Lineup

Aroh DJ
Born and raised around Brussels, Kontakt Group founder Aroh DJ has spent the last decade shaping the city’s underground as DJ, label-head, and curator. Known for his broad sonic palette, he blends deep archival gems with cutting-edge cuts, navigating the outskirts of Techno, Wave, EBM, and Rave.

His sets are dramatic, obscure, yet always cohesive, transcending BPM boundaries. A key figure in Belgium’s scene, he’s performed at Horst, Pukkelpop, Fuse, Gay Haze, Doel, Paradise City, and more. With recent appearances at Nitsa, Mihn Club, Garage Noord, and Left Bank, Aroh continues to export Brussels’ underground spirit internationally.

Maraschino
Maraschino is a night lover and sound seeker, channeling raw energy into sets that weave heavyweight breaks, deep bass, and driving techno with constant forward momentum. From gritty electro to percussive booty beats, she builds tension and release, locking the floor into motion.

Her instinct for dancefloor electricity was sparked early by her mom blasting La Rocca classics, shaping a lifelong passion for high-energy club sounds. Dedicated to inclusivity, she founded HER Collective, a platform championing FLINTA× talent and creating a vibrant community where underrepresented voices thrive.

Azu Tiwaline is a Tunisian artist weaving Saharan rhythms, dub’s spatial depth, and techno’s kinetic drive into spellbinding sound worlds. Rooted in her heritage and the freeing spirit of soundsystem psychedelia, her music transforms inner realms into ecstatic dance and meditative connection.

With acclaimed releases on IOT Records and Livity Sound, and appearances at Dimensions, Freerotation, and Unsound, she has become a singular force in contemporary electronic music—crafting immersive, rhythmic universes that celebrate nature, transcendence, and the beauty of human connection.

Hailing from Perth, Burna has emerged as one of Australia’s most exciting electronic artists. Known for electrifying dancefloor anthems and high-energy sets, he’s taken his sound worldwide with performances from Paris to Kuala Lumpur, leaving an unmistakable mark on every stage.

Blending influences from the UK and Latin America, his productions carry a distinct sonic fingerprint, dembow-inspired drums, murky basslines, and a percussive fusion of techno and hard drum.
With acclaimed releases on TraTraTrax, International Chrome, and Ec2a, where his record sold out in just 20 minutes, Burna’s tracks echo across Boiler Room, BBC Radio 1, and festival stages like Coachella and Glastonbury, cementing him as a rising force in global club culture.

Cheyanne Hudson brings together heritage, rhythm, and raw energy — a British-Jamaican/Hong Kong DJ raised in the Netherlands with hip-hop at her core. Her journey has led her to associate with MAD CITY, a promising Dutch collective brewing in the Amsterdam underground.

Whereas Cheyanne’s personality behind the booth is light and breezy, the dark and gloomy sounds she emits tend to seize audiences, drawing them deep into her world. It’s the rich musical legacy of Jamaica’s Sound System culture in which the young artist moves frictionlessly: snappy amen breaks, low-end frequencies and dubby chants form the red thread through her sets. It’s not too hip-hop for the techno kids, nor too techno for the hip-hop kids… it’s just right!

Already getting picked up by Boiler Room, ADE and now Horst Festival, it’s clear as to where she’s headed. Catch her bi-monthly on Gimic Radio and/or your nearest dancefloor.

clïo’s sets revolve around varying percussion, non-conforming rhythms and enthralling sounds, aimed at creating a very energetic atmosphere with surprising elements.

He tends to bring a mix of drum-heavy music such as harddrum, jersey, juke & footwork for their energetic patterns, whilst combining these with infectious clubsounds from a wider spectrum of genres such as electro, trap or IDM, guaranteeing a sweaty dance session. From time to time you can find him tuning the heat down, bringing softer listening sets of ambient, dreampop or experimental halftime stuff.

dBridge is a key figure in electronic music, known for shaping drum and bass as part of Bad Company UK and later evolving into a forward-thinking solo artist.

His music blends deep atmospheres with experimental sound design, always pushing boundaries. As founder of Exit Records, dBridge champions innovative artists and sounds beyond the mainstream.
Respected for both his production and vision, he remains a vital force in modern electronic music.

