„You can always rely on the residents. They know the club, the crowd, the sound system, and they are a pillar of the musical identity of a club, just as important as the architecture, the acoustics or the interior design," Nick Höppner once said in Groove. Our monthly Resident Podcast aims to give them the attention and respect they deserve.
The best clubs are not simply spaces in which you can forget about the grind of everyday life, but hubs that transcend geographical, cultural, and even generational differences. Tallinn's HALL club seems to squarely fall into that category, booking internationally renowned artists while also nurturing local DJs from different genres, walks of life, and ages.
Sofiia Ratsiuk a.k.a. Pikkauch and Kätlin Õun a.k.a. noa belong to a younger generation of Estonia's club scene and have been shaping the sound of HALL as residents in different form. What unites the two, however, is a penchant for rough-edged sounds on the darker end of the stylistic spectrum.
The two also share a clear love for the acid sound, which is why it is only fitting that their contribution to our Resident Podcast -their first ever B2B behind the decks-leans heavily towards an aesthetic that continues to fascinate people some 40 years after a few Chicagoans toyed around with a bass synthesizer without having read the manual. It is March 3rd after. This is acid.