Worthing Techno Militia presents: Kerrie

About

For our first guest party of 2025, we are super excited to welcome a DJ and producer who is absolutely at the top of her game right now and will be gracing Worthing for the night with a DJ set of pure machine funk like only she can.

Irish-born, Manchester-based Kerrie is a multidisciplinary artist and resident DJ at Tresor
Berlin. She performs live sets, produces music, DJs, and runs her own label, Dark
Machine Funk.

Having garnered a rich musical education through working at and holding a DJ residency for
one of the UK's most respected record shops, Eastern Bloc, Kerrie's in-depth knowledge and
unwavering dedication to music shines through her notable back catalogue and bolshy,
unforgiving DJ and Live sets. Honing her craft for over a decade, Kerrie achieved a milestone at
the start of 2024 when Tresor announced her as a resident DJ. Playing several shows (both live
and DJ sets) at the Berlin-based space, Kerrie also represents the seminal club at showcases
worldwide. Celebrated venues like Berghain, fabric, FOLD, Elsewhere NYC, and festival
bookings at Freedom Medellin, Freerotation, Drift, Basilar and many more have shaped her
schedule along the way.

First learning to mix via her brother's turntables in the early 2000s, it wasn't until 2009 that
Kerrie invested in her own set-up and built an extensive record collection, covering everything
from ambient, electronic, house, EBM, acid, electro, and her go-to genre, techno. Kerrie delivers
tough moods from the turntables, as conveyed in her mixes for Reclaim Your City, Bassiani,
SLAM and Crack, where she carefully blended high-energy styles of UK, Detroit, and European
techno, many of which stem from the 90s and the 00s. It's frequent to hear Kerrie weave broken
elements into her mixes too, chopping up the 4/4 groove at just the right moment to keep things
propulsive. Kerrie's Live sets are renowned for their trippy motifs and high impact on the
dancefloor; her set from Freerotation in 2019 was one of the festival's most talked-about debuts.

Following well-received releases on labels such as Don't Be Afraid, Cultivated Electronics, I
Love Acid and Symbolism, Kerrie launched her imprint Dark Machine Funk [DMF] in 2020. The
label homes her distinctly raw aesthetic and honours her love for dark, gritty, metallic and
industrial sounds melded with elements of funk, heavily influenced by second-wave Detroit
artists, UK techno and music by some of her favourite artists: James Ruskin, Blawan and
Surgeon. Kerrie's first release on DMF, "Inner Space PT1", was praised by Resident Advisor,
who credited her ability to make "lean, fierce techno that knows how to groove."

2022 was a watershed year for Kerrie's productions. She debuted on the monumental UK
techno label Blueprint with her EP "Raw Regimen", which landed acclaimed reviews. Truly
welcomed to the Blueprint family, Kerrie delivered her second EP in 2023 and joined the crew at
label showcases around the globe. In the same year, she marked her tenth release on vinyl
called "Transient Belief" which Blueprint added to their discography. In 2024, Kerrie's output
continues to captivate, with Tresor releasing her EP "Machine Alliance", further solidifying her
connection with the club and label and fulfilling one of her many goals (and dreams) as an artist.

Coming to international prominence in more recent years, regardless of her decade-long tenure
in Manchester's vibrant scene, Kerrie is deeply invested in the culture of electronic music,
starting from her teenage era as a raver in Ireland up to her innovative projects today. In 2017,
she founded Eastern Bloc's in-house event space to nurture local talent, which remains at the
heart of Manchester's music community. Having ended her 11-year stint at the shop in 2023 to
fully commit to the studio and accommodate her increasingly busy tour schedule, Kerrie is
forging a long-lasting path fuelled by drive, passion, authenticity and a community-first way of
thinking.