Night IV – Saturday, World Premiere
Performance-enhanced culture jammers Amnesia Scanner and French hacker Freeka Tet unveil S.L.O.T.H. for the first time during Berlin Atonal 25. The show is a dense, hyper-sensory world of serrated beats, fractured glossolalia, slippery polyrhythms, and mangled vocal textures. This is paired with grotesque visual manipulations and sardonic gestures to create a weird performance language that is disorientating and uniquely compelling.

Night I – Wednesday, World Premiere
Berlin Atonal 25 sees the first outing of a new collaboration between shapeshifting saxophonist Bendik Giske and electronic producer Barker. They first began to jam almost three years ago and since then have slowly shaped their shared language. An album of quiet quiet epics and contemplative electro-acoustic suites for saxophone and electronics. But first, they perform live for the first time as part of Berlin Atonal 25.

Night I – Wednesday, World Premiere
The diverse sonic worlds that Carmen Villain has built over her career are shaped by her natural curiosity for sound. Her music hits a sweet spot between dub’s blunt rhythmic lilt and the cosmic expanse of fourth-world atmospherics. She is in a period of continued experimentation with dub-infused rhythms, abstracted textures and a continued fascination for the potential found in woodwinds and brass. For Berlin Atonal she will present mostly new music and works in progress, letting us glimpse her current sonic fascinations and a offering a preview of her upcoming album release.

Night II – Thursday, World Premiere
Carrier’s new live performance promises a masterclass in tension, spatial nuance, and stripped-back rhythmic precision: skeletal drums, reticulated bass, vaporous pads, and restless percussive contrails unfold in ever-shifting, minimalist architectures. He has a fully embodied personal physics. For this premiere at Berlin Atonal 25 Carrier has the sound of an artist not just referencing foundational forms but reanimating them into something vital, deadly, and utterly of the present.

Night IV – Saturday
Chuquimamani-Condori is a Pakajaqueño Aymara artist born in California’s Inland Empire, whose work fuses traditional drum and ceremonial music with vivid synths, warped folk melodies and dense noise. As DJ E, they deliver boundary-liquefying DJ sets that combine sonic cacophony, astonishing emotional vulnerability, and a raw overload of textures. For Berlin Atonal 25, DJ E brings one of their charged, unpredictable sets which liquidate the distinction between tradition and futurity, chaos and communion.

Night III – Friday
DJ Marcelle puts together musical collages the way Dr. Frankenstein assembled his monster. With characteristic wit and formidable skill, she approaches DJing as a space for mischievous, rule-bending play. Her performances are inventive, euphoric, and powerful. Compositions made from songs, Symphonies built from mixes.

Improvised Live
Night II – Thursday
Djrum is the moniker of Felix Manuel, a producer and musician whose work moves fluidly across jazz, ambient, techno, and modern classical territories. Classically trained in the jazz tradition, he draws on influences ranging from Keith Jarrett to Alice Coltrane, developing a practice defined by emotional candour and sonic complexity. For Berlin Atonal 2025, Djrum presents a sculptural, improvised performance built around custom-made machines and instruments. Moving away from his earlier, sample-driven or dance floor-oriented material, this new work unfolds as an ambient, beatless exploration of sound and space.

Night II – Thursday, World Premiere
emptyset is a multidisciplinary production project developed by James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas exploring the sonic possibilities of electroacoustic and computer music, materiality and performance. Their output is informed by the evolution of electronic and improvised music, full frequency production and detailed sound design, reflecting upon the history of experimental media and global sound practices. Their new live show is a total bodily experience aided by room and light design from Atonal’s own Marcel Weber (MFO).

Night IV – Saturday
Gerda is the collaborative project of Wojciech Bąkowski and Jan Piasecki. Bąkowski is a poet and visual artist whose work spans drawing, animation, sound and performance, known for his laconic delivery and inward, fragmentary mode of narration. Together with Piasecki, he creates music that feels both intimate and foreign – elliptical vocal fragments unfold over productions shaped by ambient, dub, industrial and dungeon synth. Their work emerges from a sealed, carefully cultivated interior, drawing on myth, memory, and sonic distortion to conjure a hallucinatory, slow-burning world of figures and signs.

