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Skrufff DJ Fidelity in feathers (click on the picture, 13 seconds in)

Fidelity Kastrow in feathers in Berlin back in the day (click here)

Myself and skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow are attending and DJing at the Secret Island Festival in July, spinning alongside a host of Berlin / Sweden underground DJs including La Fleur, DJ Nibc, and stacks more. Scroll down for more pictures from last year’s event:

Fidelity @ Torture Garden (London) May 09

Jonty Skrufff & Fidelity Kastrow @ Tresor, October 08

Fidelity Kastrow and I are DJing tonight at Berlin techno institution Tresor, for the opening party of CSD, Berlin’s annual Gay Pride party. We’re in the Globus (main room) and are spinning from midnight to 4am; come and say Hi if you’re there;-)

Chicks On Speed, Al Doyle from Hot Chip, Discobelle and Londoner Niyi have been confirmed as headliners at next weekend’s 72 hour Mid Sommar Festival, which this year takes place in the centre of Berlin on the banks of the river Spree.

The massively popular annual all night event started life at a former Soviet airbase outside the city, though this year takes places several hundreds metres away from the city’s geographical centre of Alexander Platz, said event organiser Bjorn.
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“Secret Island is different from other festivals, there’s a genuine family feeling in an incredible beauty spot where you’ll have a great time even if you happen to not like techno music. It’s the overall concept of the event that people find appealing, it’s the entire package rather than the whole package, most people don’t care which particular DJs are playing.”

Sunset

Though Secret Island’s 2009 line-up includes Berlin DJs such as Salon Renate’s Peak, Gigolo’s Joel Alter, Tresor’s Fidelity Kastrow and live acts DOP and Yapacc, Secret Island organiser Bjorn is impressively blasé about the key pulling points of his week long event.

“Actually all the artists we book always put a lot of effort into their shows to impress, though as a matter of fact, no DJ will, and has ever been, paid a fee,” he reveals, “Nevertheless I receive way more requests than I could possibly fit into the timetable.”
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