Name: Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Sisyphos // Hammerhalle // Berlin by Kenji Tanaka
Duration: 3 h 8 min 6 s
Description: Recording of "Hammerhalle" closing November the 2nd 2025. Thanks for everyone who went on a trip with me. <3

What a perfectly paced drive 😻🔥🩰

Warmly invite Artist Mila Stern

Artist bio:
Mila Stern’s far over a decade-long career as a DJ and producer
has taken her from squat parties in Halle (eastern Germany), where
she first learned her craft, through the pulsing motley of Tel Aviv, to
her adopted home of Berlin and the epicenter of electronic club
culture. Her calm, commanding skill as a selector rapidly made her
a sought-after artist, with regular appearances at premier festivals
like Fusion, Nation of Gondwana, and Garbicz, and residencies at
Berlin’s legendary Kater Club and Station Endlos in Halle. Since
then, she’s transcended the boundaries of the Berlin underground,
bringing her signature style to the international circuit from Mexico
to Kazakhstan.

Mila delivers a groove-heavy aesthetic that has recently shifted
toward deeper, more focused energies — drawing on restrained
propulsion, textured sound design, and subtly evolving rhythms. Her
selections now balance minimalism and intensity, rooted in the
hypnotic but never stuck in genre constraints. What sets her apart is
a willingness to embrace unorthodox sonic spaces, explore the
beauty in harshness and dissonance, and embed arresting
moments in robust, rolling substructures. From her early days,
Mila’s sound has been shaped by a sense of counterculture and the
urge to break normative boundaries. Her DJ sets encapsulate a
vision of rave culture as expressive, eclectic, and non-judgmental.
She continues to draw on risqué, narrative-driven tracks and boldly
carves out new territory without compromise — even as the context
around her evolves.

As a DJ, producer, event organizer, former radio host, and label co-
founder, she pushes the envelope while rejecting genre dogma. In
2025, Mila co-founded the label MiZi MuZiK with long-time friend
and collaborator Mira—a platform shaped by their shared values of
autonomy and artistic integrity. While the label and Mila’s current
musical direction follow distinct paths, both are rooted in a deep
belief in sound that speaks for itself. Few artists balance deep floor
energy with such artistic clarity. Mila Stern continues to evolve her
sound while remaining grounded in a rave ethos that challenges
paradigms and makes space for what lies ahead.

Artist Booking Mail: 
sari@neptunemusic.net

Social Media Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milastern1234/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mila-stern
Bandsintown: http://bandsintown.com/a/3496692-mila-stern
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@milastern1234/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/7AAbM74rIYowTxlxRJfWVQ?si=JvAZIgVKR-u_rNbOLhn_SQ

Tracklist:
0. Rill - Friss (Beste Hira Remix) - SIDE B
1. Maōh - Plague - Maōh
2. Hedström &amp; Pflug - Nepal Morning - Drawner Records
3. Amotik - Tirasi - Amotik
4. Altinbas - Eclipse - Observer Station
5. CVNSUMED - Mugen (Sicion Remix) - KYSH
6. Nastia Riegel - Not Int - Enemy Records
7. Marina George - Breathwork - Adroit
8. Inox Traxx - Decision - WSNWG - BACK TO ZERO
9. Klint - Dynamo - Arts
10. A.Paul - Orbital - Code Records
11. Ø [Phase] - You Are Not The Zeitgeist - Modwerks
12. Linear System - Tribe 3 - Subhills
13. Peter Van Hoesen - Prime Directive - Reclaim Your City
14. Arkan - Yang - Drawner Records

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All about @mercyTechno 

mercyTechno - Mila Stern "Berlin"

Sisyphos - Hamma Halle - 24.08.2025 - 22:00 - 01:00

Timo Veranta - In der Blase der Extase (Hamma Halle 24.08.2025 22:00-01:00)

this is the floor opening i played for @jesperdahlback and @joelmull at @suedpol-hamburg! enjoyed mixing some minimal and more reduced sounds with a few trippy and dreamy tracks inbetween. 
thanks to everyone involved! ♡ in case you miss a few tracks: i had to extend my set on super short notice and decided to play some of my all-time favorites that i don't feel like sharing again.


Tracks by:
Alex Schultz, Oscar Mulero, GEISTFREI, Feral, Nastia Reigel, Toru Ikemoto, bw, Olt Voct, Wala, Juan Sanchez, Rene Wise, Obscur, Daryn Steytler, Flits & Isaiah, Mersel, Arkan, Ignez, Pierce, Chlär, b.mod, Stephen Disario, Marcal, Scheermann, Pfirter, Caleena, Nic Jaro, Toobris, Szmer, Ray Kajioka, FRIEDER, Primordial State, Jack Fresia, Ponygirl, Mython, no.name, Blenk, Gannein, Vinicius Honorio, Terence Fletcher, Re:Axis, Paul Hauck, Z.I.P.P.O

südpol 02.10. - später war alles möglich

✩ happy happy bday sisy ✩ 

opening hammahalle 16-19, 04.10.2025 
due to the weather i spontanously got the chance to play at the infamous hammahalle instead of the tunnel floor. since it was inside and the vibe was on fire, i switched to a more hypnotic trippier track selection in the second part - thanks to all the dancers, looved your energy ꨄ︎

njoy! and many thanks again to all those great producers. 

