Queertronica Podcast

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Saeleen Bouvar is a Hamburg-based DJ, musician, curator and salonnière whose work moves between the dancefloor, queer cultural memory and the transmission of knowledge across generations.Behind the decks, Bouvar draws on more than three decades of lived queer club culture. Her sets move freely between disco, Chicago house, acid house, electroclash and techno, guided by a distinctly narrative approach to mixing: building tension, sensuality and unexpected connections rather than following genre boundaries.Her philosophy of Recreate – Restore – Reform treats the dancefloor as a living archive. Sounds and sensibilities rooted in historic gay discos and later queer clubs are recovered, rearranged and confronted with the present — not as nostalgia, but as material for something new.This understanding of transmission also shapes Bouvar's wider artistic practice. In 2017 she founded Salon Queertronique, creating a platform for trans visibility behind the decks in Hamburg. In 2022 she found