On Tuesday, I shared a Boiler Room clip on Facebook cause a friend and I appeared in the background as David Mayer played his set for the 5th anniversary of Boiler Room in Berlin. It got a lot more views than I expected and I was glad so many friends know about Boiler Room and are fans of this awesome concept too.

Electronic music aficionados will know what Boiler Room is, but if you don’t: Boiler Room isn’t a venue or party crew as many people might believe, it’s a music broadcasting platform that streams live performances online in different venues and cities across the globe. So far, over 3.5 billion minutes have been streamed in more than 100 different cities.

Unfortunately, Beirut is not one of those 100+ cities (yet!) but in January, while listening to a Dubfire Boiler Room DJ set that happened in Berlin in late 2015, I was shocked to hear the MC dedicate the 2 hours and 30 minute DJ set to Adel Termos, the Lebanese hero and father who selflessly tackled a suicide bomber in Beirut’s Burj El Brajneh last November, forcing the terrorist to blow himself up short of a nearby crowd, saving hundreds of other people by selflessly sacrificing his own life.

The MC says:

“ I wanna give a shoutout or respect or mention, a very very special man, who deserves some respect: Adel Termos, who died in Beirut on Thursday in saving the lives of a couple hundred people, sacrificing his own. I mean, that is… there are just no words for this. I hope that this will give you some strength or energy to step out of your own comfort zone one day and maybe step up and act against all the assholes worldwide who make this beautiful place a very shitty place at the moment, so the Boiler Room dedicates tonight to Adel Termos, wherever he may be now” and the crowds cheer and clap

It felt nice to see that people in other places cared, especially in a club setting that people usually do not expect to give a damn, especially after the Paris Batacalan attacks had grabbed the headlines and pushed Beirut’s attacks out of the world’s attention. But, they do and I really appreciated this dedication for such a beautiful set of Techno. I hope you enjoy it too, and spare a thought of a true Lebanese hero, Adel Termos ❤