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Presenting our headliner: Aja Ireland, an award-winning sound and performance artist, has garnered widespread recognition, including a feature on BBC Radio 6 with a spot on Tom Ravenscroft’s Ravers Hour Mix. Described in The WIRE as “Shifting from ethereal diffusions to potent explosions”.

Following her recent explorations at the intersection of visceral sound design, club culture, and AI, Aja returns with her new album Cryptid via Infinite Machine. Cryptid has received widespread recognition, including a feature on BBC Radio 6 and in Notion’s "Undiscovered Artists of 2025,”. Cryptid was included in The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp and received press from Beatburguer, Louder Than War, Hitcher, Boomkat, Abyss Magazine, and Son of Marketing.

The Cryptid music video premiered on Kaltblut, which described it as “an audacious auditory experience intertwining noise, future trap, and experimental bass.”

The album SLUG was released on Opal Tapes in October 2021. The video GRIME created by IMPATV and AJA, featured on Creative Review's 'Best Music Videos of 2021’ who described the track as: “brutal, visceral and unrelentingly noisy”. Aja's debut album released in 2018 on Opal Tapes was greeted with critical acclaim and the artist was featured in VICE, The Quietus, Elephant Magazine, Red Bull Music and DAZED. IN 2018, Aja won the PRS Oram Award for innovative music production.

Aja scored the spatial sound design for Joey Holder’s art installations Ophiux, Adcredo The Deep Belief Network (toured at Matt's Gallery and 6th Athens Bienalle), Semelparous which was shown in The British Art Show and and Cryptic at Two Queens Gallery.

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ANIQO is the musical pseudonym of Berlin-based singer, songwriter, and poet Anita Goß. Her direct and immediate music, combined with metaphorical lyrics, is filled with magic and longing – yet never a longing for another place, but rather for different internal and external states of being.

With an intensely sensitive, ethereal voice and cinematic song structures, she radiates a captivating intensity and strength. Embracing minimalism and driven by a desire to unite “light and shadow” in innovative songs, she draws from the past while boldly pushing artistic boundaries. Though inspired by the likes of David Bowie, Beth Gibbons, Lana Del Rey, Nick Cave, and Marianne Faithfull, ANIQO crafts a unique, hypnotic sound of her own – blending artful psychedelic guitar work, minimalist piano textures, and distinctive electronic and synth effects to build a bridge between indie, psychedelic, and folk.

Her debut album BIRTH was released in March 2022, recorded with producer Guy Sternberg at Berlin’s LowSwing Studios and with Joe Cardamone in Los Angeles. ANIQO is currently working on a new album with musician and producer Bill Ryder-Jones, titled Earth, Love and all its Varieties, which is set to be released in winter 2025/2026.

At the Sterrrn Festival, ANIQO will present songs from the upcoming album – in a duo set with Spanish cellist Maria del Mar Ribas.

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The in-house Grrrls Choir of the Grrrls Cultural Association ends the rehearsal year and gives its final concert before the summer break at STERRRN - as is tradition!

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KRETA is on the decks when it's banging. Selected with a lot of love and flair, the tracks from 150 BPM push their way through your ear canals and hit your chest with one more heartbeat.

The former circus performer and singer-songwriter-composer has moved from the circus ring to the decks and creates a dance-leg atmosphere on the club floor.

‘Get Wyld - Get Wet’ or as she likes to say: ’I like it loud hard and dirty!’

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Mala Herba is a solo project of producer, sound artist, and queer activist Zosia Holubowska. Their artistic approach can be described as queering archives through reimagining traditional melodies and magical tropes. Their productions are multi-layered narratives and function as healing rituals. 

Their music is inspired by industrial and experimental electronic sounds as well as traditional Polish music. This mixture makes all their performances exceptional in the contemporary electronic music scene. Mala Herba is a searching artist, always looking for new inspirations and re-inventing their style.

Their newest incarnation as a Wounded Healer is an outcome of a three-year process of artistic research and various collaborations. The record and a multi-sensory AV performance that celebrates a communal approach to healing.

They have performed at festivals across Europe like Whole (DE), Pop Fest (AT), Bent Fest (UK), Tauron Nowa Muzyka (PL), Fekete Zaj (HU), Fluff Fest (CZ), and clubs like Urban Spree (Berlin), De School (Amsterdam), Underdogs (Prague), MS Stubnitz (Hamburg), Elektrowerkz (London), Pogłos (Warsaw) and Miscellenia (AU).

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Miss Clit (she/her) is more than just an artist - she is a movement. With her unique style that combines singing and rapping with distorted sound, she brings feminist content, body positivity and the demystification of female sexuality to the stage.

Her songs are odes to the diversity and beauty of the female body, a call for the empowerment of people with vulvas and the celebration of their bodies. With every song, she inspires a world in which self-love and sexual freedom are not taboos.

Singles like ‘Big Clit Energy’, ‘Love Your Lips’ and ‘Celebrate Your Titts!’, released on the Beatzarilla label, are just a taste of what Miss Clit has to offer. Her music is a fusion of electronic beats, vocal sampling and an unmistakable, danceable sound.

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Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her creative practice is centered around exploring different methods of working with artistic research including interview material, field recordings and recorded material from an organized site specific intervention. The research is then translated into sound/music compositions, performances, interactive installations and moving image work.

In 2014, Nour Sokhon completed a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the American University in Dubai. Three years later, in 2017, she finalised a major project titled People on Sound—a documentary developed as part of her Master’s programme in Sound for the Moving Image at the Glasgow School of Art in the UK. In 2019, she was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize by the Sursock Museum in Lebanon for her moving image work Revisiting: Hold Your Breath.

Her work has also been featured at international festivals such as the Al Quoz Arts Festival (Dubai, UAE), Other Worlds Festival (Blackpool, UK), Network Music Festival 2020 (online), This Is Not Lebanon 2021 (Frankfurt, Germany), Punkt Festival 2023 (Kristiansand, Norway), Gaudeamus Festival 2023 (Utrecht, Netherlands), United in Grief 2024 (Zurich, Switzerland), Vorspiel 2024 (Berlin, Germany), and the Biennale d’Aix – Festival Lips #1 Deep Speech 2024 (Aix-en-Provence, France).

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Producers, DJs, promoters and queer activists Nina Hudej and NinaBelle are established and dynamic co-creators of Ljubljana’s electronic music scene. The fabric of their potent electronic project Warrego Valles incorporates sharp political critique, activist zeal, genrebending music, and forward-looking sound design. Nina Hudej and Nina Kodrič’s unique interplay of experimental electronics, club playfulness, melodic passages, social criticism and idiosyncratic, uncompromising expressiveness, fragments and breaks the body of sound into pieces, only to assemble all the scattered parts back together.

They released "Location Off" 2017, "Botox" 2018, "save as" 2019 on Kamizdat, their singles and remixes appear on various domestic and international compilations and albums. They perform at home and abroad, at club events, festivals, radio platforms, in 2021 they performed on the biggest dj platform Boiler Room in Zagreb. In 2023 they curated the international benefit compilation "Peace" as part of the Grounded Festival. As promoters and curators, they manage the music programme of the Grounded Festival, organise regular music programme at the cultural centre Pritličje and co-organise electronic club nights with the queer collective Ustanova. As an inexhaustible engine, Warrego Valles are active in maintaining safer spaces, critical of misogyny, cis-and heteronormativity. Not always in that order, and most likely in several functions at the same time.