Pukkelpop 2024 blokkenschema dag 3 - zaterdag 17 augustus 2024

CRACKUPS is een band van extremen: waanzinnig snel, strak, ongemeen luid, maar met een scherp gevoel voor melodie en oor voor detail. Eerste langspeler ‘Animals On Acid’ (2011) verwierf snel een cultstatus, nog versterkt door het feit dat de band niet veel later voor onbepaalde tijd de pauzeknop indrukte. Aan projecten echter geen gebrek voor de bandleden, die als (sessie)muzikant, grafisch vormgever of achter de knoppen als producer aan de slag gingen bij verschillende belpopacts en Kempenpunkers: van Double Veterans en The Priceduifkes tot Psycho 44, de lijst is eindeloos.Maar CRACKUPS voelt altijd als thuiskomen en in 2019 komt de band weer boven water. Tweede plaat ‘Greetings From Earth’ is het muzikale equivalent van een vierdubbele espresso: straffe garage punk in zeven songs en nog geen 18 minuten. ‘Wet Sheets’, ‘Trainstation’, ‘White Fruit’, ‘Getting The Vibes’, stuk voor stuk sloopkogels waarmee de boel live telkens weer vakkundig wordt afgebroken.Eind dit jaar verschijnt album nummer 3. Productie en artwork zijn, vanuit hun kenmerkende DIY state of mind, vanzelfsprekend weer van eigen hand. Eerste single ‘Sgt. Haze’ windt er geen doekjes om, nog altijd is het vruchteloos en tot ieders opluchting zoeken naar de handrem. Rechttoe rechtaan en geen geheimen. Geïnspireerd door een platenkast die van hun ouders zou kunnen zijn, Black Flag en Devo meets Viagra Boys en Warmduscher.CRACKUPS can see through you!

De Cult-rapper KLEINE CRACK en zijn vaste producer SLAGTER is een duo uit Antwerpen oftewel de ANNA Die hun vernietigende stroom uit de boerentoren storten. Ze zitten op het label Burning Fik van Faberyayo en Abel en maken nu ook heel wat geluid in Nederland. Maak je klaar voor bezeten ritmes en helse energie.‘VEEL LIEFDE VEEL HAAT’ KLEINE CRACK & SLAGTER 

Show Me The Body is a New York City based ecclesiastical hardcore trio consisting of Julian Cashwan Pratt (founder; banjo and vocals), Harlan Steed (founder; bass), and Jackie McDermott (current drummer). The band has organized non-traditional, intentional DIY spaces for NYC youth since 2015, and since expanded that work to a global capacity through their urgent, ceremonial live shows, subterranean punk and hip-hop mixed tours, and their CORPUS NYC platform. 

Since forming in 2003 at school in their hometown of St Albans, U.K, Enter Shikari has, thus far, released seven full-length studio albums; TAKE TO THE SKIES (2007), COMMON DREADS (2009), A FLASH FLOOD OF COLOUR (2012), THE MINDSWEEP (2015), THE SPARK (2017). NOTHING IS TRUE & EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE (2020), and the latest, A KISS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD which was released Friday 21st April 2023.All seven albums debuted in the UK Album Chart top 5 “midweeks”, with 2023’s 'A Kiss For The Whole World' finally scoring the band their first ever UK Album Chart #1 record. Enter Shikari have been recipients of multiple awards and topped many a magazine reader’s poll, picking up 'Best Live Band’ gongs like there’s no tomorrow, as well as a plethora of ‘Best UK Artist’ and ‘Best Album’ statuettes, from the likes of Kerrang!, Rock Sound, the Heavy Music Awards and NME.Summer 2020 saw the band announce a partnership / shirt sponsorship with local football team St Albans City FC. Frontman / songwriter / producer Rou Reynolds has published four books with Faber Music, the most recent (and most ambitious) being a ‘A Treatise On Possibility’ in the summer of 2021. As well as Rou Reynolds authored publications, in October 2022 Faber Music also published ‘Standing Like Statues - The Enter Shikari Biography’ written by Kerrang! Magazine editor Luke Morton.Enter Shikari have played somewhere in the region of 3000 live shows around the globe, including three headline arena-sized tours in the UK, substantial UK / Europe arena supports in their early career with The Prodigy, Linkin Park and 30 Seconds To Mars, and more big and small festivals worldwide than it would be possible to list here. The band’s last full U.K tour (December 2021) sold out across the board, including the band’s fourth headline show at London’s 10,000 capacity Alexandra Palace.2023 kicked straight off with Enter Shikari releasing the single ‘(pls) set me on fire’ in January, accompanying an announcement of their new album, and what became known as the Residency Tour, which took in five British cities over the course of one week, repeating for three months. In May 2023, Enter Shikari announced UK arena tour dates for 2024, including the band’s first ever Wembley Arena show. In recognition of the grassroots touring scene which birthed the band, the band has pledged £1 from every ticket sale for the tour to be donated to the Music Venue Trust to support grassroots music venues in the UK. The band also announced a short European run, including the largest German and Netherlands shows Enter Shikari has played thus far. The band kicked off festival season for summer 2023 by headlining the UK’s Slam Dunk Festival in Hertfordshire and Leeds.

Connected by their mutual musical aspiration, Lucas and Pieter launched Re-type. Rather than being completely aligned, this duo has always had a complementary vision. This spirit allowed them to take their productions to a whole new level, far beyond their own limits.Re-type's sound brings contrast to its listeners. Their complementary spirit is expressed in the tracks by combining emotional breaks, and vibrating sounds when the drop kicks in. Each track brings a different insight into Re-type's journey, where they are exploring their own place within the electronic music scene.

Born out of a deep passion for electronic music culture, Joyhauser is one of the most exciting, incendiary acts in the world of contemporary techno. Their music has a unique flavour, combining influences from techno, trance, Belgium’s own distinct rave lineage and a myriad of other styles. Poised to release their debut album, In Memero, the duo are entering a new phase of their evolution; driven by their core values, with an expansive vision of their destiny...The duo named themselves after two influential psychologists; Joy Paul Guilford and Marc Hauser. Guilford’s explorations of intelligence and Hauser’s work around primate behaviour form two key pillars of Joyhauser’s inspiration. This interest in psychology provides the conceptual backbone to their debut album, In Memero. Running across 12 tracks, In Memero demonstrates Stijn and Joris’ diverse tastes, from the sonic power of rave and techno, to lower BPMs and broken beats. In Memero will be the backbone to Joyhauser’s forthcoming live show, a further extension of their Intelligence-meets Behaviour ethos.The Belgian top techno duo will be joined on stage by one of Techno music’s Top 10 best-selling artists in 2020 and 2021, and the mind behind a string of number one hits: Space 92. A trailblazing French producer played by the greatest.Space 92 began composing and producing at a very young age. His sound identity is a mix of trancey Techno, distorted percussion and a touch of Acid, in addition to underlying sensitivity and nostalgia - perhaps influenced by his passion for vintage 80s Sci-Fi.

