NYE 2024 — Aurora Halal • Paurro • Dave P (at Fairmount)

Aurora Halal is a producer, DJ and creator of Brooklyn’s influential Mutual Dreaming party series & the Sustain-Release festival. Shadowy and psychedelic, her hardware live & DJ sets have a hazy sensuality and metallic dance floor intensity that’s at turns playful, dark, euphoric and emotionally vulnerable. In all her projects she treats dance music as an arena for transformation, and since 2010 her events have been rooted in an underground, DIY approach that pushes forward-thinking sounds, production and ideas. She’s a resident at NYC’s Nowadays, a regular at Berghain and De School, and has spent the last 10 years touring like-minded clubs, raves and festivals all over the world.

Mexican DJ and producer Paulina Rodriguez aka Paurro naturally fell very early into the embrace of house, UK garage, breakbeat, bass, and techno music. Paurro found a new home in the dance community which gave her a platform to advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and to elevate other artists’ work, with a big focus on those from her home country. With an iconic essence grounded in house music, Paulina draws a fine line between her organic and energetic sounds, providing happy and unforgettable sets that leave a mark on the soul. Ranging from deep and minimal to uplifting and melodic sounds, often grazing 90s house, her true aim is to provoke a feeling of true freedom through song and dance.

Dave P. has dedicated his life to the restless quest to achieve futuristic musical TRANSCENDENCE at his legendary Making Time events and festival in Philadelphia. This Philadelphia selector, DJ and TRANSCENDENTAL futuristic musical warrior of the nite make a great effort to thoroughly explore all electronic music; to turn these sounds into inclusive music that everybody understands together with the theory. Dave P’s vision of futuristic musical TRANSCENDENCE is achieved.

Led by self-taught artist and projection pioneer Ricardo Rivera, Klip Collective is an adhocracy of creative professionals based in Philadelphia. They are in charge of the visual environment of the Making Time festival. They use a mix of projection mapping and lighting to create unique immersive sensory experiences.

Making Time is an electronic and experimental music festival based in Philadelphia on the exceptional site of Fort Mifflin (historic Civil War fort located on the banks of the Delaware River) hosting the best of international DJs and live acts (Laraaji, Octo Octa & Eris Drew, Sedef Adasi, Avalon Emerson, Batu, Laurel Halo…) for two magical days of futuristic and transcendental music.