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Multisex Amsterdam
Levenslang, Saturday, September 26 at 11:59 PM GMT+2
For the first time, we're bringing our signature spatial design and room curation to Levenslang - the Netherlands' former largest prison, now reborn as a space unlike anything else. Together with the new owner, we stripped the location down to its bare minimum and are redesigning the dance floor, spatial&lighting design completely from scratch. We are adding a second room and dance floor for this event, making our debut at Levenslang also their first extended event in this space. As usual, we bring our entire team from Berlin to deliver the full Multisexual Dance Experience. You'll find the full program below, along with more information at the bottom of the page.
The Club opens at midnight with a Dutch selector and former resident of one of Amsterdam's most legendary - now closed - clubs, known for hypnotic, gradually unfolding sets that can stretch past five hours. He passes to a Berlin-based digger and self-described sound archeologist, weaving warm house grooves together with emotional, genre-spanning discoveries pulled from Japanese library records, German electronic experiments and jazz. As sunrise breaks, a Dutch producer and DJ raised in The Hague takes over - a former resident of Amsterdam's most influential clubs and a Dekmantel affiliate, running his own label and building deep, atmospheric house journeys from an ever-expanding record collection. He hands over to a British-Nigerian, Berlin-based DJ and label founder who also co-runs one of the city's leading community radio stations - his sets draw on the basslines and spatial effects of Jamaican and UK sound system culture to guide a rolling, dubbed-out blend of house and techno.
As the sun climbs higher, a Canadian-born techno originator whose stripped-back, machine-driven sound reshaped the genre in the '90s - founder of a trailblazing label and longtime pioneer of digital DJ technology - brings the afternoon into focus. He passes to a Berlin-based selector whose decade-plus residency in one of the city's most playful rooms has defined a sound of groove-led house, tribal-leaning techno and the flirtatious heartbeat of a good ballroom, and whose own party channels its proceeds toward marginalised communities. Closing the Club is a Paris-born duo of brothers whose warm-lit, shadow-bathed celebrations helped shape their city's queer scene from 2011 onward - longtime residents of a beloved Berlin party since 2016, known for captivating ten-hour closing sets and a sound distilling house to its most percussive, entrancing form, joining us once again at Multisex.
The Expo brings back the beloved Addit Audio soundsystem, easing in at sunrise with an Amsterdam-based musician, producer, composer and classically trained pianist, weaving voice and texture into hypnotic, cinematic soundscapes at the intersection of ambient, downtempo, minimal and dub techno, before drifting into deeper club territory. She passes to an interdisciplinary artist, designer and DJ from Beirut, now based in Amsterdam, whose sets walk the tightrope between listening music and dancing music across dub, IDM, trance and ambient techno - also the co-founder of an initiative calling for the revival of the 90s chill-out room. Next, a dancer-turned-selector whose genre-fluid sets blend groovy beats, unexpected twists and powerful messages. As afternoon unfolds, a project moving fluidly between techno, bass and downtempo takes the room on a drifting journey between genres and forms, chasing trance, appeasement and a thorough connection between body and mind. Closing out as the sun sets is a German-Greek selector and label founder spinning wax since the early 90s, an avid vinyl collector known for a broad, pigeonhole-free view of electronic music and a three-decks approach that lets the tracks - and the "what the hell is this?" moments - do the talking.Lineup:
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IT’S ABOUT TIME!!
Grond, Friday, October 2 at 07:00 PM GMT+2
New series of events where we meet COMPOSERS IN FIRST PERSON. GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands 19:00 (doors: 18:30) Donation based
IT’S ABOUT TIME!! proudly presents composers Thanasis Deligiannis and Amba Klapwijk!
Thanasis will share excerpts from some of his recent works and talk about how he makes them. In his practice, he is interested in the creative process more than in composing a predetermined result – working with time, resources, materials and spaces as part of the composition itself, and being attentive to the different relationships that develop with collaborators. This also raises questions about what it means to call oneself a composer when composition expands beyond music, and when working across disciplines becomes transdisciplinary. He would like to bring these questions into the presentation and open them up for discussion.
Thanasis Deligiannis is an artist, composer and director based in Amsterdam. His work moves between sound, performance, visual installation and research, with a particular interest in the tensions and exchanges between rural and urban cultures. He composes experiences in time and space, designing the conditions through which a work can take shape. Alongside his artistic work, he teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
“I will present an ongoing project in which I’m collaborating with pianist Carlota Carvalho and artist Akina Yoshitake Lopez. The project includes a musical composition for solo piano (Teder), a film, and a live performance. We will look at some video fragments of the film in progress, listen to Teder, and I will share my thoughts on this project and how we could continue.”
Amba Klapwijk is a composer and creator based in The Hague. She is inspired by landscapes, experiences in nature, poetry, philosophy and visual arts. Sea foam, seasonal changes, light reflections, long subtle sound changes, and immersiveness fascinate her. Her work includes musical compositions, installations, film, poetry and photography. In 2019, she was artist-in-residence at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in America, a biological field station and nature preserve. Her work has been performed by the Herz Ensemble, Ensemble Klang, the Residentie Orkest, the Rotterdam Student Orchestra, Kristia Michael and the Kali Ensemble, and Input Duo.
IT’S ABOUT TIME!! is initiated by composers Jasna Veličković and Danya Pilchen. We invite you to GROND to meet, listen and to plant some seeds for future possibilities together.
***Thank you for helping us bring this event to life! Your contributions directly cover our production expenses, allowing us to keep it running.***