Deep in the fantasy he found himself buried between books and parliamentary papers. He was attempting to solve a riddle as to the whereabouts of the guns of rixdorf but little insight was to be gathered upon this evening it seemed. The little candle flickered abruptly on the mantlepiece and sizzled into the abyss upon the breath of wind. He was surrounded by little but the night and the cold crackle of a stereo. All of a sudden a great voice beckoned down the corridor. 

Franz Matthews returns to release a new EP on the much loved Days Of Being Wild record label.

PREMIERE: Franz Matthews - Guns Of Rixdorf [Days Of Being Wild]

Rodrigo Sterbling, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Indie Dance, Nudisco, & Techno producer.
- Bookings: teqwaveproductions@gmail.com
- Remixes & more: rodrigo.sterbling@gmail.com

🖋️ zehlendorferdiscosquad@gmail.com
Founders of https://soundcloud.com/disco-futurismo

Upcoming:

21.08.2025 Disco Bizarre x Disco Futurismo @ Klunkerkranich
08.09.2025 Mystic Creatures Festival
19.09.2025 Disco Futurismo @ Crack Bellmer
09.10.2025 Disco Futurismo x Acide Technotheka @ Renate
15.11.2025 Disco Futurismo @ JK
12.12.2025 Disco Futurismo @ Crack Bellmer

Past:

03.08.2025 Schallmauerfall Festival
24.07.2025 Mit Dir Festival
09.06.2025 Jimmy Kniffel
07.06.2025 Studio 54 @ Wurzelfestival
30.05.2025 Disco Futurismo invites: LIFTED @ Crack Bellmer 
21.04.2025 Strandiphos
24.01.2025 Crack Bellmer (2 Yrs of Disco Futurismo)

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2024

31.12.2024 Anomalie, Berlin
30.12.2024 Renate (Disco Futurismo x Acide Technotheka)
25.10.2024 Crack Bellmer (Disco Futurismo), Berlin
05.10.2024 Jimmy Düppel, Berlin
02.10.2024 Mena (Disco Futurismo), Berlin
08.09.2024 Strandiphos, Berlin
23.08.2024 AVA Club (Biscotti Disco Affair), Berlin
25.07.2024 Klunkerkranich (Disco Bizarre), Berlin
21.06.2024 Crack Bellmer (Disco Futurismo), Berlin
09.06.2024 HIVE Festival, Ferropolis
08.06.2024 Zurück zu den Wurzeln, Niedergörsdorf
05.04.2024 Crack Bellmer (Disco Futurismo), Berlin
22.03.2024 Aeve, Berlin
09.03.2024 Sisyphos, Berlin
01.03.2024 Waschhaus, Potsdam
13.02.2024 Süss war gestern, Berlin
11.01.2024 Renate, Berlin
06.01.2024 Kater Blau, Berlin
04.01.2024 Zu Mir oder zu Dir, Berlin

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2023

31.12.2023 Sisyphos, Berlin
22.12.2023 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
24.11.2023 Alte Münze, Berlin
16.09.2023 Bredouille Bar, Berlin
15.09.2023 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
01.09.2023 Evolution Festival, Garlin
13.08.2023 Buschtanz Festival, Tutow
05.08.2023 Sektor Evolution, Dresden
29.07.2033 Kater Blau, Berlin
27.07.2023 Renate, Berlin
15.07.2023 Feel Festival, Bergheider See
16.06.2023 Meeresrausch Festival, Peenemünde
02.06.2023 Birgit, Berlin
01.06.2023 Renate (Garten), Berlin
06.05.2023 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
15.04.2023 Kit Kat Club, Berlin
11.02.2023 Christa Kupfer, Berlin
19.01.2023 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
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2022

02.09.2022 Evolution Festival (Planet B)
26.08.2022 Waldrauschen Open Air, Potsdam
05.08.2022 HIVE Festival (Lost Cabin)
16.07.2022 Feel Festival (Nest)

Born and raised in the early nineties in southwest Berlin, these two did not yet know that their paths would once cross one another. 25 years and plenty of DJ-Gigs later, they stood next to one another at a Home Party in Zehlendorf. The circumstances were not the best: really old CDJs, an extremely small DJ booth and another Covid-lockdown about to occur. However, they had a bag full of cosmic tunes, their Disco-finger on lock and a Rhubarb-Prosecco-Mixture filled in their glasses. Since then, the two have been drifting around weightlessly between Cosmic-, Dark- and Astrological Disco.

