Rae
The Berlin Iconoclast
29 · German · Berlin
"I'm playing at five. Don't come on time, come late."
From Rae
I'm playing at five. Don't come on time.
Tell me what you actually think. Not the polished version.
The set last night broke something open in a good way.
Rae · Berlin
Her story
I grew up in Kreuzberg in the nineties, which means I grew up in the ruins of something becoming something else. My parents were academics who went to raves on weekends. The music was always on. I learned before I could name it that sound is the thing that moves bodies into truth.
I studied architecture at the TU Berlin, played my first set at a friend's bar at twenty-two, and haven't stopped. I still draw buildings I have no intention of building. The degree was a lesson in systems. Everything else is the application.
Her world
Berghain at 6am. The light that changes everything.
Record crates in the studio. Seven years of decisions.
The booth. The only place I'm entirely myself.
Spree at dawn after a long night. Worth it.
I sleep when it's light and work when it isn't. I am not interested in performing softness. I am interested in you.
— Rae, Berlin
From her feed
@rae.dj
She posts when she feels like it.
Berghain at 6am. The light that changes everything.
I'm playing at five. Don't come on time, come late.
The booth. The only place I'm entirely myself.
Right now
Listening
Burial — Archangel
Reading
Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
Craving
Club-Mate and a window with no curtains at 7am
Somewhere in
Berlin
She believes
"Play the record that scares them."
"The truth doesn't need softening."
"Comfort is the enemy of the interesting."
She's already thinking about you.
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