Detect Classic Festival 2026

Journeys into the subconscious and the unknown. Symphonies, shoegaze and jazz. Rituals, layers, meditations and textures. The eighth Detect programme invited attendees to immerse themselves in the music, to focus, to embrace the silence and to let go, before sailing off into new worlds on a wave of sound. What a trip to Focus Island.

see the walking acts and installations during the festival

Live Act

.VRIL

Abundantly moving at the outer edges of electronic music, VRIL's music is equally timeless and ahead of its time.

Live Act

AFAR & Kai Schumacher

Analogue synthesisers meet classical piano; delicate melodies meet pulsating beats. A hypnotic pull that breaks down rigid structures and opens up new spaces. Playing by its own rules.

Live Act

Aladin & Neam

Neam's classical heritage on the harp and Aladin’s experimental electronic setup give rise to a unique intersection, deeply inspired by the musical landscapes of North Africa and South Asia.

Aladin – Balout Krew

Rooted in Palestine and shaped between cities and borders, Aladin's selections echo family gatherings, crowded markets, wedding dance floors, and long drives with the radio turned all the way up.

Performance

Alessia D'Isanto & Sophie Prins

Through their collaboration “The Glitter Was A Lie”, Alessia D'Isanto and Sophie Prins bring dynamic live dance installations to clubs, festivals, and unexpected spaces.

Performance

Andreas Schmidt

The work of Andreas Schmidt is characterized by musical precision, emotional depth, and a clear movement language, which has established him as both a dancer and a creative force in the international contemporary dance scene.

Ani Gollas

Ani is a children’s educator. Her great passion is singing together. In the children’s singing group, everyone is invited to discover the joy of making music together through songs, movement and rhythm.

Performance

Atelier der Erfahrung

Atelier der Erfahrung understands theatre as a dialogue between stage and audience.

B.Clarke & Robosonic

If the stars align, B.Clarke and Robosonic hit the decks together. In their case: deep house, disco, classics, water and glitter.

Balearic Brandenburg

Favourite records, curious discoveries and a constant sense of curiosity come together in an ever-expanding sonic universe – sometimes dreamy, sometimes euphoric, sometimes beautifully strange.

Live Act

Barbara Dragan

Barbara Dragan brings together orchestral precision, baroque inspiration and theatrical thinking – from the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony to international debuts.

Installation

Barbara Niño (Badania)

Illustration as a space for learning, exchange and collective creativity.

Benedikt Frey

Benedikt Frey stands for: Driving ones. Slow drills. The music plays day and night. Inspiration comes. From a simple kick drum. A movie sequence. A bird on the sill. A picture, totally still.

Birne

Birne’s record collection is heavily influenced by Chicago house and Detroit techno, with a touch of minimalism. This ensures she always brings a great groove to her sets.

Live Act

Bison Rouge

Bison Rouge dives into electronic, modern folk, and classical with her captivating cello and voice.

CANCELLED: Manuelo von Beruf

Unfortunately, Manuelo won’t be able to join us in 2026 due to work commitments. We look forward to seeing you next year!

Cesco Manfredi

DJ and party curator Cesco Manfredi moves between hypnotic house and techno, crafting sets that balance raw sensuality with emotional depth.

Live Act

Chow Chow Disco

Jarrah Dhyan and Sara Vidal Cabré create performances that feel like stepping into a fever dream: absurd characters, tangled love stories, driving grooves, and sequined chaos.

Cosmo

Cosmo is a South Korean, Berlin-based DJ and producer whose sound is shaped by hypnotic repetition, emotional subtlety, and a deep sense of groove.

DJ Jetski

DJ Jetski takes ravers on a wavy ride through the world of motorised music sports.

DWR

DWR (Das Weiße Rauschen) digs up psychedelic, offbeat gems and cosmic, cloud-like musical treasures, weaving them into eclectic DJ sets.

Live Act

Damian Dalla Torre

Damian Dalla Torre explores contemporary jazz, ambient music and experimental pop, combining acoustic instrumentation with subtle electronic processing and textural composition.

David Fogarty

As a DJ, Fogarty is often described as a surgical selector. His sets are praised for their narrative arc and precision.

Performance

David Popescu

A walking act.

