Half An Owl And A Full Moon Rising

Key to all of this is the joy of the club experience: the high energy and the vibrational field that’s created when the DJ, their musical selections and the dancers align on the same wavelength. The “Feel Factor” as she calls it. Frequency, resonance, rhythmic entrainment - the science of dance floor harmonics. As you and I know, music can tap into a very primal part of us and elicit spiritual experiences. Transcendence, a natural high - ecstasy. "That is the f***ing ecstasy - you're going home and you're like, ‘God, I've been places’,” Steffi says. This is her intention, with every set, with every in-the-moment decision made while playing, the music she curates and plays - and the music she’s created for this album. It will take you places, no doubt.

The mind expanding, heart opening feelings of ecstasy we can experience on the dance floor are central to this album - even the title is a reference: Half an owl meaning half a pill. But beyond the use of substances, it’s about the ecstatic response that can be facilitated by DJs and their music, whether that’s natural or chemical.

“Everything is about taking people on a journey. I’m not changing my approach to entertain people with a short attention span. No. This is my version. Welcome to my world,” Steffi says. “This is how I translate ecstasy visually and for body, mind, and soul.”

Going back to the raves that started all of this, the core components remain the same: connection, unity, harmony, social cohesion and the feelings of love, happiness, empathy and belonging that are stimulated by the shared experience of gathering and dancing to the same beats. “This is what the world needs - colour in every sense, unity, musical diversity," Steffi says. In times of divisive messaging and social disharmony, club spaces are becoming more and more sacred, and essential.

In essence, Half An Owl And A Full Moon Rising, is the product of these two foundational through lines - Steffi’s extensive expertise combined with the eternally present power of the dance floor. It’s sonic storytelling, carrying the vibes and euphoria of years gone by into today’s culture, offering new generations the opportunity to experience the same transformative feelings that Steffi had when she was immersed in the dance floor as a raver herself over 35 years ago. Yes, the world has changed and technology has advanced, impacting behaviour and culture, but the heart of the human experience is still very much rooted in connecting and the healing, affirming p

When you’ve been immersed in music for as long as Steffi has, naturally you’ll have a deep well of influence to draw on. Instinctively, she channels decades of absorbing and studying sounds from a multitude of sources - the cities that built the foundations, the towns, the clubs, the labels and artists that all contributed to a seemingly endless rabbit hole of inspiration. Detroit, Chicago, New York, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin, the Belgian sound, Italy… Combined with her time spent on the road, all of this, and much more, permeates into her productions subtly, subconsciously. The result is an artist that cannot be put into a box. When Steffi is making music she is a conduit for a broad field of inputs, and what comes out is an amalgamation of everything.