festival 2022

The AFAR duo explores the in-between of organic and electronic. In some tracks, AFAR builds danceable rhythms backed by haunting vocals. In others, the band creates ambient moments consisting of multi-instrumental soundscapes.

The duo Ameli Paul stands for an infectious electronic sound that ranges from cinematic excursions to pop-like song structures. Synthesizers, field recordings, vocals and guitars combine to create infectious dance tunes.

When Amorizont puts the floppy disk into the disk drive, the rendezvous becomes a listening party. Or a dance dichaus. Or both. With intuition, a good ear and dramaturgical ambition, he tells stories that stay with you. Two players, one microphone. Amorizont Juggles with words and tracks, In a ...

Anastasia Kobekina is considered one of the most promising cellists of her generation. She made her debut as a soloist with orchestra at the age of six. Since then, she has performed with many outstanding orchestras such as the Moscow Virtuosi, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Warsaw ...

AVEM is on a mission: to break musical boundaries. The Basel native is part of the LOKD family, which is not only a renowned label, but also hosts unique events. His repertoire includes electronica, dark driving techno, but also funky house. The storytelling of ...

bAMBI&ENTe place the texture of sound itself at the center of composing and the ability to create virtual acoustic spaces with electronics. Slowly morphing soundscapes accommodate many levels of listening attention without forcing one. Immersion is the real ...

B.Clarke is a young Chilean woman who has been living in Berlin for 8 years. In 2020 she started to DJ at different festivals and parties. Her goal is to create a balance between deep house, minimal house, climax, landscapes, memories and joy - in short: Happy Vibes!

Blindsmyth is a musical globetrotter - in his live sets he takes us on a journey of discovery between deep electronic soundscapes and experimental pop music. In this sound universe, almost everything grows from acoustic roots.

After sold-out concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris, London's St. Johns At Hackney and the Elbphilharmonie, Christian Löffler comes to the Detect Classic Festival to present his latest album "Parallels: Shellac Reworks by Christian Löffler" ...

Cesco Manfredi will present two different musical identities during the festival days: On Friday, he will open WeltRaum as Fredi, presenting a journey through global bass music: East African rhythms, Brazilian and Portuguese funk and experimental ...

Cummi Flu is the latest persona from ever-changing multi-media illusionist Oliver Doerell. The Brussels-based analog electronics pioneer was the driving force behind previous incarnations Dictaphone and SWOD, and embodies Raz Ohara's Odd Orchestra. With Cummi Flu, Doerell explores ...

Damian Dalla Torre is a freelance tenor saxophonist, composer and producer who works in a wide range of improvised and experimental music. After a bachelor's degree at the Konservatorium Wien ...

No mountain too high, no path too far. Dave loves danger and danger loves him. His daredevil nature pours into the suspensory depths of his sound worlds in a brilliant way, only to be pulled through the cocoa once and back again. He can't take a joke, music is ...

Daniela Schott Correa (aka María Güera), part of the Hütte Collective, is a multidisciplinary artist from Santiago de Chile living in Berlin. She works in theater and music as an actress and singer, and has recently started working as a DJ, creating hybrid and ...

Live electronic and acoustic length, visible feel with an electronically expanded sound spectrum, and classical roots with experimental elements. With backgrounds in contemporary music, classical music and jazz, the six ensemble members explore musical avenues of communication: the ...

DJ and producer "DJ Jetski" has come a long way since arriving in Berlin 10 years ago with nothing but a vision and a giraffe costume. Through many pseudonyms and genres, the giraffe has finally made his way to his very own blend of groove-driven ...

Sounds deep from inside comets, where you take walks in the woods with a thick fir tree for company. An ambient set for introspection on the dance floor, the use of light and finally meditation in a bathtub.

An international team of researchers has found out that a glass of Prosecco a day is not only very healthy, but above all very little. Therefore, we recommend for understandable reasons to enjoy the performance of ELIZEN THE EMPEROR the consumption of at least two ...

Ensemble Momentum was founded in 2018 by young musicians with the vision of overcoming borders through music and creating spaces for encounters. The ensemble pursues an interdisciplinary approach and seeks dialogue with other art forms. Thus, collaborations with ...

