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INTRODUCING °•*⁀➷ Radart (live), ru-ga & .WEST (light installation) to round off our lineup for tomorrow at @laak.club , we are adding the final layers to the evening’s sonic and visual landscape. °•*⁀➷ Radart (live) as our third live act, we welcome Dylan Batelic aka Radart (@partydown99 ), founder of Paper-Cuts and co-curator of un:send (alongside Kia), his sound filters turn-of-the-century chill-out through a modern lens. following his acclaimed 2025 debut album and sets at Tresor, he brings his hardware-driven blend of ambient and trip-hop to the booth for a rare live appearance. °•*⁀➷ ru-ga curating the atmosphere in the expo, @ru_gaiyah will be leaning into a more chilled, expansive vibe. a selector dedicated to the fringes of bass and the deeper shadows of ambient music, her set will be an exercise in patience and texture—perfectly suited for the immersive, laid-back energy of the expo space. °•*⁀➷ .WEST (lighting installation) to complete the immersion, the industrial architecture of Laak will be transformed by a custom lighting installation from @dotdotwest @dotweststudio known for their ability to merge space and light into a new reality, they will curate the visual atmosphere of the night—using smoke and shadows as a canvas to create an environment that resonates perfectly with the sonic depth of the traumgarten x Animalia gathering. tickets via the link in bio ⛓️‍💥

@dotweststudio light at Garage Noord captured on film

Process of @dotweststudio light at Garage Noord captured on film

.WEST at Garage Noord By: @dotweststudio Fixture design: @meeusvandis For: @garagenoord Date: 14/03/2026 Location: @garagenoord

Reworked lights and stage design in full force during .WEST at Garage Noord By: @dotweststudio Fixture design: @meeusvandis For: @garagenoord Date: 14/03/2026 Location: @garagenoord

A reworked light and stage design took form at Garage Noord, unveiled March 14 during the .WEST night with @marijn__s @deena___abdelwahed & @nakanoblu By: @dotweststudio Fixture design: @meeusvandis For: @garagenoord Date: 14/03/2026 Location: @garagenoord

ZAP! very special new lights come have a 👀 tonight. @dotweststudio reworking the original Kanaal40 lights by @meeusvandis Playing in the club @deena___abdelwahed , @marijn__s and @nakanoblu . Render is made by Muxingye Chen. Tickets on garagenoord.com 👁️

Arms out, its Deena Abdelwahed at the club this Saturday! Accompanied by Marijn S and NAKANO BLU. The night is hosted in collaboration with .WEST who developed a brand new, permanent light plan for Garage Noord, which will be unveiled on this night 🫢 Saturday, 14th of March tickets at garagenoord.com

DOUGLAS CALII Artist: @stereoakuma Photos / videos: @lldlld46 Visual installation: @muxingye_chen For: China Mutual Hacking Tour Location: @gong.cdc Date: 09/01/2026 Douglas Calii is a composer and new-media artist whose work bridges the realms of sound, contemporary arts, and technology. Working fluidly across disciplines, his practice is driven by a deep curiosity about the systems, both natural and man-made, that shape our perception of reality. From the physical laws that govern the universe to the cognitive frameworks we construct to navigate existence, Calii’s creative output reflects a constant inquiry into how we make sense of the world. Next to Co-founding .WEST in 2023, Calii works as a producer, artist and performer, frequenting notable venues like Garage Noord, Club Parallel, tilla tec and Club Doka. His genre-bending productions range from soft, sweet ambient to industrial, IDM, and psy soundscapes, seamlessly blending club music with narrative structures. Beyond self-releasing, his music has found a home on labels such as LXVIII and Somnia Records, his music gracing dancefloors from festivals like Draaimolen and Dekmantel to club environments like tilla tec and Garage Noord.

MARIJN S Artist: @marijn__s Photos / videos: @lldlld46 Visual installation: @stereoakuma For: China Mutual Hacking Tour Location: @gong.cdc Date: 09/01/2026 Amsterdam-based Dutch producer, DJ and live performer Marijn S has carved a space for herself with a sound both raw and precise. Using the Machinedrum as her primary tool, she sculpts live, in-the-moment recordings into a cohesive whole, carrying fluid breaks, textured noise, and vivid melodic fragments. Marijn S shapes music from noise, friction, breath, and pulse, finding hidden textures in machines and bending them into something human. Grit becomes shimmer, breaks turn airy, moving with subtle, unpredictable force. Even in the heaviest, most chaotic moments, there’s a tenderness, revealing the emotion within. Her DJ sets mirror this approach, merging magnetic energy with abstract oddities, soft rave burners, and melting, wobbly squelches, pushing the senses to keep pace. In her live performances, Marijn strips everything down to the core: pure machines, raw sound, and an intuitive dialogue between noise and emotion. What emerges is a landscape of textured ambience, intelligent dance drift, bass pressure and abstract shapes: a direct translation of her inner world.

NAKANO BLU Artist: @nakanoblu Photos / Videos: @lldlld46 Visual Installation: @muxingye_chen For: China Mutual Hacking Tour Location: @gongcdc Date: 09/01/2026 Amsterdam based DJ and producer NAKANO BLU has come into the scene during the turbulent year of 2021, after switching from his drumming career towards dark electronic music. Releases on Traumgarten, Hypersonics, Sann Odea and LXVIII have put NAKANO BLU’S productions into the dancefloors of Dekmantel, Draaimolen, Garage Noord, Public Records, Basement and many more, a mix of IDM and bass heavy diasporic latin music and touches of techno and jungle . As a sound artist and engineer his work has been featured in festivals like Down The Rabbit Whole in collaboration with couture studio Maison the Faux, as well as collaborations with Jef Nollet, Muxingye Chen, Aileen Ye, Michal Kurchaski and Peter Wertmann among others.

MUTUAL HACKING By: @muxingye_chen Photos / Videos: @lldlld46 Live performance: @stereoakuma For: China Mutual Hacking Tour Location: @gong.cdc Date: 09/01/2026 Originally from Chengdu and currently based in the Netherlands, Muxingye Chen is a cross-media artist whose practice spans experimental video, interactive scenographic installations, and improvised performance. Their recent projects—including Doppelganger, Mutual Hacking—investigate the fluid boundaries between image, space, and embodied perception. Chen’s work focuses on the deconstruction of time and space as relational states rather than fixed coordinates. Through the use of diverse media and technological processes, they explore the residual imagery that emerges beyond language, examining how virtual and physical realities intersect within contemporary human experience. Their practice operates across artistic and cultural contexts, with works presented at Rotterdam Art Week, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), PAS Art Space (Berlin), Royal Theater Groningen, Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), AAIE – Center for Contemporary Art (Rome), and NDSM (Amsterdam). In parallel, Chen is actively involved in collaborative practices with Dutch audiovisual collectives including Sunmass, .WEST, and Mutual Hacking. These collaborative projects have received support from the Creative Industries Fund NL, further situating their work at the intersection of artistic research, technology, and collective production.