SF009 with T33G33, S. Ruston, & Scorp Corp

HRD.ept is a HK-based DJ and co-founder of the collective SLIMEFEST. Born in Singapore and honed his craft and sound via London, HRD.ept glides through genres with diverse sounds and styles to reflect his particular interest in electronic music histories. Having played in multiple venues around the Hong Kong underground circuit alongside some of the most innovative selectors from the city, HRD.ept is establishing himself as a mainstay, from percussive and dark to frenetic and heavy across the sonic landscape. He co-founded collective and promoters SLIMEFEST, Hong Kong’s safe haven for all things fast and heavy, sprawled across warehouse venues from the South Islands and into the New Territories. Sweaty, dark, and a reflection of the at times overwhelming state of the city, SLIMEFEST has emerged as a pillar of the ever-changing sonic culture of the city, sharing the stage with international powerhouses such as DJ G2G, Hainafromchina, and Shawn Cartier and a monthly resident slot on FM.BELOWGROUND.

Hong Kong-raised and Berlin-based, Scorp Corp is a Brazilian/Indian DJ and producer whose style represents his wide-ranging musical influences. His performances dance between different paces, rhythms, and eras, but with one constant: irresistible groove. Brazilian/Indian DJ and producer Scorp Corp has all the musical signatures of a third culture upbringing. Born and raised in Hong Kong before moving to Berlin by way of the UK, his style pops with playfulness and movement. Spanning high-energy trance and techno, soaring Italo, bubbling electro, crispy breaks, and booty-shaking bass, he infuses his sets with wide-ranging rhythms, picking from old and new. Just as versatile as a producer, these influences make their way into his dancefloor-oriented sound, shaped by hardware and rich with texture. Scorp Corp’s through-line is energy: whatever he plays, it’s gotta be funky.

Bass Informed Techno // Rave as praxis, Non-Binary as a practice // Resident of notorious femme-forward, pleasure activist rave collective Lecken & Clubs: Renate & Else DJ // Vocalist // Producer // Music composition for dance & performance art. S Ruston lives to blow out parties with sexed-up radical sounds, breakbeats, UK bass & rave welded against a techno framework - they know what you need and they’ll give it to you gooooood. As a resident of Berlin's notorious femme-forward party collective Lecken and of the techno basement, Renate and popular open-air Else, S Ruston fully flexes the breadth of their DJ expertise and curatorial skills, rudely plowing ahead with ravey intentions that seek to unlock the audience's inhibitions. Bristol formed S Ruston into hard hot coal. As a young runt, they learned to bark loudly over the dubstep of their butch uncles and his voice grew fierce before taking flight as a nomadic DJ & label owner (One4Ho) which further trained her muscles and mind. Landing in Berlin, where he is now based, they gained political cognizance, loving relationships, and healthy stamina which inspired her queering of the bass continuum. T They bring their Bristol studies to bear on the ever-expanding sex-positive queer club scene in Berlin and beyond, developing into a future that foretells the rave as a platform for somatic expansion and collective transformation - a space for solidarity and pleasure activism. 2020 saw solo releases on queer artist platform Suspension and a vocal collaboration for Zebra Katz's debut album 'Less is Moor'. In his latest EP Narcosexual, 'The Lecken resident summons a vortex of experiences of addictive desire, advocating a sensuous dance floor in a celebration of breaks and high-rave pounding energy'. As a DJ, S Ruston has held court at Berghain's Säule, FOLD, TrashEra, Buttons, Whole Festival, Pornceptual, HTBX, Warning, Wax Treatment, KILLEKILL, Krake Festival, Horoom, Bassiani, Closer, Kyiv and THAT televised performance for the Berlin Mauerfall #30 at Brandenburg gate where they served up breakbeat bangers to a 100, 000 strong audience. S Ruston guarantees to channel the collective energies and fluids from the dance floor and deliver a hedonistic, rampageous & euphoric climax.

Alyana Cabral aka T33G33. DJ / Producer, multidisciplinary artist. Film music-maker, singer, actress. T33G33 is the sonic soul of multi-disciplinary artist and DJ / producer Alyana Cabral. Her electronica persona integrates queerness and spirituality through intersections of eclectic genres, weaving pop, and poetry, digital with analog, Internet with real life, nature and machine, and the personal with the political. Hailing from the underground rave and electronic music scenes in Manila, Philippines, T33G33 is part of grassroots efforts to create safe spaces within local communities immersed in dance culture. Affiliations: ELEPHANT SadoMasoDisco Manila Community Radio SAKA circle of isolation (2020) EP 2015-2017 (2017) EP Teenage Grannycore (2016) EP