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin
Night I – Wednesday
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin perform at Berlin Atonal 2025 as Ghosted – bringing their singular fusion of jazz-rooted improvisation, psych minimalism, and Krautrock-informed repetition to the live stage. With over two decades of collaboration, Ambarchi and Berthling have developed a near-telepathic interplay, crafting minimalist grooves shaped by subtle shifts and hypnotic restraint, while Werliin’s skeletal percussion threads delicate, shifting patterns through the mix. Rather than pushing toward explosive climaxes, the trio lets their music swirl, fold, and transform gradually, creating liminal rhythmic spaces where Reichian repetition, fragile harmonic textures, and shimmering ambience converge. Sparse walking basslines, brushed percussive layers, and Ambarchi’s phased guitar tones unfold as a study in luminous detail.

Night III – Friday
GRIEND is a mysterious post-drone collaboration between Danish experimentalist Puce Mary (Frederikke Hoffmeier) and British producer and multidisciplinary artist Rainy Miller. Puce Mary is known for intense live performances that shift between cinematic sonic architectures and raw, improvised harsh noise. Rainy Miller, meanwhile, crafts emotionally charged, atmospheric soundscapes marked by raw vulnerability, layered textures, and a cinematic sense of memory and collapse. For Berlin Atonal 2025, GRIEND presents only its second-ever live appearance – a charged post-industrial performance shaped by distorted atmospheres, fractured sonic architectures, and the collision of two distinct but deeply complementary artistic voices.

Night V – Sunday, World Premiere
Heith’s music exists where organic and digital elements clash, merge, and transform. His songwriting evokes both reminiscence and curiosity, creating sonic spaces that feel simultaneously familiar and alien. On Escape Lounge, his second full-length release for PAN, Heith drew on contemporary digital spiritualities and crossover interpretations of experience – from internet-based conspiracy theories to psychological operations. The premiere of the live show at the festival brings together acoustic instruments, human voices, and digital technology on a trip through experimental pop, introspective indie-folk, and Mediterranean psychedelia, translating the album’s hallucinogenic narrative into a shifting, multisensory environment.

Night III – Friday, World Premiere
At Berlin Atonal 2025, John T. Gast presents the world premiere of Petrols, an intimate and deeply personal live project that foregrounds acoustic textures and improvisational form. Gast feeds these raw sources through a bespoke pedalboard of pitch, loop, and distortion effects, creating dense, evolving sonic structures marked by dread, dissolution, and moments of fragile peace. While the work nods to aspects of Gast’s Gossiwor material, Petrols moves into looser, more exploratory terrain, shaped as much by vulnerability as by sonic weight. Petrols stands as a project attuned to the uncertainties of the current moment – a work of dissolution and rebuilding, where layered sound and presence converge to offer a space of reflection and raw immediacy.

Night IV – Saturday, World Premiere 
Hyperverbena is a hybrid concert by Lechuga Zafiro and Verraco, a new collaboration between two of the most exciting figures in the contemporary electronic scenes of the global South. It appropriates the pejorative “sudaca” term to more accurately represent the continent’s complex identities, finding sensuality in its lack of discipline, embracing viscerality over neatness. The performance unfolds as a constant dialogue between DJing and electronic live execution: extreme use of every feature of the mixer and players, deconstruction and re-arrangement of the musical material with external effects, and frenetic playing of electronic percussion.

Night I – Wednesday, World Premiere
Three legendary figures – Lee Ranaldo, Peder Mannerfelt, and Yonatan Gat – come together for a live, improvised collaboration that blends their unique career-spanning approaches to avant-garde music. In this instinctive performance, the artists explore the limits of live music through real-time improvisation in the process creating an unpredictable and immersive shared auditory experience.

Night II – Thursday, World Premiere
Malibu is a French electronic musician crafting weightless, fourth-world ambient works shaped by soft-focus vocals, shimmering synthetic strings, and luminous melodic progressions. Her sound feels suspended between dream-state pop and submerged club memories, building slow-motion worlds of fragility and beauty.