Amber Broos is a young DJ from Belgium with a true passion for music. With her own monthly show on Tomorrowland’s official radio station One World Radio and as a resident for the Belgian leading radio Studio Brussel she makes her audience forget that she is only twenty years old. Her style is unique: a combination of house, club, and techno masterfully mixed and attuned to the audience.

Since his first release in 2015, Kevin De Vries has been on an astronomical ascent, carving out a niche for show-stopping, hybrid techno.When a Kevin De Vries track shakes the room, time seems to pause, hang in the air and come crashing back down with unmistakable drama. His music pushes soundsystems to their limit, at once drawing on the power of techno and the euphoria of trance in a way unique to De Vries.Kevin’s DJ sets translate the singular energy of his own music into extended journeys from cutting-edge sounds to 90s classics and back again. He has quickly become an in-demand DJ worldwide, consistently delivering stand-out performances for huge festivals and intimate clubs alike, as well as pushing his boundaries with back-to-back sets.As this young artist continues to develop, collaborate and innovate, no creative stones will be left unturned.

BOYS NOIZE (Alex Ridha) builds worlds, then builds bridges between them. Propelled by an infatuation with sonic invention and a prescience for subculture, the German-Iraqi artist, DJ and producer has developed a peerless practice that is both deeply informed by electronic music history and determinedly transcending conventions.As an international festival headliner and A-list producer, BOYS NOIZE embodies the transformation and expansion of 21st century techno, house and electro into the current zeitgeist, and he has the GRAMMY win to prove it. Yet as a Berliner and lifelong DJ, he remains dedicated to the underground, regularly flexing the decks at techno meccas and experimenting through a multiplicity of multi-genre aliases.Some fans find BOYS NOIZE through his productions for A$AP ROCKY, TOMMY CASH and FRANK OCEAN, or his film scores for OLIVER STONE's "Snowden" and Germany's hacker hit "WHO AM I?"; through his house hit "Mvinline" on DEFECTED RECORDS, or his collaborative projects OCTAVE MINDS with CHILLY GONZALES and DOG BLOOD with SKRILLEX, as well as an EP and OFF-WHITE capsule collection with the late designer VIRGIL ABLOH; through his remixes for DAFT PUNK, YEAH YEAH YEAHs and DEPECHE MODE, his features with RICO NASTY, PUSSY RIOT and KELSEY LU, or reworks of SHYGIRL, SEGA BODEGA and SOPHIE; through this year’s blazing run of 140+ bpm techno tracks and remixes, or the massive "Fine Day Anthem" with SKRILLEX.BOYS NOIZE's most important collaboration of all, however, is with the ravers that join him across the globe from basements to warehouses to the main stage. Ridha’s sets open a dialogue between DJ and dancefloor, always unique and always peaking in ecstatic nights and delirious dawns. There are many facets of BOYS NOIZE, but when the exchange of energy and music is alive and in full force, the one you’ll find is the one you make together.

From Amsterdam’s fertile underground to techno temples around the world, KI/KI is at the forefront of a new rave resurrection. Shaped by the time-tried fundamentals of trance, acid and techno, she subtly constructs her own signature: a sound realm that’s fast but dreamlike, futuristic but nostalgic, severe but – at all times – euphoric.Starting out as a resident DJ at queer stronghold Spielraum back in 2018, KI/KI has rapidly evolved into a nightlife bastion of her own. In the past years she’s made a mark with unforgettable all-nighters, curating her own ‘KI/KI invites’ series, upsurging Boiler Room views, and striking dance floors from Berghain to Bassiani, from Awakenings to Pitch Music & ArtsAs an artist, collaboration and community are essential to KI/KI’s craft. While festival stages and warehouses have become her second home, her heart still beats the loudest for the dark and intimate fringes of nightlife. Beyond music, this artistry bleeds into all forms of collaboration; resulting in, among others, her ‘not for sleeping’ project with Amsterdam fashion collective The New Originals.In 2022, KI/KI established the label slash: a platform that unites the buried treasures of her musical heroes, the work of like-minded emerging producers and – not to forget – her own releases. With production taking up a bigger and bigger role in her artistry, KI/KI revealed her first live show in the summer of ’22 as the official closing of Draaimolen Festival.

Meer dan 20 jaar DJ ervaring en nog veel méér pure passie voor muziek.Jeroen Delodder begint op zijn zestiende als party DJ en sinds 2012 is hij op Studio Brussel de DJ, presentator en samensteller van Switch, The Greatest Switch, Studio Ibiza, Playground, The Sound Of Belgium enz.Sinds januari 2023 deelt Jeroen op donderdagavond zijn nieuwe ontdekkingen op StuBru (en houdt hij altijd 20minuten vrij voor Disco Donderdag).Op vrijdag en zaterdag hoor je hem samen met Amber Broos in Untz: the party never stops.Elke derde dinsdag van de maand hoor je Jeroen met een Vinyl Only Session op Kiosk Radio.In juli en augustus praat en mixt Jeroen alle zomerplaten van Camping Belgica aan elkaar en tussendoor gaat hij overal spelen waar ze hem willen: van kleine zomerbars tot grote festivals.Jeroen kan komen knallen met een DJ-set vol club classics, rave anthems, vergeten dancefloorfillers én de nieuwe hits van vandaag en morgen. Van technostamper naar trance anthem, van retro classic naar electro-noize en van drum'n'bass skanker naar house-hit. Jeroen draait de platen van The Greatest Switch gecombineerd met nieuwe nummers die binnen een paar jaar ook zo'n dikke dance classics zijn.Maar net zo goed wordt Jeroen de verrassende DJ-entertainer mét smaak: een all round party DJ-set met pop,hiphop, 80s, party classics, disco, funk en rock. Want ’t gaat om goeie muziek en om dansen, niet om genres.En ook als het wat ingetogener mag … als het gaat om sfeer & mood & vibe, dan komt Jeroens jarenlange ervaring in combo met die duizenden nachten vol muziek-diggen helemaal tot zijn recht: Jeroen selecteert voor jou en jouw moment het beste en meest passende uit zijn grote, unieke en gevarieerde muziekcollectie.Jeroen sluit sinds 2014 elk jaar de slotdag af van Extrema Outdoor, draaide op alle The Greatest Switch parties van de voorbije jaren, speelde meermaals in Kompass en in Fuse, stond meer dan een paar keer op Rock Werchter en op Ostend Beach, deed een bevroren set boven op de berg tijdens Tomorrowland Winter én natgezwete set op Tomorrowland op die heetste dag uit Belgische geschiedenis, hij draaide op Music For Life, WeCanDance en deed die geschifte 24u non stop (!) DJ-set op Studio Brussel.Jeroen is de vaste DJ van de Belgische Surfkampioenschappen en draaide in 2019 ook op alle zes de FlandersClassics wielerwedstrijden - want dansen is ook sport.Jeroen was de DJ op hét A-list BV-huwelijk van 2019 en jawel: hij doet dus ook trouwfeesten :)

shoplifter is a name on the rise in the electronic music scene, creating her own distinct blend of UK club, bass-driven beats, dubby rhythms and breakbeat influences. Whether this intersection of genres is played for dance floors or on the airwaves, shoplifter’s magnetic presence and eclectic taste in music leave a mark on everyone who experiences their genre-bending sets.

