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On Friday, Hotel Forum is throwing open its doors once again to welcome a spectrum of sounds from across the globe. In the Ballroom, we keep it close to home at first, starting with a set from Tercet Imperial, a trio who rethink the oberek, a well-known Polish folk dance, using synthesizers, drum machines and a knowledge of folk narratives from Asia and Africa. Then long-time collaborators Iglooghost and daisy* (fka BABii) cement their friendship with their new Cyst project, crossing IDM with underground hip-hop production. A true meeting of minds, PPP unites Melbourne’s DJ Plead, Brooklyn’s DJ Python and Milan’s Piezo, who follow their woozy debut Bborn Again with a slinky live set. NYC-based poet, DJ and artist Juliana Huxtable and Berlin icon JASSS will be performing b2b..

Over in the Chandelier Room, Worldpeace DMT open with their shapeshifting project, now a collaboration between London’s Leo Fincham and the Femcels’ Rowan Miles, which might be psych, might be folk, might be punk, might be something else altogether. Representing the UK’s deep underground, Everything Is Psychedelic pairs MC Tony Bontana with London-based producer The Psychedelic Ensemble – a neon-hued universe of wild samples, drones, freeform raps, screams and jagged, distorted beats. Mexico’s Siete Catorce shows why he’s your favorite producer’s favorite producer with a selection of his latest forward-facing percussive constructions, and Nyege Nyege Tapes’ Serokolo 7 shuttles us to Limpopo in the north of South Africa, reviving and updating mapanta, a trance-inducing sound that echoed through the region in the 1980s. South London-based DJ and producer re:ni, who’s released on Ilian Tapes, Timedance and her own re:lax imprint, follows the bass through jungle, electro and psychedelic techno.

Down in 89, take a break from the chaos with a set from Dagmar Zuniga, the Nicaraguan-American artist who wowed critics with their stunning debut album in filth your mystery is a kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music, a collection of lo-fi folk songs that will appeal to anyone into Smerz or Cindy Lee.