Berlin-based, London born DJ & CONTR4ST Label owner, fka.m4a has become a stalwart of underground music with a heady blend of Italo, HI- NRG and House. With several Boiler Room appearances under his belt - clocking up over half a million streams combined - plus shows everywhere from Berghain / Panormar Bar, Timewarp, Tomorrowland to Awakenings, features in Mixmag and Electronic Beats, plus Peggy Gou in his corner as a mentor, his stock is firmly on the rise. 

Born in London, music was always front and centre in his family home, his mother playing music to him through headphones while he was still in the womb. Citing acts whose USP was female empowerment as the first music he found for himself, the likes of Spice Girls and Lil Kim were early musical influences, eventually leading him to start DJing on the queer scene in London. 

“I was working on the Soho & East London circuit” he says. “I was mainly doing guestlist and hosting but eventually they asked me to DJ and I spent a few years cutting my teeth on that scene.” 

Learning how to work a crowd as a pop DJ, seeing Honey Dijon DJ on his first trip to Berlin in 2016 led him down the rabbit hole of electronic music and led to a shift in his focus. 

“I completely fell in love with the storytelling element of her set,” he says. “I spent the next year immersed in dance music culture and started playing the electronic room at gay nights.” 

Moving to Berlin in 2019, the pandemic quickly put a stop to his burgeoning DJ career before a switch to recording streams from his apartment during covid saw his profile blow up, leading to signing with an agency and bagging his first Panorama Bar set when lockdown lifted. 

With Peggy Gou taking him under her wing and asking him to regularly open for her (“She’s helped me out so much and we have a really strong relationship,” he says. “She calls me her daughter and I call her my mother,” he laughs.), fka.m4a’s schedule got hectic with sets everywhere from Warehouse Project to Sonar and a focus on producing their own music. 

“It’s important for me to make music that works in the club,” he says. ‘But most importantly, it’s about making something that comes straight from the heart. I think I’ve achieved that on my first EP and I can’t wait for people to connect with it.” 

With an event series in the pipeline and a summer stacked with festival shows from Hï Ibiza to Terminal V, fka.m4a has firmly cemented himself as one of the leading artists in the underground space.

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S L O W   M O T I O N   D I S C O   E X P L O S I O N
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C O N T A C T :
10markdjteam@protonmail.com
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N E X T   T I M E : 
27.09 @ Woodlands - Hildesheim
04.10 @ Sisyphos Nichtgeburtstag - Berlin
19.12 @ Privat - Berlin
30.12 @ CCC - Hamburg
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L A S T   T I M E :
05.09 @ Johnny Knüppel - Berlin
07.09 @ Tarmac Festival - Flugplatz Altstedt
14.09 @ Renate (M.Meier Showcase) - Berlin 
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G O O D   T I M E S :
R.I.P. Mensch Meier resident - Berlin 
Sisyphos - Berlin
Kater Blau - Berlin
Klunkerkranich - Berlin
Rummelsbucht - Berlin
Monarch - Berlin
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung - Berlin 
Moloch - Hamburg
Gängeviertel - Hamburg
Koralle - Hamburg
Südpol - Hamburg
Hafenklang - Hamburg
Schicksaal - Lübeck
Péripate - Paris 
JaZ - Rostock
Institut für Zukunft - Leipzig 
So & So - Leipzig
Waldschänke Dornheim - Würzburg
MS Treue - Bremen
Kauz - Zürich
Christiana - Kopenhagen
Fusion Festival - Lärz (D)
At Tension Festival - Lärz (D)
Nation of Gondwana - Nauen (D)
Garbicz Festival - Polen
Moyn Festival - Oyten (D)
Meeresrausch Festival - Pennemünde (D)
Wilde Möhre Festival - Drebkau (D)
Tarmac Festival - Flugplatz Allstedt
Somewhere Festival - Dänemark
Distortion Festival - Dänemark
Alm Beatz Festival - Süd Tyrol (I)
Freiland Festival - Brooks (D)
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B A C K   T O   T H E   F U T U R E !
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highly danceable pumperhouse with a small obsession for the bassline

booking:
carlo@aroma-plus.de

AROMA+ co-founder & architect
❤️ https://soundcloud.com/aroma-plus

dates

2025:

