CTM Festival 2025

At Berghain, Morgan Garrett’s aurals form an intimate confrontation with personal and regional anguish, traditional hymns disfigured by layers of abrasive feedback, jagged guitars, trembling vocals, and electronic elements: visceral expressions of alienation that squat squamous upon the soul.

Brooklyn’s Murderpact push digital hardcore and experimental rave music into chaotic realms, using frenetic tempos and fractured soundscapes to build a glitchy, high-speed sonic rollercoaster of perpetual, dizzying drops.

For when you need dance music that befuddles as much as it delights, aya’s weirded and fragmented rhythms caper around surreal textures with a molecule-rearranging earfeel. In a special collaboration, she’ll come together at CTM with acclaimed German light and scenography artist MFO. Rooted in themes of bodily transformation and the fluidity of memory, the performance traverses the intersection of memory, corporeality and experience, combined with dynamic visual artistry that interrogates both perception and identity.

Kasimyn is one half of Gabber Modus Operandi. His solo and collaborative works traverse a kaleidoscopic range of influences, from gabber and grindcore to Indonesian jathilan trance rituals, forging connections between the traditional and the avant-garde in thrillingly unpredictable ways.

Rooted in experimental and ambient music, Minna-No Kimochi have forged a distinctive sound by deconstructing 90s trance and 2010s EDM through a post-club lens, delivering a blend of corporeal intensity and spiritual elevation.

At Panorama Bar alys(alys)alys smashes experimental club and Soundcloud vibes into wild, unpredictable works and DJ sets that are as much party as experiment: playful, collage-heavy jams thriving in that sweet spot where genres clash and brains get dropped in the blender. Take a gander to get your medulla oblon-gotcha goosed.

Rattlesnakke slithers through sonics with beats that hit like thunderclaps and vocals dripping with unrelenting energy. Filled with the defiant energy of Argentina’s youth, she’s bringing a live set of bass-heavy guaracha vibes, urban swagger and glistening latincore rap-pop to CTM.

A key innovator in Gqom’s evolution, State OFFF’s debut EP »GQOM TODAY« pushes the boundaries of the genre’s minimalist, dark rhythms into gnarly territory, blending its driving pulse with a dynamic range of contemporary sounds from the African diaspora and beyond.

DJ Love, pioneer and innovator of the Filipino dance sensation budots, crafts high-octane rave celebrations wedded with the ambient sounds of the Philippines—from jeepney horns to native fauna—with harder mutations like bomb-tek.

Formerly one half of the duo Black Cadmium, Joginda explores an esoteric range of styles, from dub and breakbeat to African tribal tech and IDM. A captivating force behind the decks, his body-jacking, oft-vicious and always-immersive sets never fail to cuck expectation.

Säule is dedicated to the cosmos of Brazilian Funk. Rapidly becoming a key figure in Brazil’s underground dance scene, ANTCONSTANTINO seamlessly blends Brazilian grime, drill, and pulse-jacking »pula pula« beats into his bombastic sets. One of the most influential voices in the world of Funk Carioca—a genre that she helped elevate from the streets of Rio de Janeiro to global recognition—Deize Tigrona’s sharp lyricism and unapologetic delivery blends humor and social commentary with infectious energy. You’ll find her influence across myriad other artists’ work; her song “Injeção” was used as the basis for M.I.A.’s »Bucky Done Gun.« Further acts tba will complete the programme at Säule.