Starting her career in a jazz band, Deena – a Tunisian producer and DJ, after numerous performances on the electronic scene in Tunisia, moved to France.
She signed with the Parisian label InFiné and released two EPs there, Klabb (2017) and Dhakar (2020), as well as an album entitled Khonnar (2018), which received high praise from several international media such as Pitchfork and The Guardian.
Her music is an attempt to reinterpret the elements that make up the diversity of Arabic music, drawing inspiration from electronic dance music influenced by Club music, as well as the contemporary avant-garde and experimental scene. She co-produced the track “an itch”, which was featured on Fever Ray’s latest album “Plunge” and has released several remixes of works by Bachar Mar-Khalifé, Flore, Domenico Torti, and Afrika Bambaataa.
In live performances or DJ sets, Deena has appeared on stage at many renowned festivals and events such as the Sonar Festival, Les Dunes Electroniques in Tunisia, CTM Festival in Berlin, Dekmantel in Amsterdam, the Dour festival, or Mutek Festival in Mexico City, as well as in clubs including Concrete and Dehors Brut in Paris, Berghain in Berlin, among others…
An experimental electronic synthesis of “broken” rhythmic structures. A trio of DJs and composers – Josef Tumari, Varlamov, and Lisunovsky – founders of a research laboratory for sound and electronic music.
Galya Bisengalieva is an artist who defies easy characterization or genre classification. The Kazakh composer, producer, and violinist has established herself as a standout master in contemporary music through her originality and virtuosity. In 2020, she released her debut album Aralkum, where Galya’s focus on expansive spatial sounds helped to uncover the theme of the album – the Aral Sea and the desert landscapes formed as a result of catastrophic drying. In October 2023, her second atmospheric album, Polygon, was released, this time drawing attention to one of the darkest episodes in Kazakh history – the radioactive legacy of the Semipalatinsk Test Site. Galya, an internationally recognized performer, has played at venues such as the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, Brooklyn Academy of Arts, ACE Theatre LA, Béla Bartók Concert Hall, Victoria Hall, Teatro Colón, Strelka Institute, Concertgebouw, Elbphilharmonie, and the Paris Philharmonie. Galya’s solos and improvisations can be heard in numerous film soundtracks, including You Were Never Really Here, Honey Boy, The Two Popes, The Master, Suspiria, as well as in albums by Frank Ocean, Taylor Swift, Radiohead, The National, and Sigur Rós.
Masayoshi Fujita is a Japanese vibraphonist, marimbist, and composer. Aiming not to be confined by traditional vibraphone styles, techniques, or composition theory, he seeks his own sound of the vibraphone and new possibilities for instrument sound production.
Inspired by the silence and depth of fog, mountains, and inner gravity, his music evokes images, atmosphere, landscapes, and stories that resonate within him. His recent collaboration with German electronic musician Jan Jelinek has also gained widespread popularity, attracting significant attention from experimental music fans around the world.
After living in Berlin for 13 years, Masayoshi recently moved to a new home and studio in the rural Japanese mountain village of Kami-cho in Hyogo, following his long-held dream of creating music in nature, which he delicately shares with his listeners.
Experimental electronic underground of the «New East».
A DJ, producer, and leader of the Almaty scene, founder of the DIY event series ZVUK. She made her mark at the Unsound: Dislocation festival in 2016, and has since been actively touring Europe. Known for her emotional sets that blend techno, electro, acid, and industrial.
She regularly performs at Room 4 Resistance in Berlin and hosts the monthly radio show Theory of Nothing on Radio Cómeme.
An electronic project consisting of Alina Izolenta and Kamil Ea at the intersection of techno, trance, experimental electronics, and sound design. Their releases on Nina Kraviz’s label TRIP, including the duo’s “Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day” and the LP “Am I Who I Am,” have gathered numerous positive reviews from publications like Pitchfork, The Quietus, Resident Advisor, and the iconic British magazine The Wire, with tracks frequently making it into the list of the year’s best tracks according to Fact magazine.
PTU creates complex dance canvases, building non-linear narratives within them and often accelerating up to 150 bpm. Instead of monotony, the duo prefers suddenness and sharpness — their works are full of unexpected turns and metamorphoses. This is especially felt during live performances when the duo’s powerful electric sound unleashes bangers on the audience. PTU’s live performances can be heard on the international stage — the duo has conquered London’s Printworks, Manchester’s The Warehouse Project, Tbilisi’s Bassiani, Berlin’s Tresor. Over the last few years, PTU could be heard on Boiler Room, at festivals like Sonar (Barcelona), Berlin Atonal, Unsound (Krakow), The Midway (San Francisco), and many others, in more than 20 countries around the world.
Sabinē is a bright figure of the new generation of electronic music in Uzbekistan, as well as the co-founder of the Sublimation Collective label, which aims to expand the genre’s boundaries by producing collaborative tracks with promising artists. Today, she is a DJ, label manager, producer, and promoter based in Riga, who also served as a resident DJ at the One One club in Riga. Her music is a love for diverse, evocative, and emotional techno sounds – from industrial and acid bass to aggressive beats and powerful rhythms. She has performed at the Stihia and Under (Riga) festivals, as well as presented her set at Boiler Room, the renowned Berlin HÖR, legendary club Tresor, and various venues across Eurasia alongside Nina Kraviz, Dr. Rubinstein, Dasha Rush, Hector Oaks, Perc, Regal, and Tommy Four Seven.
Since childhood, Agata was inspired by the sounds of nature and synthesizers she heard on ambient and new-age music cassettes owned by her parents. She began her musical education at the Emīls Darzinš Music School in Riga in 1995, initially studying piano before switching to music theory and history. After school, she continued her studies at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. Alongside her studies, Agata developed a DJ practice, expanding her interest in various musical styles. In 2012, after graduating from the academy, Agata decided to devote herself to personal musical creativity.
Agata’s musical journey as the Sign Libra project began in 2016 with her debut EP Closer to the Equator, inspired by BBC documentaries about tropical forests. That same year, she participated in the Red Bull Music Academy in Montreal. In 2017, her release caught the attention of the Parisian label Antinote and was reissued on vinyl. In 2020, Agata released her second album Sea to Sea on the RVNG Intl. label, gaining international recognition. Sign Libra has performed in New York, Montreal, Amsterdam, Berlin, and other cities.
