La Darude

Chokers, speed goggles and low-slung trousers are back in as trance and classic rave roar back into fashion. And who is that riding the crest of this retro wave? It's La Darude at Les Nuits Secrètes, ready to reclaim their crown.

Les Nuits Secrètes 2023

Return to the 90s with the classic Parisian Eurodance collective at Les Nuits Secrètes.

This Parisian rave collective used to be known as Salut C'est Cool, but have retired that name in favour of Dimension Bonus. What hasn't changed are their addiction to pummeling rhythms and their dedication to not taking themselves too seriously. 

With their rave aesthetic and high BPM count, Dimension Bonus give the crowd some bounce at Les Nuits Secrètes.

Dimension Bonus

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Russian DJ, producer and experimental sound artist Dasha Rush has made a name for herself with raw, merciless sets that get ravers sweating as they drift off into other dimensions. The punishing brutality of her sound is offset by her ability to decorate the intensity with a delicate, soaring touch.

Stone Techno 2023

A harsh yet ecstatic set from Dasha Rush to get the Stone Techno dancefloor moving.

Dasha Rush

Berlin-based DJ and producer Freddy K has been putting ravers into trance with his dynamic, fluid sets since the early 90s. His style of techno is fully immersive: A master of building from soft ecstatic sounds to hard pounding bacchanals tailor-made for the dancefloor. 

A powerful set from this Berlin-based DJ at Stone Techno Festival, drawing on his decades of experience to whip up a frenzy.

Freddy K

From the late 1990s, Rødhåd laid the foundations for his DJ career. His perfectionist mixes of dub techno and percussive grooves earned him widespread recognition and since 2010, he has been a resident of Berlin's Berghain.
At the same time, Vril took the techno scene by storm, almost out of nowhere. As a producer, he pursues a timeless sound aesthetic that serves no trend in the genre. With his energetic live sets, he has impressed audiences across the world.
The techno giants perform from the post-industrial space of the Ruhr Museum. 

Stone Techno X Zollverein

Techno giants Rødhåd and Vril perform from the post-industrial space of the Ruhr Museum.

Vril & Rødhåd: "Out Of Place Artefacts"

The London Afrobeat Collective say they have only one mission: Making people dance. That's just as well because it's impossible not to move when under the spell of this floor-filling 8 piece orchestra, a touring fixture in the UK and Europe over the past 5 years. 

Bardentreffen Nürnberg 2023

Get your body moving to the complex rhythms of British party orchestra London Afrobeat Collective.

London Afrobeat Collective

Surrealist mystique from French singer Fishbach, bringing her retro tinged pop to the stage at Les Nuits Secrètes. A set that manages to be at once melancholy and danceable, just like her last album Avec les Yeux.

Head down an 80s wormhole with Fishbach at the Nuits Secrètes festival. 

Fishbach

Ak Dan Gwang Chil first formed in 2015 to mark 70 years of liberation from Japanese colonial rule. Powered by three astonishing folk singers, the six members of ADG7 use their music to express their hope of Korean reunification. Shamanic chants, traditional folk and brash pop underpinned by a serious dedication to upholding Korean cultural traditions.

A South Korean traditional music group that infuses pop music with shamanic chants and indigenous folk. 

Ak Dan Gwang Chil

Amenra fans are well versed in the extreme experience of a concert by this Belgian post-metal band, a place where both musicians and audience are constantly pushing for transcendence. Through waves of slow, immense riffs, Amenra question spiritual power structures and what it means to suffer, and live.

Summer Breeze 2023

Amenra put their visual effects and bone-crunching riffs to great effect at Summer Breeze 2023.

Amenra

Norwegian singer Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, known as Sigrid, is a rising stars. Her anthemic single Strangers has already over 66 million views on YouTube. The 25-year-old impresses with her strong voice and her catchy melodies.

Flow Festival 2022

Norwegian singer Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, known as Sigrid, is a rising stars who impresses with her strong voice and her catchy melodies.

Sigrid

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In September 2022 the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody set off nationwide protests in Iran. One year on from this civil unrest, Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

Iranian Women Resist

Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

Tracks East

From his gilded youth in Europe to the bloody repression of the Arab Spring, this is the engrossing story of Muammar Gaddafi's second son who, despite arrest warrants for crimes against humanity, is running for election in Libya.

Saif Al Islam Gaddafi's Comeback

Son of a Dictator

Helen Mirren, the most versatile of British actresses, has played diverse roles in her long and distinguished career, from sexually charged Shakespearian roles to secret agents to Queen Elizabeth II. This documentary paints a portrait of a strong woman, guided by her feminist convictions as a performer and in her private life

The most versatile of British actresses has played diverse roles in her long and distinguished career including royalty.

Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses

Puerto Rico is an "unincorporated territory" of the US, its residents live between two cultures, and not all Boricuas, as the islanders call themselves, necessarily identify as Americans. They enjoy life in their own way and do their best to confront life's challenges.

A look at life and art on the smallest island in the Greater Antilles.

