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Nina Kraviz
at our virtual Gashouder for Awakenings Festival 2020 | Online weekender
A Nina Kraviz set during a virtual Awakenings weekender was the perfect surreal artifact for 2020: raving alone to a simulacrum of the Gashouder, while she soundtracked our isolation with bewildering eclecticism. The vibe was intimate yet epic, a digital ghost ship sailing through trance, techno, and italo disco. Defying simple categorization, it's an electronica journey averaging 145.4 BPM, deftly oscillating between the moody, minor feel of 7A and the brighter, more open 12A.
Her mixing is fluid and narrative, prioritizing texture and surprise over pure power. The digger's delights are legion: the raw, industrial scrape of 'Blawan - Rain' and the utterly unhinged, festive joy of 'Bellini - Samba de Janeiro (Vanity Frontroom Remix)'. It opens with the hypnotic pulse of 'TRIX - Life's Little Pleasures', finds its hypnotic peak in the nine-minute sprawl of 'Gesloten Cirkel - Fairness', and closes on the smoky, atmospheric note of 'Volksmusik - Secret Girl (Paul Nazca Remix)'.