Fallon MacWilliams (Darwin)

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With her unique take on low-end psychedelia, Darwin is visionary of sub-heavy sounds. As a DJ, she’s as at home playing dubstep with Mala or drum & bass with DJ Storm as she is laying down eight hours of techno in Berghain’s closing slot. Born in Canada, she honed her craft in Berlin, bringing the bleeding edge of UK sound-system culture to the techno capital with REEF, a party that began in 2016 at Griessmuehle, and then ABYSS, a sound-system series that plunges further into the depths of mind-bending bass weight. With SPE:C, the label she started in 2015, she’s helped break a new generation of producers (Dual Monitor, Elpac) while pushing blindingly fresh sounds from around the world (Canada’s Destrata, Venezuela’s Dagga and Manao). In the right hands, sub-heavy frequencies are capable of spiritual transcendence. Whether she’s mixing records, curating her label or dreaming up new bass raves, Darwin is dedicated to unlocking that energy.