is an artist currently based between Berlin (DE) and New York City (US). He runs the record label & event series Pain Management.

With over a decade of music production and event curation behind him, he occupies a distinctive space in electronic music through emotionally driven productions and a genre-defiant DJ style. Working at the fringes, his sound blends the tougher and more tender edges of modern dance music. His debut album Residuum was released in 2021 via Youth.

Alongside musical releases his output includes audiovisualwork, scoring for fashion, film & television, as well as writings on subculture.

System music for the body and soul.

significantutha(at)gmail.com

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Transformative Spaces

Introducing a new project. The first episode of ‘See You Monday’, a podcast centered around examining dance music through an interdisciplinary lens. Every Monday for the next few weeks a new episode will drop, beginning with today’s: ‘Transformative Spaces’.This first episode examines raving as a transformative practice, one that hinges on participation. The club vs the rave, reinforcement of values within subcultures, and how the individual is transformed by dance music. 

Works Cited:

Small, Christopher. Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998. Print.Barthes, R., & Howard, R. (1991). The responsibility of forms : critical essays on music, art, and representation. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press.Meyer. Emotion and meaning in music : by Leonard B. Meyer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961, c1956.Buckland, Fiona. Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making. Wesleyan University Press, 2002.Reynolds, Simon. Energy Flash: A Journey through rave music and Dance Culture. Softskull press 2012.