Hello friends, I've decided It’s time for my next Warm Hug musical offering.

Today I am sharing the full live recording of the last Warm Hug set I played back in December 2024. I've listened to it a lot this year, mainly on my solo hikes in the mountains of the lake district, using it a tool to help me deal with the ongoing grief of losing my father back in Jan this year, it's now time to share it with the world.

Music has always been the most powerful way for me to express my emotions, and this set has been like a key, letting me open the flood gates, allowing me feel the pain, understand it, release it, and let it guide my own personal healing process. Losing a parent changes you forever, so sharing this set is extremely personal to me, but I feel like now is the right time, especially as we enter Autumn, my most adored season, a time of deep reflection and one that is filled with precious memories of my father.

I performed this set around 3 weeks before he died, so as I gathered the music and prepared it, he was very much in my through process, as things were getting extremely difficult towards the end of his life, and perhaps some of the music reflects that. There is a lot of darkness and pain in this set, but also a joy and light. Some of you who were at the event told me this was my best Warm Hug set so far. The more I listen, the more I enjoy it, and it’s become an important meditation tool for me. This set is definitely the most personally deep artistic expressions ive ever put out there. I cry every time I listen to it.

Please listen with with good quality headphones, with patience, and in one go if possible to fully experience and understand the journey. I played this set in a dark room to 60 people all laying down, wrapped in blankets, locked into the music, no distractions, just stillness. It was a beautiful experience, this is what my Warm Hug events are all about, presenting emotive music in an environment that allows you to feel it’s power in the best possible way, outside of the hectic world as we know it.

I'm not sure yet if I will ever do another Warm Hug event, I need to be in a certain headspace to make this kind of art, it requires a lot of mental energy and at the moment I'm not quite there, but you never know. If I feel like another Warm Hug event is on the cards, I will let you know. I do also have the previous 3 Warm Hug event sets that I might release at some point.

For now, please sit back, get comfortable, and go deep into this profound musical journey.

Please do let me know what you think, and share with the world if you like it. It might also help others heal and release trapped emotions.

PS, no idea why the name of one of the artists who made one of the tacks in the set is in the title lol Bizzar. 

Much love
Aidan x

A Warm Hug By Aidan Doherty Autumn 2025

Aidan Doherty - London based DJ and founder of Warm Up and Warm Up Festival.

Founder and resident DJ of London’s beloved subterranean community, Warm Up, Aidan Doherty has established himself as a vanguard of a special pocket of sound and space in London’s underground scene, since the movements conception in 2013.

It is his uncompromising, passionate belief in music’s capacity to affect emotional change, together with total emersion in Warm Up’s own particular narrative, eclectic groove that has earned him an avid, loyal following and recognition as one of London’s most respected, sought after names.

From a potent list of warm up sets for the likes of Max Cooper, Stephan Bodzin, Christian Löffler, Joris Voorn and Kollectiv Turmstrasse, to his signature extended closing sets at ‘Warm Up In The Woods’ outdoor summer events, expect above all, transition. A journey.

It is there that you will begin to get quietly subsumed by a dynamic range of deep, melodic techno and electronica coupled with the unique painterly style that flows and bristles through his sets.


For him, community means everything, community is after all, about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. It’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of bland, sometime politics and playing the game by a different set of rules. You have DJ’s who play music, and you have DJ’s who tell stories, be a storey teller.

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bookings: booking@ligaltamir.com
Member of @lesstalkingmoredancing :)

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26.10. YAAM, Berlin 
01.11. Birgit, Berlin 
23.11. Beate Barfuß 

2025 so far-
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06.09. Mystic Creatures Festival
24.08. Wilde Möhre Festival
15.08. KATER | Acid Bogen
01.08. Klangtherapie Festival
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21.06. JK | DONNAWETTER
21.06. LTMD Open Air, Berlin 
07.06. taumel & tumult, Gleispark Oldenburg 
06.06. p.ara, Bremen
03.05. ://about blank, Berlin
01.05. Station Endlos, Halle
21.04. KATER | Acid Bogen
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27.03. Süß. war Gestern, Berlin
21.03. Klunkerkranich | FATALAZ
15.03. Renate | KDP
08.03. HOUSE QUEENS @ bu
07.03. Klunkerkranich | VA.RIOT.Y
01.03. What a Playground, Badehaus
22.02. Cassiopeia, Berlin 
07.02. stranger together, Berlin
01.02. Beate Uwe, Berlin

