Program

BLOOMFELD, Germany, Producer:
Bloomfeld is researching and documenting innovative momentums across all domains of cultural production. His own music, digital art, and performance aim at expanding the intersection of ethno-futurist braindance and functional/hedonistic club heat. While allowing for the heads to over-intellectualise, Bloomfeld’s output often exposes what comes out of the speakers as just wiggly air after all. Existence is a cosmic joke.
Bloomfeld runs the Overthinker Mob research imprint, among many other missions “rejecting conventional formats for releasing music“ (FACT Mag) by „putting out unfinished or “overthought” music from artists anonymously“ (Resident Advisor) – Compiling „a diverse range of anti-ego club tunes and somber atmospheres“ (Electronic Beats).
He has been a founding member of multiple community radio projects in Germany and the UK, and held a residency on Rinse FM with his “Culture vs. Reality“ show.

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/bloomfeld
https://soundcloud.com/bloomfeld
https://lobstertheremin.com/album/larp-os
https://cheekymusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/probe-report-1
https://www.facebook.com/Bloomfeld
https://ra.co/dj/bloomfeld
https://twitter.com/overthinkermob

• 'Stamina' released on Live From Earth VA (Berlin Based Label): https://soundcloud.com/livefromearth/bloomfeld-stamina


• Latest mix for Fact Magazine : https://soundcloud.com/factmag/fact-mix-864-bloomfeld-jun-22


• Mix for Ilian Tape: https://soundcloud.com/ilian-tape/itps074-bloomfeld
  https://open.spotify.com/artist/36MRGLmyxzncxEPHgThdVg?si=N4WJGrydQtSG0Luf98oQIQ

PHATSTOKI, South Afrika, DJ:
Phatstoki (pronounced phat stoki) is a Joburg-based DJ who describes her sound as “non-genre specific”. Phatstoki is known for her surgical transitions and her ability to mix a range of sounds, reading the room to get your body moving! Phatstoki is the co-founder of Pssy Party, a night that exists to create a regular platform for queer, femme and women DJs/artists to practice, incubate, exchange, and expose.
She has since received acclaim from local press such as Bubblegum Club (cover featue) and Between 10and5. Pssy Party has steadily grown its stature in the city, in large part on the back of Phatstoki’s clear insights and masterful, moving DJ sets. The team has since hosted parties in Durban and Cape Town, and collaborated with international acts, providing workshops for those eager to learn.
Phatstoki has played at some of the world’s most favoured music events/festivals such as OppiKoppi, Basha Uhuru, Zakifo, CTM Festival, Nyege Nyege, and AfroPunk to name a few. Phatstoki has graced 5 Boiler Room sets with her work. She closed for M.I.A during her South African tour, and DJed for highly acclaimed and multi award winning musician; Sho Madjozi for a ittle over 3 yeras.
With a powerful ethical core and far-reaching vision of her peers and the future, Phatstoki is luminary in her various and overlapping fields of interest.

Links:
www.soundcloud.com/phatstoki
https://instagram.com/phatstoki
http://www.phatstokiphotography.blogspot.co.za/
https://www.facebook.com/phatstoki

MIZIGURUKA, Rwanda, Artistic performer, dancer:
Natacha MUZIRAMAKENGA also known by her artist’s name Miziguruka is a multidisciplinary artist. She has worked for 15 years as a poet, performer, actress, director and translator.
Recurring themes in her work are resilience, the female body, female freedoms, memory and transmission.
Her performances combine poetry with a deejay set and live music and fire spinning.
As an actress she has featured in films such as “Neptune Frost” by Saul Williams an Anisia Uzeyman, “Petit Pays” of Eric Barbier, “Grey Matter” by Kivu Ruhorahoza, “ “ A Sunday in Kigali” by Robert Favreau.
Natacha's work as an author was published in Wasafari magazine on November 18, 2020 and in 2019 in a collective work 'Au dessous des Volcans' published by Sepia.
She contributed both as a writer and a performer to the play 'Learning Feminism from Rwanda' which is touring all over Germany and Switzerland with the Flinn Works company between 2020 and 2021.
Miziguruka’s latest performances where presented in Berlin “Frequencies Festival” organized by Goethe Institut in May 2022.

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/miziguruka/
https://youtu.be/tb9fy2zsrk4
https://vimeo.com/585807556
https://vimeo.com/571766723

JAY MITTA, Tanzania, Producer:
Jay Mitta is one of the core producers of Sisso Studios in Dar es Salaam, a collective responsible for popularising Singeli, a frenetic strain of underground Tanzanian dance music which often exceeds 200 bpm.
He innovates with the singeli genre that's bubbled out of the ghettos of the Tanzanian capital. In his 2017 feature on the Nyege Nyege collective, RA's Aaron Coultate described singeli as bearing some resemblance to 'kuduro, shangaan electro and even gabber,' its sped-up rhythms constructed on second-hand Casio keyboards. Mitta's unique take on the genre also acts as an introduction to a rising singeli MC, 14-year-old Dogo Janja.
His take on the genre is more polished and cheerful than other members of the community. As heard on his debut album for Nyege Nyege Tapes, Tatizo Pesa, Mitta’s beats have a slightly less frenetic character, if you can say so about music that makes footwork feel like downtempo.

