Line-up

TerminusTechnikus

TerminusTechnikus is a Czech-Iraqi DJ based in Prague. Her sets are rooted in rich percussion and intricate rhythms, which also form the foundation of her radio show “Ornament” on Rádio Labe. Her heart beats for hypnotic, organic and energetic techno, driven by powerful bass, detailed percussion, and a rich and juicy sound design. Beyond techno, she’s passionate about bass, dub, UK & Arab rap. Her sets are full of energy, guaranteed to leave you with a serious bass face.

Suubaru

Kalle

Kalle is a Czech alternative band founded by Veronika Zemanová and David Zeman. Their music draws from genres such as slowcore, trip hop, and alternative pop, blended with influences from electronica and darker rock music. They have released three studio albums: Live from the Room (2014), Saffron Hills (2017), and Under The Black Moss (2022), for which the band has received three Anděl Awards and an Apollo Award.

Lavender mist

Manka Lustigová

Manka Lustigová (*1998) is a designer working in Pardubice and Prague. Her practice focuses on acoustics, with a continuous dedication to the material research of porcelain and DIY principles. Interdisciplinary exchange, the boundaries between the virtual and the sensory, and the limits of matter often serve as a creative catharsis for her. She creates experimental musical instruments and sonic environments, emphasizing the relationship and interdependence between sound and material. The Ffairytones module is an electroacoustic instrument developed in collaboration with the Tangible Music Lab in Linz. The emphasis is placed on the relationships between individual elements, which form a changing soundscape out of porcelain resonance, layered surfaces, and pulses.

Jan Burian

DJ Kazpa

Dj Kazpa has been on the scene since 2005. In his selection he moves mainly on the border of reggae, jungle, hardcore and various branches of these genres. In the last ten years he has been working mainly with audiovisual art and experimental/ambient live sets. He is a part of the phonon~ crew. In his latest projects, he explores Ambisonic field recordings combined with DJing in spatial audio.

Phonon - Archiv

Phonon is an audiovisual collective and spatial audio platform dedicated to exploring the deep boundaries of sound art. Rather than a traditional live concert, this special festival session opens the gates to the Phonon Archive—a curated sonic showcase presented in stunning multi-channel sound

Kai Granaas

Dredging dense sounds from an underwater desert.

Phonon - Archiv

Phonon is an audiovisual collective and spatial audio platform dedicated to exploring the deep boundaries of sound art. Rather than a traditional live concert, this special festival session opens the gates to the Phonon Archive—a curated sonic showcase presented in stunning multi-channel sound

Phonon - Archiv

Phonon is an audiovisual collective and spatial audio platform dedicated to exploring the deep boundaries of sound art. Rather than a traditional live concert, this special festival session opens the gates to the Phonon Archive—a curated sonic showcase presented in stunning multi-channel sound

Konchi

For several years now, Martin Koniar's web of creative tendencies has been synthesizing in the creation of his original musical instrument, working-titled Ketara—which is something between an electric guitar, a cello, a hurdy-gurdy, and a synthesizer. The music Koniar creates is built on exploring the possibilities of this instrument and draws from metal, drone, noise, folk, experimental, and classical music. Koniar comes from Košice and currently lives in Prague, where he is working on his debut recording and further iterations of the Ketara. Furthermore, he is active as the DJ/producer KōNcHi, is a member of the rave collective speedcoretrew, and plays bass in the band Vál.

Sqare

Sqare is a producer, curator, and founding member of the Technopunk777 event series and occasionally label. His work spans experimental electronics, collaborations with rappers, and sound design for theatre and performance. Above all, he is known for his live hardware sets rooted in improvisation, where his workflow generates unpredictable soundscapes, for both the audience and himself.

Natálie Pleváková

Natálie Pleváková is a composer and sound artist. She graduated in multimedia composition from the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno, and in her work, she seeks ways out of the temporal determinism of music and fragmentary musical perception. In doing so, she invites a collaborative exploration of new aesthetic categories in music as well as an enhancement of auditory sensitivity. She regularly collaborates on theatrical productions, creates sound design for podcasts and audiovisual works, and designs sound installations. Currently, she serves as a dramaturge for the Sanatorium Sonorum festival and residency program, which showcases contemporary music and sound arts. She is also engaged in teaching sound arts at the Center for Audiovisual Studies (CAS) at FAMU in Prague and at the Scholastika College of Media and Design.

