
With over a decade spent on the dancefloor, over the turntables and behind the scenes, Tresor resident Chloe Lula took a moment to chat with us on all things electronic music, gender justice, modern journalism and returning to her background as a classically trained artist.
San Francisco-born and now Berlin-based Chloe Lula has become an all-encompassing performer known for atmospheric sets that dig deep into the niche recesses of techno, electrovl, and experimental music. Alongside a profound musical career, she is Resident Advisor’s Senior Producer, the Critical Beats columnist at The Wire, and a selector for her monthly radio show, âNo Exit,â on Refuge Worldwide.Â
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What were some early influences in the music that shaped who you are today?
So, I started out playing the classical cello, that was basically my introduction to music. I was doing that really seriously until the age of 18. I went to music school, and then I went to the Conservatory on the weekends. I reached this point where I had to decide whether I was going to pursue it professionally or not. I had become bored with how regimented and structured classical music was, and around this time I had to make this decision I also discovered dance music. I started going to raves in San Francisco. That was when my focus started shifting from classical music to electronic music, which is interesting now that Iâm circling back to classical music again which I was not expecting!
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How do you feel these two genres interact in your life, do you feel there are any crossovers in terms of when approaching your sets, production and buying music – or do you see classical music and electronic music as separate entities in your life?
That’s a great question. Nowadays I see much more of a crossover that I didnât see when I was younger. Which is why I kind of ditched the cello and didnât touch it for basically 10 years, in my mind they were two completely separate worlds. But now, Iâm seeing a lot of artists who have a foot in both electronic and classical music and are doing a lot of interesting electroacoustic music. Thereâs a composer I really like right now called Yair Elazar Glotman, heâs doing a lot of electroacoustic stuff with the bass and heâs also released on Opal Tapes, a lot of his productions use samples of bass strings recorded in really different and new ways. There is also Hildur Guðnadóttir the Icelandic cellist who created the score for Chernobyl and The Joker.

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Yes, the Bathroom dance scene during the Joker is phenomenal. It is so ominent yet deeply moving at the same time?
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Music is forever evolving, and the lines between genres are changing – recontextualization is definitely the term I would use as well. So letâs go back to your early influences and when you dove into club music. How old were you then?
I first ââdiscoveredââ electronic music when I was 16, but I didn’t seriously get into techno until I was 18 or 19. Funnily enough, I still listen to a lot of my influences from then. I am constantly revisiting music I was listening to back then.
My early influences were Sandwell District, Tropic of Cancer, and a lot of the music popular at Berghain in 2013-2014. This atmospheric, dark, ambient slow-tempo music influenced me. I still think that stuff is great and I miss hearing it on dance floors as much as I did then.

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So what clubs were you going to at this point? What collectives were you involved in? What kind of places were you listening to the music at?
I mean, the first parties I was going to weren’t like playing Sandwell District. Like, the very first I was going to, it was more like bloghouse, that era. So I was going to some raves, like, sneaking out, going to kind of big room like Big Room, Steve Aoki, Bloody Beetroots stuff. And then when I got more into techno I was in university. So at that point, I was working for the school radio station and started a techno label and we were throwing parties in this abandoned apartment building and that’s how I started Dj-ing and I got really into it. So it was like a collective and a label called Detour, and it’s still running. I decided I was going to study abroad in Berlin when I was 19 0r 20, which was peak Berghain “cool” era. So I’d already been working at the radio station and the label and these kinds of renegade parties for a few of years when I came to Berlin for the first time. I went for six months and I was at Berghain literally every weekend. I ended up getting a job at Boiler Room. I was working the door at the Boiler Room on Wednesdays and then I was also working the door at Downwards. So, I was just getting involved in literally any way that I could. And then I was using the money that I made at the door to go to Berghain right after my door shifts and I’d be there all weekend. It’s kind of a classic story

I don’t even necessarily think it’s a classic story. I think it’s like I’ve concluded that Berlin is an educational process for people who aren’t from there. You’ve come from a world that’s so far apart from that, and then you’ve managed to then as I say, earn your stripes and play Berghain, play Tresor and all this stuff. So that is like the ultimate goal as an artist really, isn’t it? Especially in the channels that you work in.
I guess I’ll add that at that point I was not thinking that I wanted to be a DJ or something like that, it was never part of my plan actually. I really wanted to run record labels and be a curator, and I was thinking that I would transfer my skills having started the Detour label and university to just running labels in Berlin. So I was emailing all these record labels I loved asking if I could start interning for them. I got a few offers for internships and I kind of decided to move to Berlin from there. It kind of just happened that I started DJing, it’s only in the last couple of years that I’ve seriously started thinking of myself as an artist. I think a lot of it was a self confidence thing.


