Mitch Dodge
Amelie Lens’ EXHALE imprint announces the seventh installment of their celebrated compilation series, Exhale VA007, featuring new track ‘Activate’ , by Lens, plus cuts from both returning EXHALE faces and newcomers including Flour, GALLØ, AIROD, FLKN, Blondex and more. The album coincides with EXHALE’s fifth anniversary and arrives on all platforms the 28th of November.
For five years EXHALE has been at the cutting edge of underground club culture, rewriting the rulebook of future techno, powered by shared love of uncompromising rave culture. A dynamic community-driven label, platform and event series bridging the gap between DIY warehouse culture and mainstage sonics, EXHALE has grown exponentially from its early seeds on the legendary dance floor of Labyrinth Club in Hasselt.
The brainchild of then resident Amelie Lens, whose talent for curating unreal line-ups, including artists such as Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Ellen Allien, Rødhåd and Kobosil, helped build the foundation of the EXHALE ethos – unearthing raw talent and helping it grow by platforming alongside bigger names. Since those early days in 2020, Lens has brought EXHALE to some of the world’s most respected dance floors, with showcases in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, Paris, Athens, Istanbul as well as colossal stage hosting for Awakenings ADE, Creamfields UK, Tomorrowland and many more.
In just half a decade EXHALE’s unique brand of boundary-pushing, futuristic electronic music has marked them out as one of techno’s all-time greats, bringing together rising artists with heavyweight international names like no-one else. Evidenced succinctly on their highly impressive VA series, now on its seventh release, the compilations are a testament to the brilliance of Lens’ curatorial skill and the remarkable pool of talent in her orbit making waves in techno’s global underground.
‘Activate‘ is out now!