Atonal 2025 / The place is the space
Berlin Atonal closed its latest edition just weeks ago, leaving behind more than a festival of electronic music and experimental art. Returning from the city, clarity emerged: this year was a meditation on Berlin itself—its history, its architecture, its ghosts. More than performances or installations, Atonal revealed how a space becomes alive, how risk defines art, and how presence transforms encounter.
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/by Editor NastySleep Walker
Half-dream, half-commute. Somewhere between the sharp edges of city life and the soft folds of sleep. She floats through the morning rush like a misplaced thought. In her daze, the absurd becomes routine, and routine becomes performance. A story by Zhong Feng and Sica.
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/by Editor NastySonic Portals / Twin Tribes
Ahead of their gig in Milan on Tuesday September 23rd a conversation with Luis Navarro and Joel Niño Jr. on their duality as bandmates, their obsessions with mysticism and mortality, and the rituals that keep their live performances alive night after night.
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/by Editor NastyDanza Tribale / Lo.Sai’s Conceptual Debut
Danza Tribale enters a new era with MAITAKE 舞茸, a release that pushes the label beyond the club into a communal and embodied space. Crafted by Lo.Sai, a classically trained pianist, double bassist, and composer turned sonic explorer, the five-track work dissolves boundaries between percussion, voice, and movement.
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/by Editor NastyThe Smoky Essence Of Roots / Vlada Coxx & The Brvtalist
Art, food, and music collide with activism. From preserving Ukrainian identity and traditions to curating cultural happenings in Kyiv that merge community and creativity, Vlada Coxx’s work emerges as an act of resilience in motion.
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/by Editor NastyI Dream Of Wires / Gary Numan
In advance of his upcoming Telekon tour we share a catchup held with Gary Numan in the aftermath of his co-headlining tour with Ministry. No further introduction necessary.
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/by Editor NastyPyramid Ibiza / Clubbing Returns To Instinct
As Ibiza spins into spectacle, filters, and pre-choreographed chaos, Amnesia remains defiantly raw, primal and soulfully intact. In a season where other clubs chase content, Amnesia offers something infinitely rarer: communion. The freedom to move, feel, disappear. And at the heart of this rebellion beats Pyramid, Amnesia’s flagship underground Sunday, a weekly ritual for those who know. It doesn’t shout for attention. It calls to your instincts.
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Faces shift in and out of focus, never settling on one shape. Identity doesn’t arrive all at once. It drifts, multiplies, contradicts. There’s freedom in the refusal to stay fixed. A series photographed byCullen Blanchfield.
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/by Editor NastyFinding Home / Innellea
Innellea is a leading force in the new wave of melodic techno. Rising from Munich with releases on Afterlife, Diynamic, and Innervisions, he’s known for cinematic, emotive soundscapes and sets that blend euphoria with raw human depth.
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/by Editor NastyRoad to Outloud Festival / 2025
OUTLOUD Festival launches in Turin on September 20, 2025. Created Outcast Collective and international partner Loud-Contact, the event brings 40+ electronic music artists to the Bunker, including clubbing legends and emerging DJs across six stages. A highlight on the Turin electronic music calendar.
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/by Editor NastyEmbrace / Klára Hosnedlová & Anna-Catharina Gebbers
A dynamic and multilayered dialogue with the artist and curator unfolds around the new site-specific installation commissioned by Chanel, on view until October 26. The work reshapes the cold, industrial immensity of the Hamburger Bahnhof’s historic hall into a terrain at once tactile and intimate.
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/by Editor NastyThe Night, La Nuit / Lust for Paper
A bilingual collection of poems in English and French, its title alludes to the brief span of time the two singers, poets, and at the time even romantic partners, Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine, spent weaving these verses together.
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/by Editor NastyThe Form that Listens / Road to SPATIAL Festival
Design becomes presence—beyond objects, it lives and breathes with us. In Saal 1 with MONOM and 4DSOUND, Benjamin Paulin extends Pierre Paulin’s vision: furniture vibrates, space resonates, and the body discovers new ways of inhabiting. Design here is a living tool for memory, sensation, and transformation.
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/by Editor NastyPages Engraved in Time and Ink / Veins Books
Veins Books returns to Milan on the 13th and 14th of September, filling Via Cosimo del Fante with rare, underground volumes that carry traces of countercultural stories consumed far from the mainstream light, immersed in the gloom of the underground.
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/by Editor NastyStar Chronicle / Jeff Mills
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.
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/by Editor NastyAhead Of Basilar / Fadi Mohem As Four Lovers
A resident at Berghain, a core part of Hard Wax, and more recently at Open Ground, he returns this week to Basilar Festival — taking place September 11–14 in the forest of Barragem da Queimadela, Portugal.
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/by Editor NastyFlying Flea / Paris Design Week 2025
On 6 and 7 September, at L’École Duperré, during Paris Design Week 2025, Flying Flea, Royal Enfield’s new electric motorcycle brand, presents a series of installations and creative collaborations that bring together emerging talent and established designers
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/by Editor NastyInto a Blind Emptiness / She Past Away
Buried in shadows and driven by the tension of East and West, She Past Away crafts a world where repetition and restraint conjure both trance and unease. In this conversation, the Turkish darkwave duo traces their journey from the underground pulse of Istanbul to the danceable melancholy of Disko Anksiyete, revealing how language, ritual, and cultural fracture shape their music.
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/by Editor NastyJust Another Day
A rhythm of light and concrete. Things fall into place without trying, perfectly in between: long shadows, heavy fabrics, something slick in the silence. A fashion story by Eric Terrey.
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/by Editor NastyLake Hideaway / Cape of Senses
Luxury whispers at Garda Lake. Sun, scent, and taste merge into a sensory escape a place to slow down, dwell in silence allowing body and mind to rediscover their rhythm.
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/by adminTo Inhabit the Invisible / Ahead of Spatial Festival
At SPATIAL Festival in Berlin, September 12–14, 2025, sound becomes a space we inhabit. With 4DSOUND, co-founded by Poul Holleman, listening transforms into architecture, a collective presence, a body, a home — reshaping how we perceive, feel, and connect. It is an invitation to dwell within the invisible.
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/by Editor NastyThreshold of Discomfort / Fujimine’s Rituals of Violence
A dense and immersive sonic descent through violence and transformation. In eight fractured compositions, Fujimine sculpts a ritual space for identity to collapse and reassemble, haunted by ambient dread, metallic dissonance, and the ghosts of industrial rhythm.
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/by Editor NastySoundscapes vol.12 / Silent Servant
Organised emotional response to isolation, selected by the American techno DJ and producer John Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant.
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.103 | Stingray 313
A selection from Detroit born, Berlin based Sherard Ingram aka DJ Stingray 313 one of the strongest presence in the world of techno for over twenty years now who's focus is playing and producing futuristic, science & technology oriented tracks.
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/by adminSama’ AbdulHadi / Sound Escape
In conversation with Sama’ AbdulHadi, the Palestinian DJ delves into the controversies about being a global artist and at the same time profoundly attached to her origins, supporting her heritage’s music scene. Coming along with a selection of some of her preferred tracks of the moment by some of her favorite producers for our latest Soundscapes release.
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