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Véras Fawaz (29) is muzikant, zanger, songschrijver, presentator en filmmaker. Na zijn debuut-EP ‘Ali’ uit 2018, waarin hij op langzame lo-fi beats diepe, eerlijke teksten over zijn Islamitische vader, zijn overleden broertje en zijn persoonlijke issues zingt, bracht hij in 2020 de EP ‘Destructie’ uit.

Als filmmaker heeft Veras zich de afgelopen jaren bewezen als een groot talent met o.a. een korte film en videoclips voor grote namen uit het Nederlands muzieklandschap. Dit talent krijgt een steeds duidelijkere plek in de manier waarop hij zijn muziek benadert.

2023 wordt het jaar van zijn debuutalbum; Het Niets: een multidimensionaal muziek-project waarin deze verschillenden talenten voor het eerst volledig samenkomen.

Tsar B (pseudonym of Justine Bourgeus) is a Belgian musician. She played the violin for School is Cool from 2012 to 2016. Bourgeus took her first steps in music with the band Bear Run.

Her singing debut occurred on the Oscar and the Wolf cover single “Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse, recorded for the soundtrack of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s film Black.

In 2015, she released her solo debut single “Escalate,” which gained international attention from publications such as The Fader, Noisey UK, BBC Radio 1, and more. In the summer of 2016, she followed up with her first EP, independently released on vinyl. In 2017, a new single titled “Golddigger” was released, and in early 2018, “Rattlesnake,” whose video premiered on Dazed & Confused.

Tsar B’s music is highly popular in the dance world. Her music has been featured on the American version of So You Think You Can Dance, and singer Eleni Foureira covered the song on the Greek So You Think You Can Dance. There are over a thousand choreographies set to her songs from around the world, a significant portion of which she has compiled on her YouTube channel [dead link]. The most popular is that of choreographer Alexander Chung, currently boasting over 41 million plays.

15 15 are making music like no one else.

Weaving between R&B, futuristic electronic explorations and blends of dancehall, they have created a distinct and singular sonic language that matches the uniqueness of their own rituals and mythologies.

Throughout their EP’s Le Jeune (2020) and Varūa 2022), the group have been conjuring epic soundscapes taking cues from criss-crossing underground movements and shaped by their Tahitian heritage Lauded by Clash, Crack, Dazed, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, NPR, and a personal invitation by Benji B to his prestigious Maida Vale ‘End Of Year Special’, alongside George Riley, Liv.e and Ojerime, 15 15 keep creating autonomous spaces for marginalised voices, a counterpoint to the restrictive whims of normative gatekeepers in music and are now sitting firmly in the hinterlands of the progressive music scene.

Recorded in caves, crypts, and shopping centres, Mandy, Indiana’s debut album i’ve seen a way is everywhere at once: channeling the chaos that surrounds our everyday lives, their debut is an exquisitely rendered portrait that transcends genre into a expertly-executed vision that’s entirely new and adventurous.

A four-piece experimental noise band that formed out of the fertile Manchester scene, the group initially came to fruition after vocalist Valentine Caulfield and Scott Fair met sharing a bill with their former projects. Joined by Simon Catling (synth) and Alex MacDougall (drums), they have together generated a sound that is at once chaotic and precision engineered, where chance operations are manipulated into percussive geometries, and gnarled guitars sit in thickets of distortion around which vocals spin knots of lyrical repetitions. Their first recordings emerged around 2019, with a smattering of early singles released not long after, culminating in 2021’s critically acclaimed ‘…’ EP which saw the band draw early cosigns including a remix from Daniel Avery and support slots from the Horrors, Squid, and Gilla Band. The latter’s Daniel Fox mixed several of the tracks on debut album ‘i’ve seen a way’ alongside Robin Stewart (Giant Swan) and the album was mastered by Heba Kedry (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bjork).

Chibi Ichigo creates electronic music with powerful, honest lyrics. As a member of the queer community, she spreads messages of acceptance. Her new single “ENERGIE,” made with Sophie Straat, announces her upcoming album that draws influences from the music Chibi listened to in her youth (Happy hardcore, Europop, etc.).

WaqWaq Kingdom is a Japanese tribal bass duo, consisting of Kiki Hitomi and Shigeru Ishihara. Both are originally from Japan, lived in the U.K. for over a decade and are now based in Leipzig and Berlin.

Their genre- and time bending sound is like a psychedelic Nabe hot pot: melting Japanese traditional style Minyo with Jamaican dancehall, footwork, dub, techno, tribal polyrhythms and Super Nintendo soundtracks.

The lyrics and visuals are drawing a deep influence from ancient Shinto mythology and the Japanese “Matsuri” festivals that honor the local gods, “Kami-sama”.

WaqWaq Kingdom’s hypnotic and shamanic live performances are an intense time warp experience that re-connect their animistic roots with the future of urban neon colors.

Shigeru Ishihara is mostly known as breakcore-gameboy legend DJ Scotch Egg, but also for playing bass in Seefeel (Warp Records), the Devilman project and Small But Hard Records.

Kiki Hitomi is the singer/songwriter from bass explorers King Midas Sound (Ninja Tune), Black Chow, the Japanese Dubstep noise duo Dokkebi Q and the NoinoNoinoNoino project. Her highly acclaimed solo debut album “Karma No Kusari” appeared on Jahtari in 2016.