To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’ve teamed up with @fabric to bring you this mix from Swiss minimal techno stalwart Sonja Moonear, recorded live at the club back in the autumn of 2019 and all we can say is that it’s a special one.
 
Sonja @moonear has been associated with the iconic London institution for 13 years and counting, including bringing her legendary back-to-back sessions with Ricardo Villalobos to Farringdon. The Geneva-based DJ prefers to let the music do the talking, having grown through her residency at the city’s underground playground Weetamix from 2002 onwards, building her reputation via releases and remixes on labels such as Karat and Perlon with which she has particularly close ties, having met label boss Zip at a Weetamix night back in 2001. 
 
Since day one, she’s juggled running her own Ruta5 label with a day job as a sound designer for the Swiss national TV channel RTS, giving her the freedom to stay true to her musical beliefs by not having to compromise on playing inadequate gigs for misleading reasons. The truth is on the dancefloor! 
 
Over the last decade, Sonja has developed close relationships with clubs all over Europe, from fabric here in London to Goa Club in Rome, Robert Johnson in Frankfurt, the recently opened Mutabor in Moscow and Lux Frágil in Lisbon. It’s a reflection of her versatility that she’s as likely to appear on the bill of large-scale festivals like Awakenings and Time Warp as she is to pop up at a little sweaty underground club. This summer’s bookings alone see her lined up for Craig Richards’ Houghton and the second instalment of the Wigflex festival in Nottingham, plus an appearance at the tiny, invite-only Headroom festival on a permaculture farm in the foothills of the Black Mountains near Abergavenny.
 
This mix was recorded midway between Junki Inoue and Rhadoo’s sets during a fabric night entirely devoted to surgical percussions and restrained melodies drawing from every corner of electronic music.
 
Next in London: Saturday May 16th at fabric:  fabricldn.co/FRRC

Sonja Moonear’s International Women’s Day mix for Juno Records x fabric

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