Sometime in November 2018, Stella Bossi had a wild night out clubbing, nothing out of the ordinary for the techno-loving Berliner. But what followed was the birth of her elusive and whacky social media persona.




She and her friends were standing outside of the club Kater Blau while figuring out where to afterparty. She was still dancing and handed her phone to her friend Toby and asked him to take a video of her. She later posted it on Instagram, her first video and fifth post on the account. It's a simple, short clip of her grooving with a stern face and sunglasses while donning her rave attire, a colorful leotard. She soundtracked it with a fitting theme song, Claptone's "Party Girl," and added a simple caption that translates to "Whoa! Last weekend!"









"When I started doing Instagram, I didn't have a plan," Bossi explained to Playful Magazine. "At the end of 2018 I posted a picture of myself and also started looking at other people's content. I noticed that I quickly get bored with most of the content and decided to do something creative. The dancing then came along after a wild club night."


The video was a hit, capturing a sliver of a night (or morning) out in Berlin. It has racked up 70,000 views and counting, gained Bossi new fans, and set the tone for her many popular videos and posts that followed.




She's become something of a rave performance artist since, taking her wild party girl antics into more public places. And while her fans wait on bated breath for her next video drop, the public hasn't always been so welcoming.




"Of course, I got in trouble while shooting," she continues. "Everything from being kicked out of the supermarket to getting surprised cops called after me, everything has happened."




Her antics have made her an unofficial techno mascot. And Toby, who shot her first video, has continued to capture her content and become an integral part of her team, as she now DJs and raves worldwide.












How A Random Late Night Video Led to Stella Bossi's Viral Success

German techno DJ/producer Stella Bossi built her fanbase through her wild and irreverent social media posts celebrating rave life. From Smoking a Baguette to Making Techno From a Mercedes, she encapsulates the silliest parts of the culture.




We don't know much about the elusive and free-spirited techno DJ, producer, and rave queen Stella Bossi, but she has given us a taste of her wacky humor, creativity, and fun lifestyle through her social media posts. Her absurd antics helped her build a strong fanbase, so we went through her Instagram to pick out five of the funniest videos she's posted so far (although there are many more good ones, take a look yourself).







1. Parmesan time

To announce her show dates in Italy, Bossi posted a very cheesy video, and yes, it was the good kind of cheese. While dining at a restaurant, she requests the server to grate parmesan directly into her mouth, and he obliges. Sadly, we can't see his reaction, but part of the joy of this one is imagining it. The track is set to her brand-new track, "Boring Love," which was unreleased at the time of her parmesan feast.




2. Smoking baguette

She clearly has fun while dining out. In France, she lived out her interpretation of the "French lifestyle," smoking weed out of a tiny baguette and drinking champagne along the water. She rocked her best mime look to complete the vibe, rocking a vertical black-and-white-striped shirt, a black beret, and red cat-eye shades. Trés haute!




3. Running into your Berghain buds

Bossi often brings the rave to everyday life. Here, wearing "normal clothes," she channels the excitement and surprise of running into your club buddies out in real life. They see each other, lineup like superheroes, and, with a costume change, transform into their fierce raver selves. They dance to her track "Tackle." In the caption, she shouts out The Code Berlin, the store where they scored their enviable looks.




4. Mercedes techno

Scrolling through Bossi's Instagram must be something like a curated trip through her mind, and surely there's hilarious content ideas and techno blasting though her brain at all times. During the 2020 lockdown, she found many ways to keep techno alive. In this video, she creates a techno track out of looped sounds from a Mercedes, dancing along as the car moves with her. But seriously, when are you dropping this one, Stella?



5. Nutella coffee

In all her content, the Berliner serves her most stern "I belong in Berghain but I don't give a fuck" face. Yet, in this 2019 video, we witness her crack a grin at her own ridiculousness. One of her many great food videos, she spoons a giant scoop of Nutella into her mouth, laughing and trying not to choke. The caption reads, "In Italy we like some small sweets to our coffee."



