Mila Stern’s decade-long career as a DJ and producer has taken her from DIY squat parties in Halle where she first learned her craft, over the pulsating motley of Tel Aviv, to her adopted home of Berlin and the epicenter of electronic club music. Her calm, commanding skill as a selector rapidly made her a sought-after artist with regular appearances at premier festivals like Fusion, Nation of Gondwana, and Garbicz, and residencies at Berlin’s legendary Kater Blau and Station Endlos in Halle. Since then, she’s broken the boundaries of the Berlin underground, bringing her standout style to the international circuit from Mexico to Kazakhstan. Mila’s sound transports a vision of rave culture as a purist aesthetic free of nebulous superstructures. Her extended closing sets in particular are legendary, and deep expressions of love for the non-judgmental freedoms of the rave circuit. From the early days, Mila’s sound has been informed by a sense of counterculture and breaking normative boundaries – she draws on risqué sounds, has boldly carved out her niche, and relentlessly pursued her vision despite the antagonism female DJs faced in the late 2000s – and still do today. As a DJ, producer, event organizer, and former radio host, she pushes the envelope, rejects the status quo, and is driven to take her aesthetic to the limit.