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.

In Säule, transmediale × CTM invite to a night where sonic currents meet like winds in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, and where hemispheric pulses collide and braid. Microhm sets move like slow-burning rituals: bass murmurs, shadows rearrange, and then the path bends into scrambled ambient detours and Latin rhythms frayed with glitch. Dengue Dengue Dengue sit at the glowing heart of Lima’s club mutations, treating cumbia, dub, and bass music like elastic neon. DJ Love rewired his scene by producing the hypercharged pulse now known as budots: heavy bass, flying whistles, street-born sound effects, and cheeky rhythmic collisions churn at breakneck pace. Aunty Rayzor storms stages with a jagged, high-voltage blend of rap and electronic abrasion. Lagos in her bones and satire in her teeth, she fires vocals through gqom grit, industrial clang, and sideways hip-hop structures, turning dancefloors into arenas of defiance and sly humor. Clementaum, from Paraná to the world, brings ballroom spirit and fashion-room audacity straight into the club’s bloodstream. She collides baile funk, tribal house, techno, and Latin pulses in bright, high-speed mosaics that center identity, celebration, and beautifully unruly joy. CRRDR bends guaracha until it mutates into his own unruly creature: Uwuaracha. In his hands, rhythms stretch like rubber, dembow tilts off its axis, and textures wobble with mischievous physics.