BOUND BY ENDOGAMY
CH
Formed in 2019, Bound by Endogamy is a duo made up of Kleio Thomaīdes and Shlomo Balexert, both prominent figures in the Geneva squat/punk scene. Described as an amalgation of DAF and Kleenex with a hardcore edge their recent debut album is an impressive showing clearly demonstrating their passion for underground electronic music.
CEL
DE/PL
Hubert Zemler's stripped down mechanics and the erratic electronics of Felix Kubin dovetail superbly in their joint test laboratory of CEL. Their creations permuated by a concentrated unrest, some close to bursting their banks whilst others scale the loftiest heights of insanity. And yet every movement, every tone fits perfectly. There is method to the madness, an exercise in systematic excess.
DAME AREA
ES
With synth bassline arpeggios and live percussions, noise and congas, industrialism and tribalism, Italian and Spanish, Dame Area have developed an artistic identity that embraces influence yet eschews compromise. Across three albums and several EPs for the likes of Mannequin, B.F.E, Kess Kill and their own cult imprint / DIY organization Māgia Roja, the duo embody an eclectic, discerning form of contemporary industrial music.
DÉVORE
FR
Revitalizing the electric, cold and
danceable energy of new wave and post-punk. Dévore is a dance punk project founded by Jimy De Haese (vocals, guitar) joined by Bastien Griat (saxophone, synthesizer). With an organic and modern approach to both analogue
synthesizers and more traditional instrumentation their gift for infectious song writing shape a sound with an enduring quality of feeling simultaneously new and dear.
EDDIE DARK
GR
Straight from the catacombs of Athens, Eddie Dark is a one vampire synth-punk project invoking epileptic dance moves and poetic sarcasm with horror B-movie aesthetics to unsettle the human race.
GEORG MARANDER + AVEC
FI
Georg Marander + Avec är en glittrig, elektroakustisk italoinspirerad indieduo från Vasa, Finland. I begynnelsen ett soloprojekt av Axel Brink som med underfundigt svårmod utforskat italodisco på finlandssvenska. Med Avec (Izabella Fant) på trummaskin och sång har de fortsatt utvecklas och spelat i bland annat Helsingfors, Åbo, Stockholm och Vasa.
IN ATLAS
DK
Weaving together the fabrics of synth-pop and dark wave with a dark disco sensibility, Copenhagen-born In Atlas
pushes the boundaries, keeping this often nostalgic sound fresh and
contemporary. Her second solo album, 'Where The Wildflowers Grow' was released in May on 'She Lost Kontrol' and is
concerned with emotional liberation, serving as a testament to the strength of
emotions and the journey towards embracing one's own highly sensitive nature.
KUMO 99
US
Based in Los Angeles, Ami Komai and Nate Donmoyer make up the unmistakeable duo of Kumo 99. Their mosh pit-inducing post-rave protest songs and unrelenting jungle breakbeats somehow provide the perfect bearer for the emotive Japanese vocal performance of Komai. Coming hot of the release of their third album 'Headplate' we are excited to let them loose on the Swedish countryside this August.
- Post-national, apocalypse-adjacent, lo-tech love songs for the digital native.
MONIKAZE
LT
Monikaze is a versatile composer and electronic music producer signed with the prominent Moshi Moshi Records. Having graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with a degree in composition she has gone on to support acts such as Caribou, Algiers and Dopplereffekt. Merging raw, otherworldly vocals with electronic and acoustic textures in tense, beautiful and haunting entities eager to explore.
PUNKTŌ
LT
A stupid smile with blood in the mouth
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A crunchy cocktail of social clichés
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The fragility of fluffy reality
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etc.
REBEL YELL
AU
Equal parts demonic and elegant, Rebel Yell's dark, industrial and hazy musical output takes the receiver to a fervent dance floor where everyone is sweating, possessed by hulking basslines and mechanical spells. A purveyor of dark and industrial techno, best absorbed with eyes closed, a large PA and a willingness to surrender your limbs to and let go of the real world.
SPADER KUNG
SE
Spader Kung has emerged as a prominent force in the Malmö music scene, gracing club stages and intimate punk venues alike.
Finding their niche at the intersection of classic Swedish punk and post-punk, with an unapologetic embrace of darkness in both lyrics and music. Fearlessly exploring the bowels of existence fueled by their own introspective journeys. With an explosive yet vulnerable stage presence the trio has evoked a range of emotions from jubilations to tears or/and combinations thereof.
STACKS
BE
Based in Antwerp, brothers Jan and Sis just released their third album 'Want' by way of esteemed Amsterdam imprint Knekelhuis. Nine songs that chronicle a lifetime of kinship, echoes of familiar musical pasts with hungry eyes on unknown pleasures. A dusty dreamscape of endless conversation sung in unison, through lyrics guarded and private, yearning for connection. An album as a trail of echoes, with reverb and vocoded space shaped and pitched along the way, stretching curiosity to syncopated rhythm tracks with playful patience and persistence.
VIRTUAL VOICES
SE
From the rolling Swedish countryside comes a one-of-a-kind mix of social realism and synth-pop. Virtual Voices has eleven albums to their name and has no intention of slowing down. At all.
Frontman Fredrik "Lazzo" Larsson and crew brings to stage a blend of high paced energy and a stream of swift analogue melodies from another world.
A unique Virtual Voice in today's vast musical landscape.
XTR HUMAN
DE
Born in fire and tempered in the batcaves and warehouse raves of Berlin, Johannes Stabel brings a leather-wrapped hammer to gothic nightlife. Foretold as a torrent of raw emotion and relentless force, his fourth album 'Schrank' puts the Schwarz in Schwarzenegger
with modern hardbody beats and burly bass lines dominating faint chords of 1980's dark romanticism.