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Belgian agitator and STROOM founder Nosedrip has built one of Western Europe's most essential and unpredictable labels by insisting that old records still have something new to say. He excavates in order to reconstruct: on record and in the club alike, pulling threads from Glaswegian wave to Flemish new beat to Belgian trance, conjuring a personality out of whatever he unearths that feels entirely his own. A self-described 'gatekeeper to the gatekeepers,' Nosedrip brings this same alchemy out at night, fusing unlikely dance tracks into an idiosyncratic orchestra of outcasts, rendering the dance floor unknown to itself. Amelia Holt operates at a scale that defies explanation — forging Honey Trap into both a label and party series, running an agency, shaping the lineup at Sustain-Release — and then DJs like nothing else exists. Her sets move like something feral that learned to dance. Broken beats colliding with alt-techno, lurching into delusional krautrock, the whole thing dissolving into shared hallucination. All of this distills into a ruthless confidence that will rearrange you. Come out early to watch Jane Margarette kick off her own party. She brings high standards and range to everything she touches. Her DJ sets carry a rare marriage of attitude and warmth, never quite where you expect, with a fluency that hits less like skill and more like second nature.