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Ambassador Award 2023 - KUJU Studio from Kosovo for the "Best Art Production of the Year"

Patch festival: THE MUST-ATTEND TECHNO EVENT OF 2023

The countdown has begun for PATCH Festival , set to take place at Napoleon Komplex  in Berlin , Germany on May 26-27, 2023. Prepare to be engulfed by non-stop beats and unparalleled energy that only techno music can deliver. Part 1 - Melodic Techno / Techno:  The festival launches on Friday, May 26th, with a stellar lineup of exceptional melodic techno and techno DJs. As the night unfolds, the crowd will groove to the electrifying sounds of Alex Stein, AM.I, Crusy, Darin Epsilon, Denise Schneider, Jengi, Lovra, Miss Monique, and VONDA7. Doors open at 8:00 PM, igniting a dance marathon that will last until 8:00 AM the next morning.  Part 2 - Open Air:  On Saturday, May 27th, PATCH Festival moves outdoors for an enchanting open-air experience, featuring some of the most exciting techno artists of the moment. From 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM, the audience will be captivated by the masterful performances of Thomas Schumacher, Jil Tanner, Pascal Voltaire, VABU B2B Davide, and Vlad Yaki Part

The spring edition of the legendary Time Warp festival returns

After a four-year break, the spring edition of T ime Warp festival is returning to its home in Mannheim, Germany on April 1st.  This year's event will feature 19 hours of music on 6 dance floors, with over 40 headliners including world-famous DJs such as Sven Vath, Adam Beyer, Amelie Lens, Richie Hawtin, Charlotte de Witte, Nina Kraviz, The Martinez Brothers, Paul Temple, Ricardo Vilalobos, Marco Carola, Seth Troxler, and Dixon. The festival is being held in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is expected to attract partygoers from all over the world.  Time Warp is celebrating its 30th birthday soon and has become one of the most iconic techno festivals in the world. The festival had its first edition in 1994 in Ludwigshafen and moved to Mannheim the following year.  Since 2000, Mannheim has been the festival's home and a must-visit destination for techno enthusiasts. Year after year, the festival sells out, and visitors come from all over the world to experience the ele

Ensomnia Club | This weekend's schedule

Another weekend full of el ectronic music waits for us at Ensomnia Club . 🤩🎶❤️ Ensomnia is a new club in Prishtina , in front of the Youth and Sports Center and Newborn. The young founder of Ensomnia is very much into electronic music. 😍😍🎶❤️  You can listen to: techno, house, tech house, minimal, deep house, hard techno, hard house, Psy, Progressive House, and Ambient, on the dancefloor of Ensomnia. 😍😍 Everyone can find themselves at Ensomnia. 😊 Just come to dance!  Since the opening of the club, they brought well-known artists, like: Rikhter , D.Carbone , Lorenzo Ragazini .  Ensomnia supports every local and regional artist, hosting them on their regular lineups!  Their support towards the electronic music culture in Kosovo is welcome and appreciated. 💓😊  Here's the lineup for the weekend: Suit yourself! 😊 TONIGHT, Friday, November 18 Tadi   • Matale   • Mal   • Basswell SATURDAY, November 19 Secret 47 • Noki • Blanco   Let's dance!! 🙌💜

Let's dance together at Euphoria VI !!

We're getting closer and closer to the  SATURDAY NIGHT RAVE  (05.11.2022) w/  Nico Moreno  •  Moia  •  Likatek  •  Loren  •  Liburn , at the basketball court of  REZONANCA  high school, organized by  Euphoria .  The lucky techno lovers who won tickets on the TICKET GIVEAWAY we organized in collab with Euphoria , will be on the dancefloor, dancing to techno and making memories. 😍🖤💚😊 Giveaways are a great opportunity to learn to share and support each other, to experience how it feels to share. We share with each other so we can be together on the dancefloor , sharing moments. ❤️😊 We love sharing!!  Dancing to the music of the artists that Euphoria brings will enrich you with a proper techno rave experience.  Events like this keep techno alive! These are the lucky techno lovers who won tickets to Euphoria VI : Keisi Kondakciu & Eno Mario Piselli Ardian Fetahu & Mehmet Beqiri  See ya on the dancefloor! 🖤  