Sturmherta

Kraken is an experimental software instrument, a chaotic cross-feedback modulation system built from multiple oscillators. Together they form a complex synth voice that continuously reorganizes itself. The interaction emerges by shaping how much modulation flows between the voices and which parameters are affected. Even the smallest adjustment can trigger dramatic shifts, since every element is intertwined. Rather than aiming for stable or predictable results, Kraken embraces instability as a creative force. It can be approached as a tool for live improvisation, an autonomous sound-generating entity, or as the core of an installation that evolves continuously without direct human control. Its sonic output shifts between dense noise textures, fragile microtonal clusters, and rhythm-like patterns that emerge and collapse in unexpected ways. The project explores the boundaries between instrument and organism, performer and system. By setting initial conditions and steering relationships between oscillators, the performer initiates processes that take on a life of their own. Kraken becomes less about playing sounds and more about tending to a living sonic ecosystem.

Mudaki

Polina Khatsenka is an audiovisual artist, sound designer and sonic curator from Minsk, Belarus, based in Usti nad Labem, Czech republic. She is devoting her work to various aspects of sound with a focus on audio performance, site-specific installations and composing. Polina is currently getting her PhD. degree at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem, on the topic of Location vs. presence: aural perception as an existential tool in the world of digital culture. One of the essential aspects of Polina’s work is collaboration and group projects with NGO’s, networks and offspaces with a self-organized approach. Polina implies expanding the perception of both intimate and shared environment within her work, be it uncovering and operating with invisible but yet existing physical fields or addressing existential topics on a personal & communal level. Starting the work with spatial audio in 2018 during exchange in HSDusseldorf, Polina continued her research in Kunstuniversität Linz, where she leads a “Silence. Pause. Quiet.” course from 2021, at a Co.Lab Acoustic Ecology established by Peter Androsch and Gitti Vasicek. Together with phonon~ crew, where she is one of the founding members, Polina organises events, mediating experimental electronic, electroacoustic music and sound art in quadraphonic, octophonic and Ambisonic sound systems.

S. Snurssla

Nanakai

Nanakai invites you into a nomadic tea room at the heart of the ambisonic stage. While music fills the air, Yuko will create wagashi — traditional Japanese sweets — as a live improvisation, each piece shaped directly by the sounds and mood unfolding around her. A craft carried through hundreds of years, answering now to something entirely of this moment. Watch the process, let the music wash over you, and when a piece is ready, you are welcome to taste it. To eat the sounds that brought it into being. Together with the tea served in handmade ceramics crafted by Gitta Bara from the volcanic sand of the Ore Mountains. Come as you are. Stay as long as you like.

Krickl Krackl

Krickl krackl (or Leon Goltermann however you decide to have me on the line-up) is a media artist, composer and musician based in Leipzig. He plays, works and composes with music, radioplay elements, installative moments and text. His works focus on language expansion, sound sculptures and the relationship between art and the culture industry. In his sound compositions, he creates new acoustic worlds with their own unique spell. He first studied literature, then electroacoustic composition at the Studio for Electroacoustic Music Weimar (SeaM) as well as media arts and experimental radio at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He performs in various ensembles with electronically enhanced percussion and is a permanent member of the Rundfunkorchestra, with whom he played at such events as the Radio Art Zone in Luxembourg, and the digital bauhaus orchestra, with whom he performed at ZKM Next Generation in 2019. In 2021, he won first prize in the international composition competition for acousmatic music organized by Via Nova - zeitgenössische Musik in Thüringen e.V. for his piece "Flashlight in the Cave". He is part of Geräuschkulisse e.V. where he curates audio events with features, radio plays and sound art. He gives workshops on radio play (e.g. Leipzig Book Fair 2024), various audio software basics and working with sensors for installations and life electronics (e.g. Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, CicuitControl-Festival and many more).

Jan Krtička

Jan Krtička is a Czech sound artist. His main interest lies in the landscape and the documentation of human intervention in it, using partly controlled chance and drawing on the diversity of nature in conjunction with the human element. Krtička merges experimental sound with technology, uncovering hidden sound layers and the acoustic characteristics of the environment. At the Transforma festival, he will showcase a partly improvised audio performance composed for the ambisonic sound system, based on field recordings from Munich airport.

Sabzipolo

Known mostly for playing extended listening sessions and occasional dips into dancefloor territory, Sabzipolo brings a selector’s sensibility behind the decks, curious, thoughtful, and always a little playful. Drawing from different eras, cultures, and corners of the world, his selections are less about chasing rarities and more about putting together sounds that aren’t usually found side by side. His sets don’t follow a script; they wander and respond to whatever’s happening in the room. He listens as much as he plays, letting the energy around him guide where things go next. The result is never quite the same twice, as it is shaped by the space, the people, and the music itself.