Inspired by Berlin's experimental music scene and years of working at the Berlin Atonal Festival, Fear Of Color creates his very own experimental journey away from the four-to-the-floor techno tracks he usually sends through a stereo as a DJ. Guided by feelings and ...

Gina Sabatini is known for her hypnotic downbeat and slowhouse sets. She has a diverse musical background, but her passion has always been the dance floor. Gina tells melodic, deep stories - but it's all about the groove. After 10 years in ...

The Berlin multi-talent Gun!lla makes music in her very own way. Is it magic? She creates her sounds intuitively, sometimes building an entire live set in a single week. In doing so, Gun!lla is minimalist and profound, often experimental and accompanied by a lush baseline ...

Composer and performer Hainbach creates shifting soundscapes that THE WIRE calls "One hell of a trip." The Berliner has been fascinated by electronic sounds ever since he discovered the dial on the radio. He has never lost his childlike sense of wonder and is still searching for the ...

Hans Arnold is a composer and musician from Leipzig. He mainly plays drums in the fields of experimental, improvised and independent music. In his solo project he combines a Wurlitzer piano with a prepared bass drum combined by live looping to a single ...

JakoJako works mainly with modular synthesizers. Last year she released her debut EP with Leisure System, an ode to Berlin, her home city and the techno capital. She works at SchneidersLaden, one of the best-known stores for modular synthesiser equipment.

JOIA's sound lies somewhere between cosmic collapse and nocturnal intimacy, between orchestral pageantry and fragile chamber music. Over the past seven years, JOIA has toured Europe with various slow techno and deep house projects, playing a variety of renowned clubs and ...

The junge norddeutsche philharmonie is the classical music collective in the north and the house orchestra of the Detect Classic Festival. Year after year, musicians between the ages of 18 and 27 from all over Germany travel to northern Germany to perform between ...

Everything about KID BE KID is remarkable. Before she appeared on stage, it was hard to imagine an artist playing four instruments simultaneously without a loop station, grooving and touching to the extreme, and splitting her voice into multiple notes. She embodies coolness and vulnerability, ...

Komfortrauschen is a live band from Berlin that creates the powerful sound of a techno DJ set in their very own analog way with traditional instruments, filtered through an impressive array of pedals and effects. Imagine a punk band playing a drum machine in a ...

Laura Weider will perform her latest piano piece Earth * Earth. A tribute to our sensitive planet and its nature, and continuation of her of her 40-hour improvisation concert in 2009. Look forward to spherical notations and gentle snapshots on the piano. With Earth * Earth live. Current ...

He/Him/It Born in Italy, based in Berlin since 2013. A former street drummer, now a polyhedral selector, he has always been a voracious music collector. His mixes are a track-to-track journey through parallel universes that bring the ritual of listening and dancing to music, sound or any ...

Music can be aggressive, healthy, crazy, wild, calm, angry, passionate, mysterious, bewitching, sensitive, sexy. It soothes, heals, strengthens, inspires. Jumping between different genres gives Mala & Rebella a multi-perspective view of music. In their sets ...

Dreamy fox with a passion for sounds and surfaces, thick beats and vibrations that set the body and mind in motion. Here and there times free and go crazy, prefer with smooth sounds just drive down the heartbeat...always on the trail search for relaxed atmosphere, ...

With his music Manuelo tries to make people deal with different moods, his musical research is closely related to feelings. He likes to mix genres, destabilize, lose people in a deeply romantic piece of music, only to ...

The very talented, very smart and very good looking siblings Clara (vocals, violin, synthesizer) and Moritz Thorbecke (perc, guitar, bass) founded MO ET MOI in 2013. Their wide range of musical influences invites you to dance and fall in love. Every sound you hear will ...

Niklas will play songs from his debut album Tuur Mang Welten to his new track Riva. He will take you on a little journey with sweet and melancholic piano lines crossing with the electronic side of Niklas' productions. In the live set Niklas will also perform some new ...