Otis is the founder of Slagwerk, a Brussels-based label notorious for their parties, bringing together the ever-surprising stretches of contemporary music – its history includes James Ferraro, Amnesia Scanner, Crystallmess, Oli XL, Varg2™, Sky h1 and Vegyn. – and a delight in the many faces of club, never disconnected from the families it fosters. That partying is not something one should take lightly, understands Slagwerk like no other, showing that only in its experimental and dynamic embrace one can escape both nightlife’s over-intellectualizing and too- trivializing impulses. At Slagwerk, and so too in Otis’ continuous escapades as a DJ, the trivial is never just banal, the poppy never just popular, but the cutting-edge never turns pose either. In Otis’ sets, rigid conceptions of music are left aside, cul-de-sacs explored conditionally through humor, affect and instinct alike. Staying true to the thrill and shuffled spirit of online musical discovery, sound and songs connect and disconnect, flow and disrupt, genres are exploited and transgressed, melody seduced and swept. Having had the opportunity to play Boiler Room, Dekmantel Festival, Dour Festival (BE), Bossa Nova (NYC), C12 (Brussels), Garage Noord, De School (Amsterdam), La Station (Paris), PTX (Athens), Macao (Milan), Trauma Bar (Berlin), Creepy Teepee Festival (CZ) etc, supporting the likes of Yves Tumor, Eartheater, Oklou, Bladee and Swan Meat and appear on radio platforms including The Lot Radio (NYC), NTS Radio (London), Rinse France (Paris), Otis’ sets each seem an inspired and heterogeneous take on that sublime desire to simultaneously keep up and let go.

Meg10 is one of the most compelling DJs to come out of Berlin. Her political outspokenness and love for Y2K Hip Hop & RnB are key components to her sonic ID. With her genre-bending sound that combines elements of Rap & Electronic Music, as well as her feminist endeavors to foster a more female and queer inclusive club scene, Meg10 has been shaking up Germany for the last 5 years.As the founder of Germany’s most talked about femme focused club night Hoe_mies, Meg10 has helped bring about a whole new generation of female and gender minority DJs and pioneered awareness in the Berlin club space. Pulling together a broad spectrum of genres from Hip Hop, Dancehall & Afrobeats to House, Electro and Techno, Hoe_mies is still overhitting capacity since its inception in 2017 and empowers its community to take up space in male domains.Meg10’s unique sets boasting with bass, femme energy, and explicit lyrics to lip sync to as well as her know-how for curatingblockbuster line-ups not only garnered her features in press outlets, including Vogue Germany, High Snobiety, and VICE but also invitations to curate stages at acclaimed festivals such as Fusion, Splash!, Melt and many more.

MALUGI, the vibrant force blending glitzy pop, trance, house, and Eurodance in Berlin's clubs. A DJ and producer exuding charisma, igniting joy on dancefloors whether solo or B2B with Marlon Hoffstadt. Touring Europe and Australia in 2023, captivating crowds from Munich's Blitz to London's The Cause.At home, MALUGI's a MELT regular and hosts Club Heart Broken at Watergate, injecting color into Berlin's techno-heavy scene. Unapologetically zany, his tracks like 'Reach Out' and 'Take It Back' hit BBC Radio One, endorsed by DJs from Gerd Janson to Tiesto.Introduced to dance music in Ibiza as a child, mentored by Blank & Jones, MALUGI's journey from Cologne to Berlin shaped his eclectic taste. After collaborating with Marlon Hoffstadt, the duo launched their first label and party series in Berlin, leading to the establishment of Club Heart Broken in 2017.

Blck Mamba, a Brussels based artist of Nigerian descent, strives to bring a new vibe to nightlife with a mix of the latest club music, think UK funky, amapiano, afro house, kuduro, baltimore, hard drum, baile funk,...

“None of this works if I do it alone…” Creating harmony within music is often not simply the result of a technique or knack. For the acts that deliver it with devastating, affecting power, harmony is a way of being, a kind of thinking and an understanding that unites and strengthens a number of different artistic visions behind one goal.Harmonies certainly seem to be a keystone of the five-piece KAWALA. While that is most clearly demonstrated by the vocal union between singer Jim Higson and guitarist-singer Daniel McCarthy that sits at the heart of the group, harmony on many different levels is what has allowed KAWALA to resonate with people.

Ada Oda, een nieuwkomer in de Brusselse scène, levert binaire en up-tempo rock die post-punk van de jaren tachtig combineert met de grote melodische vluchten van de Italiaanse variëteit. Het project, dat in 2020 tijdens de eerste lockdown werd opgestart door César Laloux (The Tellers, BRNS, Italian Boyfriend), kreeg al snel gezelschap van Victoria Barracato, die opvalt door haar heldere vocals en Siciliaanse afkomst. Door opzettelijk eenvoudige muziek te maken pakt César het thema van de liefde met lichtheid op. Op het podium en in de studio wordt het duo omringd door Clément Marion op bas (David Numwami, Judith Kiddo), en Alex De Bueger (Alaska Gold Rush, Gros Coeur) en Aurélien Gainetdinoff (San Malo, Yolande Bashing) op gitaar. 