Live Act

Detect Ensemble

The music of the Detect Ensemble ranges from noise and fusion to minimal music, and through improvisation weaves itself into colourful, at times surprisingly witty yet profound sonic journeys.

Performance & Workshop

Deva Schubert

Together with performance artist Chihiro Araki, Deva Schubert will be presenting her award-winning performance "Glitch Choir" at Detect.

Live Act

Earth Trax

Earth Trax mixes IDM, breakbeat and trance, with echoes of chill-out rooms.

Elise and That Guy

The Italian-Greek duo Elise and That Guy move effortlessly between progressive breaks, electro, tech house and minimal, drawing their sound from a shared record collection.

Live Act

Ensemble Quillo

With his mobile stage, LandQultour, Quillo has been creating unusual encounters with contemporary music since 2019: colourful, surprising and entertaining.

FAISRZ3LL3N

Slow grooves, analog oddities and synth-heavy sounds from the golden age of electronic music to today.

Fear of Color

Moving between hypnotic techno and immersive ambient, Fear of Color creates sonic spaces that shift perception. His work is driven less by genre than by atmosphere, emotion and experience.

Live Act

Felix Jedeck

Felix Jedeck is a cellist, composer and live electronics performer driven by the urge to push the boundaries of his instrument and explore genres not as opposites, but as spaces of friction.

Fog Puma

In Fog Puma’s music, different styles often intertwine, and predictability gives way to mind-expanding moments of surprise.

Performance

Freemotion Performance Crew

The Freemotion Performance Crew stands for improvisation, expression and the pure joy of letting loose.

Performance

Frida Zack

Central themes in Frida Zack’s work are the deconstruction and emancipation from (cis-hetero-)normative inscriptions and conditioning.

Live Act

Giorgi Gigashvili

Mixing Georgian folk songs with classical pieces, Giorgi Gigashvili offers one-of-a-kind experimental formats where the classics meet modernity

Workshop

Giovanna di Filippo

Giovanna di Filippo Vargas combines visual theatre, storytelling and movement to create spaces for encounter, expression and new perspectives.

Live Act

Gregor A. Mayrhofer

Gregor A. Mayrhofer has made a name for himself worldwide as a conductor and composer with unconventional concert programmes. At Detect 2026, he will conduct the Kairos Kollektiv.

Workshop

Gustavo

Gustavo is running a sound workshop on the Kids Floor.

Live Act

Hatis Noit

For Hatis Noit, music represents the ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious.

Heronymuz

Sound as a journey, rhythm as a language. Heronymuz crafts immersive sonic stories where dancing meets dreaming, moving effortlessly between delicate melodies, playful rhythms and powerful bass.

Hyperaktivist

Blending groove-ridden techno, psychedelic-tinged trance and rhapsodic old- school house, Hypaktivist's percussive persuasion ricochets through her every endeavour.

Performance

Häuflein Elend

As part of a collaborative writing project, Ann Esswein and Sebastian van Vugt created a radio essay for Deutschlandfunk in which they ask: What if shame did not exist.

Live Act

Hélène Vogelsinger

Every place becomes a territory of resonance, a sensitive ecosystem that influences Hélène Vogelsinger's music, movements, and perception of time.

INTERNET.MP3

INTERNET.MP3 is the latest project from DJ and software engineer Juanpe Bolívar, whose kaleidoscopic and irreverent sets celebrate metamodernism in the digital post-club age.

Live Act

Jalikebba Kuyateh

Blending traditional and modern African music, Jalikebba Kuyateh presents the joyful, solemn and progressive sounds of his kora to the world.

Jascha Hagen

Colourful harmonies and melancholic atmospheres flow over repetitive layers of percussion, constantly striving to find the right balance of chaos and disorder in the world of computer music.

Performance

Jasper Jonas

Jasper Jonas is performing a superhero fairy tale on the Kids’ Floor.

Jesse Steele

Jesse is driven by a profound curiosity about the world and the people in it – a curiosity that shines through in his diverse and deeply emotive track selections.

John Crosby

John Crosby is the name of a guy from Atlanta who's been collecting records and throwing parties for years, usually with an ear towards proper underground techno, house, and bass music.

