Welcome to CNTCORE 💫
A space where queer culture, electronic music and creative energy collide. Here to connect, collaborate or just vibe?
You’re in the right place. Be yourself and join us as we bridge past and present - together. artwork by @a.n.t.o.n.f.a.l.c.k
Braver Spaces, not safer spaces
We don’t promise safety in a world built on oppression. We commit to building braver spaces - where we practice accountability, consent and care, knowing we’ll mess up and learning to repair together.
Queer Taxi Fund: rides home for our community
We’re collecting donations at the door for a future Queer Taxi Fund. This fund is here to support anyone in our community who needs a ride home after the party. If you need help getting back safely, just let us know - no questions asked. If you’re able to contribute, your support helps keep our dance floor open, welcoming for everyone.
Let’s look out for each other - because queer nightlife is about community.
CNTCORE is a fever dream in queer color. The room pulses with deep reds, pink and bruised purples - intimate, bold and a little bit dangerous. Every surface and shadow feels alive, dripping with attitude and raw possibility.
Lighting:
Forget sterile - think soft, diffused washes in magenta and red, breathing with the crowd. Shadows pool in the corners, while flashes of strobe and analog static cut through for those wild, unforgettable peaks. The lighting amplifies bodies, sweat and movement - never just spectacle, always about sensation.
Visuals:
DIY meets digital chaos: zines, cut-outs and glitch textures collide, echoing the flyer’s unapologetic visuals. It’s a space that feels hand-made and high-voltage, where every detail says: you belong, but only if you bring your boldest self.
CNTCORE x Sauna Radio (Stockholm) takes over SAMEHEADS for a night that’s pure heat: high attitude, heavy sweat, zero compromise.
A co-curated Berlin x Stockholm link-up with dancefloor-first selections - queer house uplift, bass pressure and genre-melting club energy.
Aaron Blau • Abstraxion (Sauna) • DJ handbag • goldie • Posture • Sean Fender (Sauna)
The whole session will be recorded live and later broadcast as a Sauna Radio feature.
Doors 23:00 - come loud, come tender, come unfiltered … then lose yourself in it.
About Sauna Radio: Stockholm’s only independent community web radio platform - weekly DJ sessions, live acts + occasional talks spotlighting emerging scenes, experimentation and local + international connections. Artwork by @a.n.t.o.n.f.a.l.c.k
CNTCORE is coming to Paloma — 26/04, 2-12pm
A night for loud hearts, dirty basslines and diva energy. Swipe the carousel to meet the lineup + get a little taste of what each one brings to the booth.
@handbag_dj
Berlin-based, trans-femme selector serving diva house, queer house + handbag heat. Expect big vocals, cheeky edits and bass that hugs you back.
@nickymiller0 x @electrosexual_ (Live)
A high-voltage link-up: sleek electro, punky club pressure and the kind of groove that turns the room into a machine (in the best way).
@dj.egoshooter10000
Fast, sharp and shameless. Club tools, hard swings and left-turn transitions designed to keep you a little off-balance and fully locked in.
@ketia4ever
Warm, percussive, and hypnotic. Deep cuts + bright peaks, with a feel for tension that makes the dancefloor breathe together.
@adri_alibi
Playful and precise: bouncy rhythms, bold hooks and a taste for the dramatic. Come for the groove, stay for the surprise.
Paloma • 26/04 • 2-12pm
Bring a friend. Bring a look. Bring your whole self.
CNTCORE FAMILY - next event is a full-on love letter to the queer community: fundraising, safer vibes and showing up for each other.
First, in @amphia__ words:
„I’m so excited to share that CNTCORE family will help me to raise funds for my tracheal shave surgery at their next event.
As a trans non-binary artist, this is a huge step toward feeling like myself in my own skin, but it’s a journey I can’t fund alone. Being able to do this with a community I love means the world to me. If you’re coming their next event, there’ll be ways to chip in, and if you can’t make it, even just sharing or donating to my GoFundMe helps more than you know.
