It’s been 3 weeks, and I’m still vibrating - still a little incredulous about playing live at Kater Blau, a venue that has been on my bucket list since it was still called Kater Holzig. It’s home to so many great artists I admire, a place that has long extended its magic beyond Berlin’s borders, and I am so honored to have had the opportunity to fill it with my music. 

I’ve been thinking about putting my live set together for a long time, so when the opportunity to premier it at Kater knocked on my door, it was crunch time. 2 months to conceptualize, dissect, render, rehearse - most of that time was spent on figuring out what doesn’t work. Many times I thought about changing to a DJ-Set instead, but ultimately, and last minute as always, I got to a point where I felt comfortable enough to take it out of my little garage studio here in Brooklyn all the way to my home country’s capital. 

These two hours on the Heinz Hopper floor went by lightning fast, and it all feels a little dreamlike still. Of course it wouldn’t be a live set without a few hiccups here and there (see if you can spot my „launching a whole scene, instead of just one clip“-mistake in the early part of the set haha), but I think that’s what makes it come alive in the first place. I learned so much from this experience, and got back to my studio/garage with plenty of ideas on how to grow from here. I want this to be a malleable work-in-progress, evolving together with me - unique, non-repeatable, moment-capturing, responsive, alive. 

Thank you to everyone to came out and got hot and sweaty with me on the hottest weekend in Berlin, literally and figuratively. A warm welcome indeed.
Thanks to all the artists who were involved in this event - you inspire me, you make me push myself, you made this weekend one for the books!
Thanks of course to @kater_blau - everyone was so welcoming, easy-going - so much love in this place. 
Thanks to @janosch-ulm for a smooth soundcheck and for turning it up.

And THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart to @caleesi and @sarahkreis - without you I wouldn’t write this post. Thanks for your support, your artistic input, your endless drive to make magic happen. I’m so glad I met you and to be able to call you my friends.

Event by @circlesandstones
Artwork by @ferrygoodfella
Mastered by @metatext

Deisen *live @ Kater Blau | Circles and Stones Summer Solstice 2022

"Schnecknostelze" und "Diskolocke" als Abgesandte der Faultierdisko auf dem Fusion Festival 2022. Das Mittwoch-Closing auf dem Sonnendeck.
Danke an 3000Grad für die Einladung sowie natürlich an alle fleißigen Tänzer:innen <3 <3 <3
es war uns ein Kirschblütenfest!

Stelzenläufer: 
@stelzenlaeufermusic
https://www.instagram.com/stelzenlaufer/

Lockige Ostsee: 
@sattlord
https://www.instagram.com/lockige_ostsee/

Musik von:
@sydkasd @amorati-music @petergroskreutz @djshai-t @theoddness @joe-carl   @milos-bulajic @sanoimusik @detmolt @cedrework @karmonmusik @davidpuron @alifarahaniofficial @marc-depulse @solatic @nicon-dantze @dirtydoering @endagallerymusic @recodemusic @brigadeberlin @lazare12  @ryanhaeng  @naregmusic @matijaweiss  @richardelcox @kalahamoon  @ueberhaupt_ausserdem @reyneke @rigopolar

Faultierdisko @ Fusion Festival 2022 Sonnendeck

Many thanks to the wonderful @fernab-berlin crew for letting me play on your beautiful floor. And of course a huge thank you to all the beach babes who shared this magical moment with me.

Much Love, 
L.

LENI | Fusion Festival 2022 | FreiKörperKüste

🎵 Soso Klein b2b Domjan [ at ] Chateau Perché festival 2023 - Le Cèdre Olympien Stage Closing[ Live - Special ] 🎵

The fantastic dj duo https://soundcloud.com/soso-klein and https://soundcloud.com/eldomjan recorded an stunning closing set at the Chateau Perché Festival 2023. This Mix is for true a gem and includes an wide range of different downtempo music faraway from here and now. Made for an afterhour.


Recording date: 8.07.2023, from 5am-8am & +++.
Venue: Chateau Perché Festival 2023 
https://www.facebook.com/ChateauPercheFestival
https://www.instagram.com/chateauperchefestival/

+++ Interview +++
✔️ What are your musical influences?

Sophie:  I come from a family where classical music was always played and listened to, and  I played  piano & harp during my childhood. I later discovered electronic music, then downtempo music from Germany, and immediately loved it. Today, Ninze and his project Wide Awake are a main source of inspiration for me, but I like to mix different genres in my DJ-Sets.

Damien: I was mainly a huge fan of the 60-70 psychedelic rock or progressive rock but I also loved the blues, soul, disco or Spanish flamenco or French and Italian singer/songwriter. I wanted to be a rockstar at 14 years old and started playing the guitar and the piano. I ended up being a DJ and had the opportunity to play in nice venues. Cool! :)

✔️ What do you think makes a good after-hours?

