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Queertronica Podcast
by Saeleen Bouvar
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
Episodes
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TRANSTRONICA 2026 transmissions Voices Set
A pulsating journey through world music club textures, this set unfolds between Arabic pop, baile funk, deconstructed club and hard-edged electronics. Played during voices at TRANSTRONICA transmissions, it carried the raw energy of an unforgettable crowd: intense, receptive, and fully present....
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BCCO Time Expanded
I revisited my BCCO mix to record an extended version for my podcast. This expanded cut allows the narrative to breathe further, opening additional spaces for movement, tension, and release. Rather than revising the original intention, the extension deepens it, letting the mix unfold beyond its...
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ALLOU Extended Studio Set @ Salon Queertronique
ALLOU, from the Greek for “elsewhere”, explored how trans artists continue to expand the language of electronic music: five visions, five approaches, five trans musicians reshaping rhythm, sound, and identity on Hamburg’s dancefloor. My set was conceived as a homage to my younger self, to the...
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Hawaa Oriental Set @ Queeriental
Hawaa means desire in Arabic. It is a longing that burns, glows, transforms. When I was invited once again to play for the Arab queer community of Hamburg, I felt a deep joy, an affirmation, a return. This set is my offering. It is a sonic journey drenched in desire, soaked in love, and ignited…
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Leilasia Tribute Set @ Queeriental
After many requests to share my set from the Queeriental Party at Kampnagel, I’ve finally mixed it down and uploaded it! It was a truly magical night that brought back memories of the Leilasia parties in the early 2000s – a vibrant blend of Mediterranean pop and pulsating electronic beats. I hope...
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Salon Queertronique: Hermaphrodite´s Temple
Last night´s Salon Queertronique was on fire! I re-mixed some of the tracks I played yesterday for you to enjoy it to the fullest!
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TRANSTRONICA 2025: Icons
On the dazzling night of Transtronica Icons: A Night for Suzy, Saeleen Bouvar unleashed together with Hausvrau on the mic with Live Vocals an unforgettable musical journey in honor of Suzy, the transcendent icon of the evening from Beirut. This night celebrated trans brilliance with an…
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Fusion Festival 2024 - Saeleen Bouvar@Cloud Cuckoo
This year´s Fusion Festival left me with a beautiful memory of a crowd who filled the whole Cloud Cuckoo up to the roof! Here you have an excerpt of the set I played. I hope it brings back good memories to you as well!
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Queer House Odyssey Part 3 @Voices4Berlin
Very thrilled to share the last part of my House Odyssey Trilogy showcasing the past, the present and the future of House Music. This set, played for the Voices4Berlin for the Trans Day of Visibility 2024 starts off with a 90s house banger enriched and thickened with latin rhythms, honouring the...
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TRANSTRONICA 2023: House Odyssey Part 2
After a long time, I decided to continue to post my sets again. This one is a very special one, because it is partly the set I played at the TRANSTRONICA festival 2023, although without the sickening vocals of Hausvrau. It is a trip through the 90s, a wild ride through House, Breakbeat and 90s Rave.
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Queer House Odyssey Part 1@PARKS
So I decided to rework the second part of my set and to offer you a trilogy of House with three of my performances in 2022. Initially, this was the set, I played for the Queer Bcademy @PARKS Hamburg. In this first part, the focus is on early House music, mainly from the late 80s. This era has a...
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Oriental Voguing Inferno @Vogelball 2022
This is my set from the Vogelball 2022! It was my very first time playing there and my very first time, the crowd was going absolutely crazy from the first second of it! Be prepared to enjoy a set through fierce voguing beats, house excellence, electronic abstraction and oriental rhythms all…
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TRANSTRONICA Day 3: Celeste @Kampnagel
The TRANSTRONICA Festival was the first ever electronic music festival with an all trans* lineup. As the curator and founder, I set myself on the last evening, called "Celeste". It is about time to summarise my set filled with what I would call is 100% Saeleen Bouvar: sickening beats, oriental...
