Carl Craig
Margaret Dygas
Michael Mayer
Matthew Dexter
Kasra V
Marie Malarie
Xiaolin
E-Talking
TPR
DJ TEETH
Hypersoft Soundsystem
Weekender.
9–10.8.25. 32H. OXI.
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On August 9–10, we bring our S/S25 season at OXI to its logical conclusion with the biggest party yet: our first Weekender, running 32 hours nonstop over the entire club, from Saturday daytime all the way through Sunday night.
Over the course of the season, we have hosted a massive array of our favourite artists, including a number of legendary DJs, producers and label heads who each influenced electronic music and the art of DJing in highly significant ways, from pioneers of the Italian school Francesco Farfa and Daniele Baldelli, to Jane Fitz, key figures from Berlin’s development of house and techno, Nick Höppner and DJ Pete, to legendary tech- and minimal house pioneers Alex Neri and Magda. In so doing, we’ve attempted to trace the connections between our influences and experiences, paying tribute to some of the artists, eras and movements that have shaped us the most, while presenting new additions to the scene and leaning into more styles and sounds than ever before – including a new emphasis on different shapes and forms of techno.
Now, for the final chapter, we are taking it back to where it all began: Detroit.
We will be joined on this occasion by none other than Carl Craig, considered by many to be the pioneer and leading figure of the second wave of Detroit techno, who emerged in the early 1990s alongside other luminaries of the era such as Underground Resistance, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and Octave One, and went on to shape and define the global embrace of electronic music as an art form. Transcending legendary status, he is among a tier of untouchable artists who will forever be written in the books of dance music history as visionaries who massively altered the course of electronic music for generations to come.
Carl will be in best company with Perlon and Kompakt legends Margaret Dygas and Michael Mayer, two hugely influential artists and fixtures of the early-to-mid 2010s era Berlin scene, and a tightly curated selection of contemporary international leftfield house and techno, including the return of Matthew Dexter, Kasra V and E-Talking, the long-awaited Hypersoft debuts of Marie Malarie and Xiaolin, and special extended sets from Hypersoft founders and residents TPR and DJ TEETH.
This will be our last party for a while, so we are going out with a bang. Let’s dance.
Adam Pits, Alex Neri, Anatolian Weapons, Angel D'lite, Audrey Danza, Bambi, Bliss Inc., Budino, Carl Craig, Carl H, DJ Pete, DJ TEETH, Dama, Daniele Baldelli, David Fogarty, Diamin, E-Talking, Francesco Farfa, Jane Fitz, Jolly, Kasra V, Lastvuska, Lisene, Magda, Margaret Dygas, Marie Malarie, Matthew Dexter, Michael Mayer, Ms.G, Public Display of Affection, Nick Höppner, Running Hot, So-Fi, Sound Metaphors DJs, Stella Zekri, TPR, Xiaolin
OXI – Berlin
Each edition starts Saturday afternoon in the garden and continues inside through the night, with an extra-extended 32-hour Weekender edition in August. More artists will be announced in the months ahead, with full lineups dropping 4 weeks in advance. Stay updated via our Newsletter, Telegram and on hypersoft.cc. Tickets for all dates are on sale now via RA.
S/S-01: April 12
Francesco Farfa
Carl H
Angel D'lite
Bliss Inc.
E-Talking
Stella Zekri
So-Fi
PDA
DJ TEETH
TPR
S/S-02: May 10
Anatolian Weapons
Daniele Baldelli
Nick Höppner
Budino
Audrey Danza
Bambi
Jolly
Lastvuska
DJ TEETH
TPR
S/S-03: June 14
Jane Fitz
Alex Neri
Sound Metaphors DJs
David Fogarty
Dama
Ms.G
DJ TEETH
TPR
S/S-04: July 12
Magda
DJ Pete
Kasper Marott
Adam Pits
Lisene
Running Hot
DJ TEETH
TPR
S/S-05: August 9+10
Carl Craig
Margaret Dygas
Michael Mayer
Matthew Dexter
Kasra V
Marie Malarie
Xiaolin
E-Talking
DJ TEETH
TPR
Hypersoft Soundsystem
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S/S-04 Poster by Jordan Hearns
A1, 594 x 841mm, 115g/qm Affichenpapier
Limited edition of 100. 100% of profits go to The Dolls
A1, 594 x 841mm, 115g/qm Affichenpapier
Limited edition of 100. 100% of profits go to The Dolls
S/S-02 Poster by Kayn Chen
A1, 594 x 841mm, 115g/qm Affichenpapier
Limited edition of 100. 100% of profits go to The Dolls
A1, 594 x 841mm, 115g/qm Affichenpapier
Limited edition of 100. 100% of profits go to The Dolls
Nice Mix 011 – Revivis
Kicking off the next chapter of our Nice Mix series with 66 minutes of groove-driven house from Revivis, the London-born, Berlin-based producer, DJ and Santo Tomas label head.
