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@CTMFestival curator • supporting artists w/ @themintfund • yes you know me from @boilerroomtv • DJ

Berlin

https://t.co/E3PoSxsoWJ

Joined March 2009

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@opiumhum

Michail aka Opium Hum

10 months

1/ I want to start something BIG in the music space. Something that allows independent music culture to grow and to blossom in a way that is sustainable and empowering. The goal is to build something that is based on the following five priciples: (cont. below).

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2 months

@joshuapatrickg how did she get into the house without seeing the tower

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4 months

He was one of a kind. For those of you not old enough, this was an email Steve Albini sent to XL Records artist Powell (Oscar), who wanted to clear a sample and confessed his love for Albini's music and influence.

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@derJamesJackson No way he threw it and it remained in such mint condition

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9 months

Just got Tbilisi andy hotel is a designers dream, my room has a record player and Aphex Twin vinyl ready to go. So happy I'm back in Georgia!

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3 months

Boiler Room selling 100€ tickets for a party at Amnesia Ibiza with Charli XCX is the exact opposite of what the platform was supposed to be about, but what do I know.

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4 months

This is the absolute and sad truth about the state of DJ culture right now, Bambii saying it as it is.

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4 years

Heute packen alle mit an #b2908

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3 years

Very Berlin specific

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Michail aka Opium Hum

11 months

Producers / labels / music PRs of this world - please eradicate the word "tribal" as a descriptor, especially if it refers to some sprinkles of bongo samples lifted from the Ableton factory sample library.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 years

@BEMigrantifa In meinen DMs kam schon ein Vorschlag: Habt ihr doch selbst dahin geklebt! Digga, wenn wir so Ninjaskills hätten, dann würden wir sicher nicht Polizeihelme bestickern.

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3 years

@eldsjal @PrimaMateria_ @HelsingAI Today, I am proud to announce that after having been a Spotify user since the beta in 2007 I cancelled my account because of this, driven by a mission to help build a thriving society - which AI powered weapons systems are most certainly not part of.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 months

I mean that, when i say that. Taking this bad boy on a global tour soon. Get in touch if you have the right space or budget for it.

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4 months

You haven't lived until 120 dba of sub bass pressure resonate in your solar plexus

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3 years

Shout out to my man @vhoorvictor and @fbctadoido for releasing one of the albums of the year! Bringing baile to a completely new level in 2021!

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BAILE, by FBC & VHOOR

10 track album

vhoor.bandcamp.com

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4 years

@PAN_hq Everyone on this thread, leave @PAN_hq alone - they are grieving more than any of you do. They were really close friends, and are part of her family, team and inner circle. It's unfortunately true and confirmed.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

Uncomfortable truth: Too much of Web3 is based in the USA and defined by the US American understanding of money, society and technology.

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3 years

I wonder if people who release techno records actually listen to techno records because if they would they would know that there is already a lot of techno records out there that sounds like their techno records

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1 year

I'm late on the CDJ techno twitter discourse as always, but all I have to say that I'd rather see a young kid blowing my mind with music I've never heard, played off a 100$ controller, than what I hear these days from well-functioning and pre-checked USBs.

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3 years

my fucking god, the @daytimers_uk @boilerroomtv looks like the sickest BR show EVER. what a rewind @chandedj and @djgraciet 🥵

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3 years

Congratulations 👏👏👏

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2 months

The Hardgroove revival is the best thing that happened to Techno

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 years

"No nightmares" is the @0PN x @theweeknd collaboration the world needed a few days before the US election and eight months into the pandemic. playing it on constant repeat.

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Watch the official video → https://youtu.be/duDHGNIB8a4“No Nightmares” performed by Oneohtrix Point Never with vocals by @TheWeeknd . Additional vocals by @C...

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7 months

Just in: the Berlin Senate is dropping the highly contested and completely counterproductive anti-discrimination clause. Good work everyone.

