The Tottenham London born-and-bred selector grew up on soul and reggae, later becoming a dedicated junglist. First as a resident DJ at the legendary London club Plastic People, she’s built a rep as one of the most effective and interesting DJs around. Playing shape-shifting, genre-bending sets that effortlessly move from classic rare groove and disco records to upfront house and techno, via garage, jungle and whatever else she feels like. With no social media presence, Josey’s reputation is based on selection, passion and authenticity.
Sherard Ingram is a menacing node in the vast tangle of electronic music's history, present, and future. As DJ Stingray 313 he propagates a seer-like, totalising concept of what it is to be engaged in thinking ahead by making people move.
Permit yourself to zoom out of your singular reality enough such that all activity, all that is knowingly accumulated and all that is unnervingly accepted on this earth, is a spectrum of information. This includes the thermodynamics of our own biological structure. Now consider that music is a segment of this spectrum, and DJ Stingray's 313 nexus of electro, house and techno a further specialised section forged in bypassing normalised circuits to confront the future, to articulate abstract dynamics. It's a slice of information, it is a bandwidth. Ingram's crucial and distinctive function in this system is to decode his particular nexus as a speculative software for others, and to encode its conspicuous qualities as a feedback system with the rest of the spectrum. If it sounds intense, it's because it is, and it's still just about sweating it out at a club.
- Influenced by the Alien army and by the special technique of shadowboxing. Quest is a man of few words, and that’s not going to change anytime soon.
For more than a decade, Kötting has been moving between House, Deep House, Disco, and Techno – always with a keen sense of the right moment. A constant fixture in the Wuppertal underground scene, he was a resident at Mauke for seven years, as long as the club existed. He is known for delivering exciting and captivating sets.
paaradoxx (she/her) is a Cologne-based DJ originally from Wuppertal, where she built a strong following as part of the Mauke club. As co-founder of the PRUDE collective, she hosts workshops, a radio show, and throws parties across Germany. She is also a resident DJ at Gewölbe, spinning a wide spectrum of UK sounds, including Grime, UK Garage, Speedgarage, and DnB. Consider this a warning: paaradoxx is a FLINTA* Flummi on a mission. She's here to disrupt, amplify, and reshape the music scene into a truly equitable space, one bouncy beat at a time. So buckle up, or get bounced.
clara luise, born and raised in Munich, grew up immersed in the city‘s early industrial sounds, which echoed through the local club scene. These darker roots laid the foundation for a sound that’s since evolved into something more refined and nuanced. Now based in Düsseldorf and part of the local collectives Chromatik and Avontuur, she blends raw textures with a softer touch, experimental elements and rich percussion, balancing intensity with subtle, innovative rhythm.
Saturday, April 19th - Curated by Josey Rebelle
Josey Rebelle
DJ Stingray 313
Quest
DJ Stingray 313 - is an eminent pioneer in electronic music’s history, present, and future, whilst consistently avoided the mainstream to create a musical world of his own.
Always searching like a scientist for new inspirations to make his DJ sets so unique. His lightning fast mixing tears swiftly and seamlessly through the tempos, and with the constant shifts in tone, a DJ Stingray set is more of a seething mass of sound, as opposed to a typical club groove that keeps rolling all night long.
Quest - Influenced by the Alien army and by the special technique of shadowboxing. Quest is a man of few words, and that’s not going to change anytime soon.
He opts against promoting himself on social media, so it’s primarily by word of mouth, his name shared by those in the know, that he’s become one of those rising young DJs having developed a reputation amongst underground circles as a dedicated digger and sublime selector.
Josey Rebelle -
The Open Ground Resident transcends styles and eras with a fierce energy that evokes the spirit of her home city London.
Josey pursues timelessness. „A lot of the time when I’m playing tunes you might not be able to tell which era things were made in,“
Mauke Label Night at Annex: For nearly a decade, Mauke has been a beacon of avant-garde dance music and subcultural vibes in Elberfeld. This April, their artists are back at it for the clubnight at Openground — guiding you through the night with that same uncompromising ethos.
Expect cutting-edge electronic dance music by Paaradoxx and clara luise, fused with timeless gems from back in the day — courtesy of Kötting’s vinyl vault.
Cause in Elberfeld we still trust.
No Mauke, no fun.
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