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Mix Nights Online: Selector to Label Curator w/ MLE
30th June 2025
7.30 pm BST
£8.30 or free for sustainer & soulmate members
This summer, Saffron is delighted to team up with Rhythm Section for a special, three-month edition of MIX NIGHTS ONLINE — our flagship DJ workshop series for women, trans, nonbinary and gender non-conforming people. View the full lineup.
WORKSHOP 2: SELECTOR TO LABEL CURATOR
Thinking of starting a label? This workshop is for DJs ready to take the next step.
Being a selector is already a powerful form of curation — but taking that beyond your personal identity to represent a broader artistic vision can feel like a daunting leap.
In this session, we’ll explore the foundational steps of developing your identity within the label landscape — from defining the core values and ethos you want to convey, through to making artistic and sonic choices that bring that vision to life.
Drawing on nine years of experience running Rhythm Section International, along with MLE’s own journey as a producer and curator, this workshop is aimed at those transitioning from selector to label founder.
We’ll examine how these roles overlap and diverge, and look at both the creative and practical aspects of building a label from the ground up.
ABOUT MLE
MLE is a Radio host, DJ AND producer based in Berlin. Cutting her teeth in the music industry by working at London institution Sounds of the Universe, she is now the Rhythm Section International label manager and occasionally at On Loop Records.
Navigating sonically between a multitude of club-ready sounds, MLE can be described as a deep digging selector known to take dancers on a journey between genres on the dance floor. MLE’’s debut EP in collaboration with DJ Pitch – Cheap Gifts For Your Boyfriend’ was released via All Centre in April 2024 with support from Moxie, Tom Ravenscroft and She Spells Doom.
ACCESS
Access to these sessions is free for sustainer and soulmate members of Saffron’s online community, Saffron Members Club. Membership packages start at just £5.50 per month and provide access to regular online workshops, an online community space, video masterclasses, free music tech tools, discounts and much more. If you are unable to afford a ticket but believe you would benefit from attending these workshops, please email us on members@saffronmusic.co.uk.
Workshops are open to people worldwide but will be running at 7.30 pm UK time so please bear differences in time zone in mind. If you purchase a ticket but aren’t able to attend live, you will automatically be emailed a recording of the workshop(s) after the event.
We are committed to making our online events as accessible as possible. We have created a guidance document about this – Click here to view the accessibility document. Alternatively, please email us with any access requirements you may have.
GENDER POLICY
The gender imbalance in the music technology industry is well-recognised. While we are absolutely not ‘anti-men’, we see that a shorter-term solution is to provide fellowship and learning environments that are not dominated by the cisgender male perspective. Therefore, these workshops are intended for women, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming people to attend. While we do not ban cisgender men from attending, we hope that they will respect that this event is not intended for them.
ABOUT RHYTHM SECTION
Rhythm Section International is the record label, radio show, studio spaces, club night and concert series, owned and curated by Bradley Zero and made up of an ever expanding collective of artists, musicians, DJ’s and A&R’s. The Collective is based in Peckham, London, with a devoted worldwide following.
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