Thank you for all the love and for having my back.“
We’re also running our Queer Taxi Fund (because getting home safe is the point). Braver Spaces is part of the night too - not as a buzzword, as a practice: clearer boundaries, more care, less entitlement. Check in before you touch, respect a „no” the first time, look out for each other and if something feels off, say something. If you need support, we’ll have people you can go to.
And yes, there’ll be a CUNTCORE cocktail at the bar - just for fun, just for the vibe. If you’re coming: there’ll be an easy way to contribute on the night. If you can’t: share + donate to Amphia’s GoFundMe (link in bio / stories).
#CUNTCORE #TransSurgeryFunding #QueerTaxiFund #BraverSpaces #communitycare
New essay up on the CNTCORE blog: “In the Age of the Screenshot.”
It’s a club-floor reflection on controlling images, authenticity-as-performance and what happens when „bottom-coded / trans clocked“ stops being a trap and becomes a tactic - a way of moving through the scan with softness without surrender and a gaze that reads the room back.
If you’ve ever felt the spotlight clock you: this one’s for you.
Read it on the CC blog.
background artwork: @daniel.paramio
CNTCORE is that necessary shock of pink in a grayscale world.
It’s needed because sometimes „polite“ just doesn’t cut it. We’re reclaiming the dancefloor as a ritual space for the raw, the unfiltered and the dangerously cunty. No more minimalist aesthetics - we’re bringing back the grit, the sweat and the unapologetic presence of the community that actually built this scene.
Sunday Service starts 26th april at @paloma_berlin - 2pm. Don’t be late.
The Lineup: @adri_alibi@ketia4ever@nickymiller0 x @electrosexual_ (Live) @dj.egoshooter10000@handbag_dj
artwork by @daniel.paramio
Sunday 26th april - queer service - daytime edition - and it’s disrespectfully cunty.
CNTCORE @ Paloma is your 2–12pm confession booth: come as you are, leave as something else.
We’re serving morning-after glamour, cheap thrills and holy house plus the perks: the CNTCORE cocktail, an open terrace and that iconic view over Kotti square while you pretend you’re „just having one“. Daylight chaos, fresh air breaks, back to the sweat. No sermons, just sound. No salvation, just a better outfit and worse decisions.
26/04 • 2–12pm • Paloma
Adri Alibi • Ketia • Nicky Miller b2b Electrosexual (Live) • DJ EGOSHOOTER • DJ handbag
Pull up early. Stay late. Sip something pink. Watch Kotti move. Dance like you mean it.
Artwork by @daniel.paramio
DJ handbag - all night long
Sat 18 Apr | Café Coconut, Berlin | 22.00 - 06.00
A full-night arc: sweat, hooks, pressure - held tight from first drink to first light. DJ handbag (CNTCORE) takes the room on an eight-hour ride through queer house devotion and diva flashbacks, with UKG swing, bass house bite and those shameless, hands-in-the-air moments that somehow still hit like truth.
@cafecoconutberlin (Danziger Straße 144) is a 24/7 bar, so the night can start soft and spiral properly: roll in early, catch the room warming up, then lock into the long peak without a reset button. No changeovers, no filler - just one continuous narrative built for dancers who like it deep and loud.
CNTCORE BLOG RELEASE: bottom-coded, ketamine femmunism, braver spaces.
On the dancefloor, freedom isn’t abstract - it’s infrastructure: consent with a pulse, boundaries that make the vibe possible, care that moves hand to hand. A no that doesn’t get negotiated. Friends gathered. Space made.
Tonja Wetzel: „Sit on the fist that oppresses you.” Not self-destruction - a tactic. Turning pressure into presence.
And pleasure belongs here: not private, but political. A way to feel where power sits and shift it.
Queer house is room-discipline: not „everyone’s welcome“ but who’s held when it gets tight. Bottoms aren’t less - we choose the terms: what comes in, what stays out, how pleasure becomes power.
CNTCORE is that practice in the bass.
Not just letting us in. Holding us.
DJ handbag
#djhandbag #braverspaces #queerhouse
