Księżyc (pl)

Księżyc is since their debut album, released in 1996, the best kept secret of Poland. Their music is an update of old Slavic folk music, in which electronic treatements and avant-garde spectralism are merged into songs which display an intense and profane spiritualism. Księżyc are as such the perfect antitode to these consumerist and superfluous times.

Droning folk music has many immediate functions: the celebration of life; to unravel time before us with its duration; to mourn our Earthly losses. Księżyc have emerged from the wilderness as true masters of the art form. — The Quietus

Mark Fell (uk) - Skydancers

Mark Fell (half of IDM outlet SND) focusses on the sonic version of a singularity. He deconstructs rave and electronic music to produce compositions and sound installations which are modernist critiques in themselves. Spatiality, pure sound synthesis and harsh digital noise serve an experience beyond sound itself. On the festival he present the performative installation Skydancers, which is as immersive as silly.

Lino Capra Vaccina (it)

Legendary cult composer and percussionist which created a unique version of American minimalism. With gongs, Tuvan throat singing, and stripped down analogue electronica he composed the revolutionary and meditative album Antico Adagio somewhere deep in the 70ties. He disappeared after this release in the shadows of the music history, until Die Schachtel re-released the album. And now, finally, live on stage in the heart of Europe.

75 Dollar Bill (us)

Rick Brown and Che Chen form one of the most bizarre r'n'b duo's of the Western world. With complex guitar riffs and street musician-style percussion the inject the dead genre with Sun City Girls-like jams and polyrhythms. Wherever they play, under a bridge or on stage, brains will melt.

Tent music for tent People — for your weddings, dances, processions, funerals, protests or pleasurements

Three Legged Race (us)

TLR is the solo outlet of Robert Beatty, also know for his neo surrealistic covers for Hieroglyphic Being and Tame Impala, and noising down Hair Police. As TLR he explores a bizarre world in which horror soundtracks, modular synthesis and post-industrial try to scare eachother.

Shetahr (be)

The unofficial kings of the Brussels music revolution which is called Crap Wave. They are not afraid to spit in your face, throwing beers and piss off would-be and real punks. A band we love.

Widt (pl)

There is something happening in Poland, based on the excellent s/t VHS by the crossmedia duo Widt (Antoinette Nowacka and Bogumiła Piotrowska). With analogue video, vocal and electronics they create a psychedelic jungle which bears references to the Pierre Henry's The Myth of Orpheus or L. Berio's and C. Berberian's Omagio a Joyce. Widt seduces the listener into a black hole of the forgotten, the avoided and the inexperienced.

Viper Pit (be)

Satanic, filthy and razor sharp crust punk, spit out by the Anderlecht underground. A superband with roots in bands which make your 14 year old niece pie in her bed. Like the notorious Bear Bones, Lay Low and Weird Dust.

Au Bout De Mon Sang (fr)

Explosive mix of ragtime and trash metal. With just a distorted banjo and some pots and pans, Au Bout de Mon Sang gave the show of the year somewhere in 2014. The facts: it's a duo with parts of the band Charnier, they are rooted in the underground of Strasbourg, hometown of the excellent Ventre de Biche and the label Maison de Retraite.

Guttersnipe (uk)

The New Wave of Northern England noise has finally arrived. Until 3 years ago, the scene was led by VCO and side projects, but a couple of youngsters took over the sceptre. Guttersnipe is one the hardest outfits, guitar & drum are their tools to make explosive and brain melting noise. Hail to England's Freak Empire.

The musical palette-perge I didn't know I needed, a demasculinised anti-rock ear reset — The Wire

Coàgul (es)

Coàgul is the musical project of the visual artist Marc O'Callaghan (Barcelona, 1988). In a desperate historical ultimatum to fight the dissolution and dispersion of the modern world, Coàgul's main function is to concentrate the energy of certain cosmic principles in the physical spot where it's musick is performed or reproduced.

Carrageenan (be)

Hard dystopian technoise made by the Brussels based underground star Matthieu Levet. He forms with fellow Brussels undergrounder TG the band Pizza Noise Mafia.

DJ Mark Harwood (au)

Australian prototype of the underground label boss: sympatico, an intense stare, and a great taste for music.

Expo Sloow Tapes

Sloow tapes becomes ten years old. To celebrate this, Father Sloow is not only playing at the festival, but he also presents an expo and a book! The expo runs throughout the 3 days of the festival.

A FILM PROGRAM BY FLORIS VANHOOF

Floris Vanhoof is next to great artist himself, more and more a highly acclaimed curator of film programs that open your mind for a next level cinematic experience.