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Femme Future Set @ Feminist Futures Salon
Let´s celebrate the end of 2021 with a Hi NRG mix I played back @PARKS for the Feminist Futures Salon. It is an hommage to the old gay club sound which was shaped by the queer icons Sylvester James and Patrick Cowley. Hi NRG will always be connected with the tragedy of the Aids pandemic, which…
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The Forbidden Bodies Acid Mix @PARKS
For the three days event "There is no satisfaction" @PARKS, Hamburg, I was asked to play a 1 hour set. Unfortunately, I was interrupted by the police who asked us to stop the music now. The audience loved the set so much, that I promised to mix it at home with all of its glory. So, here you have...
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Oriental Acid Lovers @ CMD-Queer
Here you have my performance at the alternative pride event in Hamburg if there hadn´t be any interruptions. It is a wild ride on House and Techno tracks spiced up with Acid Gems and Oriental Belly Dance Beats. Oozing Queerness in all of its glory, wishing you a safe and happy pride!
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Extended Possycast#44
For my birthday month, where I will accomplish my 44th year on earth, I was asked to take over the POSSYCAST#44. Now, isn´t that a wonderful occasion to spread some pure love and desire in those hot steamy nights? This version is an all exclusive to my Queertronica Podcast with a little 20…
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Latino Acid May Strut @ Queer Bcademy 2021
Here you have my latest set, which I played at the Queer Bcademy´21. It is a tribute to the Latina Queens of House Music, especially Liz Torres whose tracks have always been dear to my heart. The set starts with early house tracks from the 80s, ends in the 90s and closes with the first Latina…
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Femmetronica Mix @ [sic]nal Radio
This mix is a remake of the set I made for @sicnalradio. Because of the very bad sound quality, I decided to re-mix it at my little home studio. I normally wanted to wait a bit, but the urgent case of a POC trans woman in need forces me to publish it now. Due to the lockdown restrictions she is...
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Silent Firework Compilation
Et voilà a very unpretentious compilation of some beloved pieces of mine. The result is a very soothing journey through the joys of classical music combined with pioneer IDM tracks, that always kept me good company. I hope you enjoy it while studying or concentrating.
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Kinky Sunday Service @ Kinky Sunday’s Online
This set is the C*NT-tribution to the party series Kinky Sundays . One half is bathed in the light of housey tunes by Cajmere, Bobmo and Ethyl & Flori, while the second half gets deeper with Jas Shaw, Arttu and the iconic DJ Bone. Enjoy a trip from Chicago to Detroit which will take you to…
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The Venus Of The Dancefloor
The Trans Day Of Remembrance is a day we mourn our siblings who were murdered because of the hatred towards trans people. One of the most popoular documented murder of a trans woman was Venus Xtravaganza, a young iconic Latina famous for her appearance in "Paris is Burning". She was found four…
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Burning Barrel Acid Realness @Kampnagel
Finally a herstorical set through the depths of black, latino and queer culture! It was partially the set you could hear at the third installment of the Feuertonne @Kampnagel Hamburg. The audience craved to dance inside this pandemic we all have to face. It was such a heartwarming experience!...
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Hamburg: Kinky, Altered and Proud @PAL Stream
This set is based on my appearance on the KINKY SUNDAY´S stream at the PAL Hamburg. I re-mixed my set in my livingroom in a higher quality with some minor changes. The result is a kinky, sexy odyssey through the delights of electronic music. I dedicate this set to the Hamburg Pride, which won´t...
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Dyane Prozak´s Birthday Bash @Dragslot
Another Sunday, another set. This one takes us backto 2019, when my dear friend Dyane Prozac asked me to play at her birthday bash party at the drag slot. For me Dyane has something essentially punk, so I was surprised to find out that she actually is a Disco Diva. I still want to share this set...
