KNOTS

Returning to the football stadium for the second club night, we’re eased in by ambient dub vibrations from New York-based trio Purelink, who put their own contemporary spin on Y2K clicks’n’cuts sonics. Then it’s time for a new commissioned collaboration that bridges UK club music with its Polish counterpart. After interpreting the UK sound on his album SHAME, Polish producer 2K88 joins forces with three British artists who are leading the way in 2025: London-based art pop maverick Lauren Duffus, Newcastle-born experimental composer and dancer Bianca Scout, and avant-garde rapper-producer Rainy Miller. And another bridge is formed by the collaboration between Chicago’s RP Boo and Polish percussionist Gary Gwadera. Officially credited as the inventor of footwork, RP Boo needs little introduction, and last year Gwadera augmented the genre by dreaming up an authentically Polish hybrid, merging footwork and Oberek to create what he calls Footberk. The collaboration, commissioned by Unsound, will have its European premiere at Unsound, after premiering at Unsound Osaka. Following that, Djrum, long regarded as one of the scene’s most inventive DJs, hovers over four turntables, ignoring BPMs and genres and blending everything to dancefloor perfection. 

Making a return to our club night after her euphoric passage in 2022, Krakow’s own Paszka, who just landed on LOM with the excellent estoy chillando, opens Room 2. Then something completely new: Nexus, a blistering post-everything fusion of dancehall, trap, industrial music and extreme noise from Franco-Guadeloupean artist Mooki6 and Senegalese-Hispanic DJ and producer B4MBA, both members of Barcelona’s Jokkoo collective. Straight from São Paulo, Brazilian artist and figurehead of the Acta label Yvu explores the furthest fringes of funk and global experimental transmissions. And are you ready for Bclip? The Columbian producer is responsible for one of the most explosive Boiler Room of the year; not afraid to jump on the mic, he’s inspired by Colombian soundsystem music and infuses a broad range of sounds - from reggaeton and salsa to black metal - with his unique signature groove. LA-born NYC-based DJ Introspekt meanwhile has been reinforcing the trans-Atlantic conversation between garage and dubstep, electro and classic techno on her excellent Tempa-released debut album Moving The Center.

There are still a couple of artists to add to the lineup – stay tuned!