Vivian Koch

Vivian Koch has real range. For labels like Life And Death, a.r.t.less and AD 93 she has served up everything from IDM to moody breaks, ambient soundscapes to emotive techno. Her album Beyond Contact, ominous but hopeful, was fine proof of that from the Berlin-based artist, who started DJing aged sixteen. She has since mastered the art of making and playing club music through her residency at Griessmuehle and her own Olympe party series. Her ambient selections are broad in remit, with beautiful, suspended pieces bleeding into gently suggestive rhythms and moods that range from mind-emptying bliss to hopefulness and even romance, the kind of cathartic listen that works as a reset.