Live Act

Jozef van Wissem

Jozef van Wissem combines Renaissance and Baroque lute with drone, electronics, and minimalism. His hypnotic soundscapes move between meditation and dark intensity.

Live Act

Kairos Kollektiv

In this year’s programme, the Kairos Collective will be performing under the direction of Gregor A. Mayrhofer. For their concert performance, they are collaborating with the dancers Andreas Schmidt and Pascal Schmidt.

Live Act

Koki Nakano

Koki Nakano is a composer and pianist known for his evocative solo works and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Live Act

LEILA & Band

LEILA invites us to delve into her emotional world, where vulnerability meets strength and authenticity matters more than perfection.

Live Act

Lennart Smidt

Lennart Smidt is a jazz pianist, composer and producer. His music blends composed and improvised elements.

Live Act

Los Sara Fontan

A fearless mix of influences—as disparate as classical music, hardcore punk, noise, IDM, or electroacoustic sound—serves as fuel for the development of the language of Los Sara Fontan.

Performance

Lux · gewebe

At the heart of Lux’s work lie recurring questions about queerness, complexity and kinaesthetic resonance. This year, Lux is presenting the walking act ‘Gewebe’.

Live Act

MONKyMAN

Through his music, MONKyMAN aims to explore the sonic voice of a modern and vital generation full of natural beauty and courage.

MOTHA

Who cares? MOTHA, not your Mother!

Live Act

Machineries

Machineries is a kind of synthesis of the past & future, a scenario of cosmic chaos, krautrock passages, and web-disco revelations.

Malagüera & Supersonico

Hütte residents Malagüera and Supersonico invite you to a b2b full of energy, rhythm and attitude.

Live Act

Maria Bertel

Maria Bertel is a Danish trombone player and composer. The acoustic sound of her amplified instrument creates an output that draws inspiration from drone and noise music.

Workshop

Maria Kobylenko

Maria Kobylenko explores how fungal networks can reshape the way we think about living together. Through art, design and mycelium, she creates spaces where biology meets society.

Matrix Mother

Matrix Mother's sets favor deep grooves, narrative shifts, and texture over genre loyalty.

Live Act

Maximilian Wolfgang Schwarz

Das neue Multi-Percussion-Soloprogramm von Maximilian Wolfgang Schwarz ist ein faszinierender Dialog aus treibenden Grooves, zeitgenössischer Klassik und experimenteller Elektronik.

Melancholinchen

Melancholinchen plays a blend of jazz, soul and trip hop that invites you to linger and listen.

MiMotze

DJ at Liquide Hörbar.

MishyMize

What began as a brief meeting at Fusion Festival has grown into a shared musical journey. Today, mishy misch and sk.mize weave their stories together in immersive back-to-back sets.

Workshop

Monalice

Monalice’s work is inspired by various movement practices, bodywork and Gestalt therapy.

NICI PALM

With sharp intuition and a raw feel for the moment, Nici Palm crafts immersive DJ sets that fuse indie dance, synthpunk, wave, and techno into a dark, seductive flow.

Live Act

Nils Wogram

The music of Nils Wogram may be complex, yet its inherent beauty and warmth—despite all its formal rigor—are also immensely relaxing for the listener.

Performance

Pascal Schmidt

Pascal Schmidt explores the intersection of dance, activism, and queer BIPoC perspectives.

Performance

Perish Bordell

Bizarre constructions, sound collages and physically expressive performance.

Phil Parush

As a long-term companion to Detect, Phil Parush brings that breezy, timeless underground house with hazy and groovy feel to the table.

Plattenafine

Plattenaffine is known for her sprawling, extended sets; she doesn't just play music, she curates an evolving, living ecosystem on the floor.

Performance

Ponyclub

Ponyclub is all about political and entertaining circus. Founded in 2023, the company blends elements of theatre, acrobatics, speech and dance.

PullenPenny

A bit of disco and a bit of trance and everything is a bit dirty. Guaranteed to get young and old fidgeting, even if you thought you didn't like techno, let alone psytrance.

Live Act

Pulsar Trio

The Pulsar Trio is driven by the same goal and acting perfectly together almost like a single organism.

RAVEKA

Rivka aka RAVEKA plays an ambient set consisting of everyday sounds, electronic and world music sounds, her own lyrics and those of others.

