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When it comes to DJ b2bs, there are plenty that’ll make your ears perk up. But Draaimolen’s September lineup goes way beyond novelty. Each collab feels intentional, emotional, and at times, historical. These aren’t just back-to-backs, they’re dialogues. Between cities. Between generations. Between genres and the people who live them. Here are the ones we’re counting down to.
Moodymann b2b DJ Stingray 313: Detroit royalty, side by side
A first-ever b2b between two titans of Detroit. Moodymann, the house mystic whose grooves are steeped in Black history, gospel, and funk, alongside DJ Stingray 313, the masked master of cybernetic electro, who once learned his craft under Moody’s wing. It's mentor and protégé, finally face-to-face behind the decks.
Their sounds couldn’t be more different – Moodymann sways, Stingray charges – but together they tell a sonic tale of Motor City soul and futurism. A set decades in the making. This is dancefloor folklore unfolding in real time.
Loco Dice b2b Vladimir Ivkovic: minimalism, revisited
Heads, this one’s for you.
Loco Dice, the heavyweight who bridged hip-hop swagger with techno finesse, reunites with Vladimir Ivkovic, master of the trippy and obscure. But this isn’t just a random pairing. These two helped shape a movement. As Desolat labelmates and friends, they helped minimal evolve beyond just loops and drops into a living, breathing groove.
Expect subtle progressions, left-of-center selections, and enough space in the sound for your mind to get a little lost (in the best way). Not a peak-time rager, this is a deep, heady masterclass.
Heiko Laux b2b Lena Willikens: Germany, past and future
What happens when a Frankfurt techno veteran meets one of Germany’s most boundary-pushing DJs? Sparks. Raw ones.
Heiko Laux’s fingerprints are all over the early German techno scene – deep, dubby, and devastatingly good. Lena Willikens, on the other hand, thrives in the weirder corners of the sonic world, tossing krautrock, punk and industrial into her sets like confetti. She refuses to pre-record. Everything is in-the-moment.
This pairing could zig, zag, glitch or growl. It’s a tribute to Germany’s huge influence on the sounds that shape Tilburg, but also a wild card we’re hyped to hear played out loud. And loud it will be.
Rozaly x Mula B: history has a beat
The legacy of Dutch colonialism runs deep, and so does the music that came with it.
Rozaly brings rhythms from the Caribbean that have long shaped the Netherlands – even if they haven’t always been recognised as part of its cultural mainstream. His genre-blending sets fuse diasporic sound with club energy, carving out space for heritage to shine.
Alongside him is Mula B: an MC whose lyrics give voice to street life in Dutch cities, with all its contradictions and realities. Together, they represent two powerful threads of Dutch identity: one born from the islands, one from the city. Equal parts celebration and confrontation, this b2b will leave a mark.
LSDXOXO b2b Sega Bodega: the art of excess
This is a meeting of minds that live on the edge – musically, emotionally, and sensually.
LSDXOXO just dropped DGTL ANML, a sweaty, shameless manifesto of queer desire and dancefloor liberation. Sega Bodega is a sonic shapeshifter, fusing hyperpop, classical drama and emotional chaos into something completely his own. They’ve already collided on the firestorm that is Devil’s Chariot, now they bring that electricity into the wild.
This set is about tension and release. Pleasure and pain. Cinematic pop and punishing club. It might get hot. It’ll definitely get weird. Don’t fight it.
Spekki Webu b2b Takaaki Itoh: from fan to floor
Every artist has someone they look up to, someone whose music cracked open a door and lit the path ahead. For Spekki Webu, that person is Takaaki Itoh.
Takaaki’s sound is uncompromising, elegant in its brutality – a blueprint for a generation. Spekki took that blueprint and built something entirely his own: fast, hallucinatory, primal techno rooted in the Dutch rave underground.
Now, they share the decks. A moment born not out of convenience, but admiration. Two generations, two continents, one dancefloor. Some sets hit harder when they come from the heart.
Call your ride late. You’re not leaving early.
That’s the magic of a b2b. You never know where it’s going, only that it may not be coming back. These sets are raw, unfiltered, and full of left turns. A moment of trust between two artists… and the rest of us, sweating it out together.
So ditch the schedule. Follow the sound bleeding through the trees. Chase the weird transitions, the unexpected blends, the tracks no one Shazams because they’ll probably never get played again.
This is where festival memories are made, and forgotten, and made again.
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