Off Air

Berlin 10 Dec 2018 18:30 - 23:30 GMT

Hard Dance is a new Boiler Room series celebrating the most vital contemporary crews on club culture's extreme fringes. Following our launch with the mina collective in Lisbon, Hard Dance heads to Berlin for an evening in the company of Herrensauna.

Since 2015, Herrensauna has been a queer-run event appearing regularly in Berlin. The parties encompass a broad range of genres, but can be summarised in showcasing forward-thinking dance music, lesser-known artists and eclectic programming, with events lasting well into the next day. The event series strives to gather together a broader community of expressive locals and international guests with a passion for club culture and subsequently progressive ideas.

Joining us is the Hard Dance milieu of Herrensauna residents and special guests including: SPFDJ, who’s sharp ascent is born of a taste for dynamics that advance towards ecstatic momentum. Occasionally working at vicious speeds, acidic techno climes are funnelled through kaleidoscopic wares from the wealth of high-energy outposts found across dance music today. Here is a sound that captures everything that is vital about harder edges old and new, drawing on fast tempos, punchy kicks and acid lines with elements of electro, hardcore and trance to establish a dance floor experience that is wholly consuming, cathartic and full of energy.

The Empire Line, with living-for-the-weekend hedonism irretrievably converted into a manicured, violent cliché, building new worlds and forging new modes of intimacy takes an exceptional sincerity. Naming some of the crews closest to The Empire Line in the album's titles, their spaces are examples of just how rave culture persists as a transgressive stronghold in people's lives.

Cadency, the ever pressed and current leader of underground intensity from resident sets at Herrensauna parties to endless Bassiani appearances in Tbilisi. CEM and MCMLXXXV capping the line-up representing the steamy, relentless, hard hitting resident icons that frequent the Herrensauna parties.

Please Note: this collaboration with Herrensauna will be pre-recorded on Dec 5th with a live-stream to follow on December 10th.