Night V – Sunday, World Premiere
This premiere project unites three singular forces from across noise, metal, and experimental sound. Merzbow, the legendary project of Japan’s Masami Akita, has defined harsh noise since the early 1980s, evolving from industrial tape experiments to laptop-based live sets, all while foregrounding themes of animal rights and anti-speciesism. Iggor Cavalera, co-founder of Sepultura, is a pioneering heavy drummer whose practice has transformed the meaning of percussive force across multiple projects. Eraldo Bernocchi is a veteran Italian sound sculptor whohas moved fluidly through punk, industrial, illbient projects, working with everyone from Bill Laswell to Harold Budd and DJ Olive to Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. The trio is brought together for a forthcoming release on Bill Kouligas’ PAN.

Night III – Friday
Rising from a dark cloud of smoky glooming dank from the Morrisons car park in Leicester, Mohammad Adam presents the world premiere of It’s a beautiful night at Berlin Atonal 2025. His surreal productions are an essential take on that soaked and doleful UK continuum: sub-heavy ambient blending the sampling sensibilities of grime and garage with traditional South Asian music.

Night II – Thursday
Moin is a band composed of Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews (of Raime) alongside visionary percussionist Valentina Magaletti. Reimagining the traditional band dynamic, Moin draws on grunge, shoegaze, and post-rock, reframing them through unconventional production techniques and a sensibility that hovers between the familiar and the unsettling. For Berlin Atonal 2025, Moin present a live performance that fuses raw, guitar-driven immediacy with bassy electronic undercurrents – an alchemy of sound that explores what a “band”-based live show can be: purposeful, direct, and alive with inquiry.

Night V – Sunday
Niecy Blues is a composer, songwriter, vocalist, and multimedia artist based in South Carolina, originally raised on the prairie fields of Oklahoma. Her songwriting emerges like an undertow, pulling through simmering ballads, ghosted R&B, downtempo gospel, and looped vocal improvisations often within a single track. For Berlin Atonal 2025, Niecy Blues presents a live set that channels this sensibility into a raw, hypnotic performance – a delicate weave of voice, electronics, and improvisation that draws the listener into states of reverie, drift, and luminous disorientation.

Night I – Wednesday
NYX is a London-based collective led by music director Sian O’Gorman of artists working at the intersection of choral music and electronic experimentation. Their work explores the voice as an instrument of expanded emotional and sensory range, capable of articulating the tensions and intensities that mark the human condition. Their live intervention at the festival activates the connection between the embodied human and the raw architecture of the Kraftwerk. The result is a performative gesture that simultaneously calls back to yesterday and looks forward to tomorrow.

Night V – Sunday
Organic Intelligence is a collaborative project by Barcelona’s Jokkoo Collective. Founded in 2017, Jokkoo are dedicated to exploring and amplifying contemporary electronic sounds and avant-garde music from the African continent and its diaspora. With Organic Intelligence, Jokkoo journey through the mangroves to stage a futurist audiovisual performance of ecological, technological, and cultural resistance. The piece is based on Jokkoo’s collaborative performance practice that combines sound and visual design, music and technology, and physical theater. They create a speculative future that, moving through our current crisis to a distant future, imagines the mangrove as a neural network. Shaped by the complex interrelationships between species and environments, it has the capacity to reclaim global stewardship from the economic elite and genocidal “intelligence” for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the Earth and the planet itself.

Night IV – Saturday
Purelink come to Berlin Atonal 2025 as one of the most quietly influential voices in today’s ambient techno landscape, bringing their signature blend of warmth, subtlety, and human presence to the live stage. The Chicago-born, now New York–based trio – Akeem Asani, Ben Paulson, and Tommy Paslaski – have, in just a few years, emerged from the margins of the DIY scene into the international spotlight, earning acclaim for their ability to craft understated, deeply immersive sound worlds. Expect music that pulses with gentle magnetism.

Night III – Friday
St. Agnis arrives at Berlin Atonal 2025 with a special delivery of raw, tape-saturated body music drawn from the vaults of John T. Gast’s 5 Gate Temple. Across a set of wickedly unhinged drum jams and rhythm trippers, St. Agnis summons the spirit of early Detroit techno toughness fused with the jagged edges of early grime, all refracted through a psychedelic, Drexciyan lens. Fast-paced drums, arpeggiating synths, muffled vocals, and detuned harmonics spiral together into a wormhole of quick-fire energy blasts.

