Jason Köhnen, also known under the moniker Bong-Ra, is a Dutch producer, DJ, drummer and bass player. He made his first foray into metal, but quickly turned to electronic music, becoming a pioneer of extreme breakcore. Unwaveringly committed to genre-bending poetics, since the end of the 1990s he has been active in various bands and projects that blend metal, electronics and jazz (The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, Deathstorm, White Darkness...). After the albums Antediluvian (2021) and Meditations (2022), in which he delved into the fusion of doom and free jazz forms, Bong-Ra revived the project with a new glitch-metal-electronica hybrid.
In 2024, Bong-Ra became a three-member band with guitarists Attila Kovacs and Botond Fogl. Their new album Black Noise reverses the concept of white noise into a chaotic and intense soundscape combining distorted guitar riffs, polyrhythmic structures and aggressive vocals – mixing metal with electronic fury. Focusing on rhythm-based compositions, it melds complex noise loops with industrial textures, enhancing a sense of chaos.
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s.a.t.i.n. is a project of Ireen Amnes and Ash Luk. Both artists having a background in live bands, they have a penchant for fusing metal and punk with deconstructed electronic beats and industrial sound, producing a charged live performance more akin to a concert than a clubbing experience.
Ireen is a music producer, DJ and co-founder of the label Under My Feet. She makes music possessed of a distorted aesthetic of melancholic drones and disjointed rhythms. She taught DJing at London’s B.A.D. Studios, held courses for women and non-binary persons at Berlin’s RAMP Music Academy and a masterclass at Berklee College of Music.
Ash performed with Lida P. in the duo Minimal Violence, and later assuming the alias Infinity Division. He is known for his intensely raw performances on hardware instruments, as well as DJ sets drenched in gloomy trance interludes and relentless beats.
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21:00 Start
22:30 Bong-Ra
00:00 s.a.t.i.n.
01:00 End
program collaboration - ZEZ – Institute for Experimental Sound
