Mixing the analog tools of techno and house with the melodies and vocals of the Arab world remains the mission guiding every production and DJ set. The result is an extraordinary display of brotherhood between peoples and cultures. On this occasion, they present the single “Yaktın Beni”, created in collaboration with Turkish pop star EDIS (TR): a passage within a hypnotic flow that, for those who were there before, will pick up exactly where it left off; for newcomers, it will be an introduction to their sonic realm. In both cases, it is a place of the soul you will never want to leave.

Mapambazuko is the result of a collaboration between Peruvian sound artist Ale Hop (Alejandra Cárdenas) and Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta. It is a meeting of layered sounds and guitar-driven flights, of synths that are at once glacial and carnal, and of explorations that move freely between soukous (African rumba), psychedelia, folk, and the avant-garde. Two distinct personalities, shaped by different experiences, geographic origins, and musical and personal paths, converge in a shared space that reaches its fullest expression in the live dimension: the album’s tracks serve as a starting point, while a communion of minds and visions guides improvisation and spontaneous creation.

Bolognese by birth and a sound explorer by vocation, Alessandro Cortini is the Renaissance man of the third millennium: musician, composer, producer, and creator of the very instruments he uses – as in “Scuro Chiaro” (2021), made on the “Strega” synth model he built himself. His installation “Nati Infiniti” was presented at Sonar 2022, and its live version debuted at Berlin Atonal in 2023, each a unique piece like an artwork with no possibility of replication – to this day, no two are alike. An exclusive experience to be shared – the finest oxymoron imaginable.

Antonina Nowacka, vocalist, sound artist and composer with a background in visual arts, has developed a unique hypnotic voice through years of sonic exploration. Her minimal soundscapes lead listeners on emotional and imaginative journeys inspired by nature, space, dreams and otherworldly visions.
ROBOT festival presents the premiere of the new trio formed by Antonina Nowacka, Renato Grieco and Riccardo La Foresta. A dialogue of whispers, strings, and silence that drifts between ritual, improvisation, and memory. Like a field recording from a dream.

Apparat needs no introduction; his name alone is enough to conjure his universe, much like Fellini or Prince in other eras. And yet, he continues to elude any categorization, always several steps ahead of what one might expect to find in his shows, in his many collaborations, on record, or behind the decks. Having long since proven his mastery in shaping the beat, he now declares himself “more interested in drawing sounds,” consequently venturing into ambient territories. For his second and final Italian appearance in 2025, ethereal soundscapes are to be expected.

Next April will mark ten years of Bruno Belissimo’s unique journey: an uninterrupted flow of basslines and funky grooves, machines and synthesizers, memories of crackling radios on midsummer afternoons when ice cream was still paid in lire, and futuristic flashes from the next level of a videogame yet to be written.
Ahead of "Questo disco me lo comprerei", his new EP coming out on October 27 via POLYAMORE (the label he founded and directs), here’s a taste of what happens behind the decks: a string of records we’d gladly buy ourselves—if we didn’t already have them at home.

In an absolute premiere, C’mon Tigre’s new journey: LUMINA, a total sensory experience blending robotics, immersive audio, lasers, and LED panel projections surrounding the audience. A “ritual rave” that breaks down every barrier between stage and crowd, between sound and body, between the real and the digital.

Born in Turin and based in Bologna, classically trained harpist Chiara Zaccaria expanded her artistic scope through her encounter with electronic music. Alongside live performances and collaborations with Bologna-based musicians, she creates soundtracks for video art projects – predominantly ambient soundscapes that punctuate works centered on a recurring theme: the violence of progress overcome by the resilience of nature. Controluce comes to life in an exclusive setting, where the sound and part of the accompanying visuals materialize in real time.

Born as a one-off collaboration for Saturnalia festival, the trio of Piezo, Aitch and Primordial Ooze gradually unfolded into a series of rare, exclusive appearances—extended sessions where sonic space dissolves as slow waves and hypnotic rhythms flow without constraints, deeply reshaping the usual relations between body, mind and sound.Since 2024, their collaboration with video artist Francesco Tosini has added a visual dimension to performances that manage to feel both rooted in the present and suspended out of time.

A multitude of talents defines Christelle Oyiri (the real name behind CRYSTALLMESS): DJ, producer, artistic curator, sound designer, music journalist, muse and disruptor in the fashion world (she is part of the collective behind the TELFAR brand). Since her debut EP Mere Noises, she has been on the radar of peers such as Kode9, VTSS, and even Frank Ocean—who once described her music as “what I most like to listen to at the office.” Her touch behind the decks quickly became unmistakable: an alchemy that seamlessly weaves together old-school techno, afro-trance, trap, footwork, Congolese rap, Jersey club, and everything in between.

