![]() I’m really focused on the crowd during all of my sets.” After all, Amelie was a fan first, spending her teen years traveling solo to festivals like Belgium’s Dour Festival and Barcelona’s Sonar, where she saw Maya Jane Coles play at the age of 16, before buying her own equipment. “For me, it has always been important to feel a connection to the crowd, by talking to them online before and after my gigs, to feel connected during my set. “I’m still a relatively young artist so I am not really sure how different it was back in the days,” Amelie says. Rather, it’s a natural extension of what she does during a set-and a reminder that, despite her prolific discography, she’s only 29 years old. For Amelie, sending emoji-studded messages to fans isn’t a conscious attempt to dispersing the aura of mystery that has traditionally surrounded techno artists. Scroll through the effusive comments on her Instagram and you’ll find many are from Amelie herself maybe sent from an altitude of 36,000-feet, en route to pilot another all-night techno odyssey at London’s Fabric or Hasselt’s Labyrinth Club. ![]() Somewhere between releasing her debut EP in 2016, launching a club night named for its tour de force titular track “Exhale,” founding her own label imprint Lenske, and sending thousands of sweaty fans into other dimensions with her relentless live sets, the Belgian wunderkind always makes time for the fans. ![]() Ahead of Time Warp’s 2019 New York City edition, she tells Document why it’s all about friendship, fans, and family.Īmelie Lens is one of the most phenomenal techno DJs and producers to have emerged in the past decade. In just a few years, Amelie Lens has become one of the world’s most in-demand techno DJs, and she shows no sign of slowing. The artist spoke to Document about how she balances 8-hour sets, co-owning a label, and raving with her grandma ahead of the New York Time Warp event. ![]()
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