Baby Queen has seen some shit. Since she moved to London from South Africa aged 18, the musician (real name Bella Latham) has lived in boats on Regents Canal, gotten messy at raucous house parties, and spent a lot of time looking out into the city with a sense of sharp-edged cynicism. For much of her teenage years and early twenties, she used all of this to write alternative pop songs that transformed her into her genre’s reigning star; a fiery totem for a generation falling out of love with social media, the pressures of adhering to an “ideal” body image, and adult responsibilities. But now, Baby Queen finds herself growing up too, learning how to grapple with the realities of leaving angst and adolescence behind. She’s not quite ready to fully let go, though: “I want to be a reprobate again,” she says.As the musician enters a new era, having spent the best part of the 2020s taking over London’s anarchic pop scene, she’s leaning into that feral mood to make new art. At the same time, she’s discovering the more grounded and introspective side of herself too, leading to the creation of some of the most pure, excellent and affecting music of her life so far. Blending her pop hook tendencies with the punkish aggression she’s made her own, her new single “Dream Girl” is the perfect, compromise-free meeting of these two sides of herself. An achingly honest song, it chronicles a kind of unrequited love she felt for a woman who was in a relationship with a man. She wrote it a few years ago – lovelorn and pining for someone out of reach – on the same trip that inspired The Yearbook single “Dover Beach”. But back then, she didn’t feel ready to release it. “I actually had, like, heart palpitations over it,” Baby Queen says. For one, such an open expression of sapphic love felt dangerous; but it was also an unabashed pop song, antithetical to the sound she was trying to put forth. Now though, she’s learned that leaning into either of these sides of herself doesn't have to be a personal betrayal. “When I first started making music, I was like, ‘No one can know that I'm bisexual. I have to keep it a secret’.” She shrugs. “I just don’t give a fuck anymore.”It’s a personal progression that ties in perfectly with a moment that marked a new movement in Baby Queen’s career. In the early summer of 2022 – just before she joined pop behemoth Olivia Rodrigo on her UK tour – a Netflix show named Heartstopper had an unexpected break-out moment. A queer TV series based on the blossoming relationship between two high school boys in England, it became a global hit. To date, it’s racked up over 53 million watch hours; two more seasons are on the way, the next one dropping in August. But Baby Queen was there when it was a modest prospect for the streaming giant. “I remember being invited into their offices to watch the first three episodes, and they were like, ‘Oh, do you want to make a song for this?’.” She wrote the wistful and romantic track “Colours of You” for the soundtrack, while her own tracks, “Want Me”, “Dover Beach” and “Buzzkill”, were synced for it. “At the time it was so cool, but you have no idea about the size or the weight of what you're signing up to.” No one did really, but it made stars of its cast, and Baby Queen’s fanbase widened, with a new gaggle of queer fans entering her oeuvre. “So many kids said ‘Colours of You’ made them come out to their parents,” she says. “I would never have imagined that for myself. The music means so much to them, you know? They really feel like it's their stories.”There is this deep, introspective burrowing that Baby Queen is doing in pop songs that traditionally don’t warrant it. Big, mind-bendingly good choruses and hooks; euphoric production – the word of an artist in full command of her sound. If the inspirations have shifted somewhat, her output has always remained staunchly Baby Queen. You hear a song and instantly know who made it. It all filters back to a childhood spent seeking refuge in the songs of Taylor Swift. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, Taylor’s music was a refuge from the conservative community around Baby Queen. She began playing guitar and piano, enlightening herself to a life in which she could not only listen to music but make it, and the subsequent lo-fi demos she recorded were sent to local radio stations. She was so dogged and relentless that, when she asked to move to London and stay with her aunt and uncle, her parents accepted. She joined rock bands and made herself a mainstay presence in all the right music circles when she arrived, dropping demos at the doors of major labels and working in Rough Trade. Eventually, she landed a creative collaborator who believed in her message, Ed King. (They still work on everything together today.) They made the songs that would put Baby Queen on the map – she was signed to Polydor in 2020. Songs like “Internet Religion” and “Buzzkill” were her career’s “introductory essay” she called it; part of the Medicine EP that acted as a tonic for the torrid state of the world we are all forced to live in. But by shaking off all that bullshit, she found beneath it a person willing to speak more openly about how she felt. The Yearbook mixtape, released in 2021, did just that: her version of an American coming-of-age movie in sonic form. But time passes, and from it, new ideas bloom. In the process of making the music she’s creating right now, she’s learned things. “I had to grow up to write this all out,” Baby Queen says. Now, she’s ready for you to hear it. 

South-Yorkshire indie heroes The Reytons are hitting 2024 with the momentum of a runaway freight train filled with red flares, northern charm and working-class grit. After claiming a number one album last year with 'What's Rock And Roll?' and selling out a HUGE headline show at Sheffield Arena, The Reytons are back to do it all again with third album 'Ballad Of A Bystander' and a 20,000 ticket Rotherham hometown gig respectively. Expect raucous sing-a-long indie hits and a crowd with all the energy of a last minute World Cup winner.

Four years on from the release of their unexpectedly self-assured debut album, NYC based Nation of Language have attracted a rapidly growing international audience via their danceable and impassioned take on new wave, post-punk & shoegaze genres. Following the critical acclaim of their first LP Introduction, Presence, its 2021 follow-up A Way Forward pushed them to a wider audience—landing them their late-night TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a string of sold out tours—and their 2023 record Strange Disciple has continued this momentum, landing Rough Trade’s coveted #1 album of the year spot. Now a mainstay atop lists of the best live acts of recent years, the band continue to charge synth-first into their latest chapter as a major festival draw at recent iterations of Austin City Limits Festival, Desert Daze, Pitchfork Festival, Primavera Sound, Corona Capital, Outside Lands, Bonnaroo and many others.

Al meer dan 20 jaar dwaalt kempenzoon Eppo Janssen professioneel door muzikale velden als radiomaker (Janssen&Janssen op Willy en Duyster op Studio Brussel), muzikant, dj, (Pukkelpop) progammator, …Die veelzijdigheid hoor je terug in zijn dj-sets. Eppo gaat swingend, fantasierijk en uitdagend door de muziekgeschiedenis: van indierock en pop over r&b en hiphop tot de laatste toffe dance platen. Enfin, Eppo Janssen rijmt niet toevallig op keihard dansen.Speelde eerder op: Best Kept Secret Festival, Pukkelpop, Lokerse Feesten, Hindu Nights, Dour, Graspop, ...

Confidence Man are unarguably one of the hottest acts on the planet right now. A portable party that’s levelled dance floors and flattened festival crowds as it’s rolled out across the world, their performances are custom designed to make you dance and lose your cool.Parading within a brand of dance pop that sounds like Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder gleefully discovering house music via Dee-lite, there’s no question that Confidence Man will make you turn it up. Go ahead, feel yourself. It’s ok. Confidence Man have given you that. It’s in the name, after all.

S10, also known as Stien den Hollander, is a Dutch singer, rapper and songwriter.At just 21 years of age, the artist has made a name for herself as the darling of the Dutch alt-pop scene, winning over critics, amassing a loyal army of fans, and triumphing at prestigious awards ceremonies.In 2016, S10 took it upon herself to write, record and self-release her first mini-album, Antipsychotica. Word of mouth led to the creative talent’s popularity to explode, resulting in a coveted record deal the following year, at the age of 17.With millions of streams to her name, collaborations with some of the Netherlands’ biggest artists and rave reviews from music critics, the headliner from Hoorn continues to forge her own path in the music industry.

Edinburgh-born, London based producer Barry Can’t Swim is one of the fastest growing names in the electronic scene. Making a name for himself for making his own unique brand of world inspired, jazz inflicted electronic music. Classically trained Joshua Mannie is a hotly tipped multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, bass, drums), producer and DJ making heads turn and feet dance on the international club circuit.

