Jana Woodstock, Evicshen, Codex Empire, Mike Nylons, Busy Action, Tiredpurple, GNEVER, Tucibi Das WERK, 22.04.'23

♅ JANA WOODSTOCK (UA)

https://soundcloud.com/ja-na-woodstock

 Jana Woodstock is a Kyiv-based electronic DJ, currently located in Berlin, who gains more and more attention from around the world. She started with heavy banging techno selections and gradually expanded her music choice with more colors of dark – EBM and noisy industrial tracks, adding some more slow and trancy melodies, now more concentrating on electro and own music production. Jana is a resident and founder of SNAKES (Kyiv/Montreal) and CXEMA party series and frequently plays on the biggest electronic festivals of Ukraine.

♅ EVICSHEN (US)

https://evicshen.bandcamp.com/

Victoria Shen a.k.a. Evicshen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and inventor based in San Francisco. Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the materiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Shen’s music eschews conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones.

♅ MIKE NYLONS (HU)

https://mikenylons.bandcamp.com/

Mike Nylons is the electronic music moniker of visual artist János Borsos. Mike is active in the Hungarian scene since the early 2000s. He is working in genres ranging from experimental to noise techno – he co-founded the art collectives The Corporation, Lőrinc Borsos and Legion. With his comrades he is organizing exhibitions and thematic events which combine installative arts with live electronic music in the mines of Art Quarter Budapest.

♅ CODEX EMPIRE

https://soundcloud.com/codexempire

Since 2014, Codex Empire has built an international reputation for dark and intense techno productions and live shows. Mahk Rumbae – the British born, Vienna based producer behind Codex Empire – has been creating challenging experimental electronic music for more than 30 years working as one half of industrial/experimental band Konstruktivists as well as a number of varied solo and side-projects. Combining this background in dark electronic music with heavy rhythmic elements makes Codex Empire an intense and simultaneously danceable experience both live and on record.

♅ TIREDPURPLE

https://tiredpurple.bandcamp.com/

Tiredpurple is a Vienna–based industrial and darkwave artist. With a unique blend of hard–hitting drums, haunting melodies and gritty vocals, Tiredpurple has created a signature sound that captivates both die–hard fans and new listeners alike.

♅ GNEVER 

https://gnever.bandcamp.com/

GNEVER (Laura Hatting, also known as Mariähymen die Ekelhafte or DJ Pechmarie/fuck off and die) centers around experiences and expressions of violence, and in doing so, refuses to adapt to limitations such as genre or ingroup language.

♅ TUCIBI

https://soundcloud.com/tucibi2

The artist, producer and DJ Büsra Arli aka Tucibi is active in the Viennese underground since the 2020s. Her DJ-sets feature styles ranging from mesmerizing Techno to hypnotic Acid, often shifting over to Hardcore, House, and Trance.

♅ GREENSEQUENCE (hosted by Busy Action)

https://soundcloud.com/greensequence93

In his eyes, Gabber is the Punk movement of the electronic music scene. The freedom of being yourself as long as there is always respect to the people next to you. Raised with the pearls of 60s & 70s ‘Rock N’ Roll’ Greensequence was given at 11 years old a hard drive full of music from his cousin, where he first came into contact with Hardcore. He quickly became obsessed with this sound and started digging between all the subgenres, where the industrial and early hardcore mainly got his attention.

♅ DJ JACKHAMMER (Busy Action)

https://soundcloud.com/djjackhammer

DJ Jackhammer (former: Frau Chef) is a gabber DJ from hell (Vienna). She is founding member of the early hardcore/millenium/terror collective Busy Action.

♅ RELATIC (Busy Action)

https://soundcloud.com/dj_relatic

Hardcore technician-electrician from a house in the ghetto. DJ and producer based in Vienna. Widely known in narrow circles. He is one of the founding members of the Early & Millenium Hardcore collective Busy Action.

♅ DISTORTINA (Busy Action)

https://soundcloud.com/tina-en-ckl

In Vienna’s hardcore gabber scene, Distortina is a dreadnaught with a passion for early tunes. As one of the founders of the event series Hardcore penetration she has a passion for early/ millennium hardcore and terror as well as frenchcore music.