Aho Ssan is the artist name of Paris based Niamké Désiré. After studying graphic design and cinema, he began to compose electronic music and create his own digital instruments. Shortly thereafter he went on to win the Foundation France television prize for his soundtrack to the film of Ingha Mago in 2015 and has worked on several projects related to IRCAM/GRM in France. His debut LP «Simulacrum» was released on the 7th of February 2020 via Subtext Recordings. Based on the concept of Jean Baudrillard, it navigates through society’s presentation of inclusivity and equality against his own experience of growing up black in France. Aho Ssan debuted “Simulacrum” at Berlin Atonal 2019.

Originally from Paju, South Korea, bela (they/them) is a musician and performance artist based in Berlin and Prague. Their work combines electronic music with pungmul—a Korean folk tradition rooted in agricultural rituals and social movements—and raw vocals influenced by extreme metal. Using heavy distortions and guttural cries, bela turns pungmul into a ritual of queer rage and grief. Their debut album 'Noise and Cries 굉음과 울음' (2024) was co-released on Subtext and Unsound. bela also collaborates on audio visual performances with Theresa Baumgartner and Lukas Feigelfeld and performs improvised vocals with AKA HEX (Aïsha Devi and Slikback). As a DJ, bela focuses on system music with deep, heavy rhythms, moving through genres like Bass, Dubstep, Grime, and UK Garage.

The diverse sonic worlds that Carmen Villain has built over her career are shaped by her natural curiosity of sound. Her music hits a sweet spot between dub’s blunt rhythmic lilt and cosmic fourth world, using woodwinds and other samples in creating evocative granular soundscapes and off-kilter rhythms. Her most recent studio album, Only Love From Now On (Smalltown Supersound), was released to critical acclaim. The most recent release, Nutrition EP, delves deeper into the mutant dub vortex. Carmen has brought her atmospheric live performance to venues and festivals such as Berlin Atonal, ICA London, Dekmantel and Mutek. She composed the score for Eszter Salamon’s contemporary dance performance The Living Monument, and is currently working on music for film installation Landscaping, in collaboration with Salamon and Ircam Paris.

Since her breakthrough album Patterns of Consciousness (Important Records, 2017), Italian composer Caterina Barbieri has worked with vivid analog synthesis and expanded electro-acoustic formats to explore the physical and metaphysical effects of sound on the listener. Her music, described by Pitchfork as “a mind-altering journey” and “a dreammachine for the ears”, investigates the creative potential of computation and complex generative techniques to explore themes related to memory, time and phenomenology of perception, often interrogating states of trance and emotional intensity. In late 2024, Barbieri was appointed Creative Director for the Venice Biennale Musica, which she will curate for the years of 2025/2026.

Chima Isaaro has been doing the work. Lighting up dance floors across Europe, from underground basements to some of the continent’s most respected clubs and festivals, the seasoned selector is known for her uplifting, surprising, and always generous sets. Effortlessly melodic and emotionally resonant, her sound moves through house, techno, soul, batida, jazz, and beyond. Off the decks she's is co-creator of Revolutionary Dreamscapes, a nomadic space blending sound, ritual, and community, dedicated to Black healing and restoration, she's also a film and music producer, and a researcher in musicology and ethnomusicology. Her work focuses mainly on the underground music cultures of the African diaspora, exploring them from a decolonial perspective, with a strong emphasis on celebrating the black roots of electronic music.

dBridge, aka Darren White, has been traversing the drum and bass scene since the early ’90s, perhaps most memorably spearheading the group Bad Company alongside Dj Maldini, Fresh and Vegas. But Darren’s musical interest is far more unconventional and far-reaching than we might expect. Since founding Exit Records in 2003, Darren has demonstrated a clear desire to move away from typical club style drum and bass sounds to more ambient and experimental soundscapes, turning away from the contemporary technology that dominates production today and returning to old school techniques, equipment and production styles.

The 2020 ‘Weavings’ show (a durational improvisation featuring 12 instrumentalists from around the world performing via Zoom) conceived and curated by Nicolás Jaar and the Unsound festival team marked the first musical meeting between Resina and Aho Ssan. The complete synergy and subconscious understanding on both sides resulted in an immediate decision to develop and explore the infinite common musical interests - despite the different tools and instruments used. In 2021, a second round of improvisation occurred on another 'Weavings' session, and from then on it was clear that a deeper collaboration was in order. A year later, Ego Death has its first manifestation at Unsound Festival 2022.

