The sound and feel of 2000s Berlin techno owes a lot to Marcel Dettmann. As one of the longest-tenured residents at the city’s legendary club Berghain, he helped create the blueprint: lean, minimal, raw electronic music, purpose-built for marathon sets and weekend-long parties. Inspired by the negative space of 90s dub techno - he worked at Hard Wax, the legendary record store run by Mark Ernestus of Basic Channel and Rhythm and Sound - and the cold romance of 80s synth pop and goth rock, his own productions are clearly best experienced on a darkened dancefloor, but can also sound oddly soulful when heard in the right context. At Sónar Lisboa 2025, he’ll perform a brand new live set, intriguingly titled ‘My Own Shadow’.