Night V – Sunday
The second-ever show from Topdown Dialectic (and first in Europe) brings the dissociative electronic designs of this incognito American producer into the physical space of Berlin Atonal 2025. As a process not a person, Topdown Dialectic encourages listeners to focus solely on the sound, devoid of narrative or autobiographical frame. The sensation is liberating. Unnamed and unknown, opaque and oblique, each track is a transfixing microcosm of glitch, mystery, and murmuring emotion. A synergy of fragments and echoes and accidents, immaculately conceived, forever unfolding and unfinished. Topdown Dialectic’s music is a record of shifting conditions and internal reactions. Despite its conceptual underpinnings, the result is hyper-sensory and emotive: a mesh of early UK warehouse bleeps, IDM fracturing, and Basic Channel’s gritty spatial abstraction.

Night III – Friday
The quartet of Zack Borzone (vocals), Jack Tobias (synth), Sam Pickard (drums), and Saguiv Rosenstock (guitar) join the Berlin Atonal line-up as one of the most in demand live touring groups from America. Born during the lockdown as an experimental project between Borzone and Pickard in Philadelphia, the project expanded when they moved to New York. That first release marked a phase of self-discovery, as the group developed a collaborative, tightly knit writing process and built the essential structures and feelings that define the singular sound of YHWH Nailgun and particularly their live shows which are becoming famous.

with Martina Bertoni and Sara Persico
Night II – Thursday, World Premiere
Longtime collaborators Ziúr and Sandi unveil a new audio-visual work at Berlin Atonal 2025, presented as an immersive audiovisual live show accompanying Ziúr’s forthcoming album Home, set for release on Kuboraum Editions in September 2025. On her fifth album, Ziúr turns inward, reflecting not only on what “home” means from her own perspective but also on the resonance the concept holds within her diverse community – drawing on the stories, relationships, and histories that have shaped her over the years. This one-off live performance, curated with Kuboraum, also features Martina Bertoni and Sara Persico.

Night IV – Saturday, World Premiere
Performance-enhanced culture jammers Amnesia Scanner and French hacker Freeka Tet unveil S.L.O.T.H. for the first time during Berlin Atonal 25. The show is a dense, hyper-sensory world of serrated beats, fractured glossolalia, slippery polyrhythms, and mangled vocal textures. This is paired with grotesque visual manipulations and sardonic gestures to create a weird performance language that is disorientating and uniquely compelling.

Night I – Wednesday, World Premiere
Berlin Atonal 25 sees the first outing of a new collaboration between shapeshifting saxophonist Bendik Giske and electronic producer Barker. They first began to jam almost three years ago and since then have slowly shaped their shared language. An album of quiet quiet epics and contemplative electro-acoustic suites for saxophone and electronics. But first, they perform live for the first time as part of Berlin Atonal 25.

Night I – Wednesday, World Premiere
The diverse sonic worlds that Carmen Villain has built over her career are shaped by her natural curiosity for sound. Her music hits a sweet spot between dub’s blunt rhythmic lilt and the cosmic expanse of fourth-world atmospherics. She is in a period of continued experimentation with dub-infused rhythms, abstracted textures and a continued fascination for the potential found in woodwinds and brass. For Berlin Atonal she will present mostly new music and works in progress, letting us glimpse her current sonic fascinations and a offering a preview of her upcoming album release.

Night II – Thursday, World Premiere
Carrier’s new live performance promises a masterclass in tension, spatial nuance, and stripped-back rhythmic precision: skeletal drums, reticulated bass, vaporous pads, and restless percussive contrails unfold in ever-shifting, minimalist architectures. He has a fully embodied personal physics. For this premiere at Berlin Atonal 25 Carrier has the sound of an artist not just referencing foundational forms but reanimating them into something vital, deadly, and utterly of the present.