After the release of their collaborative EP Made In Silence [EXIT097], dBridge and Madison Willing return with This Life, an unreleased project that expands the edges of neo classical soundscapes and ambient dance music.

Their partnership began in 2020 when dBridge came across a mixtape by Willing, written during the stillness of the first lockdown. Despite their different backgrounds, Willing as a classical film composer and dBridge as a pioneering drum and bass producer, they discovered a shared musical sensitivity that grew through long distance collaboration.

This Life merges Willing’s intimate piano writing and confessional diary texts with dBridge’s distinctive beat programming, offering a fresh voice within contemporary classical performance. Created for forward thinking and site specific venues, the project connects underground dance heritage with a new wave of classical experimentation.

Berlin-based artist, DJ Spit emerged in 2018 as an exciting new artist with fast-mixing and multi-genre hybrid sounds, filling a void between bass, amen break, techno and hi-tech futuristic music. This is evidenced by his recent project EXPLORERS, a platform designed to investigate the contemporary music and protagonists of these subgenres in many different formats.

DJ Spit has curated podcasts for Dekmantel, Fabric and Crack Magazine, and his sets and appearances include Resident Advisor, NTS, Rinse FM and a residency at Refuge Worldwide. He has performed at Berghain/Panorama Bar, Waterworks Festival, K41, Dekmantel Selectors, Draaimolen and Pitch Festival; played b2b with heavyweights like VTSS and Sherelle; and produced a session for Boiler Room, among many others. He’ll continue to blaze a trail to the very extremes as a hardcore & rave vein of clubbing music.

Donia is based in Brussels and co-founder of sketchy lines records. As your local dopamine dealer she catches you in the streetlit corner of your soul to stretch genres until they lose their ego so you can just focus on your inner dance.

echofarmer (BE) is the alias of Brussels-based producer and musician Arne Nuyts.
With a sound as suited for the club as for the couch, echofarmer crafts enchanting miniverses.

Hyper-detailed percussion and deep subs fuse with vocal-like synths, acoustic instruments, and found sounds. Combining childlike joy with surgical precision, every live set is infectiously unique—unified by echofarmer’s tactile approach to sound and relentless appetite for experimentation.

From teletubbie hyperjungle to bedroomstep and pillowcore, echofarmer blurs the line between dance floor and blanket fort.

Fairyprincesswithmagicpowers is a Peruvian and Italian performer and artist based in Belgium.
She combines sculpture, scenography, and sound to create immersive narratives that reimagine our relationship with space. DJing is an organic element of her performances, where she blends experimental music, Latin rhythms, and electronic textures.

By weaving together contemporary and ancestral music, sound pollution, ethereal realms, and digital utopias, she aims to create transformative spaces where all entities engage in the game of storytelling... Inviting audiences into a world of hybrid existence… Seeking to step beyond our capitalocenic perspective.

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the main figures in the realm of experimental music and audio art. Over the past forty+ years he has realized hundreds of live performances, projects with environmental recordings, and sound installations in over eighty countries of the six continents. His work has been released by nearly 500 record labels / publishers worldwide.

Hassan Abou Alam (he/him) is one of Egypt’s most influential electronic music exports, active since 2008 and based in Cairo. Known for his bold productions and dynamic performances, he’s released on acclaimed labels including Nerve Collect, Yuku, Rhythm Section, Banoffee Pies, Naive, Nehza and Casa Voyager.

His 2024 EP Mesh Mafhoom made waves worldwide, with standout track “Basha” becoming a festival favorite. Earlier releases Shalfata and Fasla cemented his reputation for a distinctive, unpredictable sound.
His music is championed by leading DJs globally, with Ben UFO inviting him for a Hessle Audio mix, later chosen as Resident Advisor’s “Mix of the Day.” Having recently played CTM, ReWire, Tresor, and festivals across Europe, Hassan continues to expand his international impact with both DJ and live sets.

As resident DJs of Brussels-based collective Nebula, JVDA and Endor channel the project’s eclectic spirit straight to the dancefloor. Their b2b sets are explosive, weaving heavy basslines, wild percussion, and global club influences into high-energy eruptions built to move crowds.