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Tresor has always been hugely influential for me. Obviously it’s had a huge impact on dance music culture, but it was never one of my specific goals to become a resident there. I mean they actually approached me a year ago to become a resident, but I wasn’t even thinking about having a residency anywhere, it just happened and it feels very fortuitous to me because I identify really strongly with the label, the club, I really love what they’re doing right now. In the last couple of years the whole team has shifted and they seem much more community oriented. There is just this burst of new creativity happening there that Iâm really excited to be a part of. So it just happened and yeah, I guess that’s how I ended up where I am now. But it wasn’t really a clear goal of mine.
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I mean, for me, it’s definitely both music and ethos. First, I do think about the music and the curation. But I also want to work with people who know what’s important, for example Tresor, as I mentioned, it seems to me that they’re really invested in the artists they work with. They’re invested in the community and in representing new people, giving a voice to new artists. They’re not exclusive. It’s not this gatekeeping. âOld guardâ attitude I guess. And that’s what’s turned me off of working with some labels.
The industrial world can be very masculine, there are a lot of men in the industry, and there’s this kind of aggressive energy there that I actively wanted to kind of separate myself from.

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I’ve always been interested in gender justice and anything related to representation. And that was actually the reason why initially I went to get my master’s degree in journalism, I wanted to write more about human rights issues related to gender. That’s always something that’s been a huge draw of mine in my work. Honestly, anything related to feminism, and ways that I can talk about that in writing, whether that’s, putting the focus on artists who haven’t had enough representation or writing about queer dance music culture. So, that has been and still is my primary interest, and something that is really important to me.

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So when you mention gender justice, are you talking about this in relation to electronic music specifically? Or do you look into this as a global social movement?
So I wrote my master’s thesis on queer lesbian culture in the US. In these communities that sprung up as meeting points for queer women during that time and how those communities were really underrepresented in history compared to communities that formed around gay men. So that was my focus in grad school. But now,I mean, I’m equally interested in how that plays out in dance music. I did a panel with Jennifer Cardini at IMS a few months ago surrounding this issue. I’m actually in the process of putting together an audio documentary with her about queer nightlife culture in Paris. She was a resident at Le Pulp, which was this lesbian club that hasn’t really been documented very much in techno history. I find Jaguar, who’s also on that panel, really inspiring because she’s doing so much around gender representation and dance music, especially when we’re talking about women, and non-cis men who are getting older or just who aren’t this part of the conversation as much. And that is really interesting to me, and I’ve thought so much about starting different projects dedicated to this outside of journalism.
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Itâs clear journalism work is also incredibly important to you. Would you say this medium of information is still as important in electronic music culture? Because we know there are a lot of conversations at the moment around journalism falling into promotional and branded content. Or does it still hold importance in terms of telling a wider story for electronic music?
Oh, no, it is totally important. Before I went to graduate school, I wrote this piece about this Techno Producer named Michail Todua who was put in prison in Georgia. He was put in prison in Tbilisi, I guess a few years ago, for having a small amount of MDMA found on him as he was on his way to a gig. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail. This was when the White Noise movement was just starting in Georgia, and this push against drug policy reform and this was really interesting to me. So, I travelled to Tbilisi and I went to prison where Michail was. I did this big story about what was happening in Tbilisi at that time in club culture and a lot of the movement that was starting to push for legislative change around drug policy and human rights. It obviously interconnected with the queer culture there. Michail ended up using my story as evidence in his appeal, and they ended up cutting his prison sentence down from 20 years to five years, and then eventually house arrest. And now he’s out and he’s free. And I’ve been back to Tbilisi a few times to play gigs and I have gone to his house and seen him, he’s now back with his wife and his daughter. And for me, that is the reason why I actually decided to go to graduate school. Because, journalism is incredibly powerful and I firmly believe that. Especially within the context of electronic music, it is not just a tool for promotion. It would be really cynical to view it that way. I think it can be used towards positive change, and a useful tool, it becomes more than just a message. It really can be influential.

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What can we expect to see from you for the rest of this New Year?
I am actually finishing up an album right now. I won’t say too much about it because I am still finalising when and where some of the music is going to come out. But the music is pretty much done. It fuses my background in classical music with more electroacoustic and electronic stuff. Iâve been working on it since the Spring. In the last year, I have also just fallen in love with the cello again, which I was not expecting. I’ve been picking it up to play a lot. I would really like to be touring that more in the next year or so, so I’ll have more details about that soon. I’m also playing with a cello ensemble and in a philharmonicThat’s kind of like my side project that I’m just doing for fun, but it’s really becoming more of a central part of my creative life right now.

And then, for electronic music or more just like dance floor stuff, I am going to stay at my Residency with Tresor, And I have some cool projects coming up as well. I’m going to collaborate with a couple of artists I really like. I’m doing a few back-to-backs with Umwelt. And I’m working on finishing a techno EP, but that’s still in its early stages, so nothing to really announce yet. It’s more just like the ongoing balance between work and music.
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Tell us about three new artists we should keep our eyes on. Yeah, new artists, people always talk about those before us, which is important as we wouldn’t be here without their work, but also who’s the future? Who’s going to continue pushing on what you and people before have created and set up the foundations for?
Itâs hard for me to choose off the top of my head, but in terms of new names I think Linn Elisabet, Oxygeno and the whole Mala Junta crew are great!

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Interview: Will Welsh

