Kerrie by name, Cork by nature
Internationally renowned DJ Kerrie is set to make a glorious return to her home town of Cork city this weekend with a killer all-Irish techno line up.
This Sunday evening at the Liquid Lounge on Marlboro St, Kerrie will host a free artist workshop with from 9-10pm followed by live hardware performances from alongside Dublin’s Fran Hartnett.
The event will also feature DJ sets from Cork's finest Jon Barry and Anderson as well as a Q+A session with Kerrie and Fran Hartnett.
Tickets for the event cost €12 plus a booking fee and can be purchased online at eventbrite.ie or ra.co/events/2134602.
First learning to mix via her brother's turntables in the early 2000s, it wasn't until 2009 that Cork-born Kerrie invested in her own set-up and built an extensive record collection, covering everything from ambient, electronic, house, EBM, acid, electro, and her go-to genre, techno.
Now, a Manchester-based multidisciplinary artist and resident DJ at Tresor Berlin, Kerrie performs live sets, produces music, DJs, and runs her own label, Dark Machine Funk.
Having garnered a rich musical education through working at and holding a DJ residency for one of the UK's most respected record shops, Eastern Bloc, Kerrie's in-depth knowledge and unwavering dedication to music shines through her notable back catalogue and bolshy, unforgiving DJ and live sets.
Honing her craft for over a decade, Kerrie achieved a milestone at the start of 2024 when Tresor announced her as a resident DJ. Playing several shows at the Berlin-based space, Kerrie also represents the seminal club at showcases worldwide. Celebrated venues like Berghain, Fabric, FOLD, Elsewhere NYC, and festival bookings at Freedom Medellin, Freerotation, Drift, Basilar, and many more have shaped her schedule along the way.
Kerrie delivers tough moods from the turntables, as conveyed in her mixes for Reclaim Your City, Bassiani, SLAM, and Crack, where she carefully blended high-energy styles of UK, Detroit, and European techno, many of which stem from the '90s and the '00s.
It's frequent to hear Kerrie weave broken elements into her mixes too, chopping up the 4/4 groove at just the right moment to keep things propulsive. Kerrie's live sets are renowned for their trippy motifs and high impact on the dancefloor; her set from Freerotation in the UK in 2019 was one of the festival's most talked-about debuts.Following well-received releases on labels such as Don't Be Afraid, Cultivated Electronics, I Love Acid, and Symbolism, Kerrie launched her imprint Dark Machine Funk (DMF) in 2020.
The label hones her distinctly raw aesthetic and honours her love for dark, gritty, metallic, and industrial sounds melded with elements of funk, heavily influenced by second-wave Detroit artists, UK techno, and music by some of her favourite artists like James Ruskin, Blawan, and Surgeon. Kerrie's first release on DMF, ‘Inner Space PT1’, was praised by online music magazine, Resident Advisor, who credited her ability to make “lean, fierce techno that knows how to groove”.
Coming to international prominence in more recent years, regardless of her decade-long tenure in Manchester's vibrant scene, Kerrie is deeply invested in the culture of electronic music, starting from her teenage era as a raver in Cork up to her innovative projects today.
In 2017, she founded Eastern Bloc's in-house event space to nurture local talent, which remains at the heart of Manchester's music community.
Having ended her 11 year stint at the shop in 2023 to fully commit to the studio and accommodate her increasingly busy tour schedule, Kerrie is forging a long-lasting path fuelled by drive, passion, authenticity, and a community-first way of thinking.