Night IV – Saturday
Chuquimamani-Condori is a Pakajaqueño Aymara artist born in California’s Inland Empire, whose work fuses traditional drum and ceremonial music with vivid synths, warped folk melodies and dense noise. As DJ E, they deliver boundary-liquefying DJ sets that combine sonic cacophony, astonishing emotional vulnerability, and a raw overload of textures. For Berlin Atonal 25, DJ E brings one of their charged, unpredictable sets which liquidate the distinction between tradition and futurity, chaos and communion.

Night III – Friday
DJ Marcelle puts together musical collages the way Dr. Frankenstein assembled his monster. With characteristic wit and formidable skill, she approaches DJing as a space for mischievous, rule-bending play. Her performances are inventive, euphoric, and powerful. Compositions made from songs, Symphonies built from mixes.

Improvised Live
Night II – Thursday
Djrum is the moniker of Felix Manuel, a producer and musician whose work moves fluidly across jazz, ambient, techno, and modern classical territories. Classically trained in the jazz tradition, he draws on influences ranging from Keith Jarrett to Alice Coltrane, developing a practice defined by emotional candour and sonic complexity. For Berlin Atonal 2025, Djrum presents a sculptural, improvised performance built around custom-made machines and instruments. Moving away from his earlier, sample-driven or dance floor-oriented material, this new work unfolds as an ambient, beatless exploration of sound and space.

Night II – Thursday, World Premiere
emptyset is a multidisciplinary production project developed by James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas exploring the sonic possibilities of electroacoustic and computer music, materiality and performance. Their output is informed by the evolution of electronic and improvised music, full frequency production and detailed sound design, reflecting upon the history of experimental media and global sound practices. Their new live show is a total bodily experience aided by room and light design from Atonal’s own Marcel Weber (MFO).

Night IV – Saturday
Gerda is the collaborative project of Wojciech Bąkowski and Jan Piasecki. Bąkowski is a poet and visual artist whose work spans drawing, animation, sound and performance, known for his laconic delivery and inward, fragmentary mode of narration. Together with Piasecki, he creates music that feels both intimate and foreign – elliptical vocal fragments unfold over productions shaped by ambient, dub, industrial and dungeon synth. Their work emerges from a sealed, carefully cultivated interior, drawing on myth, memory, and sonic distortion to conjure a hallucinatory, slow-burning world of figures and signs.

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin
Night I – Wednesday
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin perform at Berlin Atonal 2025 as Ghosted – bringing their singular fusion of jazz-rooted improvisation, psych minimalism, and Krautrock-informed repetition to the live stage. With over two decades of collaboration, Ambarchi and Berthling have developed a near-telepathic interplay, crafting minimalist grooves shaped by subtle shifts and hypnotic restraint, while Werliin’s skeletal percussion threads delicate, shifting patterns through the mix. Rather than pushing toward explosive climaxes, the trio lets their music swirl, fold, and transform gradually, creating liminal rhythmic spaces where Reichian repetition, fragile harmonic textures, and shimmering ambience converge. Sparse walking basslines, brushed percussive layers, and Ambarchi’s phased guitar tones unfold as a study in luminous detail.

Night III – Friday
GRIEND is a mysterious post-drone collaboration between Danish experimentalist Puce Mary (Frederikke Hoffmeier) and British producer and multidisciplinary artist Rainy Miller. Puce Mary is known for intense live performances that shift between cinematic sonic architectures and raw, improvised harsh noise. Rainy Miller, meanwhile, crafts emotionally charged, atmospheric soundscapes marked by raw vulnerability, layered textures, and a cinematic sense of memory and collapse. For Berlin Atonal 2025, GRIEND presents only its second-ever live appearance – a charged post-industrial performance shaped by distorted atmospheres, fractured sonic architectures, and the collision of two distinct but deeply complementary artistic voices.

Night V – Sunday, World Premiere
Heith’s music exists where organic and digital elements clash, merge, and transform. His songwriting evokes both reminiscence and curiosity, creating sonic spaces that feel simultaneously familiar and alien. On Escape Lounge, his second full-length release for PAN, Heith drew on contemporary digital spiritualities and crossover interpretations of experience – from internet-based conspiracy theories to psychological operations. The premiere of the live show at the festival brings together acoustic instruments, human voices, and digital technology on a trip through experimental pop, introspective indie-folk, and Mediterranean psychedelia, translating the album’s hallucinogenic narrative into a shifting, multisensory environment.

