Jasss & Ursula Prawn - CDMX TAPES X NTS Radio (30.03.23)

Ursula Prawn - CDMX TAPES X NTS Radio (30.03.23)

Jasss - CDMX TAPES X NTS Radio (30.03.23)

"You realise you're not just playing music. You give people the power to empower themselves." Cofounders CEM and MCMLXXXV discuss the revered party series and its fledgling label.

Berlin queer party Herrensauna—which means "men's sauna" in German—started as a seed of an idea shared between friends Cem Dukkha (AKA CEM) and Nicholas Endlicher (AKA MCMLXXXV). They were teenagers in Vienna at the time, dreaming of becoming DJs in Berlin. When they finally relocated, they started throwing parties in the basement of a Neukölln off-location. This quickly snowballed into a residency at Tresor, and now a globally recognised brand that curates lineups at clubs and festivals around the world and counts Salome, SPFDJ, Héctor Oaks, JASSS and DJ Saliva as residents.

In this RA Exchange, hosted ahead of Herrensauna's curated night at Wire Festival in New York, CEM and MCMLXXXV spoke with senior producer Chloe Lula about the party's origins and how its mission has changed, shifting from focusing on gay men to championing an all-inclusive vision of queerness. They also discussed their artwork and aesthetics—including their provocative re-appropriations of quasi-religious iconography—as well as the role that platforms like theirs have in shifting the cultural zeitgeist and attitudes towards the LGBTQIA+ community. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.660 - Herrensauna

TorsdagsTechno at Module Copenhagen 25/1/24 (almost full set)

Recording of CEM & JASSS' set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Dekmantel Selectors 2024

CEM & JASSS at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Ben Cardew spoke to Silvia Jiménez Alvarez, aka JASSS, about her new album, Eager Buyers, anti-nostalgia, the soiled dreams of capitalism, the 2000s revival and always doing what people don’t expect of her. Photo by Rachel Israela Scheidt.

Line Noise 220 - JASSS

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/tm078jasss

@jass-29's contribution to The Mix is inspired by playing on the Sinai Sound System at Draaimolen and shows her spectrum-busting range with 30 tracks amassing within the hour. 

"There's lots of range, but... I feel like I still didn't get over playing on the Sinai Sound System at Draaimolen," she says. "I still have it in my system; I think I'm still kind of there. When I was recording the mix, I still feel the residual feeling, I'm still channeling that."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 078: JASSS

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