You can’t accuse DJ Haram of oversaturating the market: since 2019, she has released just two self-produced EPs under her own name, the Grace EP and now her full-length debut Beside Myself – both on Hyperdub, still the go-to label for the heaviest bass, fractured rhythms, and the sound of life flowing through the asphalt of the world’s outskirts, where the most powerful epiphanies continue to emerge. One half of 700 Bliss – the hip hop/noise project shared with Moor Mother – she delivers solo DJ sets that are a head-spinning blend of analog gear, electro-folk influences from her Turkish roots, and gritty street rap. For ROBOT, an unforgettable A/V live show is on the horizon.

Born Gabriela Jimeno Caldas in 1990, she started out as a punk/hardcore drummer in her early teens and went on to earn a double degree at Berklee College of Music (jazz drums, electronics). From the very beginning, she chose a live-performance approach – even when electronic music became her focus – no DJ sets, only machines driven by her touch. Her debut Acts of Rebellion (2020) was a beacon in the night during the pandemic nightmare; in the recent DÍA, she pushes the emotional pedal even further, laying bare her soul with brutal honesty and a disarming lack of filters. An introspective journey that becomes collective, a probe that delves into each listener’s consciousness, starting from the stage – her natural habitat.

From Normandy to the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, on Friday, October 10, Felicia Atkinson will bring to ROBOT16, in collaboration with Indigo Festival, a concert that merges different disciplines from a sound and visual artist whose artistic journey unfolds between music, poetry, and painting. For Atkinson, voices inhabit elements and contexts that do not “speak” in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The aim of her art is to capture these parallel voices and layer them over her own, weaving together collages of field recordings, MIDI instruments, and fragments of other languages in constant dialogue with the work of visual artists, filmmakers, and novelists. Her performances tell stories that alternately stretch and fold space and time, where being carried away by the dreams of other lives and other eras is no longer optional.

Hatis Noit’s extraordinary vocality is proof of what a remarkable instrument the human voice can be. Entirely self-taught, her influences range from Japanese classical music to Gregorian chant to the sounds of blossoming nature. Her explorations, reaching toward the very essence of our universe, have earned her the admiration of David Lynch (who invited her to MIF 19), superstar producer Rick Rubin (featured in the miniseries Shangri-La, filmed at his recording studio), and everyone who has seen her perform live. After a few years away from the stage, she returns to San Filippo Neri to present new works.

JASSS is the stage name of Silvia Jiménez Alvarez, who moved from Asturias to the Netherlands to develop a career that, from her first encounters with experimental cinema, has maintained a constant fascination with sound and material. On record, the human voice plays a central role, but behind the decks her work is a deep exploration of the space in which sound exists at that moment. Experiencing one of her DJ sets becomes an intensely physical journey, as every tone and beat passes through you, with vibrations expanding to fill the entire dance floor and inhabit every inch of it.

Mariachiara Troianiello—aka Katatonic Silentio—is a sound artist working across electroacoustic, ambient and drone, carving out a practice at the crossroads of electronic music, performance art and sound studies.Cosimo Damiano, producer, composer and DJ, is a mainstay of Rome’s most eclectic, multidisciplinary scene—whether at the helm of the Deltaplanet label or teaming up on projects such as Salò, Canzonieri and Neurodreamers. He doesn’t just chase the future; he shapes it into hypnotic, prescient flashes.Together, they embark on a psychoacoustic exploration like no other.

“Living legend” is a term that truly applies to only a few people – Lino Capra Vaccina is one of them. Co-founder of Aktuala and Telaio Magnetico during the years when Italy was setting the rules for the rest of the Western world, he is a multi-instrumentalist and composer of rare versatility, still exploring the analog synth to this day. Together with Mai Mai Mai, in a collaboration born from elective affinities and carried forward with the mission of uniting tradition and innovation, past and present, in a constant dialogue that transcends genres and generations, intertwining minimalism, avant-garde, and mysticism.

Canone Infinito Xtended is the expanded version of the track featured on Scacco Matto, one of the most evocative moments in a discography that is itself a series of wide-open portals to other dimensions. From the original five minutes, it stretches to forty in the newly released EP, reinforcing the bond with Warp Records (together since 2016). On stage, it becomes the starting point for a series of variations – each a standalone chapter in a virtually endless narrative, living matter constantly transfigured and shaped in real time. Italian premiere for the opening concert at Pop Up Cinema Medica Palace 4K.

