We've got a few programme changes and lineup announcements to share, as we juggle some unfortunate illnesses. We're sorry to announce that due to health reasons, Emma Ruth Rundle and DJ Love have had to postpone their CTM appearances until a later edition. However, we've brought in some heavy-hitters to replace them that we know you're gonna love.
Taking Emma's place at our closing concert in Volksbühne, the legend Zola Jesus will perform a special concert for piano and voice. The alias of Nika Roza Danilova emerged from guttural industrial, the gnawed noise and flickering synths of her early works counterpuncturing soaring voidic vox, but has long since burst from this chrysalis of sewer-sounds to turn into a gravitational force, pulling listeners into the roiling event horizon of her universe. Her music has always stalked the edges of mortality and chaos, her voice a fierce summons to the depths, tearing at its own seams—not just facing the abyss, but climbing in gnashing for a swim.
Taking over for DJ Love, obese.dogma777’s esoteric maximalism collides melon-first with abrasive post-modem club carnage: a tangled mess of speculative pop culture, net concrete aesthetics, tech cults, occult chaos, meta-ironic loops, hyperreal fever dreams, and meme-fueled spirals. You’ll flip your wig when they flip mainstream club tropes on their heads, mangling them with glitchy, experimental sound design, intrusive noise, and dystopian vibes.
Finally, rounding out our silent green programme, Xiu Xiu has reigned as one of the most unrelentingly inventive acts in experimental music for over two decades. Led by Jamie Stewart, their music cycles through emotional and sonic intensities with disarming ease, Stewart’s quiver-to-bark vocals strutting and shivering in Angela Seo’s kaleidoscopic production. Beloved across scenes for their prolific output, gonzo explorations of darkness and experimental ferocity, theirs is music for those gnawed-out by life’s horrors yet unable to avert their gaze.
Stay tuned and get your tickets and passes now; further announcements coming soon.