Ecstatic Fractures

30th Jan 2026 31st Jan 2026 23:00 08:00

Opium Hum

00:00

Yetsuby

01:45

Cortisa Star

02:30

NGHTCRWLR

03:30

Catnapp

04:15

TOCCORORO

05:00

RONI

07:00

RSO.Berlin24 – 30 €

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  • Yara Mekawei

    Artistic Lab

    Sound and social memory.

  • Theresa Baumgartner

    Music

    New worlds of feeling sculpted from light and sound.

  • Rabih Beaini

    Discourse

    A key voice in avant-garde electronic and outernational music.

  • Övül Durmusoglu

    Discourse

    Within the realms of contemporary art, politics, critical and gender theory and popular culture.

  • Nico Adomako

    Music

    Music and community converge in global dialogue.

  • CEE

    Workshop

    A shared language of collaboration and circulation.

  • CEE

    Workshop

    A shared language of collaboration and circulation.

    • Unconventional twists and turns through the main RSO floor.

    Photo: Courtesy of the artist

    Opening the night, CTM's own Opium Hum brings the bass, flavored across the global dance spectrum.

    Yetsuby moves through house, techno, and more abstract terrain with a sense of structure that feels hand-drawn rather than engineered. Her tracks shift colors mid-stride, tight grooves dissolving into wide, hazy atmospheres. Onstage and on air, she moves just as freely, slipping between Seoul’s DIY nodes and international circuits without losing her light touch. Cortisa Star grabs from rap, drill, hyperpop and whatever else sparks, then scorches it all with blown-out 808s and vocals sharpened like static.

    Kris Esfandiari has long wandered between creative skins, and as NGHTCRWLR she channels that restlessness into serrated force. Her voice cuts through metallic storms, bending club sonics into something harsher and more intimate. Drum-and-bass jitters into her shadowed atmospheres, letting punked-out energy crash against breakbeats and deep, dragging bass. Premiering her new album and live show, Catnapp arrives like an electrical surge, dragging heavy low-end, vulnerable storytelling, trance glimmer, R&B snap, and a streak of numetal ferocity all tangled together.

    • OZ, by NGHTCRWLR

    • OZ, by NGHTCRWLR

    TOCCORORO builds sets from the languages of her Cuban-Spanish roots, flipping guaracha into hardstyle blasts, melting raptor house into ballroom swing, detonating Jersey Club against tribal percussion. It forms a dizzy and bodily ecosystem where movement is compulsory and performance is a spell with a grin. RONI, founder of Nehza Records, navigates the crossroads of techno, bass, Latin percussion, and club experiments with an ear for friction and surprise. Her sets and her label share the same impulse: connect far-flung ideas, spark new ones, and keep the floor in constant motion.

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    • Biiig Stretch (Laid-Back Sessions), by CATNAPP

    • Biiig Stretch (Laid-Back Sessions), by CATNAPP

    Yetsuby's performance is part of WeSA x CTM, supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and KOFICE as part of Kore·A·Round Culture 2025.