Soft Power Vol. 1 – Protect Trans Youth
Cat. No.: HS-01
Release: 12.07.24
Format: WAV, AIFF, MP3
Distribution: Word and Sound
Mastering: Marco @ Analogcut
Artwork: Jason Graf
Funds raised: 4K+€
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2. Dylan Forbes — High Point
3. Adam Pits — Flangelic
4. Inner Zone - Salamander
5. Eoin DJ — Like Questions
6. Bliss Inc. — Safety Cage
7. DJ TEETH — Mi Acid Su Acid (La Abuela Mix)
8. D. Tiffany & Dugong — Throb Of The Elm
9. E-Talking — Tunneleffekt
10. Running Hot — Hold Me
11. Desire — Feel It
12. Cromby — Like A Diva
13. Angel D’lite — 1000 Flowers
14. Kasper Marott — Lang Kurs
15. Frederik Tollund — Ahead 9
100% of the profits go directly to Transgender Europe and Mermaids, organisations supporting and advocating for trans and non-binary youth in Europe, the UK and Asia.
We are a queer collective, label and club night based in Berlin, focused on electronic music, underground club culture and the communities who create and sustain it.
Dance music culture owes its existence to LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. Those same communities continue to innovate, produce, and sustain it today, with the same values of openness, acceptance and freedom that have always been its cornerstones. It’s imperative for all of us to know this history. We stand proudly as a queer collective, and try to carry forward those same values and return to the spirit of dance music culture before it splintered into the mainstream and rigidly defined micro scenes of today. Our parties are for everyone. Dance music should be a space where barriers are broken down.
We envision a queer future that’s inclusive, open, and friendly, fostering a community where everyone feels welcome – because what binds us together is something deeper than our gender or sexual identities. Common values of genuine open-mindedness, generosity, respect, empathy and solidarity, and connecting it all, a deep love for music – that is club culture. It is, more than anything, a way of being in and looking at the world.
Our plan from the start has been simple: to concentrate on music and contribute positively to the scene and community around us. We want to do whatever we can to lift up everyone in the process, including people who may never come to our parties or know anything about us. Dance music does not exist in a vacuum. We firmly believe that we, and all of our collective wellbeing, is deeply interconnected.
For the duration of our S/S25 season, we are raising funds for Berlin grassroots organisation The Dolls: a self organised, DIY, and participative space open to everyone who identifies as trans femmes*.
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The Dolls was born in 2022 as a meeting of various transfem* initiatives to form a mutual support network, to help fight isolation, create practices of care and solidarity, and gather more support and resources for our communities in Berlin.
Taking place every Sunday at Casa Kua, The Dolls is an open and participative space for anyone identifying within the transfem* spectrum, such as transsexuals, trans women, travestis, Two-Spirits, hormonal faggots, trannies, gender non-conforming femmes, and many more. As it states in their manifesto: “Dolls come in multiple shades, shapes, and forms. Wherever you are in your journey, you are welcome here.”
The Dolls is a transfem* only space without gatekeeping, and is open to all who identify as such. Every first Sunday is for BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) dolls only. The Dolls is not open for cops or military; our little house is anti-borders, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist.
Where did the idea for The Dolls come from?
There are probably as many herstories or hirstories of The Dolls as you will find members. But here is some gossip about how it all started. Before The Dolls were already many stories, in Berlin and in other places, about transfems* getting together in order to survive, to have fun, to weave livable and desirable lives collectively in a world that doesn't welcome us much. In Berlin, in the years before 2022 and as far as i know which is very little, there was already a DIY self-medication network, BIPoC transfem* gatherings, and irregular Transfem Tea Times and Transfem Meet Ups, in different spaces of the city. And many more different spaces of solidarity, love and support between dolls. Outside of Berlin, some of us got inspired by the work of FLIRT (Transfem Intersectionnel Radical Liberation Front) in France and by many more stories of Dolls' survival, resistance and brilliance.
