elements.
Hippolyte is french DJ based in Berlin who found his passion for music at an early age. He first started to play the guitar and the bass, doing concerts in Paris.
After a few years he decided to move to Berlin, started DJing and co-founded ↗@warumnicht_kollektiv,a music collective dedicated to promoting upcoming talents.
On the decks he likes to mix genres, from hard groove to hard techno going through trance, breakbeat and much more. You can expect a dreamy, nostalgic and yet joyful vibe from his sets.
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JĀST started to play drums at the age of six and collected music his whole life. After moving to Berlin in 2016 the techno scene immediately captivated him to start his journey as a DJ.
His set ranges from percussive and groovy over hard and industrial to acid and rave techno. His sets blend and layer different elements of the genres to create a sound that becomes much more than the sum of its parts.
They are a Berlin-based DJ duo consisting of Macedonian musician/creative producer Katerinha and Kenyan newcomer Njeri. Their sound is an energetic blend of afro house, garage, breaks, house and eclectic club sounds from the global South. The newly formed duo have a monthly residency on Refuge Worldwide and have played at several Berlin and international queer & FLINTA parties.
As well as being a booker, creative producer and curator, Katerinha (she/her) performs as a bass player, DJ, guitarist and singer. With a couple of years of building her creative network and exploring her sound, Katerinha’s songs can be described as a soulful crossover of R’n’B, jazz and pop. Her DJ sets however are a full-on club workout session with heavy percussion, bass and southern rhythms.
Njeri (she/her) is a Kenyan newcomer DJ/ fashion entrepreneur based in Berlin. Experienced raver and club music connoisseur with a weak spot for neoclassical and film score music. She’s the founder of the new event series “Mazuri” in her hometown Nairobi, one of the rare events focussing on FLINTA DJs and offering open decks to newcomer DJs in Nairobi. Her sets include Afro house, House, Garage, Drum & Bass and a determination to get you grooving.
Leyla is a Berlin-based artist with Moroccan roots and found her way into the EDM scene when she was 15 years old. With only a DDJ 400 and a big heart for underground raves, Leyla established herself in the underground rave scene since 2021.
Beyond being an advocate of warehouse and progressive techno, Leyla takes part in the body positive club scene of Berlin.
Materia Hache is that silence that opens for constant change: it is Queer, it is Techno, it is House; it is what is born from fear, distance and uncertainty; it is all that is tried to be kept invisible while from the underground we answer with rhythms that displace us, that question us, that turn us into only one matter, for a few moments, more loudly than any given form.
From their collective ↗@otherstothefront they fight to create a dancefloor that deserves to be danced, giving visibility and voice to the FLINTA & BIPOC community.
Melania . hails from Poland and fuels her sets is a hunger for new sounds and surprising juxtapositions that expand beyond genre’s boundaries.
Aiming for a highly dynamic, fast-turning sound, she’s not shy of sweeping epic moments and bass mutations, confidently blending in breakbeat and drum & bass between big room heavy beats.
She’s based in Berlin, but helds a residency ↗@projekt_lab in Poznań and is part of the Parisian crew RAW.
Melania . has performed in Europe’s major cities, but also appearing everywhere from Seoul through Beirut to New York.
MIU LING (she/her), a korean DJ based in Freiburg, Germany, loves to play dark, groovy, hypnotic hard techno. Leading the crowd from dystopian atmosphere to kitschy closing with all its ups and downs.
After kicking off at the Nation of Gondwana Festival near Berlin, she has played at various events in Switzerland and Germany.
Ostbam started DJing thanks to a workshop in 2015, shortly after she moved from Poland to Dresden. Growing up in Gdańsk had a huge influence on her current style, which is a mixture of industrial, acid and hard techno, often varied with oldschool hardcore, gabber or even happy hardcore.
Shortly after the workshop, Ostbam and few other people have started ↗@prozecco_ - a feminist DJ collective focusing on workshops and supporting young and unknown FINTA* DJs in Saxony.
Around 2017 she moved to Leipzig and slowly established her style while performing in various clubs across Germany (f.i. ://about blank, Institut fuer Zukunft, objekt klein a, Mensch Meier).