Stella Bossi's Hilarious Rave Antics in 5 Videos

Stella Bossi has been tearing up clubs across Europe since the lockdown ended and most recently brought her banging techno and vivacious party energy to Latin America. Next spring, she'll be making her North American debut. But before being an in-demand DJ, she had a vision to literally steal the show.




Bossi, through a machine, tells the story to Jess Bowen and Bowie Jane on the April 7th episode of their Babes Behind the Beats podcast. When she was invited to a party in Berlin attended by the who's-who of German media, she knew she had to figure out a way to take over the decks, even though she wasn't booked to DJ.






At this point in her career, she'd only DJed private parties and small underground clubs but had yet to play to an audience of over 50 people. She decided to take the opportunity to throw down in front of this large crowd of VIPs and asked her friend Toby to come with her and help.




One of the members of the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai was DJing, and about an hour into his set, after drinking a few doses of liquid courage, Bossi decided it was her turn to DJ. Toby went up to him, pretended to be the event producer, and insisted she needed to DJ now. Eventually, he agreed.




Bossi remembered her USBs but not her headphones, so she jacked his, although they didn't work. For about 45 minutes, she was the belle of the ball, helming the decks. After, she hob-nobbed with music producers in the crowd. Eventually, Mogwai and the actual event producers realized what she had done and had security kick her and Toby out.




But this was just the beginning of the dynamic duo of Stella and Toby plotting their takeover of the Berlin—and now global—techno scene. She also explains in the episode that Toby filmed her first social media video, outside of Kater Blau, that began her creative social media club kid shenanigans. She adds that while he is a friend first, he is more or less her manager, although technically a lot more, and has played a significant role in helping her grow.




Luckily, now they don't have to kick anyone off the decks to get gigs. And soon, for those of us outside of Europe, we can catch her banging sound and wild party stateside.



How Stella Bossi Stole Her First Big DJ Gig

Back in November 2018, Stella Bossi posted a clip on Instagram of herself dancing outside of Kater Blau in her hometown of Berlin, and her life was never quite the same. 350-plus wacky posts later, she's racked up 880,000 followers on the platform and launched an enviable career as a techno DJ and producer. She dropped her first original track, aptly titled "First Take," in November 2020 on her label The Beat Must Fuck, and has since released a string of techno bangers to soundtrack her hilarious social media antics.







1. Stella Bossi, Da Hool - System XTC 



Bossi's sixth to date and first of 2022—is a collab with '90s German dance heavy-hitter Da Hool. It's a fiery heater sure to whip up any sweaty dancefloor into a frenzy and offers a fresh sound to the rising Berlin star's discography, combining her signature banging techno basslines with Da Hool's classic rave anthem sound.




2. Stella Bossi - Das Boot






"Das Boot" opens with a slowly marching horn-like bassline that builds up for over two minutes. It's a techno slow burner, a six-minute roller coaster of intensity. It's inspired by U96's 1991 German techno classic of the same name, which itself was a techno version of the theme song of the 1981 World War II five-hour film that also shares the same name. Her version is the perfect track to play while power walking to the club from the metro or vice versa.




3. Stella Bossi, Auk. - Poetry






Belgian newcomer Auk. was discovered by Bossi and was the first artist she signed to The Beat Must Fuck, which she launched in 2020 "to give small artists a chance and let the people hear music they really like." "Poetry" is an acid techno banger, described as "a poetry between" the two rising producers.




4. Stella Bossi - Tackle






"Tackle" dropped in October 2021 and is straight-up techno heat at its hottest. Six minutes of a brutal punishing bassline and rolling synths at 130 BPM, this one is an undeniable peak-time techno club banger.




5. Stella Bossi - First Take 






Her first track was the second release on The Beat Must Fuck, following Auk. 's debut single, "Perspective." The techno jester and rave queen made her mark with a techno banger, obviously. "First Take" hits the ground banging with a tough-as-nails bassline, picking up some acid-tinged sparkles as it goes.



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