toploader (@toploading) is rooted in the now-defunct family of Fluid Festival (R.I.P.), having made early appearances alongside his bestie dj fako at Hamburg’s club institution [PAL] in 2022, followed by gigs at Jupiter, Callshop & Sicnal Radio, Akashic Records, and Paloma. These days, he’s shifting into more introspective territory, curating ambient and listening sessions with events with Transmute in a questionable attempt to rebrand himself as “thoughtful.”

Musically, he has (allegedly) matured — drifting away from uninspired 4/4 techno and house toward deeper, more hypnotic, and non-linear soundscapes. Think dubby textures, tribal rhythms, and percussive, reverberated deep techno — because nothing screams originality like dramatic, cinematic pads and echoes.

He most definitely does not break boundaries or bend genres. Instead, he plays what he likes (and what he almost certainly shazamed off someone else’s digging efforts). Toploader values about flow, cohesion, and subtlety. Neither especially known for his stellar mixing nor his careful selections, he’s presenting to you today: all things dub.

Tracklist:
Joe Davies – Hi Life feat. Ossia  
Deadbeat – Rattle The Roof Down  
Jay Bliss, Ada Kaleh – Nimbus  
Biodub – Reminder  
Chaos In The CBD – Global Erosion  
Kelman Duran – Dancehall, Audubon Ballroom  
Nicolas Barnes – Feratum (Original Mix)  
Rhauder, Paul St. Hilaire – Sidechain (Dub Version)  
Quantec – Profound Experiences  
Berg Audio – R.Y. feat A.C. - Move Dub (Steve O'Sullivan Remix)  
Aril Brikha – Bytes  
Andrew Tighe – Spirits  
Chaos In The CBD – Digital Sound  
Trinidadian Deep – Native Revolution (Original Mix)  
Reset – Runaway Dub (Del 5 (Northwest Coast Mix)  
9west – Moments (Original Mix)  
Delano Smith – Untitled_2  
Two Right Wrongans – System Error  
Grad_U, Ohrwert – Surface I (Ohrwert Alter)  
Delano Smith – Untitled_1  
Oceanic – Sulphur Streams (Original Mix)  
Malin Genie – Mastodon  
Deniro – Monsoon 3  
Claudio PRC & Andrea Cossu – Biofluorescence  
Hatti Vatti, Echo Ranks, Andy Stott – Great (Andy Stott Remix)

decompression session 009: toploader

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2025

31/01 Südpol, Hamburg
Recorded Future b2b @olga_udda (allnight) 
16/02 Ringbar, Berlin
27/03 Giri, Berlin 
18/04 Sonnenraum, Berlin
01/05 Free Open Air, Berlin
24/05 Block1, Berlin
10/09 Ikii, Berlin
06/12 Golden Pudel, Hamburg

2024

13/01 Rote Flora, Hamburg
11/01 repeat bar, Berlin
09/03 Monarch, Berlin 
17/03 Südpol, Hamburg
04/05 about blank, Berlin 
02/06 Transmute @ Locke
08/06 Forest Rave, Berlin (DM for info) 
06/07 Wüst&Wild Festival, b2b smuseb
12/07 HGB Sommerfest, Leipzig
20/07 Habitat Festival, Hamburg
20/07 sic.nal Radio @ Habitat Festival
24/08 Golden Pudel, Hamburg (b2b Shimmy Robin) 
07/09 Forest Rave, Berlin (DM for info)
27/09 Im Spannungsfeld der Stille, Hamburg

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apr 25th 2025 decompression @ fitzroy, berlin

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