Endor brings the heat with a melting pot of Caribbean, Portuguese, and African sounds, spiced up with electronic and UK bass flavors. JVDA fuels the fire with his fresh, genre-bending approach, blending breaks, Latin club rhythms, and steamy grooves. Together, their b2b sets embody what Nebula stands for: boundary-pushing music, sweaty dancefloors, and a global vision rooted in Brussels’ eclectic nightlife.

Kali Malone (b. 1994) is an American composer and organist based in Stockholm. Her work blends unique tuning systems with minimalist forms for analog and digital synthesis, often combined with acoustic instruments. Her performance at the Cathedral of St. Michael & Saint Gudula features select compositions from her critically acclaimed albums "All Life Long" and "The Sacrificial Code", adapted for the Great Grenzing organ.

Renowned for meditative precision and emotional depth, Malone shapes slowly evolving harmonies and ancient tunings into spaces for deep listening and reflection. Her approach reimagines polyphonic structures and historical tonalities, opening new paths into sound and time.

This performance features Stephen O’Malley in several four-handed organ works, intensifying the immersive sound world with the weight he’s long brought to SUNN O))) and KTL.

Kia is a DJ, curator, and label boss with a gift for weaving atmospheric, psychedelic sounds that create immersive, pulsating worlds. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, she helms Animalia and Cirrus, platforms that champion organic and kaleidoscopic shades of electronic music. Known for her context-driven approach, Kia adapts effortlessly to any moment, from sunrise sets to dark, intimate dancefloors.

Her community-driven ethos fosters a global network of forward-thinking talent, while her celebrated sets—like those at Sustain Release and her award-winning Dekmantel mix—reflect creative honesty and adventurous energy. In 2025, she holds residencies at Berlin's Climate of Fear and New York's Nowadays Club, cementing her place as a rising star in electronic music.

Under the banner invite the producer, HIIIT teams up with a new wave of digital-native creators who build music from laptops and samples. The pioneering percussion ensemble from The Hague—formerly Slagwerk Den Haag—has long crossed classical borders, notably adapting footwork producer Jlin’s work for the concert stage.

Earlier this year, HIIIT released SIIIX Vol. 2 on Brussels label Maloca Records, continuing its series of sonic dialogues with boundary-pushing electronic artists. The ensemble once again opened its vast percussion library, creating a dynamic sample bank for producers like 3Phaz, Zoë Mc Pherson, and Rrose.

To mark the release, Maloca brings the project to Abrupt Festival with a special performance on Bozar’s Terarken stage. Four HIIIT musicians join Rrose and upsammy for an exclusive live set—an adventurous ritual of hypnotic rhythms and organic soundscapes that dissolves the line between electronic and acoustic music.

Niels Orens is an electronic producer blending acoustic and digital textures into deeply human soundscapes.
His latest EP s/low nights (2024) embraces slower tempos, offering space for reflection in a fast-paced scene.
A classically trained composer from Neerlinter with a Brussels residency at Volta, Orens draws on contrasts of calm and chaos, mirrored in tracks like “AM Rinse” and “Underflow.”

Collaborating closely with Max Cooper, he contributed to Unspoken Words and the SEME project, reimagining classical Italian music for stages like the Barbican and Salzburg Easter Festival. His AV Live Show has brought him across Europe, supporting Forest Swords, Rival Consoles, and Gold Panda.

In 2025, he debuts a new live set at AB Club Brussels and appears on Cooper’s upcoming album. With a sound inviting both introspection and movement, Orens continues to expand the possibilities of electronic music.

Approaching his selections with the knowing of an old hand but with the enthusiasm and spark of a newcomer, Oblig has built a solid fan base out of finding common cause between Grime, Drill and Club music, smudging the boundaries and nurturing a hotbed of cross-pollination, subsequently introducing them to new ears and bigger conversations.

That idea of connecting is a central theme in what Oblig does. Famed for his genre merging sets, he’s also keen on collaborating, regularly inviting DJs from a wide span of genres to join forces with.
That combined with his freestyle series on Rinse FM, he has cemented himself as one of the most exciting up and coming DJ’s in the UK.

