31.10—02.11.24
Guimarães

Alex Wilcox is a Texan-born music producer and live performer based in Berlin known for his eclectic club music.

His journey began with a fascination for 90’s rock music, later evolving into an interest in techno during a visit to Berlin. Unsatisfied with the music scene in Austin, he moved to LA to hone his production skills, working in pop/rap music production. His heart remained in Berlin’s club culture – he moved to Detroit, started DJing and immersed himself deeper into the techno world. His self-released album caught the attention of Anetha, leading to collaborations and releases on labels like Mama Told Ya, Ellen Allien’s UFO Recordings, and Nina Kraviz’s Trip.

Transitioning from DJ sets to more ‘in your face’ hybrid sets with live vocals and performing only original music, Wilcox brings a punk energy often missing from the current club scene. With support from renowned DJs worldwide, he continues to evolve his sound, with new lots of new releases slated for 2024 and beyond.

At just 21 years old, Anastasia Coope’s talents as a musician, painter, and folk artist are formidable, but it’s her haunting baritone that may first draw listeners in. Using layered recording techniques, she builds vast vocal choirs that sweep, chant, and swirl through her music, creating a phantasmic ether around her spectral timbre.

Hailing from the village of Cold Spring in upstate New York’s Hudson Valley, Coope cites Nico, Brigitte Fontaine, and Scandinavian choral music as provenance. Her work bears the lineage of classic psychedelic folk and can sound, at once, persuasively vintage and strikingly new.

Coope debuted in 2021 with her self-released EP, Seemeely, establishing her richly naturalistic recording approach. She was then invited by Animal Collective to perform at their curated edition of the Netherlands music festival, Le Guess Who, before opening a series of tour dates for Avey Tare.

“Her recorded music feels secluded to a special place, maybe otherworldly, yet it also feels grounded in the here and now,” Avey said. “She’s very much in control of her craft and able to dismember and loop song forms to express her ideas which feel very new and fresh.”

Coope also caught the ear of art-punk legends Liars whose frontman Angus Andrew issued her first seven-inch, “Tough Sun,” on his No Gold imprint.

“There’s a sense of immediacy and urgency when I’m making music, paintings, and drawings,” says Coope. “As a painter, I have a visual and artistic connection to landscapes; music can project landscapes, too. There’s an element of scene-setting, of creating a picture. It’s about trying to translate a visual portrayal of life into sound.”

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Born in Fife, Scotland, as a child Clarissa relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark, whose cultural landscape has continued to fuel her creativity. Over many years she’s explored the sacred sites, mythology, and music of Nordic culture, finding enduring inspiration in the Celtic tradition. While she’s maintained an active role in the thriving local music scene, a global audience has awakened to her sound. She first gained international attention with Tech Duinn (2018), an hypnotic EP named after a spiritual gateway in Celtic myth. For her most recent album, The Voyager (2021), Clarissa physically walked the Scandinavian landscape, channelling melodies from ancient pre-Christian sites. She also developed an app (Vandringen) which allowed others to virtually join-in and musically respond to these sites. The album received global acclaim and was awarded the prestigious Nordic Music Prize. Both more intimate and cosmic in scope than its predecessors, World of Work (her debut album for Warp) draws inspiration from visionary literature, dreams, and meditative walks. While The Voyager explored the sacred history of the Nordic landscape, World of Work explores the metaphysical landscape of the soul. The listener is invited on an inner journey that is by turns hushed and ecstatic.

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Gabber Eleganza started as a curated digital archive which quickly flourished into a multifaceted project with connections to art, fashion, music and culture.
The aim of the project it to building up a bridge between the sonic landscape and aesthetic side of Hardcore and post-rave cultures and the contemporary culture through printed publications, music, installations and live performances.
One of the most exciting DJs crossing rave genres effortlessly and with flair of technical skill and flawless natural ability.
Also running his independent label Never Sleep has lead to curating shows at the world famous Berghain and playing at the best clubs / festivals around the world.
Combining this with highly sought after book ‘Hardcore Soul’ and collaborating with Turner prize winner Mark Leckey and world renowned photographer Ewen Spencer.
He recently designed his own collection with Alexander McQueen and made bespoke music for Isabel Marant catwalks.
A one of a kind artist that stands above the crowd with integrity and style.

