@tijanatt needs little introduction - close to 20 years in Serbia’s music scene, 700+ shows across 60 countries, and a reputation built on acid-laced, genre-fluid sets that have filled rooms from Berghain to Boiler Room to Rainbow Disco Club. She is, by any measure, one of the most enduring forces on the global circuit.
Her @crates.app playlist is called Yugo. A personal archive drawn from Yugoslavia - the country she was born in, and the one that no longer exists. Progressive, liberal, culturally alive, and undone by nationalism and war. For her generation, that loss was formative. For the rest of us, this playlist is a window into something that feels increasingly like a 20th century Atlantis.
This one is a memory of an entire world.
Now live on @crates.app - link in bio!
Build Your Music Home with Crates is a hands-on workshop import your local files and online collections, organise everything in one place, and build playlists across platforms without switching apps. We’ll share what’s coming next, answer your questions, and close by building a collaborative playlist together.
Collectors, DJs, curators - this one’s for you. Bring your laptop. Spots are limited so DM us to secure one!
ARNII is a club industry activist, culture commentator and DJ based between Tbilisi and Prague - with a decade building underground scenes, creative directing FUCHS2, and now running an independent practice helping artists navigate the current industry ecosystem. He’s as sharp on Instagram algorithms as he is on warehouse acoustics and a strong advocate of Georgian electronic music’s presence in Central & Eastern Europe, connecting Tbilisi’s emerging scene with the rest of the world.
His Crates playlist is called Melancholy At 140: Introduction to NEO-GRIME. Mid-pandemic, music stopped working for him. Then he fell into a rabbit hole of producers making something without a name - grime tempo, trance pads, the emotional gravity of wave music, club logic rebuilt around feeling. It brought him back.
Melancholy-drenched, floor-adjacent, sitting in the in-between where the best niche genres live. This is NEO-GRIME.
Now live on Crates - link in bio
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This Saturday, May 9th, Crates takes part at @athens.music.week with “Beyond the Algorithm - Curators, Collectors & Community” a conversation about what music discovery looks like when it’s driven by people, not systems.
Joining the panel: @strobelspaene (Music Tech Germany), @janetdavis aka K.atou, @chevy_athens Sevdalis (_&Beyond / Needless / Chevy) and @george.winjer to bring their unique perspectives on a crucial topic about the future of music culture. Moderated by @stathis_kalatzis .
@goetheinstitut_athen | Room 3002 | 15:00–16:00
@dimitrazina is a Berlin based curator, DJ and radio host at the centre of the city’s jazz and soul scene and well beyond it. She’s managed productions for Mulatu Astatke, Butcher Brown and Abdullah Ibrahim, served on the executive board of the Berlin Club Commission, and curated programmes for Worldwide FM, Radio Alhara, Stegi Radio and Refuge Worldwide. Her DJ sets have taken her to acclaimed venues and festivals such as XJAZZ!, Jazz Re:Found and Fotografiska Berlin. The through line is always the same: music that is equally timeless and contemporary.
Her playlist “Side B” follows her there - into the spaces where jazz, improvisation, broken rhythm and electronics blur into each other, taking off from familiar reference points and landing into unexpected destinations.
Now live on @crates.app - link in bio!
@_pink.wav is an Athens-based DJ and creative whose sets blur genre lines without losing the thread - bass, vocals, breaks and percussion woven into a sonic reflection of human complexity. Her mixes have aired on NTS, Kiosk Radio and Komrad, and she hosts her own show “time:stamps” on Stegi Radio. In parallel she’s been steadily making her mark on stages and festivals across Greece and beyond.
Her playlist for us is called Dub Descendants. A deep dig into dub’s long shadow - from Jamaican soundsystem culture to the UK, and into everything it’s shaped since. Dub-techno, jungle, drum & bass, dubstep and its most recent revival! This is her map of where the root system runs.
Now live on @crates.app - link in bio!
Here’s Pt.2 of Preparing a DJ set in Crates, with a stronger focus on Discogs collection digging and ripping to aiffs when venues don’t support turntables (booooo).
Metadata magic included. 🎥 @verybusythenia
To watch the full YouTube video —> link in bio.
Team member @stathis_kalatzis walks us through his @crates.app workflow, from local files screening to Bandcamp digging and vinyl ripping, to stitch together a banging hardgroove playlist. In the process he’s channeling the same energy that defined his early 00s Mr. Statik era and what that sound has transformed into these days.
Real digging hasn’t changed - just the software we use to do it. 🎥 @verybusythenia
To watch the full YouTube video —> link in bio.
Our next Crates Curated playlist is by someone who smoothly moves between the booth, the mic, the archive and the academy - and makes it all feel like one seamless experience.
@ninakeh , aka, Nina Kehagia is a DJ, broadcaster, researcher and cultural curator with over 16 years of tracing the deeper currents of electronic music. She hosts Devil’s Dancers on @resonancefm , leads content at global community @shesaid.so , and is currently in production on a documentary about Liverpool’s underground dance music histories. As if she weren’t busy enough, her PhD research runs alongside all of it - quietly complimenting everything.
Informed by her combined taste all these years, her playlist for us is called Afterhours: The Chill Out Room. Consider it a late morning (or night for that matter) exhale.
Now live on @crates.app - link in bio!
We’ve all heard the narrative: streaming stepped in and rescued a dying industry from the clutches of piracy. Major label revenues are at record highs, and access is infinite.
But for the artists making the music - and the listeners trying to find something that truly resonates with their taste - the reality is a lot more complicated. We’ve traded deep connection for “optimized” playlists. We’ve traded the thrill of the find for a feedback loop that plays it safe or is often dictated.
In our latest blog, we’re calling out the “Streaming Saved Music” narrative and why building a personal, intentional library matters now more than ever.
Link in bio to read the full blog post.
Most know Andreas Dimitriadis as @and.idofficial , the Thessalonikean powerhouse behind legendary sets and live performances around the world - and a long-standing ambassador for the Greek electronic scene.
But for our latest Crates Curated series, Andreas invites us into his most ambitious world yet: @algolparadoxmusic .
Coinciding with the release of his new LP, Algol Paradox II, his ii ongaku (良い音楽) selection pivots from the warehouse to the celestial. It’s a complimentary sonic map inspired by the binary star system Gemma (Alpha Coronae Borealis) and the myth of Theseus, aimed for meditative dancing.
Now live on @crates.app - link in bio!
Our latest Crates Curated playlist smells like 🍓 🍓
Artist, educator & sonic explorer @poetmistry has become an internet sensation for his hyper detailed ableton production hacks. Putting all this knowledge to the test he just dropped his STRAWBERRY LP, a reflective dive into pop samples, forgotten experiments, and the question we all ask: can we ever really let go?
To celebrate, he asked his community for their favourite strawberry-related tracks and these are his picks. From lo-fi daydreams to experimental textures and uptempo bangers, this playlist captures that same curiosity - tasty, adventurous, and a little bit fragmented.
Now live on @crates.app - link in bio!
