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toploader - rooted in the fluid team - is daring to leave his mark on the wide spectrum of music selectors. He is passionate about techno and house that focuses on percussions, driving baselines, swift kicks, and deep ambient synth waves without depriving his listeners of one or two cheesy surprises.

Toploader - Fluid Festival Showcase 30.03.23

Honey! An early chistmas gift did just arrive! It's @toploading 's new set for the 6th edition of NEST Sessions! 

@toploading - hamburg-born, berlin-based, spoilt 

toploader is rooted in the family of the Fluid Festival and dares to leave his mark on the wide spectrum of musical selectors. 
He kickstarted his first year of public djing at Hamburg club Institution [PAL] with his bestie dj fako followed by gigs at Jupiter, Callshop Radio, and Akashic Records.

He is passionate about percussive tunes with driving baselines, swift stabs, and deep ambient synth waves. His soundscapes oscillate between gritty, eerie, violent techno and rather uplifting house that he likes to blend with complex rhythms reminiscent of dembow and dancehall.

On his bi-monthly radio show "transcending w/ toploader" on nkfunky.com he showcases his favorite tracks that usually won't end up in his DJ sets.

With our NEST Sessions mix series we want to open up space for friends and family of Mamagei to show off their sound, vision, creativity, and passion and increase visibility for artists that we think are worthy of your attention. NEST-Session aims to display all kinds of electronic music beyond the genre norm and allow artistic freedom in all directions.

As always, big shoutout to todays DJ @toploading for honoring us with such a banger set! Keep it up! <3

toploader - 006 NEST Sessions

20240720 // [sic]nal ON AIR - HABITAT FESTIVAL w/ Toploader

20241222 // [sic]nal - DISTORTION FM w/ toploader

toploader (@toploading) is rooted in the now-defunct family of Fluid Festival (R.I.P.), having made early appearances alongside his bestie dj fako at Hamburg’s club institution [PAL] in 2022, followed by gigs at Jupiter, Callshop & Sicnal Radio, Akashic Records, and Paloma. These days, he’s shifting into more introspective territory, curating ambient and listening sessions with events with Transmute in a questionable attempt to rebrand himself as “thoughtful.”

Musically, he has (allegedly) matured — drifting away from uninspired 4/4 techno and house toward deeper, more hypnotic, and non-linear soundscapes. Think dubby textures, tribal rhythms, and percussive, reverberated deep techno — because nothing screams originality like dramatic, cinematic pads and echoes.

He most definitely does not break boundaries or bend genres. Instead, he plays what he likes (and what he almost certainly shazamed off someone else’s digging efforts). Toploader values about flow, cohesion, and subtlety. Neither especially known for his stellar mixing nor his careful selections, he’s presenting to you today: all things dub.

Tracklist:
Joe Davies – Hi Life feat. Ossia  
Deadbeat – Rattle The Roof Down  
Jay Bliss, Ada Kaleh – Nimbus  
Biodub – Reminder  
Chaos In The CBD – Global Erosion  
Kelman Duran – Dancehall, Audubon Ballroom  
Nicolas Barnes – Feratum (Original Mix)  
Rhauder, Paul St. Hilaire – Sidechain (Dub Version)  
Quantec – Profound Experiences  
Berg Audio – R.Y. feat A.C. - Move Dub (Steve O'Sullivan Remix)  
Aril Brikha – Bytes  
Andrew Tighe – Spirits  
Chaos In The CBD – Digital Sound  
Trinidadian Deep – Native Revolution (Original Mix)  
Reset – Runaway Dub (Del 5 (Northwest Coast Mix)  
9west – Moments (Original Mix)  
Delano Smith – Untitled_2  
Two Right Wrongans – System Error  
Grad_U, Ohrwert – Surface I (Ohrwert Alter)  
Delano Smith – Untitled_1  
Oceanic – Sulphur Streams (Original Mix)  
Malin Genie – Mastodon  
Deniro – Monsoon 3  
Claudio PRC & Andrea Cossu – Biofluorescence  
Hatti Vatti, Echo Ranks, Andy Stott – Great (Andy Stott Remix)

decompression session 009: toploader

Transcending @transmutesessions

Part of @fluidfestival | Booking & Production

01-2025 b2b Saber @ Paloma Bar, Berlin
12-2024 @sicnalradio, Hamburg
07-2024 @sicnalradio @Habitat Festival, Hamburg
04-2024 @ Giri, Berlin
04-2024 @ Zur Klappe, Berlin
03-2024 @ Monarch, Berlin
09-2023 b2b @djfaxgeraet @ CryptoCastle
09-2023 b2b @djfako @ Jupiter, Hamburg
07-2023 IfA Expo 2023, Berlin
06-2023 b2b @djfaxgeraet @ Agatha H., Berlin
04-2023 @callshopradio Radio
02-2023 b2b @djfako @palwerks [PAL], Hamburg