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3 years

Calling things "crypto" is the biggest roadblock to mass adoption. It's the wrong psychological narrative, implies complexity most people don't want to deal with and is already tainted. Calling it Web3 is the way forward, it's signalling continuation and evolution.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 years

Really excited to host no other than @linkinpark 's @mikeshinoda for @ourZORA 's inaugural Twitch stream tomorrow! We will be talking about his art, technology, his unique way to engage with his community & probably some music as well. Tune in! 🌜🌞🌛

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

1/ Today, exactly ten years ago, we organised a little party called @boilerroomtv Berlin for the very first time. @keinobjekt , @JIMMYEDGAR , @redshape and Kassem Mosse were playing. Here are some photos form that very iconic night.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

1 year

The new @jugendingenieur mic is an absolute piece of art and probably the most innovative and interesting microphone to be released in the last decade, and not only because of the ESS sabre ES9822Q PRO 32-bit DAC they used.

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1 year

This was absolutely iconic! 😤

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1 year

Really don't want to be a Techno boomer, but running around with a bucket full of glue & putting up 1000 posters yourself the month before the event is way more enticing than figuring out what kind of TikTok reel will excite your audience enough to come to the rave.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 months

@SafyHallanFarah I call this terminological duplicacy

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3 years

fun fact

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4 years

Devastating. She was one of these people who could have changed the world with her creative vision. In fact she did. Going to shed a tear listening to her album today. Rest in Power Sophie.

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4 months

Been thinking about how many of the currently successful DJs are conventionally good looking and that made me not want to share a clip from last night because I look much older and much chubbier in it than I thought I am. Proud of my dad bod and all that, and whatever body

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Michail aka Opium Hum

2 years

This happened exactly ten years ago today - @DJRASHAD & @DJ_Spinn took over Nik Nowak's sound system / sonic warfaretank and brought footwork to the good people of Berlin.

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5 months

I don't think people realise how incredible of a city Tbilisi really is. The clubs here (and there are many of them!), are better than anything you'd find in Berlin, with better spaces, better sound & an extremely plugged in audience & local artist community. You HAVE to visit!

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 years

> The idea of a brand as a central entity is slowly dying. > The concept of centralized ownership is crumbling. > Progress is about building movements, not companies. > The future is building a following, not an user base.

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5 months

Every Boiler Room set looks exactly the same these days.

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4 years

An diesem Punkt habe ich aufgehört Fragen zu stellen #b2908

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Michail aka Opium Hum

8 months

@derJamesJackson I think this somewhat misrepresents the work Niklas Frank has done to make sure his father was seen & understood as the monster he was & is likely a commentary on the fact that Germany has always been insincere when it comes to its historical responsibility, most certainly now.

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1 year

A lifetime ago, when I was still involved with the Leisure System parties at Berghain, we had invited DJ Deeon to play Panorama Bar at our 8th anniversary in 2016, this photo was taken the morning after, a set I'll never forget. Rest in Power Deeon, truly one of the biggest.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

A DIFFERENT VERSION OF YOU EXISTS IN THE MIND OF EVERYONE THAT HAS EVER MET YOU AND IT'S VERY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT YOURSELF. THE PERSON YOU THINK YOU ARE DOES NOT EVEN EXIST OUTSIDE YOUR MIND.

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2 years

This is not a celebration of crypto, but a realistic assessment: Ethereum is saving the lives of #AfricansinUkraine . It gets people funds to buy tickets, food, to survive. We're working on a massive fundraising effort right now.

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11 days

How do I know you're a good DJ? I see you regularly at gigs that aren't your gigs.

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4 years

One of the most important memes of our generation

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Michail aka Opium Hum

7 months

Absolutely devastated that Juan, aka Silent Servant, is dead. A kind, funny, warm and talented human whose work inspired me beyond belief - I will forever be grateful for the privilege to have been a small part of his journey and him having been part of mine. Rest in Power.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

6 months

Putting my money on the fact that mid-2000s Minimal Techno will come back big time in the next 12 months.

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1 year

Even though I took my 69 year old mum to Berghain and to countless Boiler Room sessions, she just sent me some melodic techno set from Burning Man, saying that I might like it. I feel defeated.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

5 months

You might have seen the news that across the street from Berghain 37000 sqm of offices are being built. What you don't know: pre-pandemic I had rented the area & warehouses to turn into culture & event space, all my life savings went into it. We got our permit... April 2020 🥲

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

You can believe in what NFTs enable, but find 90% of the current space anti-cultural. You can believe in blockchain, but distrust cryptocurrencies. Both views are possible and in fact both are needed.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

10 months

Ok we're at the fifth Skeng rewind right now and the energy is un fucking believable

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

Protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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8 months

Banger

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

Sure there is no objective morality and all, but if you like money so much that you take it from a government that kills journalists and has the death penalty for being gay, you really should ask yourself some serious questions.

