Celtronic 2025 | Dave Clarke & Helena Hauff + Guests
Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry~Londonderry
Admission: £20.21 + booking fee
Admission
£20.21 + booking fee
Run Times & Intervals
9pm – 12am
Age Guidance
18+
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Featuring a stunning lineup of techno and electro talent, headlined by Dave Clarke and Helena Hauff.
Thursday night at Celtronic 2025 (the 25th anniversary edition) brings you some of the region's finest DJs and producers including Shay Whelan, Lorcan Kelly, Engineer, Aaron Thomas and Sean Carlin.
Book now to guarantee an unforgettable night.
Dave Clarke
As a DJ, Dave Clarke has a mile-wide anarchist streak and punk in his soul, having no truck with establishment figures or authoritarianism. By pushing cutting edge sounds on far-flung dance-floors, he has a consistency of vision and purpose rare in the ever-changing world of dance music. He flies the flag for true techno spirit.
He plays out three weekends a month across Europe and the world, living up to his nickname, the Baron of Techno — a moniker given him by the late, great BBC Radio DJ John Peel. There’s the same attention to detail each time — his sets swooping whip-smart along the cutting blade of techno and electro, backed up by a seasoned bag of DJ tricks. Techno’s first and original “Man in Black”, Clarke blends into the background upon arrival and lets his music do the talking. That’s where he comes alive, where skills honed for years blow venues apart.
Helena Hauff
Helena Hauff is a DJ and producer from Hamburg, Germany. Her sonic aesthetic is rooted in a twilight-lit area of colliding sharp acid sounds, cold Detroit rhythmics, monolith industrial scapes and even minimalist wave atmospherics.
Helena’s sound world is intense, electrified, futuristic, but with strong traces of underlying emotionalism and experimentalism. During a relatively short time she managed to release several releases on such notable labels as Werk Discs, Ninja Tune, PAN and Blackest Ever Black. Her influences can be spotted in her precise and eclectic mixtapes, where heavyweight industrial beats, abstract experimentalism meet EBM rawness or the elegance of more atmospheric forms of techno.
Shay Whelan
Shay Whelan is a DJ and Producer from Derry, Northern Ireland. Shay had a passion for music from an early age and took up mixing from the age of 11, using 90s trance to show his love for his new found passion. As he grew up he started to sway towards other genres of electronic music, producing House and Lo-Fi tracks as a hobby. His preferred style now is making hard and fast paced techno tracks, swaying from Electro to Hard House & Techno.
He has supported the likes of Skin On Skin, Kettama, Boddika, Tommy Hollahan, DeFeKt, BLK, Marco Faraone, Boston168, Trance Wax, Mark Archer (ALTRN-8). He has also played some of Ireland's largest and most honourable festivals including Glasgowbury, Stendhal & We Are Together Festival.
Lorcan Kelly
Irish DJ Lorcan Kelly produces sounds ranging from house and techno all the way to jungle and breaks, although lately he is largely known for his ‘Hardgroove’ tracks — techno with a tribal influence. He has accumulated over 700k plays in the past twelve months, having only officially released his first track early last year. His latest releases have seen huge support from DJs like the online sensation Fish56Octagon, DJ Shampain, Kettama & many more.
Drawing inspiration from his local music scene, Lorcan tends to mix a wide variety of genres, spanning from garage to driving techno. After his latest run of sold out shows around Europe, he has now been featured on multiple festival lineups for 2025.
Aaron Thomas
Derry DJ Aaron Thomas brings a distorted, high tempo, hedonistic live techno performance with influences of dub, industrial and EBM.
Obsessed with using synthesisers and analogue circuitry to make music, he believes it has a direct impact on the creative process and feels that it has the ability to breathe life and soul into his productions and performances.
He initially got involved with Celtronic as a club goer and it opened his eyes to underground house and techno music — eventually inspiring him to build his own home studio. Aaron started playing live sets in 2015 and as time went on getting bigger and better gigs, including international shows.
Sean Carlin
Sean Carlin is a DJ/Producer based in Derry, Ireland.
Taking inspiration from techno heavyweights like Ben Klock, Kobosil, Dax J and Funk Assault, his sound consists of fast-paced, groove-driven techno — while also delving into other genres such as industrial, hard dance, garage and trance in his sets to add a bit of flare to his sets.
Described as being one of the most passionate and supportive ravers in the scene, he has played numerous parties across the north of Ireland including WaX, Extase, JikaJika!, OCD, Emerge Festival and most recently Shine Belfast. He has also supported heavy hitters like Azyr, Riotcode, Meltx and Klangkuenstler.
Engineer
With a solid career since 2004, Rui Engenheiro (known by his stage name Engineer) has stood out for his technical expertise and creativity, establishing himself as a prominent name in the electronic music scene. He has performed at renowned festivals such as Neopop and Sound Waves in Portugal, as well as bringing his sound to Ireland at the exclusive If You Know Festival.
His music has been released on respected labels like Monocline, Naked Lunch, and Reload Records, showcasing his versatility in productions that range from techno to cutting-edge electronic music.
