MBZ x ZEZ x MaMa Late Night: Nídia & Valentina / Behringer Escape Plan / niniva

Nídia & Valentina is a newly founded duo of Afro-Portuguese producer and DJ Nídia and Italian percussionist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Valentina Magaletti.

Their new album, Estradas, is a collection of rhythm-driven narratives born from the Sicilian heat and polished under English rain. Testing the limits of a multitude of instruments, Valentina’s mutating polyrhythms dance around Nídia’s programmed loops and raw, textured beats. Fusing the rhythm of Afro-Portuguese kuduro, syncopated drums and electronics, Estradas absorbs the energy of Lisbon’s dance floors, harnessing it as the driving force on this exploratory percussive journey. Congas, bongos and synthesizers rumble around the pulse, in curious anticipation of how the duo will intermingle the next time around.

Valentina Magaletti (Tomaga, Vanishing Twin, Holy Tongue, Moin) is a musician whose extraordinary skill allows her to keep developing and reinventing her sound, effortlessly switching between delicate ceramic sets and energetic motorik rhythms. Her creative approach has resulted in a diverse body of work and interesting collaborations ranging from Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon to Nicolas Jaar and Kamasi Washington.

Nídia is one of the main artists on the Príncipe label, dedicated to releasing authentic contemporary sounds from the Lisbon electronic dance scene. With familial roots from Guinea-Bissau and the Republic of Cape Verde, she moved to Bordeaux at the age of 14, but brought with her the rhythms of Lisbon’s suburb Vale da Amoreira. In France, she started delving into genres such as kuduro, kizomba, tarraxinja and afrobeat. Nowadays she blends elements of hip-hop, R&B and grime with the rhythms she has always nourished. She received the Swedish Grammi Award for her work on Fever Ray's album Plunge, and has done remixes for artists such as Yaeji, Kelela and Lafawndah.

Behringer Escape Plan is not a band for playing in the background. The Dutch duo of Boy van Ooijen and Sander Notenbaert have a penchant for taking the idea of ​​rhythm, tearing it apart and putting it back together. Their drums don’t keep the tempo – they break, distort and interrupt it, while their synths produce algorithmically generated patterns. Their name reflects a cryptic, ironic and playful attitude: a fusion of Behringer’s DIY philosophy and affordable audio equipment with the technical brutality of The Dillinger Escape Plan band. Boasting impeccable production, their debut album Patent Pending breaks down the conventions of breakbeat, drum’n’bass and dubstep. But sound is not the only thing they can program – they control the lights in real time using drums, thus merging the chaos of sound with laser-sharp cuts.

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DJ niniva takes over the dancefloor with a seamless fusion of bass-heavy genres – ranging from jungle and dubstep to drum’n’bass – layered with unpredictable forays into left-field electro and garage. Through years of experience on the independent scene, she has honed a style that blends the narrative power of mixing with the authenticity of the moment, often enriched by ethno and folk elements – from Balkan chants to the hypnotic sounds of the Middle East.

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Timetable:

22:00 niniva
23:00 Nídia & Valentina
00:00 niniva
00:30 Behringer Escape Plan
01:30 niniva
02:00 End