A disciple of grunge guitar, Nonstans weaves rave punk with heavy electronic bass into his sets. The breakbeat kisses the offbeat in the pit of the stomach and everything flows into world-spanning, intoxicating echoes. Usually on the road along the Baltic Sea beaches, this time he is DJing at Fetten Elke, a ...

The electro-acoustic live band combines the warmth and fragility of acoustic instruments with the precision and energy of electronic music: danceable and nuanced at the same time, inspired by techno, world music and jazz. The multi-faceted arrangements leave room for improvisation and take the audience ...

Finding beauty where you would not immediately expect it. Discovering music where there was only sound. Forming an orchestra from everyday life, from the incidental the main thing, from the mundane togetherness the fulfilling momentary relationship. All this is part of the goal, meaning and character of Oh No ...

Paul Hendrik Muschner lives and works as a musician, DJ, producer, sound designer and sound engineer in Leipzig and Berlin. His music is always shaped with the intention to give the listener and himself space and time, for self-knowledge ...

Phil Paruschke is a Berlin-based thoroughbred musician, engineer and producer. In his diverse productions, he hunts for sweet spots of sound and delicate combinations of styles. His DJ sets are fuelled by the sound of various early US and UK underground breaks and house grooves ...

Pokka is always digging up new sounds - in the breadth of genres, as well as in the depth of emotions. Her sets move lightly between downtempo, electronica, house and hip hop. Whether bodies on the dance floor or pointed ears listening to her mixtapes, she wants everyone to experience something ...

How does music in its diversity manage to touch our hearts? As a collector, music and vinyl lover, Qim has been exploring this question for years. He creates atmospheric sound worlds, along different styles and decades and invites us on a common journey to dream. Always ...

Actress, singer, director and Chilean researcher. She has developed a form of bodily practice and different approaches to the scene from the perspective of the body. As a director, she explores and questions the ...

Singer-songwriter, street musician and life artist. A mixture of soulful voice, rap and a large portion of freedom.

Schwester Leichtfuß opens up spaces to wind down, dive in, immerse yourself and fly. With her DJ sets of slow beats, organic sounds and magical melodies, she takes you on a journey into the here and now.

Just as a shepherd drives his sheep collectively to a better place, so this Shepherd gently leads his flock on a journey of his own making. Originally from Slovenia, currently based in Berlin and at home in music that is deep and driven, Shepherd has a knack for ...

Vinyl lovers. Free of genres. Without hesitation. Shirol loves the complexity of music and silence. For him, mixing music is like a rally race!

There are few people who bring such an original house sound. Hamburg's Martin Stimming has done just that at a relatively young age, developing a sophisticated yet accessible sound. His productions are filled with a variety of his own unique, ...

Berlin DJ, part of the Hütte collective and Bass Global Project. 90s kid and nourished by the influences of this decade, navigating between (Italo)Disco, House, Acid House, trancy 90s as well as Afrobeats.

SKILLS is the new concept album by German composer Sven Helbig. Horns, string quartet and electronics make up the sound of this melancholic hymn to man's ability to adapt to extreme circumstances and develop skills to ...

Improband from Leipzig. Floating, cosmopolitan grooves and melodies, funk, jazz, reggae, West African and more.

What is this canon, who establishes it - and what awaits us when we dissolve it? This is the question the junge norddeutsche philharmonie is asking itself this year. And not only to themselves! They also want to hear from Cymin Samawatie and Ketan Bhatti from the ...

With their bass music they smash the dancefloors and encourage everyone to not take themselves so seriously and to dedicate themselves to their nostalgia and their inner mackers instead. If the crowd is up to this challenge, it gets bold, rough and sinister again in the end. Thereby remains under_pleasure ...

The Trio Werken dedicates its work to freely improvised music. Against the background of the musicians' different emphases in the fields of jazz, classical music, radio play and sound poetry, the interest in energy flows in free improvisation serves as a unifying element. In the ...

The duo (Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers) hails from Amsterdam, where they have cultivated a unique sound that balances energetic electronic jazz and soulful synth arrangements with bold, beautifully composed melodies and songwriting. Due to the pandemic enforced ...