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Broadcast Lab returns for its eleventh edition. We're searching for individual musicians, collectives & curators to pitch a project to be streamed on Boiler Room in 2025. This fund looks to platform emergent scenes & overlooked spaces, so we’re after innovative programming concepts that prioritise underrepresented artists, marginalised communities & forward-thinking collaborations. Boiler Room projects are 360° activations; the best proposals will consider presentation & the broadcast format. The winning application will be awarded up to £10,000 to bring the project to life. Boiler Room will provide additional in-kind support and a full release on our channels. Applications are open globally, and close Monday 10th March at 23.59 GMT. Apply → blrrm.tv/broadcast-lab-11

Back in December, we landed in São Paulo to showcase its unique and diverse sounds through 2 stages, as part of Boiler Room x Ballantine's True Music Studios: ✧ True Music '011' ✧ Celebrating the artists taking São Paulo’s diverse sounds to new heights, both locally and internationally, this stage combined household names with the names setting the underground alight. ✦ True Music: Fluxo ✦ A showcase of the innovators and groundbreaking new sonic evolutions from the São Paulo underground, poised for global takeover. Watch True Music Studios: São Paulo in full → blrrm.tv/sao-paulo-pl

Since the release of ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U’s Boiler Room: Tokyo set last week, the video has quickly cemented itself as an iconic moment in Boiler Room history. Here are some standout highlights from the first five days: ✩ 6.8 million impressions and nearly 1 million views on YouTube alone. The set saw incredible early momentum, with 116k views in the first 24 hours. ✩ 8,000 new YouTube subscribers gained from the broadcast. ✩ 3.6 million views and over 200k likes across TikTok and Instagram. One clip alone garnered 1.4 million views in just 24 hours. Watch the full set → blrrm.tv/yousuke-yukimatsu Presented by Budweiser AB InBev

Sài Gòn's Gái NHẢY & Bung Lon are the queer maximalists at the front of Vietnam's new club wave. Before their turbo chaotic broadcast airs this week, watch our short film on their hot & hyperactive universe. blrrm.tv/BRX-Saigon

As Boiler Room approaches its 15th anniversary in 2025, we're excited to share our latest audience report: "The New Rules of Youth Culture." Our most comprehensive research to date compares Boiler Room's global 18-34 year old community with their peers across 13 markets, revealing a generation defying stereotypes - balancing hedonism with wellbeing, embracing tech while prioritising real-world connections, and reshaping how brands engage with culture. Download the full report to understand how this forward-thinking community is writing new rules for the future: blrrm.tv/audreport

Before baile funk became ubiquitous in São Paulo, setting the tone in favela Street parties like Helipa, Dz7 and Marcone, and before urban raves like Mamba Negra took over the city dance floors, SP had already been the main stage of a counterculture movement powered by electronic music. Between the late 1990s and 2000, Brazil’s largest and most populated urban area witnessed the emergence of a series of groups that refueled the city’s spirit. Cybermanos, clubbers, ravers and rave invaders, “colorfuls”: there were many attempts to box and categorize these young people who often were born and raised in the ends of the city’s east and south zones. These groups played an essential role in boosting the first wave of Brazilian electronic music that took the world by storm with DJs like Marky, Patife, MauMau, Andy, Anderson S and Roxy. Almost unintentionally, throwing impromptu and DIY parties in farms, small bars or even entire streets (with the Parada da Paz and the Parada da AME mirroring Berlin Love Parade), these young people showcased the vanguard of Brazilian electronic music. They were the first generation to embrace Brazilian club music, setting trends that echoes up to today. If the words cybermanos and colorfuls, for instance, got lost over the years, the idea they represent is still alive in São Paulo’s club music. The rise of baile funk around the world and the overwhelming wave of Latin American sounds on international dance floors are a consequence of this long historical process. Those kids opened up the dance floor and the streets for today’s São Paulo ravers. Tonight, through Boiler Room x Ballantine's True Music Studios: São Paulo, we shine a light on this culture and celebrate its legacy, while also pointing to the future. Find out more → blrrm.tv/tms-sao-paulo-cp

Go big or go home! Our high-energy session in Melbourne featured knockout sets from the likes of Crybaby, CRUSH3d, Samba Boys & DJ Heartstring. Watch it all back via boilerroom.tv

E ngā kaiarahi o te wā! In collaboration with Pulotu Underworld, we’re proud to launch the Boiler Room Aotearoa T-shirt – with all proceeds to The Māori Party (the political party in New Zealand advocating for Māori rights) & two other Māori grassroots initiatives: ⦿ 50% of proceeds go to Te Pāti Māori ⦿ 25% support Manurewa Marae’s food bank initiative ⦿ 25% fuel Te Houtaewa Māori Charitable Trust Together, we uplift Māori whānau (families) and strengthen our kaupapa (mission). Kia kaha! Designed by Make Aotearoa Native Again. Get yours → blrrm.tv/shop

A zip through our in-store at Maha Amsterdam with Champion last week, featuring Doudou MD & Lola Edobor. Shop Boiler Room x Champion merch → blrrm.tv/shop

An energetic debut performance of Caribou's new live show to celebrate the release of his album, 'Honey'. Watch it all back here: blrrm.tv/caribou-belfast