club (koningsnacht) ◍ kelman duran, ragasa, €4h1rl
Friday, April 25, 2025
this year's koningsnacht we're delighted to transform our space back into a dancefloor, presenting a club night with all time favourite kelman duran, supported by local friend, the amazing ragasa + mm's own €4h!rl.
Kelman Duran is a Dominican-American musician, visual artist, filmmaker, and scholar from Los Angeles. Born and raised in New York City, Duran graduated from LaGuardia and moved to South Korea before studying at CalArts. As a DJ and producer, he is mostly affiliated with LA’s Rail Up crew, HUNDEBISS Records in Milan, and Riobamba’s Apocalipsis label, who put out his album 13th Month. The creation of the record was inspired by indigenous moon cycles that Duran learned about while living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he shot a documentary titled To the North. While he sees his music as a purely emotional counterpart to his visual arts and film work, his artistic and scholarly interests focus on issues of racism, police brutality, and the interplay between disenfranchised groups and civil architecture. In 2021 he started together with Ans M the record label scorpio red.
His electronic abstractions tend to be amoebic and malleable, blending into dembow, reggaeton, and Caribbean riddims that are often atmospheric and moody, saddled with emotion. It’s a sound that’s flourished in underground spaces across the globe and attracted fans in pretty much every corner of the world – including Beyonce. One of his tracks became part of I’m That Girl, the opener to Beyonce’s critically acclaimed 2022 album, Renaissance.
Amsterdam-based artist RAGASA crafts glitchy, emotionally charged electronic music, where her voice becomes another layer in the sonic palette when producing. Rooted in the early 2000s influences of fat bass lines, distorted vocals, and glitchy grime from her sessions back in Beirut, RAGASA's mixing style blends today with fat kicks, breakbeat, hiphop and trap for a gritty, raw energy.
warmups by murmur's own €4h!rl
Kelman Duran is a Dominican-American musician, visual artist, filmmaker, and scholar from Los Angeles. Born and raised in New York City, Duran graduated from LaGuardia and moved to South Korea before studying at CalArts. As a DJ and producer, he is mostly affiliated with LA’s Rail Up crew, HUNDEBISS Records in Milan, and Riobamba’s Apocalipsis label, who put out his album 13th Month. The creation of the record was inspired by indigenous moon cycles that Duran learned about while living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he shot a documentary titled To the North. While he sees his music as a purely emotional counterpart to his visual arts and film work, his artistic and scholarly interests focus on issues of racism, police brutality, and the interplay between disenfranchised groups and civil architecture. In 2021 he started together with Ans M the record label scorpio red.
His electronic abstractions tend to be amoebic and malleable, blending into dembow, reggaeton, and Caribbean riddims that are often atmospheric and moody, saddled with emotion. It’s a sound that’s flourished in underground spaces across the globe and attracted fans in pretty much every corner of the world – including Beyonce. One of his tracks became part of I’m That Girl, the opener to Beyonce’s critically acclaimed 2022 album, Renaissance.
Amsterdam-based artist RAGASA crafts glitchy, emotionally charged electronic music, where her voice becomes another layer in the sonic palette when producing. Rooted in the early 2000s influences of fat bass lines, distorted vocals, and glitchy grime from her sessions back in Beirut, RAGASA's mixing style blends today with fat kicks, breakbeat, hiphop and trap for a gritty, raw energy.
warmups by murmur's own €4h!rl
The entry for this event is 17,50€
