Dazed Mix: Ziúr

Illustration Harvey WoodNovember 27, 2025MusicMixDazed Mix: Ziúr

As she releases her politically charged electronic album, Home, Berlin avant-garde staple Ziúr creates a "heartfelt" experimental mix

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The word ‘home’ means many things to many people. It can be a birthplace or a chosen city, a physical space, a feeling, or even a person. On her fifth album, Berlin artist Ziúr, a staple in the avant-garde electronic music scene, considers what home means in terms of her own German nationality, especially amid the country’s growing far-right politics. “Widely overlooked in this narrative is that this country has built a diverse reality over generations,” she elaborates. “Marginalised groups have been excluded from this hateful concept of purity – so here I am claiming space.”

Ziúr’s collaborators on Home are a strong and versatile group. Among them are Iceboy Violet, Elvin Brandhi, and Sara Persico, who bring together deconstructed pop fragments with sinister and experimental electronic production. Listening to the album feels frenetic and muddled; through tracks like “Im Bann Der Wehenden Fahnen” (in the spell of flags waving), it casts a sobering lens on the country’s muddled political landscape – its complex history and its dangerously hypocritical present. “We readjust,” Ziúr says. “We build our own home.”

For her exclusive Dazed mix, Ziúr delivers a “heartfelt” mix, featuring the likes of Debit, Slikback, Lord Spikeheart, and more. Listen below.

Congrats on the release of Home! What is some of the thinking behind the album, and its name? What is home to you?

Ziúr: This album is my exploration of the topic ‘home’ but never claims to know the answer. It’s different for anyone and I haven’t gained clarity myself. It’s predominantly connected to a feeling and stays fuzzy. One big moment is that I decided to talk about German reality, rising fascism and how this dangerous drift is threatening the mere sense of belonging.

I see a responsibility to prevent the past from happening again, and when looking at Germany's current developments, the ghosts of the past are back in business. These aren’t recent developments and I’ve seen things coming from far. By now, Germany is being complicit in a genocide yet once again and simultaneously nazis have been introducing the widely popular concept of ‘remigration’, a wannsee conference type of ‘endlösung’ they now rephrase as their ‘masterplan’. Undeniably, the same patterns are back in play. ‘never again’ is happening as we speak. The main target group has shifted but the means are the same. This moment in time leaves no choice but to speak up and try to hold ground.

The album features a host of musical collaborators, which is a constant across your output. What makes for a good collaboration?

Ziúr: The short answer is talent, but a good personality is also an important parameter needed to truly be able to connect.

What’s the best live show you’ve played – and why?

Ziúr: My last show was Berlin Atonal and whenever I play this festival, afterwards it automatically becomes the best show I ever played.

Generally it’s hard finding one show to take the cake. I’ve played many shows over the past 30 years and have been exploring different forms of music. For my solo Ziúr shows, the Atonal one is peaking at current state. We really opened a door here and people felt emotionally held by the music and performance.

Another highlight of this year was performing at the opening of Tarek Atoui’s Al Qabali exhibition at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid. For the project, Tarek had collected amazing music during his travels in the Atlas Mountains, which Susie Ibarra, Nancy Mounir, and I transformed into a live show that later became part of the exhibition’s soundscape. At the Madrid performance, Tarek also invited eight original amazing musicians to join us on stage.

Being invited to work on this project and music with such rich cultural heritage and having connected to these legendary collaborators is a huge honour and ultimately means everything to me. I attached one song I made as the closing track of the mix, so you can have a glimpse of what beauty this music holds.

What’s the best and worst advice you’ve ever received?

Ziúr: The best is, nobody’s free until everybody’s free. The worst is, follow the leader.

What are you listening to at the moment?

Ziúr: I usually don’t listen to a lot of music, maybe because I make music? Apart from listening to the mix I made for you I guess, forever: Sade.

Tell us about your Dazed mix.

Ziúr: I wanted to do something special for you, making this a bit of a laid back mix, carrying a certain calm and beauty. As a lil treat, I recorded a whisper version of ‘Im Bann der Wehenden Fahnen’, linking the mix to the Home record.

How were you feeling when you made it?

Ziúr: I felt calm and sincere and the music touches me. It’s a heartfelt mix for a heartfelt moment.

Tracklist:

Ziúr – “Im Bann Der Wehenden Fahnen (Whisper Twist)”

Jake Muir & Evan Caminiti – “Talisman”

Ziúr – “Brown Is The Color”

Wolfgang Voigt – “Kafkatrax 3.4”

RS Tangent – “Local Post Rock”

Carrier feat Gavsborg – “The Fan Dance”

Julmud – “Kalma' كالماء”

Nahi Mitti – “Vision(s) Of Sabheda”

Debit – “La Ronda y el sonidero”