Night III – Friday, World Premiere
At Berlin Atonal 2025, John T. Gast presents the world premiere of Petrols, an intimate and deeply personal live project that foregrounds acoustic textures and improvisational form. Gast feeds these raw sources through a bespoke pedalboard of pitch, loop, and distortion effects, creating dense, evolving sonic structures marked by dread, dissolution, and moments of fragile peace. While the work nods to aspects of Gast’s Gossiwor material, Petrols moves into looser, more exploratory terrain, shaped as much by vulnerability as by sonic weight. Petrols stands as a project attuned to the uncertainties of the current moment – a work of dissolution and rebuilding, where layered sound and presence converge to offer a space of reflection and raw immediacy.

Night IV – Saturday, World Premiere 
Hyperverbena is a hybrid concert by Lechuga Zafiro and Verraco, a new collaboration between two of the most exciting figures in the contemporary electronic scenes of the global South. It appropriates the pejorative “sudaca” term to more accurately represent the continent’s complex identities, finding sensuality in its lack of discipline, embracing viscerality over neatness. The performance unfolds as a constant dialogue between DJing and electronic live execution: extreme use of every feature of the mixer and players, deconstruction and re-arrangement of the musical material with external effects, and frenetic playing of electronic percussion.

Night I – Wednesday, World Premiere
Three legendary figures – Lee Ranaldo, Peder Mannerfelt, and Yonatan Gat – come together for a live, improvised collaboration that blends their unique career-spanning approaches to avant-garde music. In this instinctive performance, the artists explore the limits of live music through real-time improvisation in the process creating an unpredictable and immersive shared auditory experience.

Night II – Thursday, World Premiere
Malibu is a French electronic musician crafting weightless, fourth-world ambient works shaped by soft-focus vocals, shimmering synthetic strings, and luminous melodic progressions. Her sound feels suspended between dream-state pop and submerged club memories, building slow-motion worlds of fragility and beauty.

Night V – Sunday, World Premiere
This premiere project unites three singular forces from across noise, metal, and experimental sound. Merzbow, the legendary project of Japan’s Masami Akita, has defined harsh noise since the early 1980s, evolving from industrial tape experiments to laptop-based live sets, all while foregrounding themes of animal rights and anti-speciesism. Iggor Cavalera, co-founder of Sepultura, is a pioneering heavy drummer whose practice has transformed the meaning of percussive force across multiple projects. Eraldo Bernocchi is a veteran Italian sound sculptor whohas moved fluidly through punk, industrial, illbient projects, working with everyone from Bill Laswell to Harold Budd and DJ Olive to Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. The trio is brought together for a forthcoming release on Bill Kouligas’ PAN.

Night III – Friday
Rising from a dark cloud of smoky glooming dank from the Morrisons car park in Leicester, Mohammad Adam presents the world premiere of It’s a beautiful night at Berlin Atonal 2025. His surreal productions are an essential take on that soaked and doleful UK continuum: sub-heavy ambient blending the sampling sensibilities of grime and garage with traditional South Asian music.

Night II – Thursday
Moin is a band composed of Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews (of Raime) alongside visionary percussionist Valentina Magaletti. Reimagining the traditional band dynamic, Moin draws on grunge, shoegaze, and post-rock, reframing them through unconventional production techniques and a sensibility that hovers between the familiar and the unsettling. For Berlin Atonal 2025, Moin present a live performance that fuses raw, guitar-driven immediacy with bassy electronic undercurrents – an alchemy of sound that explores what a “band”-based live show can be: purposeful, direct, and alive with inquiry.

Night V – Sunday
Niecy Blues is a composer, songwriter, vocalist, and multimedia artist based in South Carolina, originally raised on the prairie fields of Oklahoma. Her songwriting emerges like an undertow, pulling through simmering ballads, ghosted R&B, downtempo gospel, and looped vocal improvisations often within a single track. For Berlin Atonal 2025, Niecy Blues presents a live set that channels this sensibility into a raw, hypnotic performance – a delicate weave of voice, electronics, and improvisation that draws the listener into states of reverie, drift, and luminous disorientation.

