Foql + Mala Herba & Rosa Nebel

Polish artist Justyna Banaszczyk crafts heavy, elegant and hypnotic music that stands somewhere between minimal synth, darker and more industrialised fringes of techno and coldwave/post-punk influences. Detaching herself from the occasional boredom of techno, she also employs the best elements of the genre to shape her own unique sound – one that is as danceable as it is sonically adventurous and atmospheric. Wavey synths and analog rhythmic patterns float into dense atmospheric soundscapes or become immersed in lo-fi noise shards or melancholic soundscapes. Her recent LP “Lower Your Expectations” released on Always Human Tapes forefronts these sensibilities. Her association with such labels as Enfant Terrible, Pointless Geometry and New York Haunted also illustrate the vast scope of her activities. She is undoubtedly one of the most exciting names coming from Poland’s darker underground spheres. Justyna is co-founder of Oramics, which is aiming to empower women in the electronic music scene.

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Mala Herba is the solo project of a sound artist and queer music activist Zosia Hołubowska. Based on traditional music, magic and demonology of Eastern Europe, Mala Herba explores queerness and sex-positivity. Powerful, witchy vocals are weaved into hypnotic beats, cold base lines and romantic synthesizer melodies. There’s something gothic and dramatic to it but nevertheless „this“ makes you dance. Sometimes the melody cracks, the voice becomes a magic spell and the song transforms into a noise soundscape. But then the arppegio kicks back in and your bones resonate with the italo-disco inspired bass and rhythm.

Wie der Soundtrack einer dystopischen Graphic Novel: Rosa Nebel dringt in die Ritzen der Bilder eines pochenden Post-Anthropozäns und richtet dabei den Blick in die Gegenwart: existentialistisch, düster, abgeklärt geht ein vehementer Warnruf an das Jetzt. Widerspenstige Funksignale, vermittelt von dunkel ätzenden Minimal-Wave-Synths, insistierendem Free-Techno Puls und der kathartischen Melancholie der Selected Ambient Works. Rosa Nebel übersetzt Punk in Techno und Hedonismus in Aktion.

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DJs:
Marie Cherie (Meat Market)
Inou Ki Endo (Struma + Iodine)