Tech-House / Indie Dance / Deep House / Techno / Dark Disco

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious .... so: dance trough the darkness to the light 🖤✨

DARK DISCOncentration 🖤

It was a great pleasure and at the same time an exciting challenge to put on music at 12 noon at the wonderful Unter-uns festival, as many were just starting to wake up at that hour. I am so grateful that my music was so appreciated. It was a great start and I look forward to more! 
Again, a huge thank you to the organizers of this unforgettable experience, to the people who were really all respectful, humorous and loving to each other and to the DJs who kept inspiring me, surprising me and making me dance to their unique music. 
Conclusion after this Corona year: we can give each other so much good! 
I start the week with this energy happy, blissful and confident.

Unter uns Festival 2021 DJ Tornadotoni

I recorded this Set for the amazing Love Trip Radio. A digital radio station created by music lovers who have been paying homage to electronic music for over twenty years. Thank you dear Love Trip Radio team for the great support and passion for music that I have shared with you for decades. Music connects. How beautiful!
Radio Link: https://lovetripradio.de/

Tornadotonis Love Trip Radio Set

Many thanks to my friends in NRW who founded this great online radio station out of a 30-year passion for music. I have been sharing the love of music with some of them for so long now and it is wonderful to be a small part of this project. I hope very much that I will soon be able to play and see everyone again in my beloved NRW, which has shaped me so much personally and musically.
Allow yourself to be yourself and look forward to the unknown.

Lovetrip is the best trip: Lovetripradio Set❤️ Dance it out and feel free! (Let's dot togheter)

This eclectic mix consciously addresses the current world affairs such as climate change, the mood of crisis and its various effects on our emotional world. 
For Tornadotoni, this set is an outlet to dance out all the worries, the anger, the questions, the uncertainty and the helplessness in the face of injustice.
It is an invitation to free yourself for a moment from the global burnout and instead to consciously connect with your true self.
 Many genres of electronic dance music are represented, such as indie dance, dark disco, broken beats, house, deep house, but also funk and hip hop. 
Artists like Die Sterne and Deichkind, who convey the pulse of the times well in terms of content, appear several times in the set.
Thank you lovetripradio team for letting me play what I feel. It means a lot to me, dear longtime music friends.

Lovetripradio/Dance it out and feel your true self/DotRadioShow 💜💚

I bought my first electronic record in the 80s as a child in my hometown Bellinzona (near Lugano). It was Kraftwerk's album "Computerwelt". This album sparked my thirst for more innovative music, which was nearly nonexistent in our area during the 80s. There was a radio DJ show in Milan called "Radio DJ" that played electronic music, but to hear what I liked, I had to venture out of my small town. In Zurich, towards the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, after much hesitation, as I was usually the only woman, I explored the record stores and discovered my love for techno, which paved my way into the wider world because I wanted to live where there was techno and like-minded people. I moved to Zurich, then to Cologne, where I experienced wonderful rave times at the legendary Warehouse Club and spontaneously commuted between Frankfurt, Belgium, NRW and London, where I heard one of the most inpiring DJs at the time at Heaven: Mrs. Wood, and where I got to experience the amazing Club ,Turnmills'. After that, I moved to Munich, where I had the pleasure of experiencing wonderful nights of dancing at the Ultrashall and the Flokati.
Now I'm in Berlin, where of course many techno enthusiasts land. As a woman, I didn't dare to DJ back then, although many DJ friends encouraged me on my journey. Yetti (formerly DJ Miss Yetti) was braver and paved the way for many women who were hesitant; she persuaded me to overcome my fears decades later, in 2019. In the early 90s, we were usually the only women (with Sabine Christ from Housefrau, the first show about electronic music in Germany) in the Delirium record store. Over these more than 30 years, I've had the privilege of hearing such amazing artists who continue to make fantastic music, like Hardfloor. At this point, I want to express my gratitude for the "The Sound of Lugano" remix, which contains everything I love: acid, funk, and Lugano ;-) and how wonderful it is to experience young artists like Natanael Megersa, who recently created wonderful productions. Techno will always be my companion, and I look forward to sharing this love with you on the dancefloor someday. 
LOVE your Techno-Tornado 
P.S. If anyone wants to share the passion for the origins of techno with others, feel free to join our 90s Technoclassics group on FB, which we've had for 14 years now, dedicated to the love of techno.

💥 from Lugano to Techno 💥

We played together (for the first time) the Opening of the Techno Türken Openair at Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin and it was beautiful to see what emerged from it: a completely new musical journey, as each of us connected her energy with that of the other. A journey that brought us closer, also with the fantastic dance crew and the wonderful people we got to know afterwards. Many thanks also to the organizers, who took great care of us. LOVE

INKAA & Tornadotoni: Techno Türken Opening / Berlin

Last weekend, on August 25th, 2024, I had the incredible opportunity to play again at the NonoStar Festival in the Uckermark, in the countryside outside Berlin. The atmosphere was truly magical, and there was a profound sense of connection that we all felt. I was initially scheduled to play for two hours, but ended up playing for three, followed by a B2B set until sunrise. The sky was a vibrant red, the air was mild, and the colors were soft and gentle.

This time leaned more into Deep House, Indie Dance, with a touch of Afro-House, Tech-House, and Organic-House, sprinkled with some familiar vocals here and there. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed playing it. 