Being able to offer some change in the dynamic of the party. Giving a fresh air and a new perspective to people to enjoy music in a different way. In our opinion it is often at the end of the parties that the dance floor kinda have a nice unique vibe where you feel that the crowd is really united. 

✔️ What thoughts would you like to share with us about the gig?

It might sound a bit cheesy like those motivation speeches you can hear or read on the internet but in this case we kind of feel it this way. Doing a set together is not always easy, but in the end we really loved the result because it reflects both of us and we really managed to overlap the songs in a very coherent storyline.

It was awesome since we played this set exactly one year to the day after our first b2b at Kitkat Club in Berlin. It was a great honour and pleasure to be reunited again behind the decks to play for the closing of the main stage " Le Cèdre Olympien" at Chateau Perché Festival in France. We would like to thanks all the dancers who made the ride with us and stayed until the early hours of the morning, Christian Kahl for the invitation,  and the Kamiwaza crew for building this amazing stage. And last but not least, we thank Afterhours sounds for including this memorable set in your wonderful Podcast serie. MERCI <3 We hope you can enjoy this recording. 


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Fotocredits: Chateau Perché Festival

© artwork by Jim aka J.Wockenfuss ➲ contact ✉jim@gartn.xyz

Text by arkadiusz. 

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SoSo Klein ( fernab / Berlin, Germany)
https://soundcloud.com/soso-klein
https://www.instagram.com/soso__klein/
https://www.facebook.com/sosokleinmusic/

Domjan:
https://soundcloud.com/eldomjan

fernab Kollektiv:
https://soundcloud.com/fernab-berlin
https://soundcloud.com/eldomjan
https://soundcloud.com/fernab-berlin



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Soso Klein b2b Domjan [ at ] Chateau Perché festival 2023 - Le Cèdre Olympien Stage Closing

Hej lovelies,
here is the Set that I played last Saturday on the Acid Bogen Floor at Kater Blau. My urge to play downtempo grew a lot the past time. I was missing this deep vibe, that is not obviously pushing you, but welcomes you with open arms, so you can fall, fall, fall. So I tried to stay on one of my favorite Tempos "109BPM" unfolding the vibe not with faster tempo, but only deeper and deeper music. And boy it worked. Thanks so much to everyone on the floor for being so open and letting go so much to create this free, gutturally boisterous vibe on the floor together. It was really magical <3
If you want to know any ID, feel free to ask in the comments, I am happy to share :)

Iorie 'Slow On Acid' @ Kater Blau Berlin, Janaur 2024

Sweetest of sweet people,
 
It's taken us a little while to fully process what happened on Sunday but now we've had the time to recover from the madness that is Fusion Festival (you too, we hope??) we're realising just how much this gig meant to us and how happy we are with how it all went. Thank you to everyone who was there, who waited the extra 40 minutes while we battled with some technical difficulties, who cheered, sang our lyrics (wait, what?!) and danced with us. You were so supportive and after the first couple of songs the nervousness was almost gone and we could just enjoy sharing what we love together with you all. THANK YOU! You peeps are just great. <3

So, without further ado, here's our live set on the Velvet Soup stage at Fusion on Sunday night. Unfortunately the quality of the recording isn't great (where's the bass?!?), and we actually had to re-record a couple of parts at home due to an issue with the accordion microphone picking up the sound coming from the speakers, but we tried our best to play it exactly like we did on the night and blend it in smoothly with the original recording.  We are proud and happy and we hope you like it! 

So all the best to you all, and hopefully see you very soon :)

thea & schtu

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tracklist: 
intro 
thea & schtu - balmy nights (unreleased) x reality 
thea & schtu - reality x marlies 
thea - bis gleich 
thea & schtu - waiting
thea & schtu - harry charles - on film - thea & schtu remix
thea & schtu - beautiful mess (unreleased)
seyde, zhart - dampf, thea & schtu remix
thea & schtu - no, what?! 
thea & schtu - erste sahne
thea & schtu - unreleased live special
thea & schtu - odyssee 
thea & schtu - borrowed time (unreleased)
thea & schtu - second chances
kavinsky - nightcall, thea & schtu revision (unreleased)
schtu's e-guitar solo :_)

thea & schtu live set @ velvet soup, fusion festival 2024

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Marcello Giordani - Synthetic Music Pt. 2 (2025 Re-Press) - Dirt Crew Recordings

Track list:

A   Narcos
B1 Change Position
B2 Prova 2

Release Info:

2025 Re-press of this classic EP by Marcello Giordani! This one was originally released on vinyl back in 2006 on our now defunct sub-label “Players Paradise” and was one of the first ever releases by Marcello Giordani who went on to become a household name in the scene and a man of many successes. Currently he is making waves with his “Italo Deviance Music” label and productions under his alias “I/D”.