Phonon - Archiv

Phonon is an audiovisual collective and spatial audio platform dedicated to exploring the deep boundaries of sound art. Rather than a traditional live concert, this special festival session opens the gates to the Phonon Archive—a curated sonic showcase presented in stunning multi-channel sound

DJ Kazpa

Dj Kazpa has been on the scene since 2005. In his selection he moves mainly on the border of reggae, jungle, hardcore and various branches of these genres. In the last ten years he has been working mainly with audiovisual art and experimental/ambient live sets. He is a part of the phonon~ crew. In his latest projects, he explores Ambisonic field recordings combined with DJing in spatial audio.

CTR

Phonon - Archiv

Phonon is an audiovisual collective and spatial audio platform dedicated to exploring the deep boundaries of sound art. Rather than a traditional live concert, this special festival session opens the gates to the Phonon Archive—a curated sonic showcase presented in stunning multi-channel sound

Polina Khatshenka

Polina Khatshenka is chasing the aesthetics of the 90s raves which she will never experience, creating a model situation of an inaccessible club culture mirage. In her dj identity mʊdʌki flows in between bass music of such subgenres as jungle, dubstep, dub, juke, and avant garde experimental electronic music together with sound art, through a wide branch of techno – deep, minimal, breakbeat, industrial and hard acid techno tunes, all with a strong accent on the leftfield music scene. She is one of the founding members of phonon~ crew, mediating experimental electronic music and sound art in czech republic.

Otec a Slunce

Ritual of light and time.

Club Matěj

From the Šumava foothills to the center of the YOGA collective, a love for all corners of musical genres has grown into a desire to stand on the other side of the crowd, which had been a safe haven for a long time. Selection as a never-ending process—get ready for music by the fire, but don't expect country.

Dash

Dash is a Prague-based DJ and sound artist known for creating deep, immersive atmospheres on the dance floor. Drawing inspiration from tribal rhythms, natural textures, and shamanic energy, her sound blends hypnotic elements of techno, minimal, house, and ambient into journeys that feel both grounded and transcendent. She is part of the team behind Bike Jesus, a key venue in Prague’s alternative scene, where she also contributes to curatorial and programming work. Her musical style draws inspiration from tribal, natural, and shamanic elements, resulting in a unique sound that has gained her favor not just in the Czech Republic but also internationally, with bookings in countries like Germany, France, Greece, Austria, Chile and many more. In addition to her DJ work, Dash has long explored the intersection of music and ritual through the use of sound healing instruments and her own field recordings, which she weaves into hybrid sets to create rich, immersive soundscapes that bridge ceremony and rave.

Ava Rasti

Ava Rasti is an Iranian-born artist, creating and composing out of the country’s capital, Tehran. Both a pianist and bass guitarist, in her late teens Rasti founded a post-punk girl group in Tehran. Since 2020, she has worked solo, experimenting at the intersection of ambient, modern classical, and drone. Her interest in storytelling has led her to compose for film, with soundtracks including The Great Yawn of History and 1001 Frames (presented at Berlinale). Following a series of sonically evolving singles, she self-released the long-players Ginestra and The Living Room. FatCat Records’ 130701 post-classical imprint has since signed Rasti’s latest set, The River.

Arash Ghasemi

Arash Ghasemi is an Iranian musician and sound artist based in Prague. His work spans experimental electronics, string instruments, field recording, and minimalist composition, with a focus on memory, geography, and the emotional resonance of sonic environments. Drawing on both personal narrative and broader social textures, Ghasemi’s music often moves between delicate atmospheres and raw, unpolished noise elements. Alongside his solo project, he is a part of the project Gnäw together with Simo Hakalisto, where they explore darker, repetitive sonic forms inspired by ritual and trance-like structures.

Ghadr

Ghadr is a collaborative experimental project formed by Lebanese musicians Sandy Chamoun, Anthony Sahyoun, and Jad Atoui. Their music serves as a visceral reckoning with tradition, blending classical Arabic vocal foundations with searing guitar textures, stuttering sub-bass, and complex modular synthesis. Their debut album, Ghadr (2024)—a title that roughly translates to "treachery"—was shaped by the volatile environment of their home city, Beirut, and offers a powerful, emotional response to both personal and regional crises. Through a fusion of free-singing, glitchy ambient swells, and group improvisation, the trio explores themes of violence, repair, and the search for beauty amidst uncertainty.

