As SNOE is celebrating 10 Years this year, we have hit the road to celebrate this milestone with you in clubs around the globe! One of our stops was in Würzburg, where we did a fantastic party together with the PÄNGG crew. We wanted to have a little chat with them about their event series, and got a really nice, poetic interview. Have a read and listen to the sets from Andreas Henneberg, Beth Lydi, and the special guest for the evening, mr. Alec Troniq!
For those who don’t know you yet: Who is PÄNG, and how did your project come to life?
PÄNGG is what happens when you don’t just leave a drunken idea behind but rent a club for it instead.
At the end of 2023, Andi asked: “Hey, should we?”
I (Peter) said “yes” – and it’s been rolling ever since.
The rest is history – or fate, if you prefer.
The first night felt like a class reunion with fog:
Everyone was there, everyone looked different,
but it felt like the old days
just with better drinks and worse knees.
We’re not doing this to please anyone.
We’re doing it because club culture sweetened our youth –
and we hope it might do so again.
For us. For others. For that one feeling
you can’t quite explain,
but desperately want back.
How would you describe your sound in three words?
Spoiled. Warm. Slightly off.
A bit crooked.
A bit beautiful.
A bit couldn’t-care-less.
What’s important to you as a crew on the dancefloor – both behind and in front of the decks?
What’s important to us?
That the dancefloor is a place where everything’s allowed, but nothing’s required.
Where front and back don’t matter.
Where music isn’t performed, it connects.
Where you don’t ask how you look
but how it feels.
Where blue shimmers, red pulses.
How do you prepare for a set together – more planned or fully in the flow?
Preparation? Of course.
Loads of tracks that are “definitely going in”
only to completely disappear,
because the third track already changes everything.
We don’t play by plan
we play by feeling, with a system crash.
And when it flows, it flows.
And if not – at least it was loud.
What’s inspiring you musically right now – artists, labels, vibes?
Labels like SNOE, Kompakt, or dothetaboo often hit the mark.
Beth Lydi and Andreas Henneberg – solo or as The Glitz –
bring grooves with a grin.
Euphoric, clever, driving.
Never too hard, but always pressing on the heart.
Raxon delivers hypnotic rolling grooves
and futuristic-electronic arcs of tension
precisely built and still full of movement.
And Robag Wruhme is one of the few who can truly bring chaos and emotion into harmony
so unique, so lovingly detailed.
But honestly: a lot comes from the corner that shaped us –
those home parties with Pierre,
the Wighnomy Brothers,
or when Matthew Herbert suddenly looped a toaster.
And of course: Fusion Festival.
A place that breaks everything down – sonically and emotionally and rebuilds it.
Sound with character.
Weirdness with soul.
Is there something you’re taking from the SNOE night into your upcoming projects?
We learned that 8 degrees outside doesn’t matter
when 300 people collectively evaporate inside.
That love generates heat
and that heat isn’t always about temperature.
Also:
A functioning dancefloor doesn’t get shaken
by three headliners – if the energy is right.
On the contrary – maybe it was imagination.
But she danced.
And someone whispered “yo” at five in the morning
and that was enough.
What’s next for you?
On September 20th, we’re hosting our first open air with a club night afterwards
light outside, fog inside, and everything in motion in between.
What else is coming?
More sound, more courage, more people
dancing like it matters.
And maybe some surprises
we don’t even know about yet.
Maybe something big.
Maybe something small.
But definitely something real.
If you could choose one dream back-to-back with any artist – who would it be and why?
Metaboman or Berk Offset.
Because with both, it always looks like genuine fun.
And with Wende – aka Metaboman – it always looks like escalation with integrity.
Acid Pauli? Absolutely.
Because his chaos sounds like a concept.
And DJ Pierre?
If he were still alive,
it might not even be a set,
but a moment between timelines brief, clear, and bigger than the club.
Outro
PÄNGG was supported today by:
Kickdrum-Klaus, Fog-Nina,
and a USB stick that stored feelings.