Atlanta's Killer Mike is a rapper, actor, and outspoken social activist who frequently addresses subjects such as police brutality and systemic racism through his lyrics, speeches, and interviews. Introduced to the world through his association with OutKast, Mike made his solo debut with the Billboard Top Ten-charting Monster in 2003. He formed his own Grind Time Official imprint and released a series of I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind albums and underground mixtapes while building up his résumé as an actor. His 2012 full-length, R.A.P. Music, was a widely acclaimed breakthrough, and its success led to the formation of Run the Jewels with the album's producer, El-P. Matching politically charged yet wryly humorous lyrics with hard-hitting, experimental production, the duo made a major impact with their raucous live shows and critically praised albums, each of which was more successful than the last, with 2020's RTJ4 hitting the Top Ten of the Billboard 200. Mike also gained media attention as a vocal supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020. Mike's first solo album in over a decade, Michael, appeared in 2023 and garnered the rapper three Grammy awards.Born in Atlanta's Adamsville neighborhood, Michael Render became interested in hip-hop at an early age, and participated in rap battles, going by the name Killer Mike. After graduating from high school, he briefly attended college, where he connected with CeeLo Green of Goodie Mob, as well as the future members of production group the Beat Bullies, who helped bring Mike to the attention of OutKast's Big Boi. Mike was featured on the Stankonia album cut "Snappin' & Trappin'," as well as the playful 2001 hit "The Whole World," which was awarded the 2002 Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. A member of the second generation of the Dungeon Family, Mike appeared on the crew's 2001 album Even in Darkness, and additionally guested on tracks by rappers such as Slimm Calhoun, Jay-Z, and Bone Crusher, as well as a remix of No Doubt's "Hey Baby." Mike's Columbia-issued debut album Monster appeared in 2003, with Big Boi and Sleepy Brown guesting on the hit "A.D.I.D.A.S.," and T.I., Bun B, and Bizarre of D12 also making appearances. Mike was a member of Big Boi's short-lived Purple Ribbon All-Stars, contributing to both of their releases. He released the mixtape The Killer in 2006, before launching his Grind Time Official label with the full-length I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind. Additionally, he began a long-lasting relationship with Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, lending his voice to characters on Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Frisky Dingo.In 2008, Mike released Ghetto Extraordinary, a mixtape which was initially intended to be his second album in 2005, but was delayed due to disputes with Big Boi and Sony. I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II appeared the same year, charting in the Billboard 200, unlike the first volume. Mike presented the 2009 Grind Time Official compilation Underground Atlanta, which featured appearances by Gucci Mane, Soulja Boy, B.o.B, and others. The Flying Lotus-produced "Swimming" was released by Adult Swim in 2010, and the song appeared on 2011's PL3DGE, which appeared on T.I.'s Grand Hustle label. The album featured a greater presence of politically informed lyrics than Mike's previous releases, and he expanded on this with 2012's R.A.P. Music, produced entirely by Definitive Jux founder El-P and issued by the Adult Swim-affiliated Williams Street Records. The album was a major critical success and hit the top half of the Billboard 200, and after the two toured together, they continued their collaboration by forming the duo Run the Jewels. Fool's Gold released RTJ's self-titled debut in 2013, and the album's fearless lyricism and heady production drew similar praise.Run the Jewels 2 was issued by Mass Appeal (co-founded by Nas) in 2014, with Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha, blink-182's Travis Barker, and former Three 6 Mafia rapper Gangsta Boo among its guests. Another major critical success, it was named Album of the Year by Pitchfork, and surfaced on several additional year-end lists. Meow the Jewels, a fan-funded release which remixed Run the Jewels 2 tracks to include the sounds of cats meowing and purring, was issued in 2015. During the same year, Killer Mike declared his support of U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The two recorded a series of video interviews, and Mike introduced Sanders and delivered speeches at rallies; Sanders additionally introduced RTJ during their 2016 appearance at Coachella. Run the Jewels 3 was self-issued by the duo, originally appearing digitally on the day before Christmas in 2016, ahead of its physical release in early 2017. Kamasi Washington, Danny Brown, and Trina were among its guest stars, and the album topped Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.Killer Mike made appearances in the film Baby Driver and the animated series South Park in 2017. He filmed a documentary series titled Trigger Warning with Killer Mike, which premiered in early 2019. RTJ appeared on tracks by DJ Shadow, Danny Brown, Lorde, and others. RTJ4 was released in June of 2020, two days earlier than originally announced, amidst ongoing protests against police brutality, a subject addressed by the album's lyrics. Guests included Pharrell Williams, Mavis Staples, 2 Chainz, and DJ Premier. RTJ4 debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200, and was named Album of the Year by NME, among numerous other accolades. In 2022, Killer Mike released "Run" (featuring Young Thug), his first top-billed single in ten years. The album Michael appeared in 2023, with El-P and thankugoodsir featured on the single "Don't Let the Devil." Michael won Best Rap Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, while the track "Scientists & Engineers" (featuring André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane) won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.~ Paul Simpson, Rovi

STIKSTOF is het geesteskind van Jazz, Zwangere Guy en Astrofisiks, live begeleid door Dj Vega. Sinds 2010 geven ze een gezicht aan de Brusselse rap-scène en brengen ze hun lyrics van de pleintjes naar de huiskamer. Hun raps zijn een vergrootglas voor hún leven, hún generatie en hún Brussel. Na drie platen in eigen beheer “Stikstof” ,“/02” en ‘Overlast’ zetten ze in 2021 hun volgende stap. Ze brachten op 1 oktober hun ‘de album FAMILIE BOVEN ALLES uit bij het label Top Notch/Universal. Dit album ademt uit als zijn poriën nog steeds de g(r)ootstad: rauw, onaf, grimmig maar evenzeer tongue-in-cheek, sardonisch en met een charmante hang naar surrealisme. Van de underground naar de Grote Markt en terug. Wie niet mee is, heeft pech!

Wisp is a 19-year-old Shoegaze artist originally from San Francisco. Inspired by the likes of Whirr and Deftones, she has released four singles — the first of which, 'Your face,' having now generated over 57m streams on Spotify since it’s April release. Proficient at numerous instruments including violin, guitar, and piano, Wisp has quickly become the fastest growing Shoegaze artist in the streaming era and was recently named a Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music Artist to Watch in the year ahead. Her debut EP, Pandora, was released April of this year — which has come out in conjunction with her debut headline tour in the US.

Jazz Brak maakt sinds het begin deel uit van de Brusselse hip hop groep STIKSTOF. Samen met Zwangere Guy, Astrofisiks en DJ Vega plaveien zij sinds 2010 gestaag de weg naar boven met klassiekers en bangers. Als Brusselaar toont Jasper De Ridder solo een inkijk in zijn persoonlijke leven en zoekt hij de juiste woorden om de haat-liefdesverhouding met de hoofdstad te beschrijven.