Jensen Interceptor has provided his versatile brand of techno to clubs and warehouses around the world. Gaining respect from his peers, supporting the likes of Sven Väth, Gesaffelstein, The Hacker, Boys Noize & Green Velvet; Jensen has consistently kept up with the elite at top speed. With his selection ranging from Detroit Electro & Miami Bass to rolling Italo, thunderous 90's Breaks and driving EBM, his audience is promised a sonic journey like no other. Going further than simply an entertainer, his remixes and productions have been released on some of the most influential labels in electronic music like Boys Noize Records, Cultivated Electronics, Bromance and Central Processing Unit. These releases have been supported and played out by DJs such as Dave Clarke, Helena Hauff, Dubfire, Maceo Plex, Trevor Jackson and Radio Slave.

JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. The artist works across music, performance, writing, video, and photography. Ellis researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. The artist’s body of work includes: contemplative soundscapes using saxophone, flute, dulcimer, electronics, and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure archival documents.

Jlin’s thrilling, emotional, and multidimensional compositions have earned her praise as “one of the most forward-thinking contemporary composers in any genre”(Pitchfork). She was a 2023 Pulitzer Prize nominee for Perspective – a piece originally commissioned and performed by Third Coast Percussion – and her mini-album Perspective, featuring the original electronic versions of the suite, was released to critical acclaim on Planet Mu in September of the same year. Her much-lauded albums Dark Energy (2015) and Black Origami (2017) have been featured in “Best of” lists in The New York Times, The Wire, LA Times, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Vogue.

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms. He has earned international acclaim from his performances in far- flung locales such as the Barbican, Berlin Atonal, CTM festival, Dekmantel, Le Guess Who and Tramway. Additionally, his profound releases on labels like Editions Mego, Subtext, Seil Records, and his own imprint OFNOT. 2022 saw him supporting Big Thief in the UK/EU and touring with Fennesz in the US. He is a SHAPE artist, received an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 and has an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts.

LABOUR is the ambitious project led by Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander with a reputation for large-scale works and collaborative pieces in large concert spaces and museums such as Kraftwerk Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Kunsthalle Zürich and at the Sharjah Biennial. Since 2020 they are residents on NTS with a monthly show hosting friends and guests from Senegal such as Mbene Diatta Seck, Birame Ndiaye Rose, Souleyman Faye and more.

Lamin Fofana is an artist and musician currently located in New York. His music contrasts the reality of our world with what’s beyond, and explores questions of movement, migration, alienation and belonging. Fofana’s overlapping interests in history and the present, and his practice of transmuting text into the affective medium of sound, manifests in multisensory live performances and installations featuring original music compositions, field recordings and archival material. Fofana hosts a monthly radio show on NTS Radio.

Lanark Artefax is a Scottish electronic musician whose work blurs the boundary between experimental sound design and hybrid musical forms. The artist made his debut with an EP on Lee Gamble’s UIQ label, followed shortly by another on London’s AD93 the following year. Described by Crack Magazine as ‘gloriously modern production [...] that transcended the emergent electro zeitgeist’, the 4-track EP served as the artist’s breakthrough release and was widely hailed as one of the best releases in electronic music of that year. Both Crack Magazine and Resident Advisor included its main track ‘Touch Absence’ in their ‘Tracks of the Decade’ lists in 2019. Lanark Artefax has also recently begun to create sculptural objects and other visual work, and in 2023/2024 will be presenting a new audio-visual live show.

Laurel Halo is a composer, producer, live musician and DJ. Drawing from a range of stylistic influence, including Detroit techno, musique concrète, film score and jazz, her music employs a careful blend of pressure, decay and nuanced emotion to explore notions of transmission and impermanence. Since 2012 she has released a number of albums ranging in genre-fluidity, complexity and scope, including Quarantine (2012, Hyperdub), In Situ (2015, Honest Jon's), and Raw Silk Uncut Wood (2018, Latency). She has performed in venues, festivals, clubs and institutions across the world, including the Southbank Centre, Sydney Opera House, Sónar, and Montreux Jazz Festival, among others. She has collaborated with artists and designers including Moritz von Oswald, Metahaven, Kevin Beasley, Julia Holter, John Cale, and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Marco Fusinato is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, performance, and recording. As a musician he explores the idea of noise as music, using the electric guitar and mass amplification to improvise intricate, wide-ranging, and physically affecting frequencies. He performs regularly in galleries, museums, festivals, and the experimental music underground, primarily as a solo artist and has released many recordings. Fusinato was selected to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2022 in which he presented DESASTRES, a 200-consecutive-day performance as installation, His work and performances have been presented all over the world including the Venice Biennale, MoMA New York, Sao Paolo Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Glasgow International & Berlin Atonal.

Dutch-born Martijn Deijkers, aka Martyn, has crafted a unique sound blending UK bass music and Detroit jazz influences since the '90s. A DJ, producer, and mentor, he co-founded the 3024 label in 2007 with Jeroen Erosie, releasing work by artists like Jacques Greene, Leon Vynehall, and Flying Lotus. Through his Artist Mentoring Program, launched in 2020, Martyn supports emerging producers with one-on-one lessons, group sessions, and guest Q&As with figures like Bicep and Skee Mask. His work—whether DJing, mentoring, or producing—focuses on community, collaboration, and nurturing the next generation of electronic music talent.

