Best parties in Berlin this September
From industry heavy weights and community fundraisers to live, laugh, loving, here's where you'll find us this month...
Berlin is entering Autumn with its usual genre-defying, norm-breaking attitude. Help one of our favourite DJ’s get a titty upgrade, or get experimental with some niche performances, whether you’re a music geek or just a silly billy (or a silly geek!) here’s some top tier events to fill your cup.
05/09
OOZE COLLECTIVE
Fluid, gender-smashing utopia, OOZE, returns fundraising for their founder, DJ handbag's gender-affirming surgery and Queer Community & Health Centre, Casa Kuà.
DJ handbag holds it down all night with special B2Bs featuring Adam Munnings, Dirty Daddy Don, DJ Hyaluron, and a secret guest, plus live performances from First Hate’s Anton Falck and Noam Gil Shuster. When a collective dedicated to dissolving boundaries throws a fundraiser for their community, you know this one comes from the heart.
12/09
SOUND METAPHORS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
PART III
Sound Metaphors celebrates a decade with a festival-worthy takeover of all three Berghain floors - showing off Berlin’s music scene at its most intellectually curious and sonically expansive.
The night begins at 19:00 with live music where Berlin dub techno pioneer Moritz von Oswald joins forces with Tunisian producer Azu Tiwaline. Manchester duo Demdike Stare works with dark dub structures and fragmented samples, while Actress—one of British electronic music's defining figures—delivers abstract club music dissolving into futuristic experimentation.
The other floors open at 23:00 with Channel One Sound System presenting conscious reggae and exclusive dubplates, Floating Points weaving house with jazz orchestration, and Helena Hauff delivering uncompromising vinyl sets blending electro, acid, and raw techno. Higher Intelligence Agency provides cozy ambient contrasts on the Säule floor with textures that shaped British Artificial Intelligence sound.
13/09
G3 DISCO + ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL
SECRET LOCATION
Berlin comes alive with Star Formation, headlined by Detroit icon and Godmother of House, Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale. From 1970s Detroit's disco and queer clubs to Studio 54 and the global stage, Hale has blazed a trail as one of dance music's true pioneers. Costanza, Esveae, and Alkarline build the energy with their distinctive Berlin grooves, while G3 and Alternate School present this celebration of house music's past, present, and powerful community. The location is unannounced so stay tuned for coordinates!
16/09
DISSIDENT
As its rebellious name suggests, Dissident embraces nonconformity in sound, style, and social consciousness, fostering a community that centres queers and femmes and their contributions to dance music. Their first Säule edition welcomes Akua, whose sets reject fleeting trends to crystallise techno's enduring pulse into something historically rooted yet fiercely contemporary. Dutch producer Spekki Webu joins with selections from his Neural Network album, alongside Dissident founder Carly Zeng and resident Cryptofauna. When an underground collective is making their Berghain debut, they’re definitely doing something right.
20/09
LUNCHBOX CANDY
In the words of the organisers, "It's like a rave, but cuter."Known for their kaleidoscopic and unapologetically queer parties, Lunchbox Candy creates unforgettable events with one clear purpose: to create a sanctuary for radical self-expression. Expect jaw-dropping performances, live music, and DJ sets spanning everything from Italo to house, breakbeat, and electro—all wrapped up in their signature gender-bending, freedom-lending, love-bursting energy.
The theme is characteristically silly; ‘LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE’. Get crafty and creative when picking out your outfit—the more absurd the better.
27/09
HOE_MIES
Ring ring - pick up the call sis: Hoe__mies is dialing in another night of their signature club and bass blend at their mother ship OXI.
The lineup stays under lock and key, but they promise it's "giving claws out, mobiles off"—expect a fuego lineup with cvnty international guests and your local favs. This intentional space prioritises QTIBIPOC, women, and femmes, with Soft Spot Awareness in pink denim vests ensuring everyone feels safe to "cut loose, shake nyash, pop pxssy and let your freak flag fly." While allies are welcome, it always helps to remember who the space is for.
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