Line Gate

His unique sound has been a source of fascination and inspiration within Czechoslovak underground community over a decade. His hypnotic gospel is experienced live, where the delicateforce of his music reveals itself fully, capable of drawing listeners into an almost narcotically sacred trance.

Garden Of Desires VII. Anima Mundi

Re-emerging for a third ritual gathering, the creatures find themselves transformed in the aftermath of last year’s chaos. Wandering through the ruinous garden, rumours spread of an arrival… guiding all beings from this swamp of cyclic existence. Something completely new is being born, yet ancient beyond any memory or tale… a unity of opposites… like some primal matter… where all becomes one.

Sabzipolo

Known mostly for playing extended listening sessions and occasional dips into dancefloor territory, Sabzipolo brings a selector’s sensibility behind the decks, curious, thoughtful, and always a little playful. Drawing from different eras, cultures, and corners of the world, his selections are less about chasing rarities and more about putting together sounds that aren’t usually found side by side. His sets don’t follow a script; they wander and respond to whatever’s happening in the room. He listens as much as he plays, letting the energy around him guide where things go next. The result is never quite the same twice, as it is shaped by the space, the people, and the music itself.

David Herzig a Planeta Pluto

Planeta Pluto is a project by musician and producer David Herzig, blending elements of folk, electronic music, and psychedelic rock, loosely inspired by the aesthetic of traditional Czech tramping music. After several years of studio incubation, the project has also taken on a live form, with musicians Martin Hartl, Matyáš Adámek, and Otakar Žák joining David.

Sýček

Where the little owl does not hoot, true death echoes through the silence. The little owl (Sýček) is known as a harbinger of death, but in Czech alternative music, it has always been an epithet for the krautrock anti-genre, which domestic bands included in their repertoires only sporadically. Motorik drumming, hypnotic melodies, repetitive structures, minimalist lyrics, and the "less is more" motto have nevertheless characterized this band since their very first songs. Their debut album "I" (released by NAAB) was enthusiastically received by music critics in 2017. However, after extensive touring, including several European tours, a prolonged hiatus followed due to the breakup of the original South Bohemian lineup. Sýček rises from the ashes like a phoenix in 2024, when the band's frontman and vocalist Libor Staněk II, together with guitarist Richard Stein (Pokora), form a new owl squadron and release an album titled IV under the Polí pět label.

Never Sol

Behind the Never Sol project is producer, singer, and sound artist Sára Vondrášková. She first made a significant impact on the scene in 2012 with the single "Lay Down," created in collaboration with Jan P. Muchow, who subsequently produced her debut album Under Quiet. Released by Supraphon and later worldwide by Denovali Records, the album earned a nomination for Newcomer of the Year at the Anděl Awards. This was followed by the album CHAMELEO, also released by Supraphon. Never Sol participated in the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy workshop in Tokyo, Japan, hosts the Sedmé nebe (Seventh Heaven) show on Czech Radio Vltava, and dedicates herself to composing music for theater, film, and contemporary dance.

OMĚJ

An endagered and venemous spicies from the raw Valašsko landscape. A return to the traditions of this mountainous region through dark, motorik-driven post-punk.

PÖ

PÖ released her debut album Cociage on Hakuna Kulala in March 2023, creating a universe shaped entirely by her voice and its transformations through electronic soundscapes—from hard-edged noise rap and industrial beats to West African folk, ambient, and post-punk. Hovering between Björk, Brigitte Fontaine, and Pussy Riot, her live show is dark, haunting, and intensely physical. With live vocals, electronics, and vocal modulations, she contorts, dances, chants, raps, and screams — rushing into the crowd and creating a visceral, ritualistic connection with the audience. Unpredictable, immersive, and entirely her own, her stage presence electrifies every room.

Myrgon

Myrgon (GR): ὄναρ ὄναρ — the Ancient Greek word for “dream” — is a ritual unfolding within the fluid territory between consciousness and the unconscious. A space where identities dissolve and realities merge across the fragile threshold between the seen and the dreamt.

Borcov Kanada

Friends of tramp music, dedicated to the interpretation of country songs and classic tramp ballads.