The death of Ela Nik Bayan in September 2021 in Berlin also deeply affected a lot of us, and we needed to do something together in her legacy, to fight isolation and the multiple dynamics of oppressions that affect our community.
In the freezing and grey times of winter 2022, four of us met to discuss and dream about what a regular transfem* social space in Berlin would look like. We spent most of our meeting looking for a name and decided on ‘The Dolls’ because it sounds fierce and cunt, but also to honor the legacy of the names, cultures and transfem* worlds that came before us. Our initial desire was to meet other dolls, create a space with resources to support us all in our transitions, and support the growth of a radical tender and fierce political community to survive and thrive in Berlin. Our ideas received great support from Casa Kuà, who decided to welcome us every Sunday. And our meetings haven't stopped since!
How has the project developed since?
Sunday after Sunday, more dolls kept coming and sharing space together, doing their magic and shaping our growing community. Of course some started flirting, plotting and organizing together, and new projects were born, spreading the dolls revolution outside of our nest. We learned together while doing it what it means to be part of a transfem* community space. After some months, the main structures of The Dolls were created: the clothing swap, the self-medication counselling, the IPL machine, the workshops and the coffee/snacks/food space. Over three years, we estimate that The Dolls hosted about 3000 participants, since we are usually between 20 and 40 dolls every Sunday.
We like to imagine that our local transfem social club relies on two main pillars: community support and collective education.
Why are spaces like The Dolls so essential to the trans* community?
The Dolls is, first and foremost, a place to fight isolation, loneliness and individualism. We want to connect with each other, create solidarities between us and transition together. We focus on direct and concrete support practices, through cooking together, sharing clothes for all sizes and styles, and providing access to our collective IPL machine for hair removal. The self-medication counselling space is also precious to us, since many transfems* experience pathologization and medical violences, lack of access to proper health care and institutional support. DIY and self-medication are forms of resistance in a context of institutional abuse and attempts to erase us, and those shared practices are essential for our collective autonomy from a cis straight and racist medical establishment. And many trans* friendly doctors actually send their patients toward us, because they often don't have the answers or resources to help them.
The Dolls is also a place to share information, as well as visions, fears and dreams, to teach and challenge each other, to listen and get vulnerable, to make mistakes and learn together. These processes of collective learning take place in informal talks and meetings but also during more formal workshops, where participants facilitate collective moments. It can be a sharing circle, a political conversation, body practices or teaching each other skills. Over the years, the workshops have included themes such as Make Up, Being Trans in the Workplace, Self Defense, Sexual Health and HIV Prevention, Trans Struggles in Ghana, Decolonizing Trans History, Play Fight, Non Binarity, Antifascism, Voice Liberation, Bottom Surgery, Dancing, Letters Writing to a Sister in Jail, Solidarity with Palestine, Hormonal Feminization 101, Safer Oestro Injections… and many more.
How is The Dolls funded?
Being a self-organised DIY space, we have relied for the past three years on community support and donations from participants, as well as – more recently – public funds from Berlin's anti-discrimination budget. We are using this money to make the work of the seven organisers more sustainable in the long term, as well as to compensate our team of twenty volunteers for their precious work every Sunday. We would also like to add budget for weekly dinners, to help feed those who struggle to provide for themselves, as well as an emergency fund for dolls in precarious situations - something that we have already been doing, but which calls for more support.
How is the current political and economic situation in Berlin affecting your work?
Due to the new austerity measures, the funds we had will be reduced across the city, disproportionately impacting several of Berlin's most vulnerable communities. Preparing for the worst, we need to ensure that the space stays available and providing for those who need it most. This is the reason why we have started to raise funds and call for a wider community to support us. We have recently created a fundraiser with the goal of raising the yearly cost of running the space, so that we can continue broadening the reach of our group and providing support. This solidarity campaign would make us more resilient in the current political and economic context, and make sure that The Dolls can remain open for us to keep supporting each other in these challenging times.
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