“Leeds’ music scene is the best in the world”, Lily Fontaine, English Teacher’s vocalist, guitarist, and synthesist declares without a blink of hesitation. Doug Frost, drummer, helpfully elaborates: “Even though it’s really small, there’s a huge jazz scene, there’s a huge classical scene, a big folk scene, a lot of techno. It’s got everything.” Lead Guitarist Lewis Whitling chips in too: “It’s so compact as well! There’s lots of music venues in a small space.”  “It’s a very incestuous scene,”, Lily, one-time moonlighter for fellow West Yorkshire band Eades concludes, “but that’s why it’s such a good place.”Contemporaries at Leeds College of Music (now Leeds Conservatoire) who mingled at various house parties as students,  English Teacher’s four working parts - completed by bassist Nicholas Eden - had each been tinkering on their own various projects before, at last, settling on each other’s talents. Lily, Doug and Nicholas were house-sharing when they invited Lewis for a front-room ‘rehearsal’, and began working on new material post-haste. ”Straight away when Lily asked me to come out and see what it was like, it clicked pretty quickly,” Lewis remembers.The latest post-punk resurgence in the late 2010s - spearheaded by Shame and Fontaines D.C’s, among many others - informed this quartet’s musical impetus The music had to be biting, punkish and direct. It had to fire straight at the quick of the heart, not merely by force, but with a melodic sleight of hand, and an adroit songsmithery. “That’s one point which we all tend to come back to.”, Lewis explains, “To create something that’s interesting, but also a good, catchy song.” “You want people to be able to sing it back to you”, Lily confirms.Independently releasing  a slew of dream-popping singles during lockdown - debut “the World’s Biggest Paving Slab'' remains a feature of their live set - it was upon their signing to Nice Swan Records (Pip Blom, Fur, Courting) where the wheels started picking up pace. A brooding brace of masterful singles in the Spring/Summer of 2021, “R & B” and “Wallace”,  sowed the first seeds of interest among the country’s tastemakers.The strangeness of the Pandemic meant theirs was a swift and unusual rise. How many other Leeds’ bands could say their first ever show was a filmed DIY Big Bank Holiday Weekender in Hackney Wick? “It was a weird first show, going straight to London”, Lewis recounts, “I remember us being in absolute silence in the taxi. It was a 20 minute taxi, we didn’t even breathe.” “I was gonna throw up”, says Lily, “someone pulled us for an interview for Sky News afterwards.”Building on this early success, the group spent a week bunkered in Eastbourne with producer Theo Verney to track what would become their acclaimed debut EP Polyawkward.  Lighter in mood than the singles preceding it, the 5 song set unloads a treasure trove of songwriting smarts, swirling instrumentals and gunpowder jams, each struck in a sequence of handsomely spun kitchen-sink yarns. There’s the puppeting ebb and flow of the eponymous opener; the waltzing “Mental Maths which purrs like a cut from Arctic Monkeys’ Humbug. EP lead single, “Good Grief” narrates a puckish covid satire starring twin leads “Track” and “Trace”, as they witness far too much pandemic chaos and far too little of each other’s bedrooms. Finally there’s the ‘hangxiety’ chronicles of “A55”, and the soul-burnishing, spoken word of “Yorkshire Tapas. In the live arena, the latter mutates into whirlwinding free-jazz theatre - like a Richard Curtis Rom-Com eloped with the Doors’ Horse Latitudes, and ended up in Harehills.Throughout PolyAwkward, Lily Fontaines’ lyricism remains a focal point: “For me, It’s the part I enjoy”, she notes. “I love music, I did a degree in it! But I always wanted to be a writer, so [the songs] are a nice vessel for me to do creative writing”. Drawing from Orwell’s Dystopian fiction, the social commentaries of John Cooper Clark and Alex Turner, and the comic writing of Phoebe Waller Bridge and Rob Auton, her lyrics weave the personal with the political, the poignant with the pretty, the humorous with the heavy. Gleaning spirited praise from across the indie press’ blogs and ‘zines, the EP’s launch dragged a whole host of  noteworthy achievements in its wake.  A 3rd place in Glastonbury Rising competition earning them a bucket list slot on the Worthy Farm billing. (“I Cried on stage!” Lily confesses) Support slots for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Parquet Courts and Yard Act accompanied appearances at Green Man Festival and sojourns to Europe.And yet, despite these feats, English Teacher’s have their eyes cast firmly on the future. There are new songs to write (“somewhere between Adele, Jockstrap and Fontaines D.C is what we’re tryna do”) and more heady dreams to chase: “I really wanna do Jools Holland.” Lily beams,” Then my Mum will be proud.”

Since emerging in 2015, Sextile have been a party-provoking force on the LA underground, capable of kicking up a riot with the raw-edged squall of a synth or the sharp-elbowed jerk of a guitar. Originally formed by Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto after the pair relocated from New York to LA, Sextile released their debut album A Thousand Hands in 2015, with its Grand Canyon-sized echoes, haunted screams, and post-punk invocations, before pushing synths further down the front with 2017 effort Albeit Living. Sextile’s taste for electronics matured on the throbbing EBM-meets-industrial pick-me-up of 2018’s 3 EP, cut from an analogue stash that included their trusted Korg MS-10 and LinnDrum, but the band put things on ice shortly after its release. Sextile guitarist, synth player, and original member Eddie Wuebben, who joined Sextile in 2015, tragically passed away in October 2019. Cameron Michel later re-joined on guitar and synths. Separately, they each turned their focus to other projects, with Scaduto on S. Product, Keehn on Panther Modern, and Michel as a visual artist. In 2022, the group reconnected and dropped their first new material in three years via the split single “Modern Weekend / Contortion” and “Crassy Mel”. 

Deeply informed by both the imaginative sound waves of the cosmos as well as the earthly musical culture of Japan, Mount Matsu is the reflection of a chaotic environment of influences slowly coming into focus. Infectious, strangely harmonious and highly energetic, the record is also the first by the band that came into being as the result of a truly democratic process among four befriended musicians. Mount Matsu is bound to do well in end of year lists for anyone into warm and tapey sounding psychedelic disco, fat global funk, electronics and tribal experimentsHailing from Holland’s southernmost city of Maastricht, Yīn Yīn entered the scene back in 2019 with the Thai psychrock influenced album The Rabbit that Hunts Tigers, which was followed up in 2022 with the more spiritual and cosmic sounding The Age of Aquarius. Mount Matsu finds the band - who now live and record in a nearby Belgian countryside home and studio - somewhere in between the two first albums as their sound has gradually shifted towards instrumental traditional music of Sōkyoku, and a hint of citypop, but in their own unique way.Sticking to pentatonic scales, the band’s largely instrumental sound - created with a unique set of instruments including vintage synthesizers and a traditional Chinese string instrument, the guzheng - features big jumps between notes with melodies that are easy to love as they draw the listener into unfamiliar territories. The songs on Mount Matsu have - for the first time in Yīn Yīn’s lifetime - been co-created by all members of the band. “Art and ideas are personal and precious and the process of doing this truly together has been about more than just making an album, it was also a study of how collectives work,” notes Remy, Yīn Yīn’s bass player since day one. “It’s sometimes hard, seeing your own artistic ideas challenged being part of a group, but we’re very proud of the result. When you truly co-create, literally every sound on a record has been tested and thought through. We have decided to only use vocals sparsely, which leaves plenty of room for the listener’s imagination: you can really let your fantasy run wild as you listen and dance to it. The process of creation felt like the tedious but very satisfying ascent of a mountain, hence the title of the record: Mount Matsu.

