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Start your week right and listen to our resident Leo Küchler for Grime Box at Griessmühle!

https://soundcloud.com/leokuchler/leo-kuchler-for-grime-box-at-griessmuhle

Have you heard about Eris Drew? Well, we haven’t, until recently our good friend Melanie from Her Damit Festival called us and told us about her. We instantly checked some mixtapes on Soundcloud and absolutely fell in love with her sound.

Given his releases on some of techno music’s most prominent labels many will already be familiar with Monoloc. After taking his first musical steps on CLR in his native city Frankfurt he relocated to Berlin in 2014 where he captured the attention of Dixon and Âme who included his “Flaneur” on the Innervisions Secret Weapons Part 7 EP.

Anastasia Vtorova has been emitting strange yet compelling sounds since 2014. Her first available tracks were on underground cassette releases, and, more recently, she’s appeared on the label Peder Mannerfelt and subterranean noise bastion Where To Now?

Seemingly out of nothing, through dust and with no bang, Vril appeared on the scene. His music made such beautiful noise that it instantly found his place on Marcel Dettmann’s selection for his “Conducted” CD and on Ostgut’s release schedule.

Be it ’80s new wave, ’90s West Coast Hip Hop, Disco or Dance mania, Daniel Bortz brings things together that aren‘t bound up with realness and street credibility; he fuses his own world of sound for today‘s dance floor. XLR8R visited him a couple of years ago in his hometown Augsburg to find out more about Daniel Bortz – read the whole “get familiar” story here.

In the 90s he escaped Russia only to find refuge in the legendary Ultraschall club. Today he is a rare creature, an exceptionally gifted beast, a worshiped legend, a mythical figure beyond comparison. Many have tried to emulate him, but they have all failed miserably and had to bow before the king of nightlife.

As a DJ and producer, Setaoc Mass is part of a select cut of young artists who are absorbing techno’s legacy and carrying the torch into tomorrow. Whilst overseeing his own imprint SK_eleven, his releases push a galvanising brand of techno, steeped in a sense of urgency, ever-propulsive with acute detailing and nods to a futuristic space-age.

Berlin based DJ, producer and label owner Len Faki is one of the most outstanding and in-demand artists in present day techno. He is an internationally requested dj, whose productions and remixes are played by techno’s most prominent names. Being a resident at Berlin’s prime techno club Berghain since its opening in 2004 keeps him open-minded as both a dj and a producer. 

As a DJ and producer, Marcel Fengler stands for imposing surprises and the appeal of variety. For him, techno is both unconditional passion as well as an essential part of his identity. He’s not bound to a linear or one-dimensional sound, instead, he’s constantly seeking for new ways to express his emotional storytelling skills.

Listen to this mix from Ilian Tapes’ Stenny & Andrea that was recently featured as “Mix of the day” by Resident Advisor. We can’t wait to have our Resident DJ Stenny back at CRUISE again this saturday, 23/12/17.

Grab your presale ticket and check out the whole line up for the last CRUISE of 2017 here.

Founder and A&R of Life and Death, Manfredi Romano grew up tour-managing punk bands and organising left-field music events in Italy around the turn of the Millennium. Having completed his studies in computer science at the University of Pisa, Manfredi went on to form DAZE, Italy’s first booking agency solely devoted to electronic music.