Daring and playful: How VTSS is energising techno
Artists After dropping out of one of Poland's best law schools to pursue DJing, VTSS is bringing a tongue-in-cheek attitude to hard-hitting sounds Words: Marcus Barnes | Photography: Arne Grugel 6 April 2020 “I was sleeping in my Dr Martens, with a huge jacket and two sweaters on it was so cold,” begins VTSS. “We’d have to go down to the basement with a head torch to get some wood to put in the burner. Everything smelled like the liquid smoke you put on barbecues, all my clothes, all my hair...” Sitting comfortably in the foyer of hip Shoreditch hotel CitizenM, Martyna Maja is describing last winter in her adopted city of Berlin, where she was living in a squat while she got her career together. “The temperatures were around zero that month, and when I was starting to get gigs I stayed at this same hotel where we are now. In my hotel room I could close the blinds with an iPad, but at home I was really struggling.”Read this next: 10 of the best Polish techno tracksThe Polish DJ had not...