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Simon Darling

Titirangi, New Zealand

When you mix an R rated coming-of-age movie about a talking animal that only you can understand with a classic midnight B film involving a half naked babysitter and the guy across the street, you’re on your way to knowing what to expect from one of Simon Darling’s day or nighttime sets. It’s innocence with attitude and it’s the ideal way to travel through a weekend afternoon into darker spheres.

Despite being born in the most over-hyped electronic city ever, it wasn’t Berlin that compelled him to become the 7,548,628th DJ in the world. In reality, it was New Zealand’s natural environment and the local fruit loops that enjoy celebrating in it which inspired his never jaded four-four sets.

Unlike most DJ’s (who started mixing unreleased state of the art underground dance-floor epics from inside their mothers womb), Simon Darling has had his appreciation for electronic sounds sparked up in a more grown-up state of his life and developed a range of from Berlin tech to deeper trenches