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

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Carmen Benerat is a DJ whose passion for music was shaped by a pivotal childhood experience. When her father unexpectedly discarded hundreds of his vinyl records, the shock drove her to start preserving music digitally. Embracing her role as a music collector, she began archiving her own tracks on hard drives. Above all, she loves broadcasting her sets over the airwaves.

She’s part of the vibrant Untn basement scene and a co-founding member of Flausch, a collective as soft and powerful as its name suggests. Additionally, she has a real-life music snail that she sends her tracks to, adding a whimsical touch to her creative process.

Rumor has it the snail also moonlights as her tour manager — just don't expect speedy bookings.

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Cat Gadget explores the electronic music of the past decades. The Graz-based DJ is part of the Grrrls DJ Crew. Cat Gadget's vinyl sets cannot be reduced to one genre, but are often characterized by Italo sounds, driving EBM beats or spherical synth sounds.

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DJ Carline plays music to get lost and find again. Obscure beauties, raw, warm and danceable grooves. A short detour into unknown worlds.

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Fragiles.D may sound fragile, but the word ‘fragile’ is a warning about the bang. With groovy techno and vocal trance, she invites everyone to dance.

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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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Although it usually hails techno at Karo-4, she has come up with something special for the sunshine at STERRRN fest: around 8 years ago, a new wave of dub appeared in Ecuador, paired with folk music from Colombia and Peru. Rich bass, panpipes and delicate vocals in Spanish and Portuguese blended into something new and became what the locals affectionately call Andes Dub. All that remains is to pack your drinks, check your sun lounger and sway along to the bass.

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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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Zlata is a sound artist and DJ based in Graz. In her practice as a sound artist, she explores eerie, extreme sound environments and textures and brings those experiments in her dj sets. They can best be described as a tightrope walk between moods, styles and rhythms. Zlata manages to combine dark noise, evocative soundscapes and rhythmic patterns to guide the floor in a flow of sound. Zlata is a founding member of the CMKK (Computermusik & Klangkunst) - a headless student-driven community that organizes concerts of experimental electronic music and sound art in Graz.