Euphoria VI on 05. NOV 2022 in Prishtina, Kosovo

The youth non-governmental organization " Euphoria " is organizing the sixth edition of the techno event on November 5th, 2022 at a brand new location in Prishtina. According to the founder of the " Euphoria " organization, Val Hoxha , last year's edition resulted in an unexpected number of visitors, which for him is a great motive for organizing techno events and promoting techno music in Kosovo. "The attendance at last year's techno event was unexpectedly big. Every year more and more new generations come. This gives my team the will to continue promoting the techno genre in Kosovo" - Val Hoxha. Line up for this event: Nico Moreno  from France, German artist  Moia , regional artist Loren from Albania and local support by Likatek and Liburn . The location is Rezonanca High School basketball court (see below): Tickets from 3. October to 16. October -  €10 From 17th October to 30. October -    €12 Come join us and dance!  See yaa!

Techno event "Euphoria V" on 6. MAY 2022 in Prishtina, Kosovo

The youth ngo from Ferizaj, " Euphoria ", opens its doors to the first rave , after two pandemic years when stopped the organizations of massive music events. The fifth edition of the techno event has been announced for May 6th and will take place at the very new location, a warehouse 5km from Pristina.  Line up:  Niki Istrefi - [Euromantic , Sacred Court]  WNDRLST - [Occult Rhythms, Sacred Court]  Vaisanen - [Abyss]  Uran B. - [Hapësira]  Vegim - [TMMR]  Pre-sale ticket price from 10 euros until April 28 You can buy tickets at Prisitna in Servis Fantazia The number of tickets is limited.  If you need taxi transportation use Trip Taxi 044 10 10 50  See you at the rave!

In Croatia, the easing of epidemiological measures has been announced

 "We have always paid attention to the balance between the economy, social life and epidemiological measures that allow the epidemic to be kept under control as much as possible. All that remains are a few measures. What we can do is increase the number of people at gatherings. indoor) or 100 (in the open), we will now increase it to 100 or 200, and with COVID certificates the number will be unlimited, but everyone should adhere to epidemiological measures, "said the director of the CNIPH Krunoslav Capak. For the time being, the catering facilities are only open until midnight, but changes could be introduced in that sector as well. "We are thinking of extending that time because it allows nightclubs, slot machine clubs and so on longer working hours. It will probably be in two hours. It is also being discussed and a decision will be made in the next 24 to 48 hours," he said. Sport and culture are also in the new mitigation package "We will make some concession

Berlin: The Love Parade returns in the heart of summer after a 16-year pause

 The last Love Parade in Berlin was held in 2006 with 1.2 million visitors , and the last Love Parade in general was held in 2010 in Duisburg with tragic consequences. Love Parade was a big, colorful celebration of electronic music and techno culture . Millions of people from all over the world gathered to dance on the streets of Berlin. Get involved and help with a donation to hold the Rave The Planet Parade on July 9, 2022. What remains, what will change? What remains the same is that the organizers are calling for demonstrations. Demonstrations are for the same values that brought the participants of the Love Parade to the streets: love, peace, friendship, solidarity, diversity, respect and of course music, music, music. There will be a parade through Berlin that presents a diverse variety of electronic music. What is changing is, for example, the name. The new parade is called "Rave The Planet Parade" . This takes over the original vision of the Love Parade, that one da

Das - Identidades EP [Dissolved Mind Records]

Identidades is an album by the artist Das , creator of the label Dissolved Mind , in which he tells us through 2 tracks a way to develop a sound, a growth and a constant change in it.  This album is joined by Tabo (Agustin Taborda Lucchini), an artist who stands out for his strong and heavy bases, with a remix of all these characteristics and at the same time hypnotic, and on the other hand Russ (Nicolas Maximiliano) with a more rhythmic and percussive track.  You can listen to Identidades EP by DAS, buy your copy   and give support to artists and label   HERE !!!

