Texas-based Craig Clouse, aka Shit and Shine, has been called a genius and a maverick by the Wire. And the Quietus says he’s “uninterested in the self-imposed restrictions of genre.” With highly acclaimed releases on Editions Mego, Diagonal, Riot Season, and others, Shit And Shine have wasted no time clearing away the rubbish whilst cutting up their own path towards giddy bass-heavy shape-shifting dance mutations.

Carlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan experimental musician and writer living in Los Angeles. Carlos came up on the scene as a noise guitar player in the late 90s, with the noise rock band Monotract, as well as solo and collaborations, but quickly pivoted into electronic music composition in the early 00s with milestone releases on Important Records and his label No Fun Productions. The Venezuelan artist's solo and collaborative work with musicians like Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth, Nels Cline from Wilco, Jim O'Rourke, and Merzbow has earned him a reputation as one of experimental music's most-known contemporary performers. From 2004 to 2010 Carlos’ transnational avant-garde music summit No Fun Fest, and celebrated New York record label No Fun Productions, vitally propelled the trajectory and strengthened the cultural camaraderie of noise and improvised music worldwide. Carlos's new record 'Dream Walker' will be released on Ideologic Organ in the Spring of 2024. His music has also been featured in fashion shows and promotional campaigns by Jil Sander, Ermenegildo Zegna, and Prada.

frixie regex (kleinbasel) is a noise duo designed to serve shit & shine — michael kunkel (rickomat, soprano sax, mini synth) and daniel steiner (voice, drums, larynxophon). in their first show they present hits like reeds smelling like a man, larynx release them, eating a bat from hell. reign above all, mighty shit and holy shine.

The improvisations of Nicolas Wolf (drums, strings & field recordings) offer intimate insights into the deeply emotional inner world of the musician from Bern. With a background as both a punk guitarist and a jazz drummer, he developed a love for contrasts, an appreciation for eclecticism, and, not least, a critical questioning of traditions. In the past, he has performed in a duo with a highway, given concerts with a cactus, set boxing matches and basketball games to music, and stayed up all night for solo sleep performances. For his freely improvised solo concerts, Wolf draws inspiration from the day and location, carefully selecting his instruments shortly before the performance, often incorporating the space itself. Music guided by gut instinct, raw and honest.

As a static image is taken by a photographer, the duo captures the instant and translates it into sounds, moods, a feeling or a soundtrack for imaginary landscapes. They worked previously with different photographers per project, each time telling their story with their instruments, their voice or just objects.

Pak Yan Lau - electronics, synth, objects
Audrey Lauro - alto saxophone

DJ, and label boss of Animalia & Cirrus, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Kia’s speedy rise to notoriety is no surprise. Although young, Kia plays with the confidence and experience expected of a DJ with many more years under their belt. With a keen ear for bass heavy rhythms, idm and the deeper shades of techno and trance, Kia glides through genres and emotions in exciting and often unexpected ways. Her talent for weaving musical narratives has been recognised by local and international labels, having already constructed revered mixes for Nous’klaer, Truants, c- and Patterns of Perception. Whilst the popularity of these mixes clearly proves her ear for telling stories with music, it’s her bubbly presence behind the booth that really makes her stand out. Kia is an open-eared music digger, searching tirelessly for lost obscurities to pair alongside modern finds and hidden gems by local artists. She wields together her intimate knowledge of local music and attuned ear, bringing it all to a masterful fruition in her record label, ‘Animalia’, with an ambient sub label ‘Cirrus’ recently launched. Beginning in 2019, Animalia is now home to a highly reputable powerhouse of releases, mixes and events which pave the way forward for the future of electronic dance music in Australia. Bringing underground and DIY sounds to the forefront, Kia encourages experimentation and nuance in every release. Bookings at Amsterdam Dance Event, Dekmantel, Sustain Release and Monument festival are a part of a growing list of impressive gigs Kia is being booked for. As she relocates to Europe in early 2023, with a number of exciting shows on the horizon and solo productions in the works, Kia is without a doubt one to keep tabs on.

