Steffe Lewry

These three tracks were featured in 'How The Mutoids Brought Down The Berlin Wall,' a video compilation documenting the Mutoid art collective's radical interventions in Berlin's underground scene. That context alone tells you something about what Steffe Lewry was doing here - music that wasn't just happening in clubs, but part of a broader cultural insurgency.

Lewry's approach to techno is uncompromising. These are stripped-down, propulsive cuts that prioritize texture and momentum over the obvious hooks. There's a distinctly European underground sensibility at play, the kind of meticulous, hypnotic production that rewards repeated listening on a proper system. Mannequin has always championed artists working at the margins of electronic music, and this 12" sits naturally within their catalogue of unadorned, intellectually rigorous house and techno.

A document of a specific moment in Berlin's experimental underground, and proof that the best dance music often emerges from spaces where art and activism are inseparable.