Techno night “House Of God“ in new museum exhibition in Birmingham, England

 Captured by legendary photographer Terence Donovan, who spent a night at Que Club in 1996 , the exhibition is to take place in April 2022 at Birmingham’s Museum & Art Gallery. Terence was famous for photographing royalty and legends such as Princess Diana and Jimi Hendrix, and was introduced to Club Que by his son and DJ Dan Donovan .  Stepping out of his comfort zone, he captured the scene, which a special motive for normal, everyday people to let go, dance and enjoy themselves. Jez Collins, curator of the forthcoming In The Que exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, discovered the photos while interviewing Wishart for a documentary about Que Club. Ten of the 65 images will be included in the exhibition, which opens on April 28th. "It's an amazing find after all these years," Collins told the Guardian. "This was an important place for people, and it's been captured by one of the greatest British photographers of the time." Opened in 1

Sven Väth to curate exhibition at the opening of Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) in 2022

 On 6th April 2022, the Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) will be ceremoniously opened in Frankfurt .  Located directly in the heart of the main city at the Hauptwache, the museum will present the exhibition “Sven Väth – It’s simple to tell what saved us from hell” ; a collaboration between close friends Sven Väth and Tobias Rehberger. “There is no better opening exhibition for MOMEM, because Sven Väth and Tobias Rehberger have each, in their own way, taken electronic music culture from Frankfurt to the world.” - said  Alex Azary , director of  MOMEM. The records, photographs, flyers, films, sounds, and Väth’s private art collection serve as the hub and starting point for this journey through electronic music culture ’s shared past since the late 1980s. The opening of the MOMEM , which is dedicated to the documentation, processing and switching of this cultural history of electronic music , will be celebrated naturally with a large public party with Sven Väth on 08.04.2021. [

Sountrakcs of "The Matrix Resurrections" also includes techno artists

Numerous Berlin techno artists have made remixes for the music of the long-awaited sequel to The Matrix Resurrections. The original music for the movie  'The Matrix Resurrections'  was created by electronic music artist  Johnny Klimek , director, and composer of Run Lola Run - Tom Tykwer. The duo has been working through the partnership for almost 25 years, and they were nominated for an Oscar for their work.  In addition to the original score, the list includes 35 songs and numerous remixes by influential DJs, including German techno artists Marcel Dittmann, Gudrun Gut and System 01. Techno producer, Marcel Dittmann, contributed a remix of "My Dream Ended Here" to the forthcoming soundtrack. [source]  

Books about techno culture in Poland

Techno was celebrated with thousands of fans and ravers not only in Germany or England in the 90s, but also in Poland.  The book “30 Years of the Polish Techno Scene” and an techno exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw this year 2021  were dedicated to the history of the scene. You can read more about crowdfunding, and donate to the project, here.  Now, with the book “Technowulkan” by Bartłomie Kluska , another work is published that explores the background of Polish techno and focuses on techno parades that took place in the city of Łódź.  The techno scene in Poland was very divided in the 90s  While genres like house and techno predominated in the capital, the scene in Krakow was dedicated to reggae, garage and jungle, while in Łódź it was mostly happy hardcore, jungle and dnb.  Then a team of DJs from Łódź gathered around the underground organization New Alcatraz (a community of artists associated with Club New Alcatraz) and created a revolutionary festival of club cultu

The history of French techno is explored in new documentary

A new documentary by Laurent Garnier: Off the Record exploring the origins and rise of techno music.   The documentary explores these themes from the perspective of Laurent Garnier, French DJ and producer, and is directed by Gabin Rivoire.  Garnier was instrumental in techno’s rise within Paris and Manchester , frequenting the Hacienda and other venues that contributed to the success of techno worldwide. This documentary immerses the audience in the world of techno music by following one of the most emblematic figures of this culture.  The emerging director Gabin Rivoire convinced Laurent Garnier to give him complete and never before seen personal and professional access for the past three years. [ source ] 

Ben Klock, Fadi Mohem & Helmut Breineder - new audio-visual collaboration: CERN

Ben Klock, Fadi Mohem & Helmut Breineder present CERN , their first audio-visual collaboration, exploring the new possibilities of blockchain technology.  The digital art piece showcases an exclusive 1 minute track by techno artist Ben Klock & rising producer Fadi Mohem , focusing on the classic TR-909 drum machine, the quintessential techno instrument, chopped and bent to sound like a heavy-hitting bouncing ball.  The futuristic music is being fed into Helmut Breineders audio responsive particle system to generate a fluid digital sculpture with multiple collisions.  Their first NFT is limited to an edition of one and will be auctioned via Foundation – the same marketplace used by the likes of Aphex Twin, Holly Herndon and Edward Snowden. Find out more HERE . [ source ]

