CTM 2026 - dissonate < > resonate

On the third of three nights by CTM Festival 2026, ABOPF opens the Berghain floor 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, Vv Pete fires razor-edged verses over gqom-soaked, drill-slung, baile-funk-flared beats. She appears alongside longtime collaborator UTILITY, the producer and Trackwork founder whose imprint champions cross-genre storytelling rooted in local scenes. Since the early 2020s, DJ Chad has been pushing juke rhythms and glitchy low-end into kinetic sets. Raised in the aftershock of footwork’s rise and the legacy of his father DJ Rashad, his chopped samples and skewed drums shape his own simmering take on the Chicago lineage. Guedra Guedra builds from Afrofuturist and decolonial ideas, shaping music where field recordings, hand percussion, ancient instruments, and electronics converse as equals. Valesuchi folds Latin America’s dense sonic tapestry into her idiosyncratic techno, fusing experimental electronics with regional percussion. JADA is a force across club and ballroom floor, sets moving from house and breakbeat to bass-forward club mutations threaded with R&B, rap, baile funk, and jazzy glow.

At Säule, transmediale × CTM invite you to an intertropical convergence zone where impulses from both hemispheres collide and intertwine. Microhm's sets move like slow-burning rituals: bass murmurs, shadows rearrange themselves, and then the path veers off into tangled ambient detours and glitch-frayed Latin rhythms. Dengue Dengue Dengue sit at the pulsating heart of Lima's club mutations, treating cumbia, dub, and bass music like elastic neon. Budots inventor DJ Love brings the hyper-energetic club sound of the Philippines to the Säule: heavy bass, flying whistles, street-born sound effects, and cheeky rhythmic collisions whirl together at breakneck speed. Aunty Razor from Lagos fires off her bars in English and Yoruba over gqom grit, industrial clanging, and hip-hop structures, transforming dance floors into arenas of defiance and sharp-tongued humor. She will be accompanied on the decks by Catu Diosis this evening. Clementaum collides baile funk, tribal house, techno, and Latin American rhythms with ballroom spirit in bright, fast-paced mosaics centered on identity, celebration, and beautifully untamed joy. Miss Tacacá closes the night with a futuristic vision of Brazilian club music.