OCTOBER TONE PARTIES 2025 - OCTOBER 24

Coals, the duo consisting of Kacha and Lucassi, quickly gained recognition thanks to their home recordings shared on YouTube a few years ago. Since then, they have performed at numerous international festivals, including Positivus, Pohoda, Metronome Prague, MENT Ljubljana, Eurosonic, Primavera Sound, and Iceland Airwaves. During their stay in Reykjavik, Coals notably recorded a live session for the legendary radio station KEXP at Kex Hostel. In Poland, they have graced the stages of major festivals such as Open'er, OFF, and Fest Festival.

Their debut album, Tamagotchi (2017), draws inspiration from hauntology and glitch aesthetics. Coals is known for their genre-bending sound, incorporating elements of dream pop, art pop, chillwave, ambient pop, cloud rap, and R&B, while eschewing rigid classifications. They describe their own style simply as cold pop.

There are songs that stand up and others that are made to fall. This trio, born between Strasbourg and Ankara, navigates these shifts without instructions.

Come to think of it, their aesthetic has been somewhere between sub-pop flashes and 4AD mirages since the beginning. We first heard them overflowing, between shoegaze and noise (Heartbeat, 2012, To The Grave To The Rave, 2013). Vow (2016) tightened the lines with a drier and more intense live album. In 2020, F.A. Cult, produced by Charles Rowell (Crocodiles), marked a turning point: pop asserts itself, the air circulates more, but the tension remains.

Today, we recognize their way of holding a motif to the point of obsession while everything moves around it. Zeynep Kaya's voice envelops and transports, stretching or tightening as the songs progress. Delphine Padilla gives the drums a motoric allure where each strike seems choreographed. Atef Aouadhi creates a dialogue between guitars and bass, clear or incisive, which opens up the space and guides the songs. Synths emerge or recede to disturb or illuminate the melodies.

Vagabond Melodies (November 7, 2025) extends this trajectory. More direct, more grounded, Hermetic Delight's second album refines a now singular language. The art of persistence.

Maryze is a queer Canadian and French artist based between Los Angeles and Montreal. Her smooth and fiery alternative pop evokes a captivating universe, blending electronic rhythms with fiery, introspective bilingual lyrics. Maryze released her debut album, "8," on Hot Tramp Records in 2022, embarked on a North American tour, and charted on Spotify's Viral 50 Canada chart. "8" addresses themes of sexuality, identity, and family breakdown, exploring influences ranging from emo to hyperpop to Celtic folk, a product of the singer's Irish and Breton roots. The album received critical acclaim from Under the Radar, Consequence of Sound, Exclaim!, CBC/Radio-Canada, and Wonderland Magazine.

Following an Australian and New Zealand tour with Alex Cameron in 2024, Maryze's hit bilingual single, "Langue," went viral, gaining over 30,000 new social media followers and over 8 million views. Subsequently, their cover of Gwen Stefani's "Cool" earned them recognition on Billboard Canada. They spent most of the year in artist residencies in Los Angeles, including at the coveted SOCAN Artist House. Since the beginning of 2025, Maryze has performed at SXSW, opened for Boy Harsher, Princess Superstar, Desire, and Kap Bambino, and released the new single "Versed," the first single from her upcoming sophomore EP. The artist is planning a string of releases and a European tour this fall.

Margarita Tempête is a Brazilian DJ based in Strasbourg, a resident at z-est radio. Moving between vinyl and digital, she explores everything from jazz to disco house, including Brazilian, African-American, and Caribbean rhythms, with a joyful curiosity and an attentive ear for detail. Her musical selection is informed by rigorous research into artists, performers, and composers, with a desire to highlