LIA started DJing in 2005, when she was 15 and the only girl and even the only teenager in a small suburb, who wanted to be a techno-artist. Since then, her infused style containing mostly elements from the early 2000s and late 90s. She’s a 909 lover and influenced by the music taste of her mother, who introduced her to trance and techno in the 90s when she was a young child and daughter of club owning parents. The Berlin based DJ, producer and film director always combines her talent in dramaturgy, by building suspense not only in her movies, but also in her sets. So, if you want to get into a high driven, but floating and spherical atmosphere, LIA is your girl, because she brings back some positive vibes to the dark dancefloors, but doesn’t lose the uplifting energy while doing it. "I had my first DJ gig in 2007. I was 17. My father drove me there and I was allowed to play the warm-up set, between midnight and two a.m., even though I was not yet of legal age. But nobody knew how young I was. And yet there was dad, waiting for me in the car. I come from a small town in Lower Saxony. And at the age of 9 it was the greatest thing for me to get driven around my mom in her convertible in summer when “Sandstorm” played on the radio. I love techno. Always have. My mom loves techno. Always has. After all it wasn't hard to get into being the child of club-owning parents. As a kid, I was sometimes allowed to hide behind the bar in their club and secretly dance with mom. I fell for DUNE’s “Hardcore Vibes”. Mom did too. And on nights I was there she would request it from the DJ – for me. And sometimes that DJ was my dad. So ever since dancing there in hiding I knew I wanted to be a DJ. Stepping into daddy’s footsteps. Having this dream at that age I was laughing stock of town though. The other kids had other dreams. Teenagers wanted to be doctors, wanted to buy a horse, become the next marksman club’s record holder, or at least not get caught smoking behind school by the teachers. They wanted to stay in our village. I wanted something completely different. I wanted to get to Berlin and wanted to dive into techno. It sounds like a cliché, and it is. But for me it was real. So I taught myself how to work the turntables. Dad gave me two of them when I turned 15, mom added a mixer, and I bought a very small collection of vinyl-records from my allowance. It was enough for me to practice for 2 years. Until my first gig came along. Fortunately, I now have a collection of records, was booked for many gigs, and released some of my own productions which I can be proud of – some of them in collaboration with artists such as Re.You, the band Abby, the electro-pop artist Elenka and BFF-DJ Thabo. Above all, what I gets me the most is being in the booth at the club in my home town and look into a raving crowd of marksman club record holders, doctors, horse owners and now-non-smokers from highschool that now realize that I was spot on with my dream. And that now we dance together. Even if dad can’t drive me to my gigs anymore, with every track I can still see his clenched fist pounding the air to the beat of my music. And I know I wouldn't be here without him, not on this earth and not in this DJ booth. Rest in peace, dad – you gave me Hardcore Vibes."