Puerto Rico: The Rhythm of the Caribbean

How is it possible for one of the world’s poorest countries to develop nuclear weapons? 

North Korea: Kim's Men

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The earthquake that hit Morocco, has aroused strong emotions, particularly in France, which is home to the largest Moroccan diaspora. Yet France was not among the first countries asked by Morocco to provide aid: Rabat chose Spain, the United Kingdom, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. How can this choice be explained?

Morocco: Geopolitics of an Earthquake

France was not one of the first countries asked by Rabat to provide emergency aid after the terrible earthquake. Why?

Mapping the World Essentials

In October 2022, residents of the pretty French mountain town of Rumilly were shocked to discover that their drinking water was contaminated with forever chemicals. The supply lines for the town's 16,000 residents were closed. Mayor Christian Heison had never heard of these toxic PFAS before, but for months - maybe years - he and his community had been unwittingly drinking them.

The pretty French mountain town of Rumilly is a forever chemical hotspot.

Re: Forever Chemicals in French Drinking Water

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent. The rapid decline affects all food chains: fish and birds can no longer find enough to eat and are becoming fewer and fewer. Studies show that neonicotinoids used in pesticides aren't just destroying the insect popualtion, but also affect human health.

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent

How Chemical Giants Destroyed our Ecosystem

Spain’s historic win in the Women’s World Cup was overshadowed by scandal after Luis Rubiales’ non-consensual kiss of striker Jenni Hermoso. It’s had a ripple effect across sport in Europe, shining a light on deep-rooted inequality, from pay gaps to poor work conditions and cases of sexual assault.

Football’s #MeToo moment highlights sexism in European sport

Luis Rubiales’ forced kiss on Spain player Jenni Hermoso has sparked a reckoning over sexism in sport.

ARTE Europe Weekly

On the largest lake in Southeast Asia, the enormous Tonle Sap, thousands of people live in harmony with the seasons, adapted to the cycle of the lake's nature. They permanently reside in houseboats on the water. Entire villages have adjusted their lives to the highly fluctuating water levels of Tonle Sap. The rhythm of the seasons requires them to move repeatedly - everything and everyone must go.

Cambodia's Floating Villages

Entire villages have adjusted their lives to the highly fluctuating water levels of Tonle Sap.

Geo Reportage

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless. To celebrate their latest album, 
Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, TAPE revisits the history of a music group that became a global movement. 

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless

TAPE: Metallica

With the war in Ukraine, the spectre of a new food crisis is haunting Africa. Tracks East witnesses an artistic performance that revives the trauma of the great famine that decimated Ukraine in the 1930s. Ukrainian farmers working the land today are coming under Russian machine-gun fire. Finally, we head for Nairobi, where the distant war is weighing heavily on local people’s wallets.

Food: A Weapon of War

Tracks East witnesses an artistic performance that revives the trauma of the great famine that decimated Ukraine in the 1930s. 

About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn and many are no longer in control of their lives due to their sexual disorder. The problem is a taboo subject. But sex sells, especially on the internet: In Germany alone, online porn providers turn over an estimated 4.5 billion euros a year.

When Pleasure turns into Pain

About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn with severe consequences for their lives and relationships.

Re: Porn Addiction

Performing under a dome with exceptional acoustics, inexhaustible showman Jamie Cullum gives a spellbinding solo concert, mixing up genres from jazz to rock and pop.

Piano solo in Versailles

Jamie Cullum gives a spellbinding concert alone at the piano, mixing up jazz, rock and pop sounds.

Jamie Cullum

Ten years after Gaddafi's fall, what state is Libya in? There's the official government based in Tripoli that is recognised by the international community, and rival forces controlled by General Khalifa Haftar.

Libya: A Global Power Struggle

Ten years after Gaddafi's fall, what state is Libya in?

Mapping the World

Apple launched its streaming service in 2015, and to celebrate, the company made their customers an offer they couldn't refuse: three months free subscription. The problem: during these three months, the artists streamed will not receive a penny. But that was without reckoning for Taylor Swift, who published an open letter to the firm on her Tumblr detailing why refusing to pay artists for their work was unacceptable. Apple backtracked. 

Taylor Swift

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In Athens and Elefsina, European Capital of Culture 2023, Twist talks to artists, musicians and creative people. How has the financial crisis and draconian austerity measures impacted their work? Since the parliamentary elections, what is the mood on the Greek cultural scene?

Greek Artists Take Stock

In Athens and Elefsina, European Capital of Culture 2023, Twist talks to artists, musicians and creative people

Twist

August 19, 2014. Nicki Minaj releases the music video for Anaconda. The message is clear: down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech. Provocative? Maybe. Feminist? Definitely.

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj says down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars, and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society. His videos and stage shows were designed to provoke and force the USA to face its cultural contradictions.

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society.

TAPE: Marilyn Manson

Under conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi, a remarkable performance from Ensemble Matheus performing the music of Mozart at Lyon's Trinity Chapel. A concert dominated by the great composer's superb Great Mass in C minor.

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