Mala Herba, DJ Steve & Vani Vachi

DJ STEVE is Vienna based duo Claudia Strate and Nora Wenzler. Brimming with enthusiasm for music, dancing and each other, they started djing in 2019. What to expect at their gigs is electronic music with a dark twist and bouncy beats, or how they like to call it, dystopian dance music.

Vani Vachi is a DJ and producer currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine and is a resident of the infamous queer parties Veselka. Three years ago Anita moved to Kyiv from London where she graduated as a digital artist at Saint Martins Academy Of Arts. After she came back from London she quickly became a significant member of the local scene with founding the Outside Festival and Gems (events for rising stars) and still keep being on the top of it. Her sets are always unique and unpredictable, with a strong favour towards electro and breakbeat, IDM, early trance, classical acid baselines and occasional techno sounds. As per her notes, DJ-sets is a contemporary form of shamanism, the purpose of which is to uncompromisingly take the dance floor through a journey of melodies, layers, kicks and metamorphoses. Although rising, she already has a tight schedule and has played in various venues across Ukraine and beyond. Over the rising time of her career she has played in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Germany, and last year of her career was noted by the festivals like ICKPA by Bassiani, Brave! Factory and Horovod, and also a featured mixtape for Mixmag and two HÖR streams.

Zosia Hołubowska is a Vienna-based sound artist, queer music activist, researcher, and producer. They work on topics of queering archives, healing practices, and interspecies intimacy. They create performances, sound installations, and radio works and compose soundscapes for dance performances. They are a member of a feminist collective Oramics. Holubowska is also a founder of Sounds Queer?, a collective working on the intersection of electronic music, sound art, and queer activism. Their solo project Mala Herba is deeply rooted in Slavic traditions, magic, and demonology. Mala Herba’s songs explore the darker side of club music, blending demonic disco with EBM.