ꨄ︎

LISA TBA @ Sisyphos Nichtgeburtstag | Hammahalle Opening | 04.10.2025

First Part of my set. Second half got lost unfortunately.

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Monopol

Recording of my closing set at Südpol (Hamburg) in 2025

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Südpol

Robag Wruhme @ tanztag. 11.10.25

Recording of "Hammerhalle" closing November the 2nd 2025. Thanks for everyone who went on a trip with me. <3

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Sisyphos // Hammerhalle // Berlin

Trippy dub delays, synthesizers and classic techno drums. 
A Hypnotic groove to blast the dancefloor into another dimension.

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Booking: booking@cursedsound.com
My Links:👇👇👇
linktr.ee/cursedsound



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IMPROVISED LIVE TECHNO
Psychedelic / Techno / Groove 
Berlin | Germany


If you love techno, you can't vote right. On a real techno floor, you can be free no matter who you are, if you respect the freedom of all others. Right politics stand for the opposite. if you want this culture to sustain, please get informed and stand up against this oppression.  
So FCK AFD! and be loud against all the populist, right-wing parties around the globe.  They promise you a better future, but history can teach you better. <3

🌎 Booking & Contact:
Kenji.Tanaka@loft.contact

View, Watch, Listen:
www.instagram.com/kenji_tanaka_official
www.youtube.com/@KenjiTanaka_LIVE
www.kenjitanaka.bandcamp.com

My Family: "BonkerSquad"
👉www.soundcloud.com/maldaneben
👉www.soundcloud.com/vaianamusic
👉www.instagram.com/bonkersquadberlin

Meet me here 2025:
01.03.25 BonkerSquad Salöön Berlin
06.04.25 Sisyphos Berlin
16.05.25 Rosa Greifswald
17.05.25 Secret Rave
24.05.25 Choose Jonny Knüppel Berlin
31.05.25 Accension Festival
27.06.25 Fusion Festival Tanzwüste
26.07.25 Coucool Festival France
03.08.25 Garbicz Festival Poland
16.08.25 Compact Madnass Festival Germany
22.08.25 Entropie Festival Germany
27.09.25 Exit Hamburg
11.10.25 Monopol Basement
18.10.25 Südpol Hamburg
02.11.25 Sisyphos Berlin
21.11.25 Jonny Knüppel Berlin
06.12.25 JAZ Rostock 
20.12.25 Reflected Radio
26.-29.12. CCC Hamburg (additional workshop on my liveset)


My approach to my music: 
I love loopy and trippy techno. When dancing, I love to let go of everything around me and enter into a deeper dialogue with myself. At this stage, I am 100% in tune with myself. This works for me when the groove drives me and the elements I hear are interesting but not too intrusive. That's exactly what I love to create on the floor.

To achieve this and also to create the necessary element of surprise, I combine different loops randomly and blindly. Since I never know exactly what will happen, I am also surprised and inspired by it. 

If you want to see how it works check out my youtube channel. www.youtube.com/@KenjiTanaka_Official




My instruments:
-Drums (TR8S)
-Bass (Modular)
-Rumble Bass (TR8S)
-Atmos (Fieldrecorder, Drumrack, Ableton)
-Synth 1 (MicroMonsta 2)
-Synth 2 (Polysix VST, Ableton)
-Vocal Samples (Ableton)
-Misc Samples (TR8S)


More nerdy Information:
For each of these instruments, I have prepared about 30 different loops, most of them 1 bar long.
Using the Streamdeck and a self-built ‘Max for Live Tool’, I can select a completely random loop for each instrument with the push of a button. The tonality can be set. To make sure it’s not completely random, I can choose between different categories, such as chords/arpeggiator.
I can control the complexity of the loop using controls.

All instruments run through Ableton (RME Fireface UCXii). With the help of ‘Launchcontrol’ and 2x ‘Midifighter Twister’, I can control all the parameters that are important to me. Filters, reverb, random delay and pitch effects glue everything together.

When playing, I rely on my intuition. I can sense what should happen 2-4 bars in advance. If I feel like I want to hear a new chord pattern, I press a button and let myself be surprised. If I like it, I develop it further. If I don’t like it, I move on.

Since the whole structure is improvised, I am correspondingly excited before the gigs. Because almost nothing can be planned in advance. My biggest clue is whether I dance. If I get myself to move and get lost, I am happy with what happens.

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Sisyphos // Hammerhalle // Berlin

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