CTM 2026 - dissonate < > resonate

CTM Festival 2026 gathers a spectrum of voices reflecting today’s tangled realities across three nights at Berghain and additional Berlin venues. On the main floor, ABOPF opens with fluid shifts between bass weight, ambient drift, and fractured IDM. Pain Magazine (Birds in Row × Maelstrom × Louisahhh) channel harsh guitars, circuit pulses, and raw vocals in support of Violent God. Finlay Shakespeare drives modular electronics and brute rhythms with urgent, noise-flecked pop structures. King Yosef delivers industrialised hardcore marked by sharp textures and heavy distortion. Youth Code present EBM fused with hardcore, metal, and industrial, celebrating their new EP Yours, With Malice. White Prata fires high-energy blends of hardcore, gabber, acid dub, and hard baile, while Marylou b2b Fukinsei crackle through dub, footwork, jungle, and hard-rave mutations.

In Panorama Bar, Guedra Guedra braids African field recordings, percussion, ancient instruments, and electronic pulses from his album Mutant. Vv Pete, joined by longtime collaborator UTILITY, raps over gqom-, drill-, and baile funk-shaped productions. Valesuchi presents her new album with techno shaped by experimental electronics and Latin American percussion. JADA fuses house, breakbeat, bass, R&B, rap, and diaspora rhythms, while DJ Chad reframes juke-rooted, glitch-driven bass with his own simmering touch.

In Säule, DJ Love introduces Philippines-born budots, Aunty Razor fires English/Yoruba bars over club-rap hybrids, and Microhm crafts ritualistic, dark, and glitch-driven journeys.

More acts tbc.