MARCO CAROLA PRESENTS MUSIC ON — NEW YEAR’S EVE — IBIZA, DEC 31

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Announced on the current lineup. Additional artist background and official profile verification are pending.

Seth Troxler was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and raised near Detroit. His stepfather, a college-radio DJ, introduced him to records and mixing. By the age of sixteen he was working in the Detroit shop Melodies & Memories, surrounded by music and other people who cared deeply about selection. It was an education that could not be reduced to learning the mechanics of a mixer. A record store teaches a developing DJ to listen beyond a current chart. Different scenes overlap in the racks, and the customers bring their own stories about what works. Troxler’s later performances became known for a roaming, sometimes unpredictable approach to house and techno. The willingness to follow an unusual record into a new mood begins to make sense when seen against that early environment. Troxler appeared at Panorama Bar while still in his teens and moved to Berlin in the mid-2000s. The city’s underground scene provided an international meeting place for artists whose sounds grew from Detroit house and techno but were not limited to those histories. He built an increasingly visible career through sets at clubs such as fabric, Panorama Bar and CircoLoco and major festivals including Movement and Glastonbury. The story did not end with a move from local recognition to bigger bookings. His music remained connected to independent records, collaborative studio sessions and parties where a DJ might spend hours developing a room’s energy. That is a different skill from playing a short greatest-hits festival slot, and it has stayed central to his reputation. Troxler’s involvement in independent labels reveals another side of his work. His projects include Visionquest and Tuskegee, the latter associated with his collaboration with the Martinez Brothers and a commitment to widening representation in dance music. He later launched Slacker 85, while continuing to remix and record for a range of electronic labels. His official music archive lists collaborations from different periods, from Space & Time with the Martinez Brothers in 2014 to the 2023 Sex & The City project with HoneyLuv and Paul Johnson. Later remixes and collaborative records show the same curiosity across styles. These releases matter because they connect a widely touring DJ back to the record-making community that makes an underground scene possible. With Phil Moffa, Troxler developed Lost Souls of Saturn, a project that reaches into experimental electronics, visual installations and technology. Their work has appeared in art settings including the Saatchi Gallery, and the 2024 project Reality was accompanied by an augmented-reality comic experience. The official artist biography also documents activities far beyond DJing, including restaurant work, exhibitions and public conversations about culture. That breadth does not mean the dance floor is unimportant. It demonstrates that a musician can bring experience from other parts of life back into the music. For a young DJ, Troxler’s example suggests that a personal sound may grow from record collecting, conversations, independent ventures and creative risks rather than from following a single genre’s expectations.

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Ilario Alicante

Announced on the current lineup. Additional artist background and official profile verification are pending.

Frank Storm

Announced on the current lineup. Additional artist background and official profile verification are pending.

MARCO CAROLA PRESENTS MUSIC ON — NEW YEAR’S EVE

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Ilario Alicante

Frank Storm

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