listened. the magic happened.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The duo AFAR attempts to explore the paradox between the organic and the electronic.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Cello, enhanced. With Andi Otto, composing, performing, producing, and researching blend seamlessly into one another.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

With their own distinct styles yet perfectly in sync, Chicasso & BanzaiXX navigate across genres – raw, smooth, and full of soul.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

D’Monk (pronounced duh’munk) is an instrumentalist, producer and selector from London with heavy ties to Berlin. His music emanates the raw and the soulful — representing an eclectic collage of his influences — whether in the form of recorded songs, DJ sets or his body-stirring live performances.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Despite his relatively recent experience as a DJ, selector, and collector, Elio has an authentic style that take his listeners on a cosmic journey.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Pianist Daniel Borovitzky, who lives in Basel, has won several international piano competitions and has worked as a soloist with renowned orchestras.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The Detect Ensemble has set itself the task of creating content that combines the qualities of different art music worlds.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

In their 20-year band history, Dictaphone has played shows in over twenty countries, with festival appearances at Mutek, Transmediale, Unsound, Benicassim and many others.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The Slovenian cellist Ema Grčman is a young, curious artist who is interested in new sounds, interdisciplinary projects and cross-genre formats.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Improvisation is one of the pillars of Eva Geist, capable of transporting us on a cinematic musical journey between rarefied arpeggios, soft beats and space disco.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Inspired by Brazilian club culture and hip-hop, they mix breakbeats with catchy head-nodding rhythms and unexpected vocal drops.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The Junges Kammerorchester Baselland combines musical masterpieces with fresh ideas, performing both major orchestral works and innovative and rarely heard pieces.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

KL!T is a female music producer from Berlin who never plays the same live set twice, as she loves to create something entirely new each time.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

With Kai Schumacher, nothing meets nothing, because everything is already there. Classical music is there (he gained his concert exam at the Folkwang University of the Arts), punk is there, pop and minimal art, dancefloor and avant-garde.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Their DJ sets are more than just dancefloor experiences – they are musical narratives: surprising, layered, and driven by a global awareness of sound, identity, and movement.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The Krause French Horn Club has established itself in north-western Switzerland as a diverse ensemble offering a programme ranging from classical music to jazz and folk pieces.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

"soil" – still known under the old name "Mirrorange" in our printed program – is more than just a name...

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The Berlin siblings O/Y and KL!T deliver an energetic improvised electronic live set that ranges from minimal and dub techno to breaks and progressive.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Shimmering dust on downtempo beats, hypnotic grooves, dubby atmospheres and occasional emotional damage.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

A rave was never just a stage. It's a ritual. A resistance. A relief.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Ambient, textures, and drum’n’bass – Sevi blends contrasts into one mesmerizing journey.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The drum trio, led by Munich-based drummer and composer Simon Popp, plays its way through polyrhythmic structures with an incredible sense of timing and mood.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Sutsche play techno and house vinyls at 33 instead of 45 rpm, transforming the fast rhythms into slow, hypnotic grooves and the drop into a smooth, gliding moment.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Telephones, otherwise known for eclectic DJ sets spanning Balearic, proto-house, and cosmic sounds, embarks here on an experimental, mostly beatless journey through ambient, drone, classical, jazz, and global musical influences.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

TrickyJones plays dark sounds ranging from downtempo to dub techno.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The name of the ensemble refers to a Swiss city, but its composition is extremely international. The Turicum Quartet fuses diversity into a tonal unity that lingers long after the last chord has been played.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Tuğba & KWEKU from Schmusi Kollektiv play relaxed sounds.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

As a harpist, Vera Schnider maintains a broad repertoire. She regularly performs at festivals such as Early Music in York, Innsbruck, and Utrecht. Residencies have taken her to Stanford University and the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Ali Dada sounds like psychedelic guitars, horns and harps, lazy drums, rich double bass and blurred soundscapes – all run through the FX chain to see what comes out.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

With her distinct and hypnotic style, hypnoe explores a wide range of electronic sounds - from deep techno beats to trippy rhythms and mesmerising soundscapes.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

The Zurich Schmusi DJs will wrap you up in cosy sound wool.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

As a DJ, organiser, booker and passionate discoverer of new music, mishy misch strives to promote diversity in the scene. With her DJ sets, she creates a combination of music and stories where every beat has something to tell.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

Just like the molecular structures that inspired her name, the Zurich-based DJ and musician molekühl combines different facets into a fascinating new and whole.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

pokkas' sets take us on sonic journeys to acid, deep house and polyrhythmic beats and genres such as soul, disco, baile funk, break beat, hip hop and garage.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

sryxo & Flo Dalton are here to make our Sunday afterhour even sweeter.

19 July 2025
Holdenweid, Hölstein CH

With a keen ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm, the music of upsammy sculpts a certain perpetuity and spatiality, sliding across tempo scales, while retaining an organic touch as a gentle hum of nature digitized.