2024-
14.12. Beate Uwe, Berlin
15.11. Süß. War Gestern | HOUSE QUEENS 
09.11. BU's Geburtstag
10.10. HOUSE QUEENS
11.10. order/redo album release party, secret location 
12.10. Beate Uwe, Berlinu
27.08. Klunkerkranich | HOUSE QUEENS  
24.08. ://About Blank, Berlin
17.08. JK, Berlin 
11.08. Wilde Möhre Festival
08.08. ANDEREWELT Festival, Staufenberg
27.07. Zugvøgel Festival, Eifel
12.07. Wild Things Festival, Klingemühle
06.07. Beat im Beet
04.07. b2b w/GUTTiNG, M01 
28.06. Fusion Festival | Seebühne 
22.06. LTMD ft. Underdive @ Beate Uwe
06.06. Skalar (//Sternfest) Festival, Helenesee
31.05. HOUSE QUEENS @ Gestrandet
25.05. Klunkerkranich | Afterhour Sounds 
18.05. Turbulance @ Tegel Airport
10.05. PingPong @ St. Oberholz
26.04. Wild Things Festival warm-up @ mena
20.04. Beate Uwe, Berlin 
18.04. Süss. War Gestern, Berlin
31.03. Rebellion der Träumer* @ Renate, Berlin
28.03. HOUSE QUEENS @ Bautrockner
23.03. Münchner Kammerspiele
08.03. Variety @ Klunkerkranich, Berlin
01.03. Crack Bellmer, Berlin
17.02. p.ara, Bremen

2023-
22.12. Zugvøgel @ Odonien, Köln
09.12. Beate Uwe, Berlin
11.11. Blue Velvet, Britz
08.10. Bubbles Beats Bazzar, Pförtner
30.09. Beate Uwe, Berlin
02.09. Beate Uwe, Berlin
02.09. Klunkerkranich | Afterhour Sounds
26.08. Ritter Butzke, Berlin
20.08. Bucht der Träumer* Festival
18.08. CHAT:EAU Festival, France
13.08. Wilde Möhre Festival
05.08. Grinsekatze open air, secret location
04.08. Blue Velvet, Britz
15.07. Wild Things Festival, Klingemühle
09.07. Sage Beach, Berlin
08.07. EoE in Beate Uwe
20.06. Radio Sunshine Live
17.06. LTMD @ Mokka Mitte
11.06. Beate Uwe x Goldengate Boatparty
10.06. Die zentripetale Kraft, Greife 
09.06. Gestrandet Mitte
27.05. Beate Uwe, Berlin
19.05. AVA Club, Berlin
13.05. Villa Nachttanz, Heidelberg
30.04. Re:mise, Berlin 
29.04. Wilde Renate (privat), Berlin 
01.04. Beate Uwe, Berlin
11.03. EoE showcase (night) | Beate Uwe
11.03. Klunkerkranich (day) | Afterhour Sounds  
03.03. w/ LTMD @ Mokka Club Mitte
22.01. Strandbad Plötzensee
07.01. Beate Uwe, Berlin

2022-
Berlin: Kater Blau, Mensch Meier, Beate Uwe, Birgit Club, Space Cats @ Zur Klappe, Zug der Liebe, CSD @5tgb Gestrandet, Klunkerkranich, Chain Reaction @ Repeat, schönwetter. 
Kabinett der Kuriositäten (Frankfurt am Main), Transformator (Wrocław, Poland).
Festivals: MS Dockville (Hamburg), PSSST Festival (Chocicza, Poland), Wild Things Festival (Klingemühle).

What is Warm Up ? 

Warm Up is a London based night that aims to deliver a more emotional experience towards music. We try to create an atmosphere that allows people to really let go, close their eyes and get lost in the sound. 

We look for a musical experience that evokes emotional feelings. Emotive music has the ability to really touch people on a higher level. 

Our main sound would fall under the genre of techno and electronica. We are big lovers of melodic styles that have that dark raw but uplifting vibe.

Artist we admire - Max Cooper, Dominik Eulberg, Ryan Davis, Extrawelt, James Holden, Applescal, Eva Gallo, Gui Boratto, Microtrauma, Oliver Hunterman, Luke Abbot, Hubert kirchner, and the list goes on.

Our mentality is simple, it’s about the music and the appreciation of forward thinking artists, whilst sharing this with like-minded music lovers.


A Warm Hug By Aidan Doherty Autumn 2025

Aidan Doherty (Warm Up)