Demonika

Born and raised in Prague, Demonika started as an event photographer, and while observing the DJs in action through the viewfinder of her camera, she could not possibly resist the mighty powers of playing music for the crowd. Over the years, she developed a great fondness for the melodies of 90’s trance, and fell hard for certified italo disco bangers or tribal downtempo treasures. With her varied selection, Demonika became a regular on local line-ups and festivals, whether she’s opening the night or closing in the early morning hours. She also represents one half of a girl-duo Mona Lisa.

Paegas Twist

Paegas twist's eclectic oriental mix, somewhere between shawarma and knedlo zelo and Dash building bridges between ritual, nature and deep techno

xinchào

xinchào is a Brno-based DJ & selector, known for exploring the deeper edges of house, techno and the wider electronic music spectrum. Her sets are a journey of carefully woven emotion and built energy, often integrating introspective, listening-focused sounds. As a mama of the Rákosí collective (ex-space/ ig: rakosi.earth), her precision and emotional depth are hallmarks of her craft. From guiding a full dancefloor to holding space in more meditative settings, xinchào’s subtle intensity and intention shine through, inviting listeners to both move and reflect.

Hobluj!

Hobluj! is a young folklore band based in Prague, with roots reaching all the way to the Wallachia region. In their repertoire, they blend Slovak, Moravian, and Romani folk music in their own arrangements. Alongside traditional songs, they also reach for well-known tracks, reimagining them in their own style and giving them a new, distinctive sound. Their energetic songs, steeped in deep tradition, will get even the most stubborn rheumatics dancing.

Radio Romansa

Romansa is a one-woman project by Lenka, a DJ, urban planner and skater from Belgrade. It first started as a school project where she mappped and highlighted Roma music and musicians across the Balkans. After collecting a wide range of oriental Balkan Roma sounds, from čoček and sa-sa rhythms to many other gems, Radio Romansa came to life. These days, Radio Romansa mixes Balkan Roma party with Brazilian baile, club beats, kizomba and more, creating a playful blend of sounds and cultures. After living and working in Portugal and Belgium, Lenka moved back to Belgrade in July 2025, where she keeps digging into music and playing in local clubs as well as across Europe. Since January 2024, Radio Romansa has also been a monthly show on We Are Various, an online community radio from Antwerp. There you’ll find an ever-growing selection of tracks rooted in Balkan Roma culture and shaped by the many influences around it.

Toumba

Born and raised in Jordan, DJ and producer Yazan Zyadat, aka Toumba, is now based in London, where he fashions lithe club bangers that melt Middle Eastern elements with dubstep basslines and clattering breaks. Last year he experienced a flurry of interest when Ben UFO's Hessle Audio label released his "Petals" EP and Zyadat was able to broadcast his unique sounds on a larger platform. Tonally ambitious and deviously percussive, his music takes the essence of Arabic tarab and shelat forms (often seen as wedding music) and dilutes it in a dance floor-ready roil of booming bass and dissociated synths.

Garden Of Desires VII. Anima Mundi

Re-emerging for a third ritual gathering, the creatures find themselves transformed in the aftermath of last year’s chaos. Wandering through the ruinous garden, rumours spread of an arrival… guiding all beings from this swamp of cyclic existence. Something completely new is being born, yet ancient beyond any memory or tale… a unity of opposites… like some primal matter… where all becomes one.

Dj Alud

Alud is sideproject of Plast. His sound is inspired by UK culture and east coast 90s hiphop. A lot of breaky loops and twisted samples as well.

Skalm

Moody yet hypnotic, restless yet grounding. Prague-based DJ Skalm and radio host for Brno’s Infame Radio moves across the full spectrum, from freaky slow burners to twitchy breakbeat belters, exploring the point where rising tension meets dancefloor inner peace. In between sits whatever her sonically hungry ears pick up along the way. (Don’t) calm down.

TerminusTechnikus

TerminusTechnikus is a Czech-Iraqi DJ based in Prague. Her sets are rooted in rich percussion and intricate rhythms, which also form the foundation of her radio show “Ornament” on Rádio Labe. Her heart beats for hypnotic, organic and energetic techno, driven by powerful bass, detailed percussion, and a rich and juicy sound design. Beyond techno, she’s passionate about bass, dub, UK & Arab rap. Her sets are full of energy, guaranteed to leave you with a serious bass face.

artilerie

artilerie, a resident of Prague-based collective Bruxa, has developed a taste in music that reflects the northern Czechia where he comes from. Harsh, moving, yet still melancholic.

