If some bands are created for the fame and p*ssy, Exildiscount’s motivation behind their side project is to indulge their penchant for the absurd. They thought to themselves: there simply has to be a band named Glied (“member”). Any hints towards fragile masculinity or male fragility conveyed by the uncomfortable sounding term are of course purely incidental.

With Glied, Exildiscount opted only to use hardware synths and drum machines, removing the process of composition from the computer. Not to pander to nerdy elitism and gear hype, but so as to explore how conscious boundaries can spark creativity. The result is an unclean sort of “kraut disco” which mixes repetitive sequences of a psychedelic bent with melancholy EBM vibes.

The two-track EP “Gone Viral” is the second release out of Exildiscount’s Unboxing Shadows label. “Svp3rm4nspr34d3r” (supermanspreader), the opener, delivers hypnotic warmth interspersed with modulations of noisy, aggressive elements. Meanwhile, the captivating bass lines and rhythm loops of “Careful with that .exe Eugene” make the second track more at home on the dancefloor.

Mixed by Redshape
Mastered by Bob Humid
Cover Artwork by Kiki van den Molen

Gone Viral

Glied - Careful With That .exe Eugene (Original Mix)

Bassy house and post punk'd beats!
Ft. Crookers, Uffie, Warmduscher, JLO, Louisahhh, No Seduction and more
2 x CDJ2000 and sweat xx
Thanks @green-everywhere @nicolo-piombi for hosting me

Discopatia Vol.8 - Bologna,IT - 22.12.24

First single from the coming album, Unpredictable Express. Out on Snick Snack Music the fall of 2025. Artwork by Elvira Horvei. Mixed and mastered by Matthew Styles.

Summer of 9.2

Helene Rickhard - Summer of 9.2

Slow Joy - September 2025 Mix

Electronic music label from Oslo. Run by Ost & Kjex and Trulz & Robin.

Drew Exildiscount is a composer, sound engineer, producer and DJ from Berlin. Whether it is in working alongside video artists or in compiling a techno set, Drew’s work always operates along the same tenets: exploring, challenging and recontextualising the different narratives, disciplines, identities, perspectives and discourses that inform both a work itself as much as our understanding of it. In this, they draw on their formal training as much their biography. Born to Christian cultist parents, they spent their childhood playing music in pedestrian malls of Germany with their family band. Escaping the ideological confines of religion and prescriptive masculinity as a gender non-conforming teenager, Drew first pursued training as an events technician, then studied at Humboldt University of Berlin, majoring in Musicology and Media (Studiengang „Musik und Medien“), and minoring in Cultural Studies. They started out DJing in 2003 and now regularly play at parties across the queer scene of Berlin, such as House of Red Doors, Gegen, Chantals House of Shame and as a longtime resident at SchwuZ. Their work is driven by a belief in idealism rather than ideologies.

Breakcore, disco and freak beats since 2006.
SocksLove (former Dago) is a lovely musical mess, playing around ghettos always keeping focused on crowd's room and temper alongside Moullinex, 2ManyDJs, Bonobo, Caribou, Cut Copy, Onra, Pantha du Prince, Shox and other happy destitute ones.

UNBOXING SHADOWS was founded by DJ and artist Exildiscount in Berlin in 2021. Opening the black box of normativity, UNBOXING SHADOWS serves as a safe space in which music can be literally queer – challenging the norm in genre as much as in lived experience. UNBOXING SHADOWS brings all that is obscure and subversive into the light of the dance floor.

New tracks tagged #Kraut Disco