This beautiful experience with amazing dancers and wonderful fellow DJs is something I will carry deeply in my heart. I am so grateful to have shared this incredible end to the summer with such wonderful people. Many, many thanks to the organizers for having me. I feel truly blessed and am overjoyed to have had this experience.

Nonostar Festival 24 - for a dance in peace 🕊️

I always feel like a little kid again when I get to play with my amazing friends in Vienna and share beautiful, inspiring moments with them. It’s simply magical how much music brings people together. 
Thanks to SoundCloud, I was booked by this wonderful crew, and now we’re celebrating two years of friendship.
This time, I had the incredible opportunity to play twice within 24 hours! 
Here’s how it all started – the beginning of my gig at Ponyhof Club.
Thank you, music, and thank you, Wunderwandel Crew! LOVE

Ponyhof Vienna 6.9.2024/ Wunderwandel Deep House Journey /

What a beautiful night at Beate Uwe on March 7th, 2025. 
Full of love, powerful performances, and deep dancefloor energy. But beyond the vibes – this day is not just a celebration, it’s a day of resistance. A reminder that the fight for equality and visibility continues.

For this night, I also chosed to include the powerful speech by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde from the time of Trump’s inauguration – a speech that struck me for its courage, clarity, and unwavering hope. Together with our dancers, we turned her words into movement, into rhythm, into a call for a more human, inclusive, and compassionate politics.

Thank you to everyone who danced with us, who felt with us. 
Much love and solidarity.

Call for more human politics - Beate Uwe - Femunity & Friends 2025

In the Beginning There Was Techno – by Tornadotoni

This set was recorded for the Techno-Sekretariat — episode #10 on YouTube — with Techno as the main theme.
It reflects my own definition of Techno — the way I experienced it in the early ’90s.

Back then, Techno could be very fast, and also warm, emotional, and full of depth.
I remember it as something that carried energy and soul at the same time — an umbrella for many electronic styles that were just emerging and constantly evolving.

In the early ’90s, there were usually three floors: a Techno floor, a House floor, and a Chill-out room with Ambient DJs.
On the Techno floor, you’d hear everything — Progressive House, Acid, Trance, Breakbeat, Detroit Techno and many more — all mixed together. It wasn’t about the big drop yet; it was a journey, one where you never knew exactly where you’d end up.

That sense of exploration still fascinates me today. I love sets that take you by the hand and lead you somewhere unexpected — and that’s what I try to keep alive in my own way.

I get bored with sets that feel predictable — like films where you already know the ending. That’s why this mix includes moments that surprise, wake you up, or take you somewhere different. That’s my signature: I play eclectically, following emotion rather than formula.

For me, Techno is something that shaped my life — it took me around the world, connected me with a community, and gave me that unique sense of freedom. Without Techno, I probably wouldn’t even live in Berlin.

So yes — in the beginning there was Techno. At least for me.
Thanks to Techno-Sekretariat for having me as part of this series.

🎥 Watch the full playlist: YouTube – Techno-Sekretariat

📸 Follow on Instagram: @technosekretariat

In the Beginning There Was Techno – Technosekretariat - Youtube #10

shake & do it, yeah!

❤️groove is in the heart, groove is everywhere❤️
Tornadotoni, who was born and raised in Bellinzona  (the italian part of Switzerland), is a Berlin based DJ and Founder of the FLINTAQ* Artist collective Femunity. Since childhood she was a vivid music lover.  
At the age of eight she bought her first record and that was a big turning point in her life. For the next decades, one could find Toni getting lost in time & space at the best record stores all over the world, growing her diverse vinyl collection. Six years ago, Miss Yetti-a dear friend of hers & one of the first female electronic DJs around- asked Tornadotoni to DJ at her birthday party. Since then, she devotedly shares her passion for music and enjoys the magical connection that comes from dancing. Music is pure energy for Toni and it is from this feeling that she puts together her eclectic sets where many genres flow together, such as house, disco, indie dance, funk, dark disco, deep house, world, dub, ambient, organic house, conscious music, hip hop, acid, trap and many more which have one common denominator: “The Groovetrain”, as Tornadotoni calls it.

Berlin: Kater Blau, Beate Uwe, Klunkerkranich, Techno Türken (Festsaal Kreuzberg), Kit Kat Club, Odessa Bar, Crackers, Bulbul (former Farbfernseher), Unter-uns-Festival, AbunDance, A100-Wegbassen-Demo, Mahalla, Michelbergerhotel, Nonostar Festival, Wilder als erwartet, die Kante, Imperia Event 

Belgium: Bonnefooi, Brussels

Munich: Komod Festival, Kesselhaus (Kinky Galore), Escon Events, Senatore Bar, Flashbox, Kulturstrand 

Vienna: Wunderwandel Garden Open Air, Ponyhof, Rudolfstanz, Ecstatic Dance for Blissplanet 

Albania: Wunderwandel Festival

Korfu (Greece): Agape Zoe Festival, Estia Bar (Arillas)


In November 2022 at the Agape Zoe Festival in Berlin, she launched her new Pilates Sound Flow Project with DJ Iv (see soundcloud link below), consisting of soundjourneys with meditative music, soundscapes, psybient, psychill, ambient and trascendent sounds of all kinds.

Tech-House / Indie Dance / Deep House / Techno / Dark Disco

Tornadotoni 🌪