GIDEÖN

GIDEÖN has a background in music spanning 30 years. Since his first set of turntables in 1990, he has devoted his life to collecting vinyl - he specialises in Northern Soul, Latin, Reggae, Gospel, and Disco rarities, but House Music is his first and greatest love. He co-founded and curates Block9’s queer nightlife institutions at Glastonbury. He is a resident and co-booker at London’s hottest queer party Adonis. He is resident DJ of The Blessed Madonna's “We Still Believe” and plays regularly at Berghain in Berlin. He was often invited to play Kyiv’s ∄ club before the Russian invasion. He is the founder of Homo-Centric Records, set up to showcase his own productions and amplify creative contributions of queer artists in underground dance music. The label aims to highlight the LGBTQIA+ heritage of House Music. He has been very involved in political activism over the years and is now increasingly focused on organising hybrid cultural-political events partnering music and protest, often under the banner of R3 Soundsystem. Together with Love Music Hate Racism, he has organised major soundsystem interventions on many of the Stop Brexit, Stop Trump, and Anti-Fascism protests in London. R3 Soundsystem is a consortium of DJs, musicians, producers, record labels, festivals, nightclubs, sound systems, activists, and cultural organisations - all united by love of music and the rejection of right-wing nationalist values. R3 stand for: RESIST / REJECT / REVOLT.