✨ 01.01. 	Südpol | Hamburg (b2b lisa luka)
✨ 17.01. 	Nachtiville | Weissenhäuser Strand
✨ 13.02. 	Heimlich Podcast
✨ 14.02. 	://about blank | Berlin
✨ 22.02. 	Renate | Berlin
✨ 08.03. 	Klub Melk | Brüssel 🇧🇪
✨ 23.03. 	DUQO | Leipzig
✨ 29.03. 	Bahnwärter Thiel | München
✨ 12.04. 	Humboldthain | Berlin
✨ 18.04. 	Libera | New York City 🇺🇸
✨ 01.05.	Top Secret | Berlin
✨ 04.05.	Sisyphos | Berlin (b2b lisa luka)
✨ 09.05.	Juicy Festival | Leipzig
✨ 10.05.	DUQO | Leipzig
✨ 17.05.	Bucht Frühlingsfest
✨ 18.05.	Datsche | Magdeburg
✨ 24.05.	Pratersauna | Wien 🇦🇹 (b2b lisa luka)
✨ 05.06. 	Wurzelfestival
✨ 06.06. 	Skalar Festival (b2b lisa luka)
✨ 14.06. 	Westhafen | Leipzig
✨ 21.06. 	Privé | St. Tropez 🇫🇷
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✨ 04.07. 	Gabonsa Festival | Innsbruck 🇦🇹
✨ 18.07. 	Stadtflucht | Wien 🇦🇹 (b2b lisa luka)
✨ 02.08. 	Wannda Open Air | München
✨ 08.08. 	Klunkerkranich | Berlin
✨ 09.08. 	Woodlands | Hildesheim
✨ 14.08. 	Bucht der Träumer* (b2b HOVR)
✨ 24.08. 	DUQO Garden | Leipzig (b2b Poppy)
✨ 29.08. 	Eulenflug Festival
✨ 30.08. 	Gart.n | Berlin
✨ 06.09. 	HMV | Hamburg (2b lisa luka)
✨ 20.09. 	Paradies Club | Jena
✨ 21.09. 	Ritter Butzke | Berlin
✨ 26.09. 	Kater | Berlin (b2b HOVR)
✨ 02.10. 	Renate | Berlin (b2b lisa luka)
✨ 04.10. 	L.OST | Leipzig
✨ 24.10. 	://about blank | Berlin (b2b bīsu)
✨ 25.10. 	Beate Uwe | Berlin
✨ 01.11.  	Bahnwärter Thiel | München
✨ 22.11.  	Südpol | Hamburg
✨ 12.12.  	Schneebrettbar | Jena
✨ 13.12.  	Hafenklang | Hamburg (b2b lisa luka)
✨ 14.12.  	Kater | Berlin
✨ 26.12.  	Distillery | Leipzig
✨ 27.12.  	Klunkerkranich | Berlin

und sonst so:

rummels bucht ♡ sisyphos ♡ fusion festival ♡ kater blau ♡ bucht der träumer ♡ stadtflucht ♡ parookaville festival ♡ südpol ♡ woodlands ♡ gART.n ♡ kitkat club ♡ renate ♡ tarmac festival ♡ gabonsa festival ♡ oxi ♡ station endlos [hal] ♡ wannda ♡ bahnwärter thiel [muc] ♡  ://about blank ♡ beate uwe ♡ bulbul ♡ büze [köln] ♡ kalif storch [ef] ♡ kiosk [luzern] ♡ arena club [b] ♡ tag am meer festival ♡ kassablanca [j] ♡ sektor evolution [dd] ♡ hafenklang [hh] ♡ datsche [md] ♡ muna ♡ klunkerkranich ♡ karneval der kulturen ♡ so&so [lpz] ♡ wurzelfestival ♡ keep yourself festival ♡ festsaal kreuzberg ♡ elipamanoke [lpz] ♡ dave festival [dd] ♡ null7b [dd] ♡ ibug festival [lpz] ♡ biotobt [j] ♡ apostrophé [lpz] ♡ aroma always everytime ♡ etc. usw.

danke für den immertollen support friends!

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into proto-sounds

1/3 of @spirito-del-tempo

next dates:

13.09.25 House against Hate, Brussels
20.09.25 La Baraque Festival, Fribourg
05.10.25 Omana Festival, Greece
18.10.25 Private Party, Brussels
25.10.25 TBA, Madrid
01.11.25 Discopatio, Lyon
22.11.25 Neubad, Luzern
29.11.25 Blur, Brussels
19.12.25 Kauz, Zürich




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producer & performer.
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