Scaling the liminal nexus of UK club futurism with tempoless inhibitions and adventurous textures in sound, Piezo explores the kinetic infinites of dance music’s vast permutations. Luca Mucci's output as Piezo revels in the hi-def synthetics of sound sculpting, pirouetting through off-kilter frameworks of total dance crud in a remarkable multiplicity of psychedelic variations. Cast from the embers of dubstep’s heyday and its UK bass counterpart experienced from his native home of Milan, he soon relocated to Bristol enjoying a temporary immersive spell in the city’s legendary sound system culture and vibrant alternative music community. Releases on seminal British labels Idle Hands, Swamp81 and Facta & K-Lone's Wisdom Teeth followed, plus a turn for Orson's Version imprint based out of Berlin. Ansia was founded by Piezo in the midst of this, a label acting as his creative appendage for wild dancefloor tools by himself and fellow club deviants characterised by a mischievous attitude and wry humour to both composition and sound design. It is currently 8 releases deep, featuring a mix of various artist compilations and solo turns from Luca himself, including 2023’s ‘Odd Hooks’ EP. Following that, he makes an exciting debut for kindred dance futurists Nervous Horizon with the ‘Cyclic Wavez’ EP. Remixes and V/A contributions inbetween continue a prolific release schedule. 2020 saw the release of Piezo’s debut album ‘Perdu’ on cult Milanese label Hundebiss, run by PAN affiliate STILL. His most substantial work to date, he channelled his myriad of influences into a versatile suite of tracks traversing technoid UK bass, hypnotic 4th-world textures and heavy sound-design. That same year saw Luca become a participant in the SHAPE roster, a Creative Europe-supported platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, while he also separately collaborated with Milanese artist duo Invernomuto on their BlackMed multimedia project. Piezo weighs all of these influences and experiences together with a ferocious appetite for perc-y wrigglers in his celebrated DJ sets and mixes. Applying his limitless ideology to open ended dancefloor narratives, he traverses quite wild bpms and styles with a remarkable flair best exemplified in sets at Terraforma Festival and Nowadays NYC, and mixes for Crack Magazine, Animalia and DjMag.

Making complex, quickly-paced techno with forward-thinking sentimentalities of the UK club continuum, Kombé is one of the most thrilling up-and-coming producers from Basel. In 2017, he co-founded Somatic Rituals, a label and platform dedicated to showcasing new sounds emerging from Switzerland's young and vibrant club scene. His practice as a DJ and producer is marked by intense tempos and mesmerizing beats that flow together like liquid and strike with the power of lightning. A dedicated community-builder and keen connector of dots, Kombé has collaborated with a range of today’s electronic avant-garde, sharing the stage with DJ Stingray 313, Batu, Jeff Mills, DJ Lag, Carl Craig, and Courtesy. With his debut EP Foreign Exchange brewing, Kombé continues to move forward in the unwavering belief in his artistic vision, driven by a desire to keep redefining boundaries.

Mafou is a Basel-based DJ and producer whose layered sound expands the medium of dance music into otherworldly atmospheres. His debut EP Khezu, released in 2021 on his own imprint Somatic Rituals – co-founded with Kombé and Mukuna – is a percussive workout that’s as hypnotic as it is ecstatic, taking the limitless spirit of techno and pushing it forward to bold horizons. His productions have also appeared on compilations via Rhythm Section International, Grid, and Tilt. Behind the booth, his warm presence and forward-thinking selections add richness and depth to the dance floor. A resident DJ at the renowned Elysia club and with Frankfurt’s EOS Radio, Mafou’s practice as a DJ has seen him tour across Europe, with performances at Tresor 31, Macadam, and RSO.BERLIN. International acclaim has also come from media outlets like Mixmag, PAM, Groove Magazine, Electronic Beats, and Worldwide FM, charting his increasing momentum as one of Switzerland’s most exciting artists.

Over the course of almost a decade, Mukuna has become a significant presence in the Basel dance music scene. As a producer, Mukuna’s music draws from early childhood experiences learning Senegalese drums to map out connections to his own musical heritage. Percussive rhythms continue to form the core of his practice, across his work with Somatic Rituals, the label he co-founded in 2017, and on compilations from Behuá Ic​á​ra, ClubCultureCH and Electronic Beats. His DJ style, refined through his residency at the iconic Elysia club in Basel, blends a diverse range of polyrhythmic sounds, never shying away from surprising the crowd. Time spent in Amsterdam further strengthened Mukuna’s bonds with the European club scene, with performances at De School, Garage Noord, kanaal40, and Rotterdam’s POING CLUB, plus streams with Future Intel and Dekmantel. Always connecting the dots between global sounds and local scenes, Mukuna continues pushing definitions of club music into new and exciting territories.

Ka Baird returns with Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, an album that intertwines elements of the New York based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist & composer’s ecstatic live performances within minimalistic, visceral compositions that expand in scope and sound through collaboration.
For more than twenty years, Ka has explored the outer dimensions of sound through performance. Extending far beyond their roots in the psychedelic folk movement of the early aughts, Ka is known for their raw, boundary pushing solo performances that bridge experimental sound, performance art, and ritual. Their tool set in the live arena includes extended voice and microphone techniques, electronics, flute and piano. Bearings follows their 2017 debut Sapropelic Pycnic and Respires, their acclaimed 2019 album.

Crude! Ugly! Nefarious! Rough! Obscure! Angry! Harsh! Eerie!