Moritz von Oswald: techno legend, electronic pioneer. One half of both Basic Channel and Maurizio, von Oswald is one of the most influential producers of electronic music in the last three decades. Firmly entrenched in the modern history of forward-thinking music, he is available to book either playing solo or for special projects and commissions, such as Moritz von Oswald Trio and Borderland (with Juan Atkins). In 2021, his Moritz von Oswald Trio (now counting with Laurel Halo and drummer Heinrich Köbberling) released the album "Dissent" on Modern Recordings.

Nick León’s dystopian club music samples the sounds of Florida’s diverse ecosystems, but his style has varied fearlessly along the way. After making his start in the South Florida Soundcloud rap scene at a young age, Nick gravitated early towards the Latin sounds coming out of Puerto Rico and Colombia for his own work. Since this origin, Nick released his highly acclaimed Xtasis EP on TraTraTrax which featured DJ Babatr in 2022 and claimed production credits from genre defying artists like Rosalía, Tokischa and Oklou. His 2024 TraTraTrax released collaboration with Erika De Casier, “Bikini” has been heralded as one of, if not, the best tracks of the year from outlets such as Pitchfork, The Guardian, Crack and Resident Advisor.

At the intersection of distinct music styles, David Kennedy, a.k.a. Pearson Sound, connects the blueprint of UK soundsystems to the cutting edge of contemporary dancefloor music. Widely acclaimed as a producer, DJ and mix engineer—as well as one of the three founders of the Hessle Audio imprint—he is synonymous with a wide-angle view of the bass spectrum. Pearson Sound productions, DJ sets and remixes are all brought to life in high fidelity with dark rhythmic grooves, complex percussive arrangements and exacting melodic details.

rRoxymore’s music is an intriguing, one-off blend of contrasting textures – organic and synthetic, icy and warm – a fresh step in dance music. The French musician and producer has a long history making music in various ways, with various people, before settling in Berlin and concentrating on the solo project that collects it all. Live, rRoxymore creates rhythms and sounds with energetic rawness merging with an energising sense of psychedelia.

Smerz is the Norwegian duo of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg, based in Oslo and Copenhagen. Through collages, the pair captures moments of everyday life and dreams, telling stories of apathy, loneliness, love, friendship, and internal monologue. The duo blends genres, drawing inspiration from classical composition, experimental computer music, and the immediacy of pop, all filtered through a lens of girly existentialism. Their discography includes the debut album Believer on XL Recordings, EPs Have Fun and Okey, the pop project ALLINA, and the choir piece Tidligere den dagen with GAEA, released on their own label, Shopping. Smerz has performed at Tate Modern, MOCA Geffen, Berghain, Volksbühne, MIRA Festival (with Weirdcore) & developed special projects with the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance.

Pushing robotic body music to its kinetic and cathartic limits as both DJ and producer, Solid Blake's precision is remarkable. With productions described by Mixmag as "percussion palpitating below wild synth bursts," this is an artist rightfully earning her praises developing a reputation for impacting crowds with her gritty cross-pollinated strains of electronic club music.

Born in the heights of the Colombian Andes mountains, TraTraTrax has been introducing and amplifying the mighty fire that is erupting from the streets and clubs of Sur América. Ranging from dembow to tribal, from bass to techno, and high doses of sound design, the platform has already signed regional heavyweights like Nicola Cruz or Dengue Dengue Dengue but they are also pushing exciting new Latinx talents from the Global South like Verraco, Nick Léon and Bitter Babe. Aiming to connect the dots between the Latin American club scene and the wider global community, TraTraTrax has been teaming up with some of the most forward-thinking sound designers of the circuit and also building showcases in electronic music institutions like Tresor Berlin and Fabric London.

In the daring sonic fiction of JP López, the Medellín artist collides in his productions and DJ sets techno, latin-influenced tribal, hyper-electronica, carefully crafted IDM and cutting-edge dembow-bass technology with both intensity and precision. Verraco is also one of the heads behind the groundbreaking TraTraTrax, label that has become a key platform for Latinx sound explorers in recent years.
With the future classic Escándaloo EP on VOAM out in Summer 2023, RA and Crack Magazine lauded the record as one of the best of the year. In 2024, the Colombian artist's debut on Bristol's stalwart Timedance with 'Breathe... Godspeed' was unanimously acclaimed by the press, with the EP being awarded Pitchfork Best New Music, described by renowned journalist Philip Sherburne as "an essential record for the vanguard of dance music".