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4 years

This absolutely rules!

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Buy your Spotify playlists on Bandcamp with this simple tool

Hype Machine has created a new toolbar called Merch Table to transform your Spotify playlists into links to buy the songs on Bandcamp.

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5 months

DJ pro tip: assign the same Cue point in every track (i.e. D) to a 16/32 bar loop & set it where the beat is stripped down (i.e. end of track). You'll have a one button rescue whenever you run out of time looking for the next track or want to have more fun blending into the next!

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Michail aka Opium Hum

2 years

Hello from @NyegeNyegeFest 2022. I'm still alive and thriving.

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10 months

2/ 1. human-centered, not algorithm-driven 2. supportive of niche communities, not global audiences 3. fostering collaboration & cooperation, not competition 4. encouraging experimentation, not conformity and optimization 5. respecting privacy & autonomy, not manipulation

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Michail aka Opium Hum

10 months

Please no more speed garage edits of 2000s pop tunes 😭

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5 months

Very sobering read: careers in music require a huge amount of optimistic self-belief, but the poor odds of success means its similar to gambling where optimism is dangerous. The effect on musicians: "costly persistence and cruel optimism", a massive toll on mental health.

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Dr George Musgrave

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Musicians need self-belief & optimism despite poor labour market outcomes & high risk. But, we ask if being a musician akin to gambling, where optimism is, unusually, a negative trait Bold questions w/ @SallySharp & @micahcline2018 published in Musicae Scientiae @ESCOMsociety 🧵

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2 years

EU Council President @CharlesMichel just DISMISSED reports of systematic RACISM against African refugees from Ukraine on the Polish border as "Russian propaganda". Having spent seven days doing NOTHING but dealing with the racism at the Polish border i'm absolutely APPALLED.

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2 years

The beauty of opening sets is that you can start the night with a 15 minute long Sunn o))) track.

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3 years

Today, ten years ago exactly, i launched my own night at @berghain called "≠ (not equal)". It ran for nearly five years, exploring a new intersection of dub, industrial, tectonic frequencies & dark fringes of club music. To this day it was one of my finest curatorial works!

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Michail aka Opium Hum

2 years

So today exactly ten years ago @JIMMYEDGAR , me and a few others played in Moscow at a party we smuggled him illegally into the country for, and then it got raided by Russian special forces mid-way through. Might tell the full story later.

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3 years

Urgent: Ukrainian speaking volunteers needed to help Black and POC folks stuck in Ukraine and at the border. Please get in touch via DM. #AfricansinUkraine Also join the space below

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Michail aka Opium Hum

8 months

This is so mid by every standard

@dancingastro

Dancing Astronaut

8 months

This new @massanomusic “Eternity” remix with the updated visual goes so hard 🦾 ‘Genesys’ remixes are about to be nuts (🎥 via @anyma_eva )

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5 months

Turning 41 today. Might buy myself flowers later. Here's to more flawless skin and more music! 💐

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2 years

My 11 year old nephew produced a beat on GarageBand and we're running it through Germany's biggest dub sound system right now 😅

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8 months

@derJamesJackson Yes, but saying he's the son of a Nazi war criminal, while true, somewhat omits that he's been quite exceptional in his work when it comes to German (and his own family's) accountability. Just saying because people read your tweet or him otherwise.

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3 years

Gm ✨✨✨

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8 years

Saw Rihanna live in Central Park last night. She's the ultimate pop star. I'm officially joining the church of Ri Ri.

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4 years

R&S fans in the comment section be like "i ain't seen no goddamn racism"

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3 years

Cringe af.

@racs_o

Racs 🍌

3 years

The biggest party in NYC. @BoredApeYC wgmi!