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Sissy, Elektrojahre einer Kaiserin @ Salon Queertronique Kampnagel
Here it is, finally! My set of the fifth Salon Queertronique at the Kampnagel, Hamburg. I had to cut my set into two parts. This set is the first part of the evening, where I call out all the sassiness and sissiness to make the crowd move with tracks by Miss Kittin, LFO, The Hacker and so much...
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Bcademical FRONT Homage @ Queer Bcademy 2020
My dearest listeners, after many inquiries to post my set of the Queer Bcademy at the Kampnagel, here it is! It is an hommage to the old FRONT Club in Hamburg. It was the most influencial gay club in the 80s when it brought the Chicago and Acid House to Germany. I was too young to actually party…
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses @ Le Salon Queertronique Kampnagel
A woman who would know exactly what she wanted was the most feared and the most desired creature by men. As trans women, we don´t need to compromise at all, because we are what society fears the most: the knowledge and the key to absolute freedom. Feel free to dance your feet off to this set....
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Saturday Night At The Cloud Cuckoo @ Fusion 2019
Finally I can upload that set of mine which I played at the Fusion Festival 2019 on the Cloud Cuckoo stage! Of course the whole set was about 3 hours long and due to technical complications, I couldn´t record it directly, but I created a quintessential overview of that hot night filled with Queer...
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House Set #3: 90 Sissies Nostalgia
What do you get out of the nostalgia of 90 sissies? A set packed with dancefloor bangers telling a story of love and lust for life, memories of the golden age of house parties, dark corners and numerous sexual encounters. The fun is not over with tracks by Inner City, Simian Mobile Disco, Jimmy...
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Queertroniqal Trans Goddess @ Queertroniqa II Athens
An old whore´s knowledge has always been a major threat to the heteronormative and bourgeois society. This set begins with the fabulous work of Paola Revenioti, trans activist and one of Greece´s most important heroines, where she interviews a lovely sex worker on the street asking what men ask…
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Techno Set #2: Athenian Street Queen Magic
Jenny Hiloudaki was and is one of my hugest influences and a warrior for the lgbtq+ rights through and through. In a world full of Drag Races and the thoughtless consuming of US-american black gay culture, people tend to forget the local sheroes who stepped up against the hypocrisy and the…
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Electro Set #3: Madame E-Lick-Tronique
It´s the end of the month and once again it´s friday. As I was looking through my music library, I found some older tracks from when I was djing 15 years ago. This is a tribute to the beginning of those non-gay-conformist queer parties who really rocked the floor with that feeling between punk…
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Electro Set #1: Notre Dame Des Fleurs
Notre Dame des Fleurs is a transsexual woman on the streets of Paris, hooking, loving, suffering, enjoying life. My newest set is a tribute to her and highlights flowery, beautiful tracks by Octo Octa, Miss Kittin, Simian Mobile Disco, crackboy, Fabrizio Mammarella, Rodion and so much more. Have…
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Disco Set #1: Santa Cicciolina della Disco
After a long time of reflexion, experimentation and the discovery of my vast music library, I present you a new mix, which might start off discoey mainly focusing on tracks by In Flagranti, the absolute must for a discomix .... well, listen to it for yourself and enjoy it! Love Saeleen...
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House Set #2: The Velvet House
My definition of House music would be essentially queer. This House set is filled with playfulness, melodies to die for, crusty and crunchy beats and sensual vocals. Enjoy tracks from 1989 to today filled with passion and sex. 1. Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger / Jo (Fakesch Remix) 2. Geeeman - Bang't 3....
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Techno Set #1: Justice For The Filthy Queens
I began djing 1998. It was the time I got so absorbed by the possibilites of IDM. The sounds, the beats, the sheer composition were somewhat deeper than the aimless appearing functional techno for the dancefloor. I wanted to create a functional set that would highlight IDM tracks without losing…
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House Set #1: Old School Voguing Delirium
The Old School Voguing Delirium is one of my first digital sets. I wanted to start my musical journey with an ode to Voguing by highlighting some classic Techno and Chicago House tunes. As it got so much love, I decided to keep it just as it was, though right now my skills got much better! Enjoy...
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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
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