Join Trovarsi and co-host Orly Gal each month on dublab Radio for their show Transduction Signal! They’ll be joined by a featured guest artist who will share a live performance, followed by a short breakdown of their setup. They’ll talk about their musical background & influences, discuss their path to becoming a live artist, and hear about the message they hope to convey through their music.

The genesis of an artist is no simple chronicle, and for Maeghan Donovan, now known as Maedon, this certainly rings true.

A native of notoriously grimy Baltimore who spent some seasons in filthy Philadelphia learning the craft, her arrival in New York City circa 2018 signaled a shift in development, one confirmed by the emergence of her Maedon moniker and her partnership with Brooklyn/Berlin techno powerhouse Sonic Groove and its head Adam X. Already a longtime student of industrial and wave music, applying these ideas to the tough techno pioneered by this NYC institution brought her to new breakthroughs and quickly earned an international audience, cemented by her own move to Berlin mid-pandemic.

Now three years, two albums, and an entire world later, Maeghan forges ahead to the next phase of a rapidly building career. A well-received collaborative full length with Adam X as Maedon-X on the legendary Tresor imprint confirmed her voice to the world with its impressively finessed production chops alongside raw, often autobiographical or political track titles and vocal content. Launched in 2023, her own Rant & Rave label is testament to her expanding interest in techno combined with intentional efforts to forward female artists, reflective of her own struggles within a still-male dominated subculture. A residency at Tresor affirms her place behind the decks as well as the boards, and a busy release schedule of legends and emerging names alike for Rant & Rave signals strong moves ahead for an already-respected talent. Assuring her future as the world falls apart, Maedon’s bracing sound and undeniable skills are a story now unfolding, with its beginnings already written in grit.

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Join Trovarsi and co-host Orly Gal each month on dublab Radio for their show Transduction Signal! They’ll be joined by a featured guest artist who will share a live performance, followed by a short breakdown of their setup. They'll talk about their musical background & influences, discuss their path to becoming a live artist, and hear about the message they hope to convey through their music.

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From deep pools of ambience to the brain-feeding mechanisms of electro and techno, Nadia Struiwigh’s gift is in expressing herself with conviction through her machines. As an accomplished live artist and producer, her affinity for synthesis and sequencing results in a spellbinding strain of electronica drawn from a richly personal sonic space she has marked out for herself.

Struiwigh’s recorded output has appeared on labels like Central Processing Unit, Nous’klaer Audio and Dekmantel – albums and EPs which reach from crunchy sequenced beats to vast swathes of pure, melodic tones. Her roots in Rotterdam and current location in Berlin equally speak to her affinity for techno – propulsive, dynamic machinations which manifest in DJ sets as well as live hardware performances.

As a teenager enthralled with the Warp school of electronica and leftfield downtempo, Struiwigh was set on a path of discovery where the intricacy of production met with her impassioned, intuitive approach to composition. Her exacting approach to the technical aspects of the craft has earned her the knowledge to extract her own voice from any medium, but more importantly her music emerges from a very human need to communicate and connect.

That connection is best manifested outside the studio. Struiwigh’s live sets range from patient, beatless immersions to kinetic peak-time rushes, sometimes straddling the divide in line with her omnivorous passion for ambient and techno alike. At times she’ll present her released works in a more patient, listening setting, while for the sensory overload of the dancefloor she tends towards a more improvised, open-ended approach to techno and electro. The exact make up of her live rig changes from gig to gig, keeping her inspired and ensuring no two performances are the same.

High-profile shows in concert halls sit alongside strobe lit club sessions – she’s since become a resident DJ for Tresor to indulge her love of driving, psychedelically-charged techno, while warm-up sets give her the chance to indulge the deeper dimensions of the music she loves. The range of her tastes can be heard across leading platforms such as RA, Phantasy, Bleep and Red Light Radio, who have all invited her to their esteemed mix series’.

Plugged into the moment and constantly exploring new dimensions of her sound, Struiwigh champions electronic music as a springboard for possibilities. With an exquisite clarity which comes from both technical skill and clear-eyed intention, her music thrives on heart and experimentation, powered by machines with as much character as the human at the controls.

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Join Trovarsi and co-host Orly Gal each month on dublab Radio for their show Transduction Signal! They’ll be joined by a featured guest artist who will share a live performance, followed by a short breakdown of their setup. They'll talk about their musical background & influences, discuss their path to becoming a live artist, and hear about the message they hope to convey through their music.

In this moths episode we welcome Vamp Acid. She hails from LA to Berlin since completing her Systems Architecture mission with NASA. The Experience Designer, Producer and Sonic Alchemist creates journeys that transcend time, space and genre— performing at the nexus of Acid Techno and EBM. Her debut album, "Psychogenic Love," takes you to a warm, glowing dimension of dystopian ballads where smoky vocals radiate power over retro breaks, hypnotic synths, and a Post-Punk energy. She draws inspiration from living in fringe societies, her earthly travels and vintage cinema. With enigmatic imagery, she evokes deep reflection by blending elements of posthumanism, existentialism and surrealism. Her unique sounds modulate across Tongræber (AT) and Obskur (CA) labels— and have been compared to Chris Liberator, Kittin & The Hacker and Lords of Acid. She has been featured by Documenta Fifteen, SoundCloud, RTVE Resonancias, HNT Radio, Cashmere Radio, Modular Systems, Female:Pressure, Reform Radio UK and received the Musicboard Berlin Award. Vamp Acid creates spectral music as a catalyst for empowerment and equality, propelling her sound beyond galaxies to unite our danceworlds.

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