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

Fuck Soho House and this elitist bullshit. Everyone paying for a membership there is a wannabe socialite 🤡

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3 years

@derJamesJackson Shows that the only quality Germans have is to think of themselves to be much better people than they actually are

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8 years

It's that gif harvest season again at @dkmntl

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

1/ Lately I've seen many claims that any involvement with Web3 technology somehow discredits any anti-fascist agenda. On this particular day, which like no other is connected with my family history, I want to address my personal view on how these two things relate to each other.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 years

Last night in Berlin, Else Club. By now it's clear that a lot of people just don't give a fuck.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

10 months

3/ I've helped to build @boilerroomtv & @ourZORA , there are few people world-wide with as much insight into how global culture works & intersects with technology. I'm looking for passionate, world-class brains to join me. My DMs are open!

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

. @SomeMoreNews is probably one of the most incredible things on the internet.

@SomeMoreNews

Some More News

3 years

Hi. Here is the latest episode of #SomeMoreNews with @drmistercody . Link: Executive Produced by @katystoll . Written by @startthemachine . Directed by @will_gordh . Edited by @greggmeller . Graphics by @FClintDeNisco .

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 years

Friends, please sign the petition below calling for the release of Sama (Abdulhadi), the most successful Palestinian DJ, who got arrested a few days ago for participating in an event that had a gov permit and was looking to promote Palestinian culture!

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Sign the Petition

Call for the immediate release of Sama Abdulhadi

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Michail aka Opium Hum

3 years

Anyone who is - working on their careers while - working to help their friends and family while - working on making the world a better place while - working on themselves while - failing with the above, but trying again and again and again: I'm proud of you. Gn ✨✨✨

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7 months

Obsessed with these analog photos by Frankie Casillo of Kali Malone's @CTMFestival performance

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3 years

Happy new year ✨✨✨

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 years

@BEMigrantifa Ich liebe meine Genoss*innen, aber hast du schon Mal auf unsere Schuhe geguckt, wir würden schon alleine beim anschleichen über die Schnürsenkel stolpern.

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That thing they say about Berlin in the summer, it's true

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10 months

Just realized that today marks 12 years of Opium Hum, a project I initially created exclusively for this night I ran for a few years at Berghain and to create a separate outlet for a more post-industrial aspect of my music. Ultimately the OH persona took over.

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Michail aka Opium Hum

1 month

"I consider myself a profoundly non- or rather trans-political person" My brother in Christ, that's a lie and not only because the last time I saw you play these were your visuals

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STATEMENT

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9 months

Zora Jones has been about a decade ahead of everyone else for about a decade already.

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MUTEK TOKYO friday | 金曜日

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4 years

A bunch of privileged dicks who are musically and stylistically stuck in 2010. Your attitude and ignorance is as shitty as your stupid v-neck, necklace and hat

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4 years

Oliver Koletzki Âme Patrice Bäumel Øostil Polo & Pan Claptone Damian Lazarus Diplo January 2021 Tulum (Mexico)

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3 years

Germans when they are introduced to the concept of tips in the USA

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The sad truth is that nothing that I do with passion and informed by the 15+ years of professional experience I have as a curator, DJ and cultural worker sustains me financially.

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Hearing of people signing up for the army, others getting ready to be drafted once Ukraine fully mobilises. Friends I played and partied with, in a few days they might hold weapons instead of records.

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4 months

Sadly I'm not the only person feeling this, got quite a few messages from other DJs and friends who experience the same frustrations and insecurities. It seems that the trend towards an aestheticization of club culture got worse post-pandemic, and with it a focus on the ideal,

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Michail aka Opium Hum

4 months

Been thinking about how many of the currently successful DJs are conventionally good looking and that made me not want to share a clip from last night because I look much older and much chubbier in it than I thought I am. Proud of my dad bod and all that, and whatever body

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4 months

This ad is as dystopian as it's metaphorical: big tech flattens cultural output violently, selling back a cheap looking result as the solution.

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Tim Cook

4 months

Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

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3 years

Really happy that a conversation on racism and the presence of alt-right in the NFT and Web3 space is finally had on a much bigger scale. Long overdue.

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2 years

If you wanna know how @CTMFestival is going, last night at Berghain was so insane, police had to come and evacuate the place at 8am. 📸: lolsnake

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