Support Organize Sustain

22/10/2025

This Friday! Timetable for Support Organize Sustain x Dekmantel 2025 Panels

Moderator: Shawn Reynaldo
with editorial support from First Floor
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12:45 • Doors Open & Welcome

13:15 – 14:15 • Preserving Rave Culture in the Age of Screens
with Eris Drew & Octo Octa

14:45 – 15:45 • This Is What Community Looks Like
with Julianna Cuervo (Bamba, Medellín), Sven Bijma (Club Raum, Amsterdam), Saša Vujasinović (Butik, Slovenia),and James Newmarch (FOLD, London)

15:45 – 16:15 • Quick Break

16:15 – 17:15 • One Year After Aslice: Is Fair Compensation Possible?
with Zak Khutoretsky (DVS1) and Ethan Holben (former Aslice CEO)

17:45 – 18:45 • Putting the Art in Artist 2.0
with Ogazón, MARRØN, Barker

19:00 End
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Free admission with RSVP. First come, first served. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the panel starts. Limited capacity.

More info via https://www.supportorganizesustain.org/

Looking forward to the chat!!

13/10/2025

Partners in love, life, and music, Octo Octa and Eris Drew will kick off the day at Support Organize Sustain with their panel, “Preserving Rave Culture in the Age of Screens”

An intimate follow-up talk with the two artists that took place during 2024’s Dekmantel conference, this panel will take a hard look at the disparity between digital engagement and tangible, real-life action, and highlights what’s needed to keep rave culture alive, relevant, and inclusive in today’s interconnected yet fragmented world.

Expect an exploration of practical approaches that transcend what we see on our screens.

Free to attend with RSVP : https://www.supportorganizesustain.org/

📸 Julia Sbriller

10/10/2025

The sudden closure of Aslice in 2024 sent a shockwave through dance music, prompting numerous impassioned discussions about the initiative and its attempt to combat the glaring compensation imbalance between producers and DJs. The Aslice team, however, has largely stayed out of those discussions—until now.

Speaking publicly for the first time since the project shut its doors, founder DVS1 and CEO Ethan Holben will reflect back on their experience, detailing the challenges of launching and running a payment-sharing system and sharing many of the lessons they learned along the way.

More than just a post-mortem, this conversation will also look at the current state of fair pay in dance music, taking stock of how artists are being affected, and examining what opportunities still exist to build on what Aslice started.

Join us for the free panel One Year After Aslice: Is Fair Compensation Possible? For a behind-the-scenes intimate chat with the creators of the project.

Moderated by Shawn Reynaldo (Author, First Floor)

https://www.supportorganizesustain.org/

09/10/2025

“This Is What Community Looks Like” | The panel at Support. Organize. Sustain. featuring Julianna Cuervo (Bamba, Medellín), Sven Bijma (Club Raum, Amsterdam), Saša Vujasinović (Butik Festival, Slovenia) and James Newmarch (FOLD, London)

Over the past few years, “community” has become one of dance music’s most overused buzzwords, even as a variety of cultural, economic and technological factors have made real-world communities significantly harder to maintain. In an effort to spotlight some of those who are beating the odds and making it work, S.O.S. has assembled this panel discussion, with participants representing a sampling of vibrant clubs, festivals, collectives and scenes from different pockets of the globe.

Join us October 24 for the chat + Q&A

All info on https://www.supportorganizesustain.org/

Support. Organize. Sustain. 2025 in collab with Dekmantel

Moderated by Shawn Reynaldo

07/10/2025

"Putting the Art in Artist" - The original 2019 panel talk featuring Josey Rebelle, DJ Stingray, Dasha Rush, and DVS1.

Moderated by author of First Floor, Shawn Reynaldo

Looking forward to the next!

Although electronic music still celebrates the idea of the maverick genius toiling away in their studio, focused on nothing but the music, that scenario has ...

06/10/2025

A sequel to one of our favorite panels is back: ‘Putting the Art in Artist’ with MARRØN, Ogazón and Sam Barker

Get ready for some honest reflections about identity, expression, and the cost of “playing the game,” along with practical advice and different paths for those looking to maintain integrity while navigating the complexities of today’s music ecosystem.

Conversation + Q&A with our artists on Friday, October 24 in the afternoon.

Support. Organize. Sustain. 2025 in collaboration with Dekmantel

Free to attend with RSVP • https://www.supportorganizesustain.org/

25/09/2025

Shawn Reynaldo, seasoned music journalist & author of First Floor, is back to host our artists at the Tolhuistuin cultural center in Amsterdam. Join us for a day of intimate conversations and Q&A with electronic music's finest.

Support. Organize. Sustain. x Dekmantel 2025
with editorial support from First Floor

Friday, October 24 | 12:30 - 19:00

Free with RSVP 🎫
Capacity is limited.

http://supportorganizesustain.org

18/09/2025

Come through: Friday afternoon during ADE weekend, we’re collaborating with Dekmantel to bring back Support. Organize. Sustain. – a series of daytime panels and intimate conversations at the Tolhuistuin cultural center in Amsterdam Noord.

Support. Organize. Sustain. (or S.O.S. for short) will be moderated by music journalist and published author Shawn Reynaldo (First Floor)

The artist-led seminars will feature guests such as Eris Drew & Octo Octa, Ogazón, MARRØN, members of London’s FOLD, Club Raum, Butik Festival, and more.

See you next month!

Friday, October 24 | 12:30 – 19:00
Free admission.
RSVP. First come, first serve.

https://www.supportorganizesustain.org/ to sign up & attend

13/12/2019

Only a few hours after he finished an 11-hour closing at Berghain at the end of October, DVS1 met with DJ MAG for an in-depth interview that became the cover story for their current December issue.

The whole feature doesn't just retell DVS1's journey again. Instead, the article goes deep into his views about today's electronic music culture and outlines the reasons behind launching Support Organize Sustain in a highly readable way.

You can find the whole feature online:
https://djmag.com/longreads/dvs1-support-organise-sustain

Next week we will also share more info and updates on the content we created at our launch a few months ago. If you don't want to miss any future news, join our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2PzMeUC

06/11/2019

How fitting that the first big (print) interview about Support Organize Sustain was conducted and published by a fanzine. Even before our first conference took place, the NYC-based grassroots publication INJECTION interviewed DVS1 about our whole project.

To read the full article you can order the digital and physical publication online: https://tinyurl.com/y24rl9pt

Or get your copy at some selected shops across the world, including OYE Record Store in Berlin, Worldwide FM in London, Rush Hour Store in Amsterdam and many more!

24/10/2019

Nearly one week after we held our first day of panels and presentation under the Support Organize Sustain banner, we wanted to express our appreciation for everyone involved and those that followed us on our journey and made the first session possible.

There were just about four months between the initial idea of starting this whole project and the actual conference last Friday. Without this fantastic group of people coming together and contributing with such incredible dedication, the entire adventure wouldn’t have been possible in the first place.

Also a huge thank you to all the attendees that showed true interest in what we put together and were an enrichment through their questions, discussion contributions and exchanges. The atmosphere throughout the whole day could not have been better.

We have collected great content, which we will make available as soon as possible. We hope to do this before the end of the year. But there will be much more in the future –– S.O.S. has just started!

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https://www.supportorganizesustain.org/newsletter

THANK YOU!