Berlin label Live From Earth has a reputation for chaotic club nights and anything-goes DJ sets.
Live From Earth founders Elias Hermann, Max Rüting and Lorenz Wirth met at an anti-Nazi rally in Berlin in the first half of the 2010s. They formed the collective with the idea of documenting the anti-fascist protests that were happening in the German capital in response to the re-emergent far right.
However, Rüting, a videographer, was soon asked to direct a music video, and Live From Earth’s integration into the Berlin club scene went from there.
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- Saturday 4 October – The Timber Yard, Melbourne VIC
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Over the last decade, Live From Earth has evolved into a DJ collective, record label, event promoter and fashion house. In its own words, the label was “raised on gabber, protest, and pure DIY energy.”
The Live From Earth label catalogue includes techno, post-punk and gabber duo Brutalismus 3000, happy hardcore eccentric horsegiirL, Berlin ghetto-tech producer MCR-T, and rhythmic maximalist DJ Gigola, who finds the spiritual pulse in everything from trance to pop to EDM.
MCR-T and DJ Gigola, both based in Berlin, will lead Live From Earth’s Australian tour this October, touching down for a couple of warehouse-style parties in Sydney and Melbourne. They’ll be joined by fellow Live From Earth act, Norwegian new wave-influenced techno producer MRD, plus 90s trance revivalist jamesjamesjames and local supports Ciara and Nak.
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Live From Earth has come a long way from its origins as a left-wing YouTube channel, but the group’s parties continue to honour its founding DIY ethos.
“[Live From Earth] represents in 2025 what it has always stood for: inclusivity, genre-openness, and a certain punk attitude – meaning not conforming to stereotypes and rules,” says DJ Gigola, who’s speaking to Beat over email. “We’re all individual artists with strong identities and different soundscapes, but because of that, Live From Earth creates an atmosphere where everything feels free and unfiltered.”
DJ Gigola is the alias of born and bred Berliner Paulina Schulz, who is also a trained medic. Schulz entered the Live From Earth orbit to help out with fashion and merch ideas, and DJed her first Live From Earth party in 2016. She’s has always brought an outsider’s perspective to her DJ sets, and has never been particularly interested in confining herself to one style or another.
“Lately I’ve been leaning a lot into tech house,” Schulz says. “It started when I played my first B2B with Solomun in 2023, and since then I’ve been exploring the genre more and more. I love the tempo – it feels fresher to me than just going faster all the time – and there are so many percussive tech house tracks that inspire me to find my own identity within the genre.”
DJ Gigola’s recent releases include the 150 BPM La Batteria, which samples Gigi D’Agostino’s La Batteria Della Mente from 2005, as well as two installments in her Bigroom Sensual series. Along with tech house, Bigroom Sensual is influenced by the crossover appeal of EDM.
“EDM inspires me because it’s electronic music turned into pop,” says Schulz. “Why do I find this interesting? Because often to create an inclusive moment on the dancefloor, DJs will drop samples or edits of popular tracks in between electronic music to add that extra layer of emotional connectivity. EDM does the same, but without sampling or reworking existing pop songs – and that fascinates me. How do you create pop without writing or using pop songs? And how can I weave that into my own music?”
Live From Earth has a long-standing relationship with Australia. Not only were DJ Gigola and MCR-T both in the country in 2024, but Jabal by Melbourne-based artists Kendojubaki and DJ Ali was the second vinyl release on the Live From Earth Klub imprint back in 2018. “[They’ve] since become close friends,” says Schulz, “and I always see them when I’m back.”
But compared to previous visits, Schulz says the upcoming tour will offer a truer exposition of the Live From Earth’s no-filter MO.
“This tour feels special because it’s with MRD and MCR-T, and it allows us more than ever to really showcase Live From Earth.”
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This article was made in partnership with Untitled Group.
