Mayan Warrior is the result of a collaborative project that has united artists, craftsmen, photographers, designers, technologists, architects and musicians from Mexico City and Northern California. 

The project’s original intent was to present to the world the incredible ascent of contemporary Mexican electronic music while paying respect to the deep and ancient sources from which that visual and auditory culture had grown.


Both light and sound are curated by some of the world’s most prominent artists to transport participants to the very origins of the culture – and to a new understanding of contemporary electronic expression.

AND YES: Mayan Warrior is driven from Mexico City to the playa – and back – each year. It's a labor of love and we're glad so many people enjoy it.

Founder/Artist
Pablo Gonzalez Vargas

Line-up and Music Curation
Rebolledo
Rodrigo Madrazo

As a producer, musician, DJ and serial collaborator, Chris Schwarzwälders distinctive style of deep, restrained house is hard to pin down, but you’ll always know it’s him when you hear it. 

Born in Frankfurt am Main in the 80s, he started playing hiphop in the 90s. While making beats on his MPC2000, he dropped into Offenbach’s Robert Johnson club and fell in love with techno. 

In 2009, Chris moved to Berlin and started DJing at KaterHolzig, where he found a group of people who thought about music in the same way he did. In contrast to the trends of the late 00s, the sounds being made from this little paradise on Berlin’s river Spree were slower, softer, and more soulful than a lot of what was being played in clubs at the time. 

It was here that Chris began to cement his reputation as both a solo producer and collaborator, who was capable of bringing his trademark sounds to a whole number of side-projects - many of which have gone on to play to crowds around the globe. He joined the Feathered Sun collective in 2013, together with a group of friends including Acid Pauli, Nu, Jo.Ke and Raz O’Hara. Dreamy, groovy and often improvised, the collective represented a special kind of musical freedom in which a group of producers came together to create something new in a singular, live moment. 

At the same time, Chris’ friend Mira was making moves of her own, and they started to play back-to-back sets, soundtracking the legendary Monday mornings of KaterHolzig, and now, Kater Blau. The two, who are both residents at Kater Blau, have now been playing together internationally for almost a decade, and have formed a common musical understanding that translates throughout every one of their sets - deep, clubby and melancholic. This partnership has also carried on into the studio, where they have collaborated on numerous hits. 

His most light-hearted side comes out in collaboration with Iannis Ritter, where the two musicians take on a weirder, more melodic & electro approach than Chris’ other proejcts. 

If you were to ask him, Chris would describe himself as reserved, logical, rational, melancholic and humorous. Which is why you’d never hear him telling you about the hundreds of nightclubs and festivals he’s played around the globe, or the number of hits he’s had with his productions. If you’re lucky though, Chris might tell you about his favourite synthesizers, and get lost in a conversation all about electronics and sound. Which is exactly where Chris wants to be - lost in electronics and sound.

booking: isabel@stilvortalent.de
tours & tickets: www.bio.site/hovr

instagram.com/hovrmusic

HOVRs sets range from eyes-closed grooves to uplifting powerhouse. After being raised by a music teacher, HOVR is now one Berlin's most creative exports. The nonbinary multi-instrumentalist gathers a community of music lovers around them, breaking with norms and fusing a classical music education with Berlin's rave culture. With hundreds of performances around the world, including sets at Maxa/Burning Man, and dozens of successful releases, HOVR thrives on a path of bringing people together, supporting spaces of free expression and making memories with sound.
 
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4.4. Stuttgart
11.4. Limassol, Cyprus
12.4. Bergamo, Italy
18.4. Berlin
20.4. Hamburg
25.4. Kopenhagen
2.5. New York City
9.5. Los Angeles
11.5. San Francisco
16.5. Maui
17.5. Oahu
25.5. Washington DC 
30.5. Seattle
7.6. Nürnberg
7.6. Würzburg
11.6. Magdeburg
14.6. Berlin
19.6. Bayreuth
21.6. Freiburg
28.6. Fusion
5.7. Berlin
12.7. CoSy Festival
26.7. Insel der Freuden
1.8. Liana Festival 
2.8. Vogelball Hamburg
9.8. Wien 
10.8. Freetree Festival 
14.8. Bucht der Träumer* (b2b Carlo Bonanza)
16.8. Hildesheim 
17.8. Sisyphos 
24.-31.8. Burning Man 
5.9. South Lake Tahoe 
11.9. New York City 
19.9. Berlin 
20.9. Landshut
2.10. Frankfurt
11.10. Stuttgart
18.10. Pinky Promise
20.10. Berlin, Nevernow
24.10. Bochum
25.10. Zürich
31.10. Unfamiliar Festival
20.11. Zurich
November: Peru Tour tba
31.12. Singapore

Booking contact: isabel@stilvortalent.de

Wow! You read my entire description. Here is your reward-bear: ʕ ´•̥̥̥ ᴥ•̥̥̥`ʔ

Public Lover is Bruno Pronsato and Ninca Leece, two artists making some of Berlin's most personal electronic music. Each half of the duo is distinctive on its own: Bruno is an idiosyncratic techno artist with nearly a dozen records under his belt, and Ninca Leece is a French singer and producer who debuted in 2010, with a full-length album and the acclaimed Feed Me Rainbows EP on Bruno's label, thesongsays. Together they make music that, stylistically, shares something with peers like Isolee or Thomas Melchior, but in spirit reflects a different set of influences: Blonde Redhead, Matthew Herbert, Bon Iver, Roxy Music et al. It's this synthesis that makes Public Lover so irresistibly compelling: electronic production with a songwriter's sense of sincerity.

The group began in 2010 as a side project. Ninca Leece had just finished her debut album and was working on her live act––a lush audio-visual affair led by her own endearing vocals. Bruno was wrapping up his third full-length, an album Pitchfork would later call "a striking, massive statement" that "aligns Pronsato with artists like Terre Thaemlitz and Theo Parrish." As they collaborated more and more, an interesting chemistry emerged: Bruno's trademark production style––a warm and surreal sound he once described as "romantic techno"––gave Ninca Leece a rich foundation, while her ear for melody and her French-accented vocals brought his productions to life. They started rehearsing constantly at their flat in Prenzlauer Berg, reworking each song again and again until it reached maturity. That fall they released their debut EP, Musique D'Hiver Pour L' Été, on thesongsays, and quickly followed it with Naked Figures on Telegraph. Their style immediately struck a chord, with their song "I Try" landing in Resident Advisor's top tracks of the year.

Meanwhile, Public Lover designed their live act, which, like their records, ignores the conventions of club culture in favor of something more performance-oriented. With both artists at the controls–-one laptop, a drum machine, keyboards and a microphone––they weave through loose interpretations of their own songs, with Ninca Leece on lead vocals all the while. It's an act that works best in small clubs or even galleries, but that's easily adjusted to bigger venues. Not six months after their first release, the duo had played live around the world, from Warehouse 702 in Tokyo to MUTEK festival in Montreal. 

All the glowing feedback they received, combined with their own absorption in the project, made a Public Lover album inevitable. A Broken Shape of You was released on the 31st of January 2012, and put the full range of their strengths on display: lyrically seductive, texturally vivid and as sophisticated in melody as it is in rhythm. Playful, mysterious and romantic, it makes Public Lover the most alluring new act in electronic music.

Europe + the world: info@nincaleece.com
Americas : Mariesa Stevens (mariesa@liaisonartists.com)

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›› Fusion Festival
Here you can find a collection of recordings from the Fusion Festival. From "Fusion Festival Lovers" for everyone who loves the festival.

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