Who's actually on the Wall2Wall bill?
Wall2Wall takes over RSO Berlin for five straight nights, August 13 to 17, and the lineup Resident Advisor published on July 9 runs past 50 names. At the top: Monolake, Erol Alkan, Ellen Allien, Josey Rebelle, Byetone, Etapp Kyle, Setaoc Mass, Grace Dahl and Jennifer Loveless, alongside dozens of Berlin residents like Belaria, Thabo, Elli Acula and Kim She who rarely get billed next to names of that size. It is a genuinely mixed card: ambient-adjacent listening sets, hard techno, breaks and everything the club's five nights can hold, not a single-genre showcase dressed up as a festival.
Why hand rooms to local crews instead of booking them centrally?
RA calls it 'Wall2Wall tradition': HEISSS, Raster Selected, Xtrude and other Berlin crews get hosting duties on parts of the program rather than every slot being booked centrally by the festival. That is a small but real structural choice. Most club takeovers of this size keep programming in-house and just add guest names; Wall2Wall instead lends stages to the same collectives that run their own nights the rest of the year, which is exactly how a five-night RSO run stays varied instead of turning into one long headliner set on repeat.
Does it clash with anything else that week?
Yes, and it is the coincidence that makes this a two-story week for Berlin. The same July 9 announcement round saw promoter Home Again unveil its 10th-anniversary lineup, Solomun, Ryan Elliott, Chris Stussy and Eris Drew across four floors of Revier Südost, a former brewery in Schöneweide, running August 16 to 18. That overlaps Wall2Wall's final two nights, meaning Berlin's touring and local crowd has to choose between a five-night RSO takeover and a 40-hour anniversary rave on the same weekend, a scheduling squeeze promoters and bookers will feel more than dancers will.
