The Berlin techno lifer is back on BPitch with her first album in six years, ‘New Life’ – a release built on rave, resistance, and the need to make something better.
Ellen Allien is back with her first track of 2026, along with the announcement that her first new album in six years is arriving this summer.
The ten-track LP New Life lands July 9 on BPitch Control, the Berlin label she started in 1999 and has spent decades turning into something much bigger than an imprint. BPitch has always felt less like a business card and more like a working engine for underground electronic music: messy, sharp, open, and built from the ground up, with Allien serving as its main architect.
The album’s first single, “Steh Auf,” lands today. True to its title, which translates to “stand up,” the track is a call to get up, move, and stop sleepwalking through the wreckage.
Across New Life, Allien pulls together minimal techno, dark wave, rave euphoria, and her own strange, otherworldly voice, making music that feels wired for bodies but not empty in the head.
Recorded between Berlin, Miami, and Ibiza, the album circles around autonomy, ecological collapse, chosen family, queerness, care, protest, and the basic need to build new worlds when the old ones keep failing.
The album arrives during another stacked chapter for Allien, who continues to run her storied BPitch Control imprint, running the decks at her We Are Not Alone rave series at RSO Berlin, and the long-running Vinylism record store party.
She’s also gearing up for a serious run of tour dates across 16 countries across the rest of the year,