Radio Reudnitz

At Radio Reudnitz, quirky pop gems, light-hearted ballads, captivating ambient music and anything that doesn’t quite fit neatly into a particular genre find their way onto the turntables.

Rafush

Rafush's sets weave Afro-diasporic rhythms, experimental electronics and percussive club music into narrative journeys that blur genre boundaries.

Live Act

Robot Koch

Robot Koch & Detect Ensemble present a fascinating blend of cinematic electronica, contemporary classical music and immersive soundscapes.

Live Act

Roman Rofalski

Roman Rofalski rooted his musical life in the urge for constant change. He is aiming to remove the artificial boundaries that lie between composed, classical music and improvised, modern jazz.

Live Act

Ronja Sophie Putz

Blending violin, voice and prepared sound, Ronja Sophie Putz creates fragile sonic worlds that unfold between silence, experimentation and poetic intensity.

Ronni Chicago

Ronni Chicago blends Global Bass, Tech House and Ecstatic Dance into a two-hour, genre-defying journey where the only goal is to keep you moving.

Schätzchenkiste

DJ from Liquide Hörbar.

Workshop

Secret Losers

The Secret Losers bring together their experiences from theatre, circus and activism to create spaces where everyone is invited to fully embrace their inner loser.

Workshop

Silvia Seidel

Ethnologist Silvia Seidel explores how music, nature, and Indigenous cultures can inspire a slower, more mindful way of living.

Sirol

Sirol brings a rotating palette of Techno, House, Breakbeat, Elektro and Acid to the dance floor — stripped-back, hypnotic, unapologetic.

Live Act

Sophie-Justine Herr

Sophie-Justine Herr performs pieces from her album »:INNEN«, all of which were composed by women.

Spanani

DJ from Liquide Hörbar.

SpontanaMo

SpontanaMos Mixes verbinden Zufall und Seele und führen die Zuhörenden durch parallele Musikuniversen.

Live Act

Svaneborg Kardyb

The Danish duo Svaneborg Kardyb craft intricate, cyclical compositions that balance introspective warmth with an underlying sense of movement.

Sélavy

Sélavy spent a decade shapeshifting from hypnotic minimal into driving, groove-laden techno — a sound that keeps shedding its skin.

TALI

In her sets, TALI blends warm soundscapes, deep bass, abstract sounds, and meditative rhythms into an evocative whole.

Live Act

THX I'M CURED

THX I'M CURED move through the spaces in between. They become resonating bodies for the contradictions of contemporary society. Their music doesn't seek resolution. Fragile. Dissonant. Danceable. Uncompromising.

Team Kante

Psychedelic rock crackling from the grooves. Carefully curated sound between welding torch and turntable – made for drifting away and burning out.

Live Act

Thilo Ruck

Thilo Ruck explores approaches to a “New Virtuosity”—that is, the question of how contemporary virtuosity can unfold within the tension between idiomatic mastery, individual sonic signature, aesthetic considerations, and the social relevance of art.

Installation

Tom Kretschmer

In his work, Tom Kretschmer interprets the interrelationships within ecosystems and explores natural processes, relying on the analogue process in which nature remains unpredictable.

Live Act

VAIAA

VAIAA moves between electronic soundscapes, Nubian musical influences, ambient textures, and contemporary vocal performance.

Live Act

Vincent Pongracz

Vincent Pongracz presents a minimalist, acoustic solo program characterized by high-pitched soundscapes in deep resonant spaces, alternating with multi-layered rhythmic textures.

Vy Tran

Vy Tran's sets span the full spectrum of techno: deep and hypnotic to pushing and energetic, textured and complex to simple and direct.

Live Act

XIVIS · ⵅⵉⵖⵉⵙ

With a mix of influences from Andean Music, Folklore, Shoegaze and Rock., XIVIS proposes a ritual that is dedicated to our bodies, to nature and to the sacred spirits that live within it.

Live Act

aantz & O/Y

Electronic live act based in berlin. Analog, percussive, deep, loop-heavy.

Live Act

jnkammer

The chamber music ambassadors of the junge norddeutsche philharmonie will once again be pleasing your ears with intermezzi and small concerts this year.