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJtXChPuIU
https://soundcloud.com/jay-mitta
https://pan-african-music.com/pam-club-jay-mitta
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3IsLmcVQQz0mojIXUnxREm?si=p_FU6gAjTGuVTVcw1AD6aw

DJ DIAKI, Mali, Producer:
Diaki’s hard thumping live electro balani show is the quintessential African rave sound, the one that can wake even the dead, drawing comparisons to shangaan, singeli and acholitronix as well as drum n bass and footwork. DJ Diaki’s style of balani show is a live performance on laptop, mic and drum machines. With influences of coupe decale and soukous, Diaki delivers an atomic blend of traditional balani electrified with all the West African candence! Diaki has perfected his craft over the last 30 years, and risen to fame after his Boiler room set at Nyege Nyege festival 2019 where legendary DJ Marcelle called him “The discovery of the Century”. His critically acclaimed debut release on Nyege Tapes (Feb. 2020) was album of the month in the Guardian, and his electrifying sets have earned him the nickname “Le President”, for his magical ability to channel ancestral rhythms and pull a club into a frenzy, from Berlin clubs to small villages on the outskirts of Bamako.
DJ Diaki is also the head programmer at Sanankoroba Radio which he helped co-found.

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/dj_diaki
https://www.facebook.com/djdiakimedia
https://youtube.com/channel/UCN-F54MpNKIUzbt3LxKC9VQ
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0LKQ9Iu5eujfbCBEQgZryn?si=aC9cId9bQ4Cm_fyhaZ_QPQ

ZOË MC PHERSON, Germany, DJ/Producer:
Described as a 'vanguard' by British publication Mixmag, Zoë Mc Pherson is a multimedia artist whose practice absorbs elements of performance, sound design, installation art and DJing. Additionally, Mc Pherson curates the SFX label with their long-time collaborator Alessandra Leone.

It was an early passion for jazz that sparked Mc Pherson's curiosity in experimental music's rugged fringes. Soon enough, their interest led towards electronic sounds, and Mc Pherson's inquisitive ear evolved rapidly as they began experimenting with DIY recording techniques and computer software. Now based in Berlin, the French-Northern Irish musician straddles artistic disciplines - their albums, EPs and 12's only tell part of a story that includes kinetic live shows, and lavish interactive experiences.

After releasing their immersive 2018 debut album 'String Figures' on the SVS imprint, Mc Pherson released 2020's rhythmically complex 'States of Fugue' - described by Berlin's Hardwax as 'adventurous' - on their own SFX imprint. Since its inception in 2020, SFX has released an ongoing collaborative audiovisual composition featuring 43 artists including Aho Ssan, Katie Gately, ZULI, KMRU, and a vinyl 12' from Klahrk amongst others. The composition, titled 'XquisiteForce.AV', was presented as part of Berlin's CTM Festival in 2021 as a virtual digital exhibition, sidestepping restrictions with an innovative 3D environment.

Since then, Mc Pherson has assembled several sound installations for Berlin's Silent Green and Alhambra, performed at international festivals and venues such as Malmö's Inkonst, Madrid's LEV, Amsterdam's Fiber, Berlin’s CTM and initiated a collaboration with sound artist Jessica Ekomane. The duo's jagged debut live set was filmed at Berghain Halle and broadcast by ARTE TV, and their first recording was released in 2021 on Ostgut Ton's 'Fünfzehn + 1' compilation. Mc Pherson also recently embarked on an ambitious project alongside a brand new queer-owned club bULt in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, to invite musicians and designers to perform and hold workshops.

This year, Mc Pherson released their new statement on Berlin's Pendulum Recordings label. Entitled 'Abyss Elixir', it continues where 'States of Fugue' left off, crawling out of recognizable electronic templates and dissolving sci-fi sonics in dubbed-out rhythmic vortexes.

Links:
https://zoemcpherson.xyz
https://www.instagram.com/zoemcphers
https://www.facebook.com/zoemcphersonn
https://soundcloud.com/zoemcpherson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbTKbtOBHu8
https://pendulumrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/abyss-elixir
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0MVWdtgZhxX5VZFKoCMZjB?si=OZOWH2zsSe2lLA0xMqTgwg

ZAI and NANA, Tanzania, Dancers:
Zai and Nana are two Tanzanian Queens of the dancefloor who specialize in Singeli. They have mastered the art of twerking and are able to move their bodies in rythms with this insane music that rolls at a minimum of 200bpm.

Core members of the Singeli movement, they are regular performers at the Nyege Nyege festival and many events in Tanzania and East Africa.

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdOilLD7dM
https://www.instagram.com/zakwixhaz_dulla
https://www.instagram.com/officialnanallitho/