Get in these three fine cuts again in a superb re-mastered quality. From the Italo inspired “Narcos” to the deeper and darker B-side Disco gems “Change Position” and “Prova 2”. We are sure these tracks will rock your dance floors again this spring and summer. Enjoy!

All tracks re-mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.


Synthetic Music Pt. 2 (2025 Re-Press)

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Marcello Giordani | Prova 2 (Remastered 2025) | Dirt Crew Recordings

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sound(ge)cloud 094 by Gina Sabatini (https://soundcloud.com/gina-sabatini) –  Zu einer Zeit … im Sommer

Zu einer Zeit…. im Sommer

Man möchte Zugvogel sein und kehrtmachen,
doch ich trage still, was du mir still gebracht;
damit deiner Schönheit ich gedenke;
und da du gehst, mit wehmutsvollem Gang:
hab Dank für all' die kostbaren Momente.

Adieu Sommer, auf ganz bald. 
(Mitschnitt @ Zu einer Zeit in Gardelegen….)

Heute präsentiere ich euch mit großer Freude diese Ode an den Sommer, von meiner ganz besonderen und lieben Freundin Gina Sabatini. 

Es ist gerade Mal ein ¾ Jahr her das sich Gina und ich an einem Sonntag im November im gemütlichen Beate Uwe auf ein Bierchen und ein paar Schnäpschen getroffen haben. Es gibt so Begegnungen die hinterlassen einen bleibenden Eindruck und so ist es nicht verwunderlich das Gina nun zu einen meiner besten Freunde zählt und fester Bestandteil der tollen Afterhour Sounds Family geworden ist.

An diesem Abend hatten Gina und ich auch ein langes Gespräch zum Thema DJ-Frauen, Feminismus und wie wir Männer die Gleichberechtigung in der Elektro-Szene vorantreiben können und müssen. Ein Satz ist mir nachhaltig im Gedächtnis geblieben „Feminismus und Gleichberechtigung muss ganz klar auch von euch Männern ausgehen“ soll heißen Frauen müssen sich nicht ihren Platz erkämpfen sondern wir Männer müssen dafür sorgen ihnen den Freiraum zur Verfügung zu stellen und zwar in allen Bereichen. Darüber hab ich viel nachgedacht und dies hat auch maßgeblich zu meinem Entschluss geführt meine Podcast-Serie nun auf 50/50 umzustellen. Ab Ginas Podcast präsentiere ich euch nun gleichberechtigt Musik von Frauen und Männern, da es in der heutigen Zeit keinen Grund mehr gibt es anders zu machen. Danke Gina fürs Augen öffnen. 

Gina hat mich bereits mit ihrem ersten Set „Zusammen auf, Mensch Meier“ musikalisch völlig in ihren Bann gezogen. Sie hat einfach ein schon fast unheimlich gutes Gespür für Sound-Arrangements. Wie keine andere versteht sie es mit Musik eine komplexe Geschichte zu erzählen und legt genau in diese Geschichte ihr ganzes Herz rein. Respekt. Nicht verwunderlich das Gina genau damit diesen Sommer genau den Nerv der Dancefloors getroffen hat. Neben diesem grandiosen Gardenlegen Set sind ihre Mitschnitte von der Fusion und vom Garbicz einfach absolut auf den Punkt.

Liebe Gina ich bin hoch erfreut das uns die Musik zusammengebracht hat und bin mir sicher, dass wir beide noch viele traumhafte Momente zusammen erleben dürfen, weil wir fangen ja gerade erst an ;-) 

So und nun liebe Hörer genug geschnackt --- geniest nochmal zwei Stunden den Sommer mit Gina Sabatini und lasst euch das Lied vom Rot vorspielen.


Gina Sabatini (Afterhour Sounds / SPRINGSTOFF / Love Foundation / Berlin)

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Facebook Gina Sabatini --- https://www.facebook.com/sabatinigina/

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sound(ge)cloud 094 by Gina Sabatini – Zu einer Zeit … im Sommer

@caleesi & @sarahkreis

Thank you Fusion and Bachstelzen - this was an insane Sunday morning!

We were so lucky to have the best crowd we could have asked for despite 38°C and can't put in words how much fun we had playing this set.
Thanks to all you lovely people for dancing and smiling and for the incredible vibe! 
And thanks to @bachstelzen for having us - it was a huge honor!

Here's our souvenir from this magical Sunday morning at Fusion. :)

Love, C & S

Caleesi & Kreis @ Fusion Festival 2019 | Bachstelzen Panne Eichel

Acud Dj-Set (Acidbogen, 28.02.20).

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ⱭCUⱰ Dj-Set @ Kater Blau (28.02.20)

Berlin-based producer, live-act, dj and label founder of @keller

Booking contact: greta{at}keller-label.de

ⱭCUⱰ Dj-Set @ Kater Blau (28.02.20)

ACUD