Ogazón makes her debut. The Robert Johnson resident brings a classic, vinyl-heavy true school approach to her sets, building the energy with restrained pacing and an ear but simple-but-deadly gestures. An abundant musicality defines the core of her practice - you hear it in everything from the pared back simplicity of tracks like “Locked Groove” to her pristine, fluid mixing style. Argentine techno phenom Sol Ortega returns. A leading light of South America’s explosive techno underground, Ortega’s gritty, jacking sound balances a diverse palette - ranging from dubby spaciousness to slicing percussive mayhem - with exceptional clarity. Lauren Flax is a kindred spirit who captures the bold, future-facing essence of dance music with intuitive clarity. A key voice, Flax ties together the legacies of Detroit, Chicago and NY, of techno and house, and makes it all feel like one cohesive story.
BASHKKA headlines STUDIO. Her relationship to NY is a special one. The Turkish-German artist spent a significant chapter of her life immersed in the city’s ballroom scene. "My place of rebirth was New York," she once told RA, and you can hear the influence in her sets. BASHKKA blends a liberated sensuality with the raw power that defines ballroom. She now holds a residency at Munich’s Blitz club, one of the most lauded hubs in Europe today. PARAMIDA returns. The Love On The Rocks founder has blazed a glorious trail through modern dance music, harnessing the slinky pleasures of progressive and trance, neo-rave and much more. Her output is a love letter to a golden age, capturing the freedom and unabashed optimism that coursed through so much dance music at the dawn of the millennium. Fundido - the duo of Latane Hughes and Billy Scher - has been a pillar of the US italo-house-disco-baeleric-etc subculture for a decade and counting. Earlier this year, they released the “Get a Grip” EP, collaborating with singer Emma Dufaux. It’s a bopping, pumping slice of pure, nightcrawler bliss. They just followed it up with the hot-off-the-presses “Melt,” which counters the saucy, sassy energy of “Get a Grip” with an unadulterated italo tribute, tempered with a modern twist.