Due to pandemic she has focused more on exploring different genres and perceptions of music by launching her and Crline’s label called ↗@unusualsuspects.label, and highlighting harsher music styles such as breakcore or even black metal on her bi-monthly radio show called CROSSING BORDERS on hallo:radio.
PEGAH is a German-Iranian, Producer, Dj and Label Owner (Ort & Zeit) based in Munich and Berlin. Born in Iran and emigrated to Germany in 2013, she started her music journey in 2020.
PEGAH merges emotional melodies with house and techno beats which builds sonic bridges between her place of birth and the here and now. Her sound will take you on an inspiring journey.
REZA is a DJ newcomer from Halle. She is a part of the techno collective ↗@wachsalon and member of ↗@connectrumhalle.
For a long time REZA was surrounded by people mixing techno sound. This inspired her a little over a year ago to actually make herself and share the music she celebrates instead of only dancing to it. REZA plays fast and hard techno.
Røttnmeier is a Leipzig based DJ, who started her journey in 2016. She is part of ↗@exlepaeng_ collective and resident DJ at the ↗@distillery_leipzig.
Røttnmeier evolved her sound to become driving and dark Techno. Her sets are heavily influenced by the energy from the crowd and create an atmosphere that invites everyone to feel free, to let go!
From groovy to speedy —
that’s s-ray’s motto.
Originated from house music, she combines today styles such as Hard Groove, Trance and Eurodance.
s-ray’s sound is all about high energy, happy vibes, and a pinch of pop.
subutex stands for fast paced techno, acoustic excitement and rave as a mutual expression of freedom.
He is always in search for extraordinary sonic textures and polyrhythmic grooves.
subutex blends different percussive layers together to create a complex yet impulsive signature sound.
Trancy aka Trancemaster Krause is an upcoming artists straight outta east Germany (Halle) & gets you in a mood you never thought you needed it.
His thriving energy and fast pace are electrifying and uplift the dance floor to an experience of another kind.
“Fastpaced Pop Edits, Super Viby Trance, Oldschool Hard House & Hard Trance is the key to a piece of luck!” ~ Trancy
In 2020 under_pleasure was born out of of friendship and passion for
electronic bass&tech&freight train house music.
After hard times of sleepless nights, nonstop cuddling, dealing with outburst of fury and insecurity we proudly raised a confident cool kid which invites everybody to circle their hips and to connect with their inner mackers.
under_pleasure tears down the wall between underground pop and clandestine mainstream, boosts your ego, clashes your self-pity and gives space for pleasure without pressure!
Vivi Wahnsinn was dragged to the dancefloor unintentionally but found herself disappointed as none of the performing artists quite matched her taste at full scale. So without thinking twice, she threw herself into the art of djing to develop her very own style and to please fellow dancers.
By creating her distinct approach to house music, she was soon booked to various events at Odonien in her hometown Cologne, Nachtigall or Kit Kat in Berlin, just to name a few.
Her style is best described as dirty, bouncy Tech House laced with catchy vocal edits. Playing a wide range from minimalistic house to absolute G House bangers, she is always able to hold the energy on a very high level in a little bit trashy, little bit nasty way. Same as lemons being sour-sweet but you can’t get enough of it.
If you cannot find her behind the decks on her own, she is probably heating things up as a part of ↗@latzundleder.
Driving, hard beats interwoven with trancy melodies - her tracks are catchy as well as unconventional.
In Xynia’s DJ sets she creates a pulsating union of early Hardstyle classics and modern productions. An invitation to forget yourself in the moment, to follow the stomp of your feet. Without compromise, she takes dancers on a journey.
With performances across Europe, including ↗@possessiontechno and ↗@themeaningofrave, she has long ceased to be an insider tip.
Zoanthropiia (she/her) born and raised in Donetsk (Ukraine) and once again raised in Berlin. She started discovering electronic music in Berlin when she moved to germany in 2013.
She started by mixing funky & afro house and continued with various genres of techno, including melodic, rave and trance.
Today, her sound comprises of driving baseline and punchy beat companied by space melody that is grooving on off-beat percussion.