Hypnosis Therapy are a Seoul based electronic-rap duo made up of rapper Jjangyou and
producer Jflow. Jjangyou first gained international notoriety as a semifinalist in Korean rap
survival programme Show Me The M0ney, having been a key player locally in the Korean Hip Hop scene since the early 10’s.

Earlier in 2023, he performed an arena show in Paris last year alongside a line up of K-Pop stars such as CL & Chunga, and recently returned from Kid Milli’s Europe tour.
Since his debut, he has always been known for his stage presence and wild energy.

Hypnosis therapy released their debut self titled album in 2022 to praise from the likes of Vogue, Hypebeast and Mix Mag. The accompanying remix EP also featured producers such as FRNK (NewJeans) and Malib (Woo Won Jae).
They are currently in the throes of working on their sophomore album, due in October, and are lined up to play SXSW Sydney in October.

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Montreal-based producer and vocalist Nadah El Shazly, known for her fresh and fearless performances, is a prominent and captivating voice in the electronic music underworld of her hometown, Cairo.
Her debut album “Ahwar” both radically reinvents the popular music of her homeland and explores new sonic and harmonic frontiers. Using voice, field recordings and instruments she creates haunting sound pieces and song forms that hijack your perception of time. Backing up her release with extensive worldwide touring through a solo set and a four-piece band, Nadah has been featured in many local and international festivals, including Le Guess Who?, REWIRE, Irtijal, Nusasonic, Marfa Myths, among others. Nadah is currently working on her second album, and continues to compose for film and moving images.

PAPAYA is Ricardo Martins, Bráulio Amado and Óscar Silva. In the past they behaved like a serious band, with albums released on foreign record labels, European tours and English lyrics, but nowadays they write and record whatever happens on the recording day, they sing in Portuguese, and play concerts only when their label (Revolve) needs a reason to continue to finance the physical editions of their records.
PAPAYA is a celebration of friendship and an excuse to continue doing things together.

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Snow strippers is a duo made up of members Tatiana Schwaninger and Graham Perez. They met in Florida in 2018 and began making music together towards the end of 2021, forming the band Snow Strippers. Graham had been producing music for years, while Tati had no previous experience making music before. They make electronic music that they want to listen to. They do all of their creative, visuals and merch independently. They run the band along with their label, Nice Bass Bro. Their third full length project, April Mixtape 3, dropped May 2023 on Surf Gang Records.

Still House Plants are a UK-based three-piece collective made up of Jess Hickie-Kallenbach, Finlay Clark, and David Kennedy.
From a minimalist approach of guitar, drums and vocals they create fractious and sharp music with a melting pop heart. Bridging elements of sampling, slow core, and repetition, the trio have developed a sound that constantly breaks apart and fuses together again.
Their second LP ‘Fast Edit’ was released collaboratively via London imprint Bison in partnership with New York based Blank Forms Editions. It was written aided by mobile phones, dictaphones, laptop recordings, conversations, and live shows, blending into a collage of fidelities and aural spaces. Things sit on top of each other, fall over one another, or click into place, with hearts on sleeves and spirits in motion.

New singles ‘no sleep deep risk’ and ‘M M M’ appeared at the beginning of 2024, preceding the release of their third album ‘If I don’t make it, I love u’, out through Bison on April 12th.

Three—four, if you count the one pulling the strings—inquisitive individuals that came together by way of fate’s ties to the universe (and, “time travel”, if you ask them discreetly), UNIVERSITY are a band diving into all of life’s existentialism. An exploration of adolescence, self-identity and slight mania, their upcoming music is “like getting punched in the face by a gorilla but then being cuddled afterwards”. Influenced by artists such as Nouns, Hella, and Cypress Hill, UNIVERSITY sit in their own patchwork world, combining textures both vintage and futuristic.

Having taken care of the 10-year mark, the Portuguese future-focused music festival Mucho Flow is set to return with a redoubled focus on tomorrow’s sounds. The festival’s bill will showcase a unique blend of emerging pop artists, critical producers and moving DJs in a multivenue format to highlight new music trends and some of the most adventurous sounds around.

Mucho Flow spans from October 31st to November 2nd, taking place in Guimarães finest arts venues, CIAJG – Centro Internacional de Artes José de Guimarães, Teatro Jordão, CCVF – Centro Cultural Vila Flor, and Teatro São Mamede. 2024 is a leap year, and Mucho Flow will be jumping straight into the music we will be all listening in the coming times.

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