ELITEWASTE

Best known as a longtime editor of 032c magazine and a contributor to The New York Times, Resident Advisor, Rolling Stone, i-D, Dazed, and beyond, Berlin-based music journalist Cassidy George has spent almost a decade researching, interviewing, and profiling some of the most influential artists in contemporary music, from Aphex Twin and Nine Inch Nails to Skrillex and Drain Gang. As the founder and host of the YouTube channel Hausverbot, she has expanded into broadcasting, interviewing DJs and producers such as Marcel Dettmann, Freddy K, Ellen Allien, Ryan Elliott, Luke Slater, and DJ Hell. Now, as ELITEWASTE, she tells stories from behind the DJ booth. Although rooted primarily in electro, her selections move freely between scenes, eras, and subcultures. Combining a finely honed sense of narrative with a playful, ruthless intensity, her sets build tension, create collisions, and find strange connective tissue between seemingly disparate sounds. As the name ELITEWASTE suggests, George is fascinated by collapsing the purported hierarchy between “high” and “low” culture.