Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Ibiza have built global reputations for their electronic music scenes, while emerging hotspots like Belgrade, Tbilisi and Bucharest have carved out their niches. What makes these locations successful, and how can Athens develop its own identity on the international stage?<\/p>
This panel explores the key factors that drive a thriving electronic music scene, from club infrastructure and festival networks to government support and industry connections. What can Greece learn from other regions, and what steps are needed to position it as a key player in electronic music?<\/p>
Powered by AFEM\u00a0(The Association for Electronic Music)<\/p>
Moderator<\/strong>: Finlay Johnson (UK)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Ibiza have built global reputations for their electronic music scenes, while emerging hotspots like Belgrade, Tbilisi and Bucharest have carved out their niches. What makes these locations successful, and how can Athens develop its own identity on the international stage? This panel explores the key factors that drive a thriving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"event-cat":[103],"nationality":[],"music-genre":[],"destination":[],"topic":[],"language":[79],"class_list":["post-26384","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","event-cat-panels-el-2","language-english-el"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"","ams_acf":[{"key":"performers","label":"Performers","value":[{"ID":25404,"post_author":"1900","post_date":"2025-03-04 12:52:06","post_date_gmt":"2025-03-04 09:52:06","post_content":"\n Finlay Johnson spent ten years in multiple venue production, artist liaison and curatorial roles at the world's largest arts festival, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe.\u00a0 He then moved to WME\u2019s London office initially working on arena tours before becoming a responsible agent at WME representing DJs and live acts from underground clubs to festivals to arena tours.\u00a0 Now leading the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) he is seeking to amplify the best of the electronic music culture, and reduce the barriers to education and commerce within the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/finlay-johnson-77b3936b\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/finnnlay\/<\/a> Voltnoi Brege was born in Athens 1972 and is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working in the fields of live cinema performance, the internet, audiovisual installations and music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was the co-founder of Bios cultural center in Athens. He is a founding member of the audiovisual collectives The Erasers and drog_A_tek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He has presented his work around Europe in various festivals and institutions such as ICA in London, Mapping Festival in Geneva, Bernier\/Eliades Gallery, Athens Biennial, Documenta 14 and the Athens Festival. Through the curatorial platform DETACH, which has organized a series of festivals, such as The Death of Recorded Music (2017), Enter Afrofuturism (2017), Blockchain: Utopia or U-turn (2018), Movement 1920 \u2013 2020: Beyond and Between Borders (2020), produced by Onassis Foundation in Athens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He is the co-founder and co-artistic director of stegi.radio<\/a>, an international online radio station broadcasting from Athens. He is the music curator for Onassis Stegi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Links: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/voltnoi-brege-6ab82054\/<\/a> Athens based K.atou is a key player in the Greek house and techno scene. Notorious for her love for Detroit techno and records that tend to make you trip as well as her admiration for the Chicago sound. <\/p>\n","post_title":"Katerina Mortzou - K.atou (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"katerina-mortzou-k-atou-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 16:09:53","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 13:09:53","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=26205","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":26040,"post_author":"2133","post_date":"2025-03-28 13:00:36","post_date_gmt":"2025-03-28 10:00:36","post_content":"\n With over two decades in the global electronic music scene, Stathis Kalatzis is a creative producer, music curator, and DJ\/producer renowned for bridging music, culture, and visual storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has collaborated with industry-leading platforms, such as Vibelab on XP Music Futures, serving as Senior Programmer and booker for the Middle East's largest music conference, and NightSchool, where he acted as Communications Strategist for a cross-EU event producers exchange programme funded by Creative Europe. As Creative Director of ACADDEMIA, Stathis led programming and operations for the non-profit entity supporting Greek musicians through workshops and masterclasses. His tenure at Red Bull Music Academy as Music Curator involved programming and booking for multiple flagship activations worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under the moniker Mr. Statik and Territroy (alongside Larry Gus), he has released music on labels like Dekmantel, BPitch Control, Mo\u2019s Ferry, and Away Records, performing internationally at festivals such as Sonar, Dekmantel, and Reworks and numerous clubs throughout his career. His audiovisual project \u2018Enantiodromia\u2019 with Carla Streckwall has been showcased at experimental animation film festivals. Currently, as a Stegi Radio host with the monthly \u2018Memory Burn\u2019 show, Stathis explores electronic music\u2019s evolving landscape. <\/p>\n","post_title":"Stathis Kalatzis (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"stathis-kalatzis-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 15:51:30","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 12:51:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=26040","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":26470,"post_author":"1898","post_date":"2025-04-08 12:12:24","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-08 09:12:24","post_content":"\n Born in Germany, Marc-Andr\u00e9 Schmachtel studied in Saarbr\u00fccken and Qu\u00e9bec\/Canada. He has been active for several film festivals in Germany and is working since 2008 for the Goethe-Institut, first in Cameroon, then as head of Goethe-Institut Nigeria. He initiated several projects in the film, theatre, music and fine arts sector, both on a national and international level. In 2016 he was posted to the headquarters in Munich and was in charge for TV and radio cooperation, focusing amongst other on the artistic dimension of radio-making. As consultant to the head of Culture Department he was in charge of the support programs to Ukrainian artists after the Russian invasion and took over the position of artistic director at the project space \u201cGoethe-Institut in Exile\u201d in Berlin, organizing large festivals with Belarusian, Afghan and Iranian exile diasporas. In 2024 he has been posted to Athens as regional head of cultural programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Links: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marcandre_schmachtel\/<\/a>;
<\/p>\n","post_title":"Finlay Johnson (UK)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"finlay-johnson-gb","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-03-05 10:05:07","post_modified_gmt":"2025-03-05 07:05:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=25404","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":25784,"post_author":"1898","post_date":"2025-03-19 16:08:45","post_date_gmt":"2025-03-19 13:08:45","post_content":"\n
https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/voltnoi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Voltnoi Brege (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"voltnoi-brege-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-03-19 16:08:47","post_modified_gmt":"2025-03-19 13:08:47","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=25784","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":26205,"post_author":"2133","post_date":"2025-04-03 13:48:11","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-03 10:48:11","post_content":"\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(3) Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Marc-Andr\u00e9 Schmachtel\u00a0(DE\/FR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"marc-andre-schmachtel-de-fr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-08 12:12:31","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-08 09:12:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=26470","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"key":"date","label":"Date","value":"8 \u039c\u03b1\u0390\u03bf\u03c5 2025"},{"key":"launch_time","label":"Launch Time","value":"11:30"},{"key":"end_time","label":"End Time","value":"12:30"},{"key":"hero_image","label":"Hero Image","value":15152}],"yoast_head":"\n