Hyperdub

Affiliated event: Sonic Temporalities - Talk with Steve Goodman (Kode9) followed by conversation with Mikkel Rørbo
Tickets via the website of KUPF.

Kode9 is a DJ/Producer, artist and writer. He set up the record label Hyperdub in 2004, and in 2019 the sub label Flatlines to focus on audio essays and sonic fiction.From 2017, he co-curated Hyperdub’s monthly event series Ø. He has recorded 4 albums, 2 with the late vocalist The Spaceape; Memories of Future (2006) and Black Sun (2010), and 2 solo albums, Nothing (2015) and Escapology (2022). He has compiled 4 DJ mix compilations, Dubstep Allstars vol.3 (Tempa 2006), DJ Kicks (K7 2011) and Rinse 22 (Rinse 2013), and in 2018, Fabric 100 with Burial. In additional to his record label Hyperdub, he has also released tracks on Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label, Soul Jazz and Rinse and remixed for Mr. Fingers, Lee Scratch Perry, the Junior Boys, Battles and Dabrye/MF Doom among others.
His book ‘Sonic Warfare’ was published on MIT Press in 2010 and with AUDINT he co-edited the book ‘Unsound: Undead’ for Urbanomic Press in 2019. He has produced numerous installations, and his sound designs have also been presented as part of the Hyundai commission at the Tate Modern (2018) and the Barbican ‘AI: More than Human’ in London (2019).

DJ Haram is an electronic music producer, multi-disciplinary propagandist, and self described anti-format DJ, originally from New Jersey currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Stylistically versatile, Haram is known for her eclectic production and djing – experimental bass and club music; analogue synths and percussion; abrasive, noise adjacent rap collaborations; weaving in Middle Eastern instrumentation and samples. She also makes up half of ‘700 Bliss,’ a hip hop/noise project with Moor Mother; the two released the critically acclaimed ‘Nothing to Declare’ in 2022.

মm. (read: mwo, just like the Bangla alphabet) is a DJ, curator and community organizer based in dhaka & vienna, working towards queer, BIPOC-focused dance-floors and tracing musical solidarities and exchanges rooted in the global South and its diasporas. Their mixes are all about percussions, rhythms, dance and nostalgia. They are founding members of the dhaka-based karkhana collective and vienna-based Spice Mixers.

Lucia Kagramanyan is a Vienna-based Dj also known as a host of NTS radio show Panorama Yerevan, which is showcasing solely Armenian music in its huge variety. Lucia is researching Armenian music and makes it accessible via one-hour episodes that focus either on different genres or moods, mixing together old and new recordings. Her balance between obscure and obvious and digger highlights as a selector and DJ can be heard on radio waves of Palestinian Radio Alhara, and past guest shows on Red Light Radio, Reform Radio Bristol, Rinse Fm, Operator Radio in Rotterdam, and others.

yarx is a Vienna-based DJ, born and raised in Turkey. Their sound blends bass music such as dubstep, grime and jungle with deconstructed club, and percussion-driven tracks with influences from Middle Eastern music. Always exploring new sonic territories, yarx builds sets with raw emotional intensity that drives the dance floor. With roots in classical music and cello, they bring an added depth and sensitivity to their approach.

E The Artist is a Nigerian-Irish multidisciplinary creator based between Dublin and Vienna.