Kletis

Kletis is a producer, DJ and promoter rooted in Northern Bohemia, where the melancholy of the Jizera Mountains is reflected in his music. He transforms their quiet beauty and darkness into eclectic selection that flow between broken techno, dubstep, leftfield bass, halftime, and deep drum and bass.

Murdah

In the home corner, a member of the WATP / Sousto crew, weighing 192 pounds, born in Tábor and still representing the city.

CZE

Marko Zec, aka CZE, discovered his passion for DJing at the young age of 12. What began as experimenting on a laptop in his bedroom soon evolved into performing at local parties and events in his hometown. Known for his adaptive style, Marko has a unique ability to read the crowd and elevate the atmosphere with energetic, high-impact sets.

Chef QRE

Chef QRE is an emerging force in the Serbian rap scene, hailing from Belgrade. Despite the name, his craft lies not in the kitchen but in music—where he serves a distinct, self-made sound that is quickly setting him apart as one of the most promising new artists in the region.Although he only started releasing music less than a year ago, Chef QRE has already gained serious momentum. His sound blends modern Western influences, similar to artists like Bossman Dlow and Veeze, with a raw, local energy that makes his music stand out in the Serbian scene. Fully independent, he produces, writes, and engineers his own tracks, taking pride in doing everything himself. His music reflects both his creativity and his personal journey, coming from a tougher background and turning that into motivation for success. He first caught attention with the single “El Na,” alongside 2soma and Drrrti, and recently released his album “Ti Bi Kao Chef,” a 10-track project that shows his signature sound and confidence. Even early in his career, he’s already performed at major events like the EXIT Festival, as well as venues such as KC Grad and Guerilla Pub.

Broccoli

Lara aka Broccoli, is an Italian born, Berlin based DJ, vinyl collector, owner of the queer/dyke led record store Pleasure Patterns, and co-founder of the Queer Vinyl Night collective. Merging the darker sides of New Beat, Wave, Electro and Synth, to the driving energy of Italo, Broccoli is deeply committed in fostering a queer/dyke creative community.

Midirama

Amid a tangle of instrumental experiments and genre diversity, techno will of course not be missing. Midirama is a DJ with over 25 years of experience on the electronic music scene. He has released tracks on labels such as Apex Recordings, Berlin Invasion, GrooveCuts, Kiosek Records, Resilient Records, Fatal Noise Records, and No Remorse Rave. Known for his extensive travels as both a DJ and live performer, he has built a reputation for a deep, atmospheric, and hypnotic sound that seamlessly blends melodic and industrial elements. Thanks to his experience, he serves as an important bridge between seasoned veterans and the new wave of techno artists, maintaining a fresh and constantly evolving approach driven by an unrelenting passion for exploration and innovation within the genre. He currently works as a curator at Fuchs2.

Uba

A standout figure of Cultural Center Grad, Belgrade-based DJ Nikola Ubovic - co-organizer of HCKC club night, KCWC Radio and the mind behind many of the city's cult parties - brings an energetic blend of dancehall, bass, and tribal, exploring the spaces where these rhythms meet and merge.

Bělehrad vs. Tábor

Serbian delegation from Belgrade's iconic CZE, UBA, CHEF QRE, energetically rising crescent TERMINUS TECHNIKUS and immortal rider SILHOUETTE

Caillou

Nanakai invites you into a nomadic tea room at the heart of the ambisonic stage. While music fills the air, Yuko will create wagashi — traditional Japanese sweets — as a live improvisation, each piece shaped directly by the sounds and mood unfolding around her. A craft carried through hundreds of years, answering now to something entirely of this moment. Watch the process, let the music wash over you, and when a piece is ready, you are welcome to taste it. To eat the sounds that brought it into being. Together with the tea served in handmade ceramics crafted by Gitta Bara from the volcanic sand of the Ore Mountains. Come as you are. Stay as long as you like.

Raphael Kosmos

A veteran of the Czech DJ scene and a fixture of Prague’s club circuit. His beginnings were shaped during the mass freetek movement. Through close ties with local sound systems illegally occupying fields and warehouses, his way of thinking was pushed far away from mainstream culture. He co-founded Endless Illusion, a pivotal Czech label that released records and hosted performances by international guests, helping to establish one of the first meaningful connections between Prague and the outside world. His fascination with music of all kinds knows almost no boundaries, and it’s rare to hear him chatting at the bar about anything other than music itself. He owns an extensive record collection and always has a fresh dig at hand, which is why he can be spotted at all kinds of parties and clubs — from discos to industrial raves. In 2021, Kosmos founded his own imprint, Späti Records, with the aim of releasing music he believes deserves to be heard. Under its banner, he now occasionally curates and hosts parties at several like-minded venues.

