Castro + Nemo
Some people excel in their scenes, but few actually create their own.
Castro and Nemo, the children of Swiss-Cuban mariners, while trained as an architect and a beautician, respectively, are better known as the duo behind Berlin’s friendliest dance music institution: Sound Metaphors.
Since opening up shop almost exactly 9 years ago, Castro and Nemo have breathed vibrant, colorful life into the Berlin scene, and turned it, in their own way, upside down.
From their base at Sound Metaphors, the manifestation of their vision for a modern Disco Utopia™ in the heart of Kreuzberg, the pair supply the city with probably the best curated selection of records in town, while running a seemingly endless number of in-house labels, with scores of releases that, while being broadly different in style (the prerequisite for a metaphor), share one crucial common thread — a dedication to dance.
Perhaps expectedly, they are rather good DJs too: over the years, their extended sets at Cocktail D’Amore and their epic 18-hour New Years Eve closing of Lab.oratory have become the stuff of legend, while their regular full takeovers of its beloved parent club are perhaps the best curated parties in town.
And that’s not to mention their countless free parties and off location raves that help keep Berlin’s illicit spirit alive, their solid support of local DJs and vinyl enthusiasts, or their custom-built H.A.N.D. Sound Systems, which are fast becoming a feature of the disco landscape the world over.
Arguably one of the hardest working entities in Berlin's underground, in just 9 years it’s become hard to imagine Berlin without them. This Saturday, they join us at Hypersoft for the first time, where they will be in charge of the Ultimate Closing* at our final edition for 2024.
Because closing is the new Peak Time™!
Do. Not. Miss. ;)
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