Berre Vandenbussche (23 years old) started recording covers of his favorite artists in his garage and a parking lot near his parents’ house. His touching interpretations of well-loved songs soon got him noticed and when he posted a version of ‘Lost Without You’ (Freya Ridings) on TikTok, the video went viral reaching over almost 10 million views.Berre released his first single ‘Say My Name’ in May 2022. Which was an instant hit. He soon got to play on stages he used to dream of at festivals, national and international radio and TV stations. ‘Say my name’ became Berre’s first song to reach platinum in Belgium while both ‘Better off alone’ and ‘Thrill of it all’ became gold! More music to come for sure…

Singer-Songrapper Snelle (Lars Bos) kreeg in 2019 nationale bekendheid met zijn hit ‘Reünie’. Op 24 oktober 2019, ter ere van Snelle’s vierentwintigste verjaardag, verscheen zijn album ‘Vierentwintig’, dat binnen 24 uur Goud werd.In 2020 zette het grote succes door: met het liedje ‘Smoorverliefd’ maakte Snelle jongeren bewust van de gevaren van het gebruiken van je telefoon op de fiets. Op deze #1 hit volgde gelijk de volgende: ’17 Miljoen Mensen’ met Davina Michelle. Hierna volgden de nummers ‘Kleur’, ‘De Overkant’ met Suzan & Freek, ‘In De Schuur’ met Ronnie Flex en ‘Papa Heeft Weer Wat Gelezen’ met Thomas Acda. Deze songs zijn tevens te vinden op Snelle’s EP ‘Sebastiaan’.Met al deze pakkende muziek werd Snelle in 2020 tot Spotify’s meest gestreamde artiest in Nederland bekroond. Ook in 2021 zette Snelle mooie stappen: hij won een Top 40 Award voor Beste Artiest en ontving een Edison nominatie in de categorie Pop. Zijn album ‘Lars’ kwam binnen op #1 in diverse hitlijsten en hij scoorde de monsterhit ‘Blijven Slapen’ met Maan, waarvoor ze later een Top 40 Award en een Edison Award wonnen.Dan was er ook nog de documentaire ‘Zonder Jas Naar Buiten’ op Netflix. In 2022 stond Snelle driemaal voor een uitverkocht AFAS Live in Amsterdam en rondde hij zijn uitverkochte theatertour ‘FF Tussen Ons’ af. Hij trok met zijn Lieve Jongens band door Nederland en België met zijn ‘Tot Nu Toe(r)’ en was hij wekelijks te zien als presentator bij het SBS6-programma ‘I Want Your Song’.

Flogging Molly is Dave King (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhran), Bridget Regan (violin, tin whistle, vocals), Dennis Casey (guitar, vocals), Matt Hensley (accordion, concertina, vocals), Nathen Maxwell (bass guitar, vocals), Spencer Swain (mandolin, banjo, guitar, vocals), and Mike Alonso (drums,percussion).Starting out as the house band for Molly Malone’s in Los Angeles and building a loyal following through endless touring, Flogging Molly has become a staple in the punk scene over the past 20-plus years, kicking off with their riotous debut album, Swagger, and continuing through their six additional studio albums.Flogging Molly’s most recent album Anthem arrived in September 2022 via Rise Records and saw the band reunite with legendary engineer Steve Albini (who worked with Flogging Molly on their first two albums Swagger and Drunken Lullabies). Brooklyn Vegan said Anthem is “a ripper,” New Noise said Anthem “easily satisfies expectations the Celtic-inspired punks have built over a decades-long career,” and American Songwriter triumphantly declared, “Flogging Molly is back.” The band released four videos in support of Anthem, including the timely track and clip for “A Song of Liberty,” penned by King as a recounting of a dark period in Irish history but made all the more relevant with events in Ukraine. The Mad Twins, Ukrainian animators/filmmakers, created the stirring video.In March 2023 the band released a new, three-song,‘Til The Anarchy’s Restored EP(Rise Records), featuring the previously unreleased title track and one-take performances of the band’s classic songs:“Drunken Lullabies” and “What’s Left of the Flag,”. Recent touring has brought Flogging Molly to historic locations including Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater, and the band’s annual St. Patrick’s Day outing at the Hollywood Palladium (which sold out) as well as recent performances at European festivals Rock Am Ring, Rock Im Park, Hellfest, and both Slam Dunk Festivals. The band’s annual Salty Dog Cruise sold out 3 years in a row, with the recently announced 2024 edition selling out within one week. The band recently announced Shamrock Rebellion, the band’s own St patricks Day Festival in Orange County CA and Las Vegas, as well as the Road To Rebellion US tour, which features Amigo The Devil and Gen And The Degenerates.

Goldband was in 2022 zonder twijfel dé post-corona sensatie op de festivals. De karakteristiek Haagse popgroep bestaande uit Milo Driessen, Karel Gerlach en De Het Boaz laat zich niet makkelijk in een hokje plaatsen en veroverde sinds hun eerste releases in 2019 gestaag de harten van Nederlandse en Belgische fans. Met een uiteenlopend palet aan genres en een ijzersterke liveshow heeft Goldband laten zien dat je volledig op eigen kracht je dromen waar kan maken, of je nou stukadoor, zolderkamer producer of toneelschool drop-out bent. Met het uit 2021 daterende debuutalbum Betaalbare Romantiek verkocht de act binnen no-time alle zalen in de lage landen uit en speelde het in de zomer van 2022 op de grote podia van onder andere Lowlands, Rock Werchter en Tomorrowland. De vervolgens voor 2023 aangekondigde shows in AFAS Live en Lotto Arena - respectievelijk drie en twee keer - verkochten binnen luttele minuten uit. 3voor12 bekroonde hun Lowlands optreden tot de beste festival show van het jaar en in hetzelfde jaar namen ze de MTV award voor Best Dutch Act én twee 3FM awards mee naar huis. Het live succes zorgde ervoor dat in 2022 een nog groter publiek kennis maakte met de Haagse ex-stukadoors, waardoor zowel het album als hun single Noodgeval een jaar na dato alsnog de top 10 van de hitlijsten bereikte. In 2023 volgden 3 Edisons en won Goldband, als kroon op de nog jonge carrière, de Nederlandse Popprijs.

Charlotte de Witte’s a Belgian born DJ whose surge on the scene has resulted in her being one of the most sought-after names in electronic music today.Highlight performances across the continents, Mixmag & DJ Mag covers, high-ranking positions in the charts & lists, and owner of one of the strongest social media profiles in music today, confirm her status as nouveaux techno royalty.

Wie houdt van onverwachte muzikale samenwerkingen en een verrassende twist in de line-up, dagdroomt met een glimlach over de Marquee. Denk André Brasseur, denk Jef Neve met zijn Marquee Ouvertures, denk Willy Sommers samen met Mauro Pawlowski & De Kempenzonen en uiteraard vorig jaar, de passage van Tarkastaja a.k.a. Clouseau. Hun glorieuze doortocht zindert zelfs nu nog steeds na in Kiewit.Deze keer pakt Pukkelpop uit met The Atomic Orchestra; een symfonisch orkest dat bekende nummers van verschillende Pukkelpopartiesten brengt. Performers en playlist blijven nog even in de binnenzak van de chef d'orchestre zitten, maar zelfs op papier klinkt The Atomic Orchestra als een klok. Tweeëntwintig strijkers, zes koperblazers, zes houtblazers, twee French horns, twee backings vocals, twee slagwerkers, een harp, een gitaar, een piano, een bas, een drum, een dirigent en een -voorlopig nog- nobele onbekende. En wie weet … ben jij dat wel!Ben jij een muzikaal geval of (be)speel je een apart muziekinstrument; doedelzak, duduk, stylophone, handpan, nyckelharpa of iets anders? Misschien kan je op je vingers het alfabet fluiten of ben je nog altijd ongeëvenaard op de percussieset die in de kleuterklas stond? Kent ‘Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares’ geen geheimen voor jou, krijg je de vreemdste geluiden uit de regenstok die je kocht op wereldreis, ben je goed op de gong of doe je crazy shit op klaves?  Ga dan samen met The Atomic Orchestra voor your moment de gloire op Pukkelpop!  Voor meer info, check deze pagina en wie weet tot ziens op zaterdag 17 augustus! En alvast een ferme paukenslag voor onze vrienden van Studio Brussel!  