Joining him for this set is UK MC Logan aka Logan_OLM, famous for collaborations with RHR, INVT, Le Motel & many others.

ojoo is a Brussels-based, Moroccan-born musician, selector and organiser whose work lives where sound, politics and community collide, driven by heavy bass. Part of Psst, an intersectional feminist collective, they co-built the Pssound System, a DIY rig for marginalised genders, an act of resistance made from plywood, wires and community.

Raised on bootleg CDs, ojoo thrives in the spaces between dubplate and distortion, favouring raw blends, concrete rhythms, sirens and silence. They have played Unsound, Out.fest and Dekmantel, underground squat parties, and dub workshops, and curate radio shows on Kiosk Brussels and Noods Bristol.

In 2025 they brought artists including Dali de Saint Paul, Grove, DJ Marcelle, Shackleton and Demdike Stare to Botanique and Listen Festival. Every set is a terrain of political, sonic and personal pressure.

Experience the genre-defying collaboration of Pino Palladino and Blake Mills.

The first a legendary session bassist with a career spanning four decades that has shaped the sound of artists ranging from The Who and D’angelo to John Mayer and Erykah Badu, the latter a visionary Grammy-nominated guitarist known for his innovative work with artist like Fiona Apple, Alabama Shakes and Bob Dylan. Together, they weave soulful grooves, jazz-infused textures, and boundary-pushing improvisation.

Joining them on stage are avant garde saxophonist Sam Gendel and drum virtuoso Chris Dave.
Witness two of the most in-demand musicians at the height of their creative powers.

Rival Consoles has been concurrently in the foreground and background of electronic music since the late 00s; conjuring tense melancholia for Black Mirror soundtracks, playing in front of 10,000 dance fans at Drumsheds, selling out London’s Barbican Hall, and logging an expansive, wandering collection of synth-sculpted albums that explore a myriad different styles and aesthetics—but always with human emotion as their lodestar.

Landscape from Memory, the ninth studio LP from the UK producer and musician born Ryan Lee West, finally blossomed following a frustrating fallow year away from the production desk.

Rrose is the latest incarnation of Seth Horvitz, a California-born, London-based interdisciplinary artist whose 25-year musical history spans academic circles and electronic music culture. Their work explores microtonality, perceptual limits, and machine idiosyncrasies, creating sensual, hallucinogenic techno that challenges mind and body.

Rrose collaborates with luminaries such as Bob Ostertag and Charlemagne Palestine and reinterprets 20th-century composers like James Tenney.

On stage, they perform in shadow, using he and she interchangeably, referencing Marcel Duchamp’s female alter-ego. Since debuting on Sandwell District in 2011 and releasing a string of EPs on Eaux, Rrose’s live and DJ sets have played Berghain, Unsound, Movement, Mutek and beyond, crafting finely woven sonic experiences that continue to shape contemporary techno.

Shackleton is one of the most influential and uncompromising figures in exploratory bass music culture, who with his recent work - including collaborative works with Holy Tongue, Six Organs Of Admittance and Waclaw Zimpel/Siddhartha Belmannu, as well as his ongoing solo activities - has become a genuine polymath operating in and out of the club sphere.

Le Motel
Brussels-based producer, DJ, and Maloca Records founder, Le Motel blends music with visual artistry. His 2015 breakthrough album OKA set the stage for collaborations with Clara!, Bryte, Logan, and Magugu. In 2024, he worked with Flowdan on a Fabric compilation, scored Bottega Veneta’s AW23 show, toured China and Canada, and released new 160bpm footwork-inspired tracks on YUKU. Alongside DJing, he collaborates with AV artist Antoine De Schuyter on a constantly evolving modular live show.

upsammy
Thessa Torsing, aka upsammy, crafts music that balances comfort and desolation, blending crystalline melodies, intricate rhythms, and field recordings. Her DJ sets and live performances traverse experimental DnB, oddball techno, and trippy electronics. A multidisciplinary artist with a background in Image and Media Technology, she explores sound, photography, and video, releasing EPs and albums on Nous’klaer Audio, AD93, Dekmantel, PAN, and topo2, including Wild Chamber (2019) and Strange Meridians (2024).

At Abrupt they team up for their first ever back-to-back set.