DVS1’s status as one of the world’s most revered DJs and prominent voices in the preservation of true club culture is built upon an all-encompassing love of music, deep respect for his craft, and experiences in the ‘90s midwest rave scene. With over 25 years of experience, his sets, powerful and high-energy affairs, honor these roots while evidencing a versatility, sensitivity, and understanding for making people dance that comes only with years of commitment in pushing the boundaries of sound at the most renowned clubbing institutions. Whether he’s spinning a rare house set or racing, straight techno to pitch black rooms, the DVS1 experience is unforgettable. Known for addressing issues within the electronic music scene, DVS1 launched Aslice in 2022, a community-driven platform that encourages DJs to donate a percentage of their fees to the artists whose music they play.
An insatiable music lover, Claude Blimey has gathered a trove of stories over a journey filled with memorable encounters and unforgettable experiences. He held a two-year residency at the legendary Le Pulp club in Paris, delivering monthly Wednesday warm-up sets that became a staple of the scene. His talent soon took him across the Atlantic to New York's iconic PS1, where he played the Warm Up Series in 2007 and 2008. Claude Blimey also brings his deep digging skills and broad musical knowledge to Rough Trade during Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival. Since 2003, he has shaped the musical identity of agnès b., orchestrating partnerships and collaborations around music, while overseeing the sound programming of the boutiques.
Navigating the limits of experimental and club sound, Düsseldorf-based Ildikó creates wide range of surreal soundscapes and brutal, genre-mashing club mutations, having played and organised nights at Salon des Amateurs, amongst other venues in NRW. She is drawn to complex, unstable rhythms and raw textures— assembling visceral sets that cause both movement and disorientation.
Exhausted Environment is a DJ and musician based in Düsseldorf, recognized for crafting dynamic sets that blend a wide range of genres. They have been organizing a series of concert- and club nights focused on experimental electronic music at Düsseldorfs Salon des Amateurs. From industrial and broken beats to a wide variety of bass music, gqom and gorge, their performances are marked by a powerful energy and immersive soundscapes. Sometimes dark and heavy sometimes fun and playful.
Keta Gavasheli is a Tbilisi-born, Düsseldorf-based multidisciplinary artist whose work moves across sound, moving image, installation and performance. As a resident of Salon des Amateurs, she has been actively involved in the space’s programming over the past two years, regularly performing and curating events. Through live performance and spoken word, she explores presence as a mode of socio-political resistance. Her sets drift across genres without holding to any one in particular, moving through murky soundworlds shaped by UK bass, experimental rap, industrial grime, dub mutations and sounds like heavy, noisy textures, with fragments of oppressed voices.
The cologne based DJ is widely appreciated for his vinyl powered, playful style behind the decks and love for the community which he claims to be his source of energy and inspiration. In his 10 years living in Aachen, he definitely left a mark being one of the key players in the scene and a pivotal influence of the local sound. With the main focus being Techno, his emotionally charged sets can often drift into Electro and House - always pushing a positive energy, intensifying the connection to the audience.
Freifeld: DVS1 Returns to Open Ground.
A night between rare house and driving techno – precise, uncompromising, and rooted in sound system culture. DVS1 brings over two decades of Midwest rave experience to the club.
Annex: presents a program that moves fluidly between genres, creating an environment of constant flux and restless energy.
Sound unfolds through shifting rhythms, abstracted vocals and evolving textures—eschewing repetition in favor of tension and transformation.
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