Dvě Slunce

Dvě Slunce is an experimental rap project by friends František and Tomáš. If you haven’t started following Transforma just today, you definitely already know Tomáš’s work — last year he created the visual identity for our tenth edition, so all those cats, chalices, and dancing figures were drawn by Tomáš himself. After last year’s debut GAS GAS, this year saw the release of the conceptual album SOMA, where both the sound and themes move even further away from established rap conventions. Soma means “body” in Ancient Greek, but the record primarily explores mental states and how they are experienced: mental health, an individual’s feelings toward their surroundings, masculinity. In the second half of the album, it offers possible escapes into virtual thought worlds, imagination, books, or films. All of this is carried by music that works with shifting tempo, dynamics, and variety, creating an ideal guide for both descriptive lyrics and fantastical worlds. Rap, industrial, electronics, ambient. Guest appearances on the album include musician Klara Wodehn and Scottish MC and poet Tzusan. The album is loosely accompanied by a cycle of photographs by Nora Třísková and typography by Athens-based visual artist Tefra90.

Josef K + LU2

Prague rapper Josef K. composes his music and lyrics strictly outside the safety of the studio, directly in the city streets he knows so well. Through this procedural method of creating en plein air (from the French for "in the open air"), he directly reflects his surroundings and circumstances; individual songs thus become authentic records of a specific place, time, and momentary state of mind. In 2020, Josef K. debuted with the album Linka B (Line B), created entirely on his phone while commuting on the subway. Together with Yenzee and LU2 VINYL FLEXER, he co-founded the group DRO, which successfully debuted in 2022 with the album Divadelní rapovej orchestr. In 2023, he teamed up with Sosro to release the album Bodegas, whose collaborative production subtly nods to the iconic sound of Supercroo's albums while updating it with contemporary elements. Towards the end of 2025, he followed up on his debut with his second solo album, S65, which was born out of his regular commutes on suburban trains. Josef K. performs regularly across the entire Czech Republic. With the band DRO, his track record includes performances at prestigious festivals such as Frontline (2023, 2024) and Tábor's Transforma (2023).

Nori

Hailing from the outskirts of London in a town called St Albans, the alternative Grime artist is no stranger to being an outsider. After facing countless struggles such as major family passings and homelessness as a child even being homeless up untill recently, the rapper aims to turn this around in a positive light, with his artist name being an ode to this. The name “Nori” created by reversing the word “iron,” representing turning a hard situation around. Nori has relentlessly pushed the boundaries of Grime music with his iconic “video game” production style with fast paced light-hearted bangers, accompanied with the bars to match. Littered amongst his works lie deeper, darker themes that his fans are yet to see more of within the coming year, with the MC taking the Grime genre to places it’s never seen.

HERSS

Since 2022, herSS has been making a name for herself on the Czech club bass music scene. In her sets, she consciously avoids genre boundaries by blending various subgenres of bass music into an energetic, dark, and rhythmically dynamic whole. Her selection is built on heavy basslines, unexpected transitions, and a distinct emphasis on groove. Within a short period of time, she has performed at events and festivals such as Darkshire, Beats for Love, Let It Roll, and Povaleč. Her club appearances include sets at Fuchs2, Ankali, Bike Jesus, Roxy, and Fabric Ostrava, and she has also performed abroad, including at Wax2 in Slovakia. She is a member of the EAC Sound System and is also part of the DNBe HearD booking agency. Her mixes have been featured on platforms like Signall FM (Rádio_FM) and Mode London Radio. Her achievements so far include winning the DJ contest at the Sinful Maze label night, as well as taking 2nd place in the Newcomer of the Year category at the Drum and Bass Awards 2024. Alongside DJing, she has been actively focusing on her own production since 2024 and is currently working intensively on finishing and releasing her first track.

Microchic

Bratislava-based Microchic channels her scattered background into a fluid sound that thrives in the in-betweens, reminding us of the feeling that home is anywhere, where we can rest in ourselves. Her sets traverse multilayered terrain – refined punchiness, broken structures, and bass-heavy rhythms – drawing connections between the mechanical and the emotive, the abstract and the bodily. In 2024, she co-founded Selenite, a club series focused on low-end and more offbeat sonic explorations.