Live Act

joke

joke see themeselves as an alternative: an ensemble that does not ask how to access classical music, but rather where it can take place.

Live Act

junge norddeutsche philharmonie

Whether it’s a traditional symphonic concert or the development of experimental formats, the junges norddeutsche philharmonie is versatile in its approach and offers its musicians a wide range of opportunities.

makahaun

makahaun moves between detroit techno and more contemporary influences from electro to house, breakbeat and bass music.

pokka

pokka's sets are built on emotion, musicality and the collective joy of dancefloor immersion.

sandix

Acid techno, old skool house, a bit of hardtekk, a pinch of breaks. sandix invites you to dance.

Live Act

t0ni

t0ni's productions convey raw emotions through carefully crafted melodies and loops stripped down to their essence seeking a subtle ever-shifting minimalistic balance.

Performance

trans*embodied

A laid-back performance about support, love and care, but also the challenges faced by the trans* community.

truephil

truephil embarks on a journey through his vinyl collection – across genres, past the shelves, towards tracks you haven’t heard yet but are sure to love.

Installation

Lara Juste & Arne Lutsch · like a fish in the water

An immersive installation for children and adults that playfully invites visitors to engage with the climate crisis.

Workshop

Vladimira Valkova · collages

Vladimira’s creative station offers a small oasis for making, slowing down and recharging.

Performance

Luana & Kilian · die kunst des gabelns

In this participatory performance, Luana and Kilian invite festival visitors to try “forking” for themselves: finding sticks, slotting them together and balancing them.

Performance

Post Office

At our festival post office on the Kokon Floor, you’ll find everything you need to start writing straight away. We’d love for you to get involved.

Performance

Maerie C. Fricke · trying to reach out

Maerie C. Fricke’s work *trying to reach out* explores how relationships develop and what binds us together, even in the face of social pressure.

Performance

Lux · gewebe

At the heart of Lux’s work lie recurring questions about queerness, complexity and kinaesthetic resonance. This year, Lux is presenting the walking act ‘Gewebe’.

Installation

Johannes Kroeker & Lisa Herz

Water becomes sound, language and space. Johannes Kroeker and Lisa Herz create an immersive installation where poetry, memory and nature flow into one another.

Performance

Margarita Leonore · edeltraud listens

Handcrafted dream creatures at the intersection of puppetry, film, and fantastical material worlds.

Consent

.VRIL

AFAR & Kai Schumacher

Aladin & Neam

Aladin – Balout Krew

Alessia D'Isanto & Sophie Prins

Andreas Schmidt

Ani Gollas

Atelier der Erfahrung

B.Clarke & Robosonic

Balearic Brandenburg

Barbara Dragan

Barbara Niño (Badania)

Benedikt Frey

Birne

Bison Rouge

CANCELLED: Manuelo von Beruf

Cesco Manfredi

Chow Chow Disco

Cosmo

DJ Jetski

DWR

Damian Dalla Torre

David Fogarty

David Popescu

Detect Ensemble

Deva Schubert

Earth Trax

Elise and That Guy

Ensemble Quillo

FAISRZ3LL3N

Fear of Color

Felix Jedeck

Fog Puma

Freemotion Performance Crew

Frida Zack

Giorgi Gigashvili

Giovanna di Filippo

Gregor A. Mayrhofer

Gustavo

Hatis Noit

Heronymuz

Hyperaktivist

Häuflein Elend

Hélène Vogelsinger

INTERNET.MP3

Jalikebba Kuyateh

Jascha Hagen

Jasper Jonas

Jesse Steele

John Crosby

Jozef van Wissem

Kairos Kollektiv

Koki Nakano

LEILA & Band

Lennart Smidt

Los Sara Fontan

Lux · gewebe

MONKyMAN

MOTHA

Machineries

Malagüera & Supersonico

Maria Bertel

Maria Kobylenko

Matrix Mother

Maximilian Wolfgang Schwarz

Melancholinchen

MiMotze

MishyMize

Monalice

NICI PALM

Nils Wogram

Pascal Schmidt

Perish Bordell

Phil Parush

Plattenafine

Ponyclub

PullenPenny

Pulsar Trio

RAVEKA