REEF

After ten years, Darwin is bringing her event series Reef to a close. The finale will be a retrospective on the project’s sonic DNA: dub, dubstep and drum 'n' bass. Darwin herself shaped the series as a curatorial bridge between various lineages of British bass music. In her sets, she combines meticulously arranged polyrhythms with heavy sub-bass, weaving technical mixing with a narrative structure that consistently explores the acoustic space of Berghain. Since the 90s, Metalheadz co-founder DJ Storm has had an uncompromising influence on the drum 'n' bass canon. Her selection focuses on dark, rolling breakbeats, metallic percussion and the physical force of deep bass frequencies. Mala, on the other hand, embodies the architectural minimalism of dubstep, a style significantly shaped by his releases on DMZ and Deep Medi Musik. His productions and sets are built on expansive reverberant spaces, subtly shifted half-step rhythms and an enormous depth of frequency layering.