Located in Berlin Friedrichshain with Berghain/ Panoramabar basically around the corner Cinthie, Meat and their team run the well-sorted and extremely well-curated record store Elevate.
ELEVATE’S TOP10 – 04/2023
EXCLUSIVE Sexy Lazer ‘Fluting In Space (Axel Boman Remix)’ [Riotvan]
Danish Dynamite they call call their national football team. Dynamite we call Copenhagen-based artist Sexy Lazer's latest EP on Riotvan Mr. Lava Lava.
EXCLUSIVE Superpitcher ‘Lush Life feat. Fantastic Twins’ [Live At Robert Johnson]
the co-label head of Hippie Dance, one part of the Pachanga Boys and known as the ambassador of the golden rave days
INTERVIEW & ART:CAST SPECIAL Sofia Kourtesis
The Peruvian-raised and Berlin-grown artist, Sofia Kourtesis, puts her kiddy cats away for the hour to discuss her drive behind the cause, her musical upbringings, and the prospective threads she seeks.
ART:CAST #103 & INTERVIEW Will Hofbauer
Not certain if the ominous Third Place is down in the basement but surely it must be somewhere deep in the London underground, otherwise it's unexplainably how Will Hofbauer can release music with such a vibe.
TOP50 of 2020
As 2020 comes to an end the Torture the Artist team sat down together to compile the end of the year chart that represents, of course, a personal preferences and what the site and its members musically stand for.
STAKES IS HIGH – a playlist by Torture the Artist for December 2020
Stakes is High is Torture the Artist’s monthly Spotify playlist with music appreciated, favored or causing some buzz in and around world wide dance floors – but basically at home at the moment.
EXCLUSIVE Axel Boman ‘Pink Mist’ [PETS Recordings]
It was back in 2010 when Polish artists Grzegorz Demiañczuk and Wojciech Tarañczuk founded PETS Recordings, the same year when the duo's sophomore album Escape from Zoo was released.
ART:CAST SPECIAL & INTERVIEW Bella Boo
Living the fast life as she's one of the rising figures in the scene and has a now-or-never mentality, though she's still on the lookout for her signature look while having found her signature sound.
ART:CAST #96 by RSS DISCO
Let's call it lofi-disco with a touch of happiness.
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