KEYI Magazine and Groundless Factory unveil Beijing minimal techno night

KEYI’s Spring Version landed at Groundless Factory in Beijing’s 798 Art District as more than a club night. The April 11 bill, which also featured Berlin Bunny, Eyes Dice, Yang Bing, SISWONG and others, was framed as a collision of music, art and fashion inside a venue at (798), B06-2, 706 Road, where underground programming sits alongside exhibitions and cross-disciplinary events.

Berlin Bunny and Eyes Dice are the names that make the booking read like a scene map. KEYI’s April 7 write-up identified Berlin Bunny as a co-creator of Dark Disco.org, a platform built around EBM, wave and techno through podcasts, events and curated projects, and as a co-creator of KEYI Magazine itself. Eyes Dice, also a co-creator of KEYI Magazine and Dark Disco.org, was described as a Berlin-based DJ, photographer and music journalist who leads KEYI’s creative work from Berlin. That pairing matters because it pushes the bill beyond simple genre stacking: Berlin Bunny brings an alternative electro-punk background into techno, while Eyes Dice moves between sound, image and editorial culture. Berlin Bunny’s set history includes Säule at Berghain, VENT in Tokyo, Faust in Seoul and Groundless Factory in Beijing, the kind of route that gives a night like this its international voltage.

Yang Bing gave the bill its local backbone. KEYI said his sets move through deep, minimal, tech and micro house, with enough floor control to carry a room while still keeping the texture loose and curious. His place in the story goes deeper than the booth: KEYI traced him back to the Great Wall Rave Party in the 1990s, called out his role in founding the underground club WhiteRabbit, noted his 2017 documentary Break The Wall, and pointed to the way he brought Chinese electronic music to ADE with Mai Ai Culture. In a scene where minimal and microhouse often orbit bigger hybrid lineups, Yang Bing functions as a bridge between early Chinese rave culture and today’s more elastic club language.

The night also fit into an ongoing relationship between KEYI and Groundless Factory rather than a one-off showcase. Resident Advisor listed 18 events at the venue so far this year and had already logged a Groundless Factory x Keyi Magazine party on December 5, 2025 with Berlin Bunny, Eyesdice, chizz, Kousei and SØA. KEYI’s December 2025 interview added more context, describing Groundless Factory as an offshoot of Groundless Camp, the experimental art collective founded in 2017, and saying the club took shape in 2022 during the pandemic with a music direction rooted in modular synthesizers and traditional acoustic instruments. That background explains why this Beijing night felt larger than a booking sheet: it was another chapter in a programming model where minimal techno sits inside art, fashion and experimental culture, not beside it.