In the last couple of years the Zehlendorfer Disco Squad has been playing at Festivals such as the Feel Festival, Meeresrausch- and Wurzelfestival. 2023 has seen the rise of their new event series "Disco Futurismo" and regular gigs at renowned clubs such as Sisyphos, Kater Blau, Renate (Berlin) or Sektor (Dresden). Lets see where the cosmic journey takes them in 2025!

sounds and melody, emotions and amazing mood

Upcoming:
- August 20th - Fridas Pier


Previous:
- Sommer Festival der Kulturen
- Konsentival Proton Stuttgart
- Katakombe CH Bodensee
- Climax Institutes Stuttgart
- Maskenball 2025
- Romantica Stuttgart: Märchen Stunde
- Fuchs und Hase 2024 - Bieberdamm
- Wagenhallen: Ackertunes
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
- Galaxy Groove "die Halle" 
- Bläsikelter Tübingen
and more

Adrián Peña Sánchez (Calystarr) is a DJ, producer and electronic researcher from Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz). His style could be compared to night and day, on the one hand, dynamism and depth and on the other, elegance and freshness.
His sounds are full of psychedelic atmospheres full of harmony using nuances and resources, in most cases, of a retrospective nature. Calystarr usually works under many musical influences, betting mainly on retro and underground indie sounds. In his sets and productions it is common to hear Nudisco, Italo, Classic House, New Beat, Indie Dance, Acid, Electro, EBM and Dark Disco styles.

He has worked musically with a multitude of national and international artists such as James Rod, Parissior, Moo Monster, Neurotiker, Pumuki, CMIND, Gameboyz, ROTCIV, Ilya Santana, Tronik Youth, Kay-Chi, Chinosynth and Astore working for music labels such as Golden Soul, Espacio Cielo, When Disco Goes Wrong, Melómana Records, Channel Six, Burning Synths, Nein Records, Club Mackan, Astrolead Records, Logical Records and Emerald & Doreen.
As for performances, Calystarr has been in many venues, events and festivals sharing the bill with many artists of great projection such as Avant_Y, Chagar, Lollypop, Rick Golden, Nubaen, Vinny Carmona, Bonny Stuche, Dalila, Göo!, Sedjat and many more.
Worthy of mention is his performance at Electrolunch, Edición Sevilla XXL where he shared the bill with Reka and Jennifer Cardini and Interestelar Sevilla 2025 where he shared the line up with Marta Flores, Undo and Blondex.
Currently, Calystarr is working on a parallel project in full adaptation to the performance format through the Live Set and Hybrid Set, introducing the alternation through digital and analog systems.
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Releases & remixes:
- Culto Recordings
- Bolonia Recordings
- Golden Soul Records
- Dacusan Music Records
- Sustain Music
- Channel Six
- Asane Records
- Espacio Cielo
- When Disco Goes Wrong
- Nein Records
- Emerald & Doreen
- Club Mackan
- Astrolead Recordings
- Melómana Records
- Burning Synths
- Logical Records 
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Contact/Info: calystarr@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/calystarrmusic

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After years working behind the scenes as a talent agent, Nackley returned to music production as a way to process life’s chaos, anxiety, and the awkward beauty of being human. His debut EP, Anger Management (Bordello A Parigi, 2025), emerged from this transitional period – part catharsis, part tongue-in-cheek commentary on trying (and often failing) to keep it together.

A classical and jazz-trained bass player with a passion (bordering on obsession) for patch cables and modular antics, Nackley creates music that blends dark, cinematic synth textures with playful, punchy rhythms. Imagine coldwave and synthpop having an existential crisis at a club, but with a sense of humour about it. There’s tension and drama in his sonic palette, yet it’s never fully bleak – there’s always a cheeky twist, a groove that makes you smirk while you dance. It’s music for foggy dance floors, late-night reflections, and anyone who likes their emotional depth served with a side of goofy charm.