animaTek

It was an autumn day in Berlin. Two classmates, freshly enrolled in the same school, started swapping tracks, and quickly realised they shared a rare fondness for the quirky, glitchy, and nonconformist corners of electronic music.

What followed were countless studio sessions, wildly explorative, often unproductive in the traditional sense, but always full of curiosity and chaotic joy. At first, nothing quite clicked. But with each session, the pieces slowly began to align, and a distinct creative chemistry emerged, marking the beginning of their collaboration, now known as animaTek.

Their live sets and production orbit a love for modular synthesis, idiosyncratic sampling, and deep sound manipulation, where noisy chaos collides with rhythm in a way that somehow still moves bodies. Genre isn’t a boundary here: fragments of leftfield bass, post-club, ambient, breakbeat, Latin club, and more all melt together, guided more by instinct than plan. Almost nothing is pre-written. In fact, a lot of what they play is created live, on the spot, less a performance, more a shared production session in real time. Still, each set unfolds with a surprising sense of shape and coherence, proof that improvisation can be just as compelling as a meticulously mapped-out journey.