Paraphrasing Pasolini, it takes great strength to love Blue Veil: in a career spanning classical music, improvisation, electronic experimentation, and film scores—all in the name of a sonic exploration constantly balancing between matter and abstraction—Blue Veil acts as a mental crowbar, revealing the primordial essence of each listener and confronting them with crucial questions as if they were obvious truths. A Lucy Railton live performance leaves you enriched with new awareness, as if you’ve discovered the truth about yourself without feeling lost.

Since the early ’90s, the heart of Bologna’s house scene (and funk, disco, and techno). From the San Donato district to conquering the world, alongside partners Dino and Rame in the powerhouse Pastaboys or solo behind the decks for countless unforgettable nights, and at the controls of the Paradise Pizza label, the game has remained the same: a timeless, classic sound recognized worldwide. A dizzying array of productions (The Tortellini EP, Daylight in the Invisible World), remixes (Johnny Dangerous, Jody Watley), and DJ sets that continue to set the standard.

A sound that turns into color. A music that takes shape.
The synesthetic experiments of Louis-Bertrand Castel come back to life in CO25, an interactive, video/sound-reactive installation that updates the research on the relationship between sound and image.The audience is invited to create freely with a visual groove machine, where image and sound become living matter: through 32 audiovisual samples, it is possible to build and manipulate one’s own landscape—played with the eyes and observed through listening.Curated by Mikkel Garro Martinsen (Roofvideodesign), coordinated by Danilo Danisi.Created by Mikkel Garro Martinsen together with the students of the Digital Video course of the Master’s Program in Graphic, Interaction and Videogame Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.

Murcof is the musical incarnation of Fernando Corona, since 2001 a probe in constant exploration of folds of the mind whose existence we never even suspected. It is music for that moment of the night when time stretches and dream activity fuses with reality, as the space between darkness and dawn thins until it disappears; occasionally, a voice emerges like an ectoplasm in the dark, but more often these are instrumental corridors where all the universe’s melancholy lingers – fragments of memories reactivated, premonitions, chimeras. The ultimate cerebral massage.

Nziria is where the dance floor meets ethnomusicology, a link between Burial and Gigi D’Agostino through a dizzying array of neomelodic records. Tradition and experimentation converge in a fusion that knows no barriers or borders, like Earth as seen from space by Yuri Gagarin; evident from the debut title (Xxybrid), the next step is presented at ROBOT in its world premiere. Syysma is the future sound of the Mediterranean: between folklore and club culture, basslines that hit like sledgehammers, and the sound of life flowing through the streets, Naples transcends physical boundaries to become a state of mind.

From the Romagna coast comes one of the most eclectic and unpredictable selectors around. Always ears-first for new releases, with an encyclopedic knowledge of dance music materials from every era. Vinyl, cassette, CD, or data stream—it makes no difference; each of their sets is a real-time clash between future and sonic archaeology, with ever-shifting trajectories where the sounds of tomorrow travel alongside reawakened memories we didn’t even know we had. Resident DJ for ROBOT 2025, they will open the Temporanea stage on Friday and Saturday evenings.

Rapper, producer, and half of the post-drone project GRIEND, since 2020 Rainy Miller has headed the Fixed Abode label, a platform for local talents from a scene that remains off the beaten path. Hailing from Preston, the county seat of Lancashire, his peripheral location (in the mind as much as on the map) profoundly shapes his artistic trajectory – moving between grime, drill, ambient, industrial, club electronics, and extended streams of consciousness where avant-hip hop becomes a series of open-hearted confessions, blended into a mix that resembles nothing and no one else.

Grieco has been performing internationally since 2012, both as a solo artist (under the moniker kNN) and in numerous collaborations as musician, performer and sound dramaturge. Grieco's music originates in musique concrète craftsmanship, culminating in orchestrations where period instruments, imaginary lutherie, and sculptural rooms coexist.
ROBOT festival presents the premiere of the new trio formed by Antonina Nowacka, Renato Grieco and Riccardo La Foresta. A dialogue of whispers, strings, and silence that drifts between ritual, improvisation, and memory. Like a field recording from a dream.

He began as an acrobat in circuses but soon decided to channel his tightrope-walking skills into DJing – and that’s where things get interesting. Through a series of travels across Morocco, Algeria, and Libya, scouring every market stall, he amassed a collection of over twenty thousand units in the format that also gave him his stage name. “Retro Cassetta” in name and in fact: his sets are a dizzying whirlwind of tapes covering virtually every existing genre in North African music, and with each cassette, the distance between his world and “our” Italo Disco gets shorter.

Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist and sound artist whose research of the last few years reveals a variety of sound-related practices. Since 2015 he’s dedicated to the development of the Drummophone, an aerophone instrument obtained from drums that creates acoustic drones, ancestral melodies and complex beats drastically distancing the instrument from traditional drumming, and questioning the role of the drum as a percussive instrument.
ROBOT festival presents the premiere of the new trio formed by Antonina Nowacka, Renato Grieco and Riccardo La Foresta. A dialogue of whispers, strings, and silence that drifts between ritual, improvisation, and memory. Like a field recording from a dream.

On his ninth album, Rival Consoles still manages to move us like at the very first encounter. A longer pause than usual to seek new inspiration, but once the spark ignites, the mechanism unlocks and the intensity returns stronger than before. Landscape from Memory is a return to places of the mind and soul, both familiar and new at the same time, with the pedal of emotion pressed always to the maximum imaginable—more feeling, more soul, more nostalgia, more vision of the future. As always, electronic music impossible to ignore, this time even harder to forget.

Luis Garban’s stage name, Safety Trance, is a beautiful oxymoron — as if to say “safe ecstasy.” And that’s exactly what happens when you let yourself be carried by the music he creates and/or plays in his sets: cerebral, icy, driven by glacial synths, yet at the same time viscerally physical, rooted in a malaise that can only be Venezuelan. His other alias, Cardopusher, is perhaps even more explicit in signaling what to expect when he’s behind the decks. A companion in sonic escapades with Arca, solo his intensity multiplies.

The connection between Sama’ Abdulhadi and Bologna is a matter of elective affinities: a complex mix ranging from her personal touch in reinterpreting various forms of electronic music by blending them with real sounds and ambient noise, to the powerful narrative of each of her sets, where the journey becomes a voice reaching all the world’s consciences, music as a tool to speak to those often marginalized. The relationship with the audience filling every stop of her frequent visits to Bologna is a constant, intense exchange—both sides enriched, already awaiting the next encounter.

For Sarah Davachi, Canadian composer and performer in the minimalist/electroacoustic field, the organ is the instrument of choice to reach ascension; her compositions are long meditations built on layers of sound that expand the concept of space and perfectly accompany the grainy texture of Dicky Bahto’s film footage—psychic explorations akin to the great experimental cinema of giants like Stan Brakhage and Chris Marker. Together, they present Double Reeds, a solo organ performance in dialogue with timeless analog images: a soulful place where it will be sweet to get lost.

It’s the story of music where amplified guitars merge with electronics from the early ’90s to today, returning to make sense of these times, a flash from one of the most important decades, updated to launch the present into orbit. Starting as a rock band, Seefeel have shaped electronic music through a series of gestures that defined some of the most important labels for this sound we continue to adore – Too Pure, Warp, personally chosen by Aphex Twin for his Rephlex. Always several steps ahead of the rest, they perform at Medica Palace with a live audio/video set exploring new digital landscapes.

The sound and parties of tomorrow: Tayhana explores new ways of approaching BPM and the space where the dancefloor comes alive. A visionary of the dancefloor, she created the HiedraH Club de Baile series, completely redefining the clubbing experience. Alongside her solo work, she produces beats for artists such as Rosalía, Daniela Lalita, the always-missed The Knife, and our own M¥SS KETA – for whom she remixed Vogliono Essere Me – and extends her reach into cinema, contributing to the soundtrack of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in collaboration with Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson.

Since his 2013 debut Disarmonia at just 18, Dylan Iuliano has developed a bold, boundary-breaking sound. Raised on file-sharing, CD burning, and a love for both extreme metal and millennial pop, he fractures and reinterprets noise, braindance, punk, ambient, and pop into emotional, unpredictable collages. As The Delay In The Universal Loop, he has released acclaimed albums including Split Consciousness (2015), Inner Capitalism (2020, named one of WIRED Italia’s “20 Albums of the Year”), and Ninne Nanne (2023, featured as Bandcamp “New & Notable”). He has performed across Europe and the United States alongside artists such as Fennesz, Rival Consoles, and Donato Dozzy, while collaborating with visual artists to expand his sonic universe. His new EP Crushed Angels—premiered at ROBOT16—will be released on October 4 via Never Sleep, the label curated by Gabber Eleganza.

The collaboration between Zoë Mc Pherson, a Franco-Irish performer, sound designer, and DJ, and visual artist Alessandra Leone (a résumé spanning major brands to special effects in cinema, theater productions to documentaries) is a meeting of top talents. Born from a summer artist residency, the audio/video live performance to be premiered at DumBO represents the next level in a journey of exploration through soundscapes, rhythmic experiments, and techno bursts, all intertwined with images that erase any possible distance between rave and cinema screen.