“Grind your teeth, stomp the floor, breath again, and think,” Sama’ Abdulhadi tells New Times. “When I heard techno for the first time, I wanted to show it to everyone. We all needed to let it out.” ...

When Sama’ Abdulhadi took to the decks in the Palestinian city of Ramallah in 2018 for her Boiler Room debut, she had no idea she was about to play a life-changing set. By the end of those 58 minutes, ...

Boiler Room, the long-running platform that archives videos of DJ sets from around the world, is under new ownership. In January 2025, the festival company Superstruct Entertainment bought Boiler Room ...