LTFLL

George Farid, aka ltfll (pronounced “latefall”), is a music producer, sound artist, and instrument designer from Alexandria, Egypt, based in Berlin. His work moves between ambient, noise, and experimental club music. Built from intricate sound collages and evolving rhythmic structures: drums dissected into micro-fragments, displaced and re-seated against vast, low-end tapestries. Boomkat called Nested Skins “one of the most essential off-piste club records of the year,” describing Farid as an artist who re-examines what listeners have come to expect from shuffle in experimental music. Unsound placed his work among the more forward-looking voices in experimental club, citing its time-dilating rhythms and seismic low-end. In 2019 he held an artist residency at Pro Helvetia in Basel, researching generative music systems and machine-learning models trained on his own compositions. The work produced Yields: two long-form pieces and a sound installation. He released his debut EP Deflect Trial on Kaer'Uiks in 2021, with remixes from Fausto Mercier, ABADIR, and ZULI. His EP Nested Skins (2025), out on irsh (the label founded by Rama and ZULI), takes drums apart frame by frame and re-assembles them under heavy bass and granular sound design. A listening practice pushed against its own inheritance. Recently performed at Unsound. Alongside his artistic practice, Farid works as an Instrument Designer, contributing to music instruments and tools used by artists and musicians worldwide.

C4AT

A sonic collections of lost memories we've experienced in places we've never been. C4AT's new liveset fuses live performative elements with modular synths and field-recordings that move away from violent positions to the dark brooding emotions of a newly created world of dystopia.

Ancestral Vision

Ancestral Vision is a Prague-based producer, sound artist, DJ, and co-founder of the Unizone label. His productions are full of experimental sound design that fills the gaps between earworm-ish melodies and contemporary club echoes. Guided by a deep sense of “textural sensitivity,” Ancestral Vision crafts compositions that feel at once epic and intimate — sonic snapshots from his ongoing explorations in sound and spontaneous studio sessions. In 2024, he released the debut EP Sidecar Dream Session via the Leeds-based label LOFS. His productions are affiliated with labels like Over My Body, YUKU, Club Late Music, Oramics, Katharsis, and Amphibian Records. AV is currently working on his debut full-length album.

Mudaki

Polina Khatsenka is an audiovisual artist, sound designer and sonic curator from Minsk, Belarus, based in Usti nad Labem, Czech republic. She is devoting her work to various aspects of sound with a focus on audio performance, site-specific installations and composing. Polina is currently getting her PhD. degree at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem, on the topic of Location vs. presence: aural perception as an existential tool in the world of digital culture. One of the essential aspects of Polina’s work is collaboration and group projects with NGO’s, networks and offspaces with a self-organized approach. Polina implies expanding the perception of both intimate and shared environment within her work, be it uncovering and operating with invisible but yet existing physical fields or addressing existential topics on a personal & communal level. Starting the work with spatial audio in 2018 during exchange in HSDusseldorf, Polina continued her research in Kunstuniversität Linz, where she leads a “Silence. Pause. Quiet.” course from 2021, at a Co.Lab Acoustic Ecology established by Peter Androsch and Gitti Vasicek. Together with phonon~ crew, where she is one of the founding members, Polina organises events, mediating experimental electronic, electroacoustic music and sound art in quadraphonic, octophonic and Ambisonic sound systems.

Zuzana Hakl

Zuzana Hakl is a Czech producer, DJ, live performer and founder of the HEAT event. With years in underground clubs and collectives, she built her sound around hard-hitting industrial rhythms and hypnotic madness. Currently holding a residency at Fuchs2, her sets are raw and go straight for the edge. In March 2026 she released her new album Human Garbage - a record born from loss, pain, and frustration, where the title belongs to those who caused it.

Zazitech

Zazitech is a Founder queer rave collective @eerie.collective and @fuchs2stvanice resident. Hailing from Slovakia's dynamic east, she seamlessly blends genres, crafting a sound that's both nostalgic and innovative. She has a musical selection spanning across several genres, but she always comes back to her beloved groove techno. Her beats are relentless and come with a guarantee of a somewhat cathartic yet irresistibly dancy journey.

Silhouette

Transform fixture and legend from Klatovy Silhouette will once again be part of Cesta’s programme this year. As a DJ and producer, he is characterized by an interesting combination of ambient, deep techno, and dubstep—the genre he himself started with. His work offers a blend of melancholic, thoughtful compositions with a cosmic atmosphere and the precision of straight techno, which is evident in his latest released album, “Nuclear Autumn.” Last time you could hear him in Garáž; this time, he’s taking charge of the Sklep closing set.

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