Berlin’s Cuntroaches have defiled countless venues across Europe + the UK with their putrid take on noise-punk-metal, a cannibalistic torrential wall of sound. Since 2015, audiences have been subjected to spewing beer bra harnesses, diaper outfits, empty pet food containers or witnessed band members performing from the inside of a trash bag. They’ve thrown a lot of trash on a lot of people. Cuntroaches released a 12” split record with UK’s Guttersnipe in 2020 and both bands are back as a rare package deal to one-two wallop your eardrums. Cuntroaches released a self-titled full length album on SKiN GRAFT Records earlier this year, check it!

Leeds duo Guttersnipe wield guitar, drums, electronics and voice to unleash brutal rainbow abstraction, smothering the Rock idiom in hyper-accelerated bio-luminescent hysteria! Formed in 2014 with the initial aim to marry the dislocated rhythms of no-wave and noise rock to the batshit insane solos on Reek of Putrefaction by Carcass then churning it out with the intensity of extreme free-jazz and punk. After a few years of hibernation Guttersnipe are back touring and celebrating 10 years with new compositions and new approaches for exploring ever more far-flung regions of derangement, gesture, horror and joy. New LP coming late 2024, so stay posted!

Through improvisation and composition, Elio Amberg (altsax/microphones/electronics) explores rhythmic constructs, extended playing techniques, the structuring of free tonal melodies, and the intersection between electronic and acoustic music. In his solo setup, he uses an electro-acoustic system, fed with microscopic sounds from the saxophone. Timing is a central theme in Elio's music, along with the contrast between vivid expression and sterile structures.

The in-between. The unknown. The Silence. From there, Lara Alarcón (voice & effects ) and Philipp Eden (electronics ) embark on a musical discourse, based on trust and careful listening, and characterized by strong dynamics, unconventional musical forms and an allover playfulness. At times loud and chaotic, at other times soft and delicate, they let the music unfold as it wants. They draw on inspirations from film, literature, philosophy and diverse musics to create a sound between noise, ambient and abstract techno.

Originally from Paju South Korea, bela (they/them) is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin. They are known for electronic music performance merging pungmul - a Korean folk act rooted in agricultural traditions and linked to past social movements - and vocals inspired by extreme metal. bela shapes pungmul into the ritual for queer rage and grief with sub-heavy distortions and cries. Their LP Noise and Cries, co-released on Subtext UK and Unsound PL in April 2024, debuts their raw vocals for the first time. Spanning over 5 avant-garde basement experiments and 2 grounding lengthy ambient scenes, it comprises a fierce reflection on the precarity of life back in South Korea, queer identity, severance of relationships, and endurance. bela was nominated for the SHAPE+ Platform 23'-24'. They have presented their solo and collaborative works across different stages in Europe including Berghain, Trauma Bar und Kino, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Cafe OTO, A4 Bratislava among many others. They have performed in experimental music festivals CTM Festival(DE), Ephemera(PL), Unsound Kraków(PL), and Rewire Festival(NL). They also premiered their works in European art festivals transmediale(DE) and EVA International(IE). bela is a co-runner of Sorrow Club: a mixed event series spanning from music to non-music.

Rat Section are a music and performance act currently based in London. Formerly active 1989-2001, their recent reemergence came in the form of What Stays In Vegas via Halcyon Veil in November 2023- the first album from Rat Section since the late 90s. Known for placing emphasis on choreography, set design and tailoring each performance to the space has seen them present: Splash Zone, a water based installation at Ormside Projects and 47 Lines Of Vision a modular curtain set up developed during their month long residency at Scythe, Melbourne. If Even For A Moment, The Sax Melts Our Worries Away is a theatre piece and video work that has been shown at galleries in Malmo, London and New York.

Ján Solčáni is a Slovak sound artist, curator and theoretician working with the phenomena of culture that are perceivable and expressible with sound. He organises a lecture series on contemporary art practice and theory Videogram, is co-founder and curator of music label Skupina, curator of the listening archive Unseen and he organizes activities of the Roman Radkovič Collective.

Ata Ebtekar, better known as Sote, is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. His deep love for rich sounds and textures spans a diverse range of styles, from hardcore club music to collaborations blending traditional acoustic instruments with electronic elements, as well as solo experimental electronics. Over the past three decades, he has released music on labels such as Warp, Diagonal, SVBKVLT, Sub Rosa, Morphine, and Opal Tapes. On his first album of 2024, Ministry of Tall Tales, Ata intensifies his compositional approach, attempting to process the immense frustration, anger, confusion, helplessness, and fear he has experienced in recent years, largely due to the sociopolitical circumstances in Iran and his surroundings. His latest release, Sound System Persepolis, is a futuristic hardcore album featuring pummeling rhythms and harmonically complex computer music. The album draws its name from Persepolis, the historical administrative center and beating heart of the Persian Empire.