OXI Halloween

Cobahn , Toru Ikemoto, Connor Wall , Malte Süß b2b Michael Lane , CatMint , Clarisse

Halloween is coming to OXI, and by 23:00 the building will have crossed over.

Two floors, two different journeys, and a whole building designed to make you lose track of which one you started on.

One floor runs on house, the other on techno. Somewhere between them, the night begins to splinter. Corridors lead into rooms, rooms lead into corners, corners lead into people you have never met before and conversations you did not expect to have at four in the morning.

OXI is less a straight line than a small labyrinth. There are dark rooms for disappearing into, hidden spaces and strange little pockets to explore, two bars to refuel at, including one mixing cocktails for those who prefer their bad decisions shaken with ice.

And then there is the garden. Big, open, and far enough away from the pressure of the dance floor to remember that oxygen still exists. A place to smoke, sit, wander, flirt, argue about music, meet strangers, lose your friends and somehow find them again twenty minutes later.

You can spend the whole night chasing the music from room to room, or vanish completely from the dance floor for an hour and find another version of the party happening somewhere else in the building.

House on one side. Techno on the other. Dark rooms, bars, cocktails, a garden and enough corners, corridors and half-hidden spaces to make the whole place feel slightly bigger every time you turn around.

On Halloween, with the club swallowed in deep colors and low light, that labyrinth gets darker.

On the O-Floor, Cobahn, Toru Ikemoto live and Connor Wall take control.

Cobahn, born and raised in Korea and now based in Amsterdam, operates somewhere in the deeper end of the techno spectrum. Hypnotic, trippy and patient, her sets have a habit of pulling the room further in before anybody notices how far they have travelled. This is one for arriving early and surrendering to the long game.

Then there is Toru Ikemoto, coming in from Osaka with no safety net and no conventional DJ set. Everything is live. His performances are restless, vibrant and constantly moving, building strange little worlds and tearing them apart again in real time. A co-founder of Aum Records with releases on MARRØN’s Ndyuka Rhythms, his appearance at Stone Techno Festival this summer became one of the weekend’s most talked-about live sets.

Connor Wall closes the triangle. Raised in Australia’s underground and now based in Berlin, he has released music through Rene Wise’s Moving Pressure and Belgium’s Token Records. His sets hit hard, but brute force is only half the story. There is pacing, tension and narrative underneath it, the kind that can turn several hours on a dance floor into something suspiciously close to a hallucination.

Across the building, the X-Floor belongs to OXI residents Malte Süß and Michael Lane, joined by Clarisse & CatMint.

CatMint connects two worlds with sets moving between techno, trance and hard house. Energetic as she is, she brings that same energy to every performance, never a dull moment with her. Expect velocity, drama and absolutely no dead air.

Outside, Berlin will be doing whatever Berlin does on Halloween. Inside OXI, things will be darker.

Deep colors. Low lights. Two floors transformed for the night.

Come early. Stay late.

Dress-up / costumes encouraged, but not mandatory.