Grandson molds genres, sculpting rock, hip-hop, and electronic into a vision of alternative you’ve never quite heard, seen, or felt before. Having amassed a staggering 1 billion streams and counting, the platinum-certified Canadian / American maverick flouts boundaries only to achieve stylistic unity with alacrity. He infiltrated culture as a sonic insurgent with a pair of EPs—a modern tragedy Vol. 1-2—and the 2x platinum single “Blood // Water.” In 2020, he continued to engage with his epically enigmatic full-length debut, Death of An Optimist. He’s the rare outlier who can appear with Senator Bernie Sanders on a livestream and contribute two songs to James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, namely “Oh No!!!” [with VIC MENSA & Masked Wolf] and “Rain” [with Jessie Reyez]—also remixed by star Idris Elba. Meanwhile, he’s impressively collaborated with everyone from Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Steve Aoki to Travis Barker, Kesha, K. Flay, X Ambassadors, Whethan, Two Feet, and DE’WAYNE, to name a few. Speaking of high-powered collabs, he impressively joined forces with Tom Morello for “Hold The Line” and performed the latter on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with the legendary guitarist. In addition, he has incited the applause of Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard and many more.

Four times BRIT nominated, RAYE is one of the most streamed artists in the world with over 3 billion streams of her music. In the UK she has a double-platinum, five platinum, four gold and four silver singles to her name, plus multiple international accreditations. She is also indisputably one of the UK's premier songwriters. Her songs have amassed over 3.5 billion streams, having written for some of the world’s biggest artists including: John Legend, Ellie Goulding, Khalid, David Guetta, Diplo, and Beyonce. In 2019 she was awarded The BMI Impact Award in recognition of her 'ground-breaking artistry, creative vision and impact on the future of music, in 2022 she was nominated for the Ivors Songwriter of the year and 2023 nominated for Best Contemporary Song. RAYE's highly anticipated new album 'My 21st Century Blues' is a deeply personal 13-song body of work – touching on everything from RAYE’s painful experiences in the music industry to sexual abuse, rape, body dysmorphia, addiction, misogyny, and even climate change. It's RAYE on her own terms. These are songs made by RAYE for RAYE, but inspire anyone who has faced and overcome adversity. The success surrounding RAYE’s return to music in 2022 is exponential. "Escapism." catapulted to viral TikTok fame last month with over 700 million cumulative streams and 30 million monthly Spotify listeners. The huge UK No.1 single is rapidly turning into a global smash, hitting the Top 10 in Australia, Norway, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands, whilst in the USA it is just outside the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Sonny Moore aka Skrillex is a record producer, DJ, musician, singer and songwriter hailing from Los Angeles who has won 8 Grammy Awards, been named MTV’s Electronic Dance Music Artist of the Year, and holds the record for most Grammys won by an electronic artist. He’s headlined arenas and festivals globally and graced the covers of magazine heavyweights like Rolling Stone and Wired. His recent travels have led to him collaborating with some of the most forward-thinking and avante garde voices in music such as Fred again.., Four Tet, Bladee, Yung Lean, Missy Elliot, Kid Cudi, Chief Keef, & countless others. In February of 2023, Skrillex, Fred again.., & Four Tet decided to do a week long New York City takeover leading up to the release of Skrillex’s highly anticipated sophomore album Quest For Fire. The trio played a series of surprise pop up raves across the city where tickets and location weren’t announced until the day of show. Their first pop up took place on Valentine’s Day at Good Room followed by a larger party two days later at Le Poisson Rouge where Skrillex would release Quest For Fire while performing. The trio then played a massive live set in the middle of Times Square for The Lot Radio broadcasted from a school bus turned sound system the following day. Skrillex would wrap up this historical week by announcing an additional surprise pop-up, this time taking place inside New York City's legendary Madison Square Garden with tickets selling out within minutes of the announcement. The event played out as a 5-hour long rave with Skrillex, Fred again.., and Four Tet DJing from the moment doors opened until close. Skrillex shocked fans by dropping an additional surprise album, Don’t Get Too Close, in the middle of his performance and bootleg CD copies of the project were given out to attendees at the end of the night. This monumental week of performances and releases was referred to as a “masterclass of album rollout” by Billboard magazine and marked the beginning of a new era in Skrillex’s prolific career. Previous work with Jack Ü, his project with Diplo, had their eponymous album reach #1 on the US Dance charts with the track “Where Are Ü Now” ft Justin Bieber going 4x platinum. Skrillex linked with Bieber again for the 8x platinum “Sorry”, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. His label, OWSLA, has launched the careers of some of the most powerful names in electronic music including Marshmello, Zedd, Porter Robinson & Mija. He later worked with friend/cult filmmaker Harmony Korine by scoring his critically acclaimed Spring Breakers movie and composed an original track for Pixar’s Wreck It Ralph. He simultaneously penned one of the biggest club hits of the year with A$AP Rocky (Wild For The Night) and dropped his first fashion collaboration with G-Star (it sold out globally in a matter of days). Skrillex took some much needed time off from a never ceasing touring schedule to enjoy some time split between Tokyo and Los Angeles for a creative sabbatical, where his focus was on finishing up a trove of new music. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Skrillex started 2023 on a high note by releasing a series of collaborative singles and selling out pop-up performances across the world while sharing his travels with fans through social media. This captivating run quickly garnered the attention and praise from both his fanbase and press alike. With recent releases such as “Rumble” featuring Fred again.. & Flowdan along with “Xena” featuring Nai Barghouti all receiving positive reception, Skrillex’s new music continues to highlight why the forward-thinking producer remains on top of his genre. His work with Trippie Redd and PinkPantheress on “Way Back” add to his legacy as a genre expanding musician who is never afraid to work outside of his own lane. Skrillex also dropped his first music video of the year alongside DrainGang CEO Bladee showing off his new look on their collaborative single “Real Spring.” He released his sophomore album Quest For Fire on February 17th of 2023 and followed up with an additional surprise album, Don’t Get Too Close, on February 18th which he dropped during his sold out performance at MSG alongside Fred again.. and Four Tet. The trio’s collaborative track “Baby again..”, which became a fan favorite after initially being previewed by Fred again.. during his legendary Boiler Room debut, was officially released on March 17th of 2023 with an accompanying hour long video that was filmed during their pop up rave at MSG. While there is no clear end in sight, one thing that's certain is that Skrillex’s new music continues to elevate the landscape of music towards new heights.