Various artist - Neurotwin EP [ART21]

 ART21 (Artists Resistance Techno) is an artistic guerrilla on a system that oppresses us.  This unique music collective gathered around the imprint includes some prolific underground names such as Vortex Count, Translate, Pulso, Aural Research, Droneghost, David Bowman, Animatek, and many more.  Now ART21 has a new release created with the goal to raise awareness of certain diseases, and the name of the compiled release is Neurotwin.  In the fight against Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and other diseases characterized by an imbalance in neuronal activity, there are chemical weapons, such as those that try to prevent the protein fragments known as b eta-amyloid plaques from developing in the cerebral cortex, and physical, such as electrical stimulation that allow restoring the functionality of brain cells.  This last resort, which has already been shown to be effective in modifying the activity of the cerebral cortex, is today a weapon of general intervention. Converting it

Monika Kruse - Hidden Love EP [Terminal M]

Monika Kruse returns to her Terminal M imprint with Hidden Love EP. Hidden Love is a 3 tracks EP on which she expresses different moods of techno .  “Hidden Love” kicks the EP off with a warm acid groove, deep strings, and trippy vocal snippets.  Equally deep and dancefloor-friendly, a groover for the soulful moments of the dancefloor. „Latex“ presents a trippy and monotone drumming sequence that is screwing into your brain with a big climax.  Finally „Blue Elephant“ is combining a dark atmosphere with an uplifting dreamful break . [ source ]

Jeff Mills at Scope event on 10. July 2021 - Jarun, Croatia

 Future Scope opened the outdoors season last Saturday, June 5, and despite strict measures, held a party at Jarun during the day and night from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Senno & Sin, Jock & Shipe, te Dax J. performed that night.  And while we look forward to the relaxation and normalization of the situation, Future Scope is announcing, again at Jarun, Jeff Mills for Saturday, July 10th at 5 p.m.  For Jeff Mills , who has stood out a lot in recent years by creating space-inspired music, it is not necessary to say anything too much, because the character and the work speak for themselves.  See you on July 10 at Jarun :) 

Dax J - Utopian Surrealism [Monnom Black]

 Techno artist from Great Britain, Dax J has announced his third studio album "Utopian Surrealism" Inspired by the book “ Sapiens ” by Yuval Noah Harari , the British techno artist composed his latest album while in quarantine. Its ten strips reflect our transition to the dystopian age.  The album " Utopian Surrealism " will be released by his record label " Monnom Black " in August. Dax J's previous two albums, as well as all of his EP releases in the last three years, arrived through "Monnom Black", the record label he launched in 2013, reports the Klubskascena portal.  Dax J was performing last Saturday 5th June 2021 at Zagreb at Future Scope event.  Watch below the video for "Universal Future Sound" [ source ]

Vegim & Flekitza - Theory and Motion EP [Alhena]

During the pandemic in 2020, when everything changed, including our way of life, Vegim was busy creating a new techno label Alhena where you can dive deeper into pure creativity of new patterns of techno culture.  An Abstract Techno label from Outer Space!  Alhena is the second imprint of Vegim .  Label is focused on dark, hypnotic, raw techno.  Artworks for covers of EPs are always linked with the whole story of that release.  The first release was Kobalt - Structural Abnormalities EP It was released in April 2020. The second one Theory and Motion EP ,was released on 4th June 2021 by Vegim and Flekitza . https://alhenarecords.bandcamp.com/   https://www.facebook.com/alhenarecords https://www.beatport.com/label/alhena-records/44126 Vegim & Flekitza - Theory and Motion EP [Alhena] Artist : Vegim & Flekitza Name EP : Theory and Motion EP Label : Alhena Records Release Dat e: 04. Jun 2021 1. Intro 2. Motion 3. Theory 4. Devils Monologue 5. Awareness The second release on Alh