Dance yourself clean with HorsegiirL’s exclusive playlist for The Cover, ‘Music So Hard It Will Heal You’

HorsegiirL is this week’s star of The Cover – check out the story and her exclusive playlist for NME below.

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Stella Stallion makes history as the first horse to appear on The Cover, NME’s weekly spotlight on the best and brightest emerging artists. The half-horse, half-human producer-DJ was profiled by Alex Rigotti and photographed by Michael Anthony Baumann in Berlin exclusively for NME – check it out here.

For The Cover, HorsegiirL has curated ‘Music So Hard It Will Heal You’, a rejuvenating playlist of bangers that mixes nightcore, Eurodance, the internet-iconic ‘Caramelldansen’ and anthems from her own discography. Stream it on Apple Music here and on Spotify below:

Discernible in the playlist is HorsegiirL’s love of fast-paced dance music styles like hardstyle and happy hardcore, which she would play in Berlin clubs early on in her career, though those genres were perceived as “this lower-class music from the 2000s that never had been allowed in more prestigious techno clubs”.

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Her feelings towards genre snobbery aside, HorsegiirL cited growing up in Germany as a “brown horse” as a reason why she “never felt a hundred per cent represented in [German techno]”. She added, “I think there’s a deep part of me that, because I felt I was never part of mainstream German society, learned to accept that and be like… you know what? Either way I will stand out, so I might as well embrace it.”

HorsegiirL kicks off a tour in support of her debut album ‘Nature Is Healing’ this week – read her Cover story here, and see who else has appeared on The Cover here.

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