Night I – Wednesday
NYX is a London-based collective led by music director Sian O’Gorman of artists working at the intersection of choral music and electronic experimentation. Their work explores the voice as an instrument of expanded emotional and sensory range, capable of articulating the tensions and intensities that mark the human condition. Their live intervention at the festival activates the connection between the embodied human and the raw architecture of the Kraftwerk. The result is a performative gesture that simultaneously calls back to yesterday and looks forward to tomorrow.

Night V – Sunday
Organic Intelligence is a collaborative project by Barcelona’s Jokkoo Collective. Founded in 2017, Jokkoo are dedicated to exploring and amplifying contemporary electronic sounds and avant-garde music from the African continent and its diaspora. With Organic Intelligence, Jokkoo journey through the mangroves to stage a futurist audiovisual performance of ecological, technological, and cultural resistance. The piece is based on Jokkoo’s collaborative performance practice that combines sound and visual design, music and technology, and physical theater. They create a speculative future that, moving through our current crisis to a distant future, imagines the mangrove as a neural network. Shaped by the complex interrelationships between species and environments, it has the capacity to reclaim global stewardship from the economic elite and genocidal “intelligence” for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the Earth and the planet itself.

Night IV – Saturday
Purelink come to Berlin Atonal 2025 as one of the most quietly influential voices in today’s ambient techno landscape, bringing their signature blend of warmth, subtlety, and human presence to the live stage. The Chicago-born, now New York–based trio – Akeem Asani, Ben Paulson, and Tommy Paslaski – have, in just a few years, emerged from the margins of the DIY scene into the international spotlight, earning acclaim for their ability to craft understated, deeply immersive sound worlds. Expect music that pulses with gentle magnetism.

Night III – Friday
St. Agnis arrives at Berlin Atonal 2025 with a special delivery of raw, tape-saturated body music drawn from the vaults of John T. Gast’s 5 Gate Temple. Across a set of wickedly unhinged drum jams and rhythm trippers, St. Agnis summons the spirit of early Detroit techno toughness fused with the jagged edges of early grime, all refracted through a psychedelic, Drexciyan lens. Fast-paced drums, arpeggiating synths, muffled vocals, and detuned harmonics spiral together into a wormhole of quick-fire energy blasts.

Night V – Sunday
The second-ever show from Topdown Dialectic (and first in Europe) brings the dissociative electronic designs of this incognito American producer into the physical space of Berlin Atonal 2025. As a process not a person, Topdown Dialectic encourages listeners to focus solely on the sound, devoid of narrative or autobiographical frame. The sensation is liberating. Unnamed and unknown, opaque and oblique, each track is a transfixing microcosm of glitch, mystery, and murmuring emotion. A synergy of fragments and echoes and accidents, immaculately conceived, forever unfolding and unfinished. Topdown Dialectic’s music is a record of shifting conditions and internal reactions. Despite its conceptual underpinnings, the result is hyper-sensory and emotive: a mesh of early UK warehouse bleeps, IDM fracturing, and Basic Channel’s gritty spatial abstraction.

Night III – Friday
The quartet of Zack Borzone (vocals), Jack Tobias (synth), Sam Pickard (drums), and Saguiv Rosenstock (guitar) join the Berlin Atonal line-up as one of the most in demand live touring groups from America. Born during the lockdown as an experimental project between Borzone and Pickard in Philadelphia, the project expanded when they moved to New York. That first release marked a phase of self-discovery, as the group developed a collaborative, tightly knit writing process and built the essential structures and feelings that define the singular sound of YHWH Nailgun and particularly their live shows which are becoming famous.

with Martina Bertoni and Sara Persico
Night II – Thursday, World Premiere
Longtime collaborators Ziúr and Sandi unveil a new audio-visual work at Berlin Atonal 2025, presented as an immersive audiovisual live show accompanying Ziúr’s forthcoming album Home, set for release on Kuboraum Editions in September 2025. On her fifth album, Ziúr turns inward, reflecting not only on what “home” means from her own perspective but also on the resonance the concept holds within her diverse community – drawing on the stories, relationships, and histories that have shaped her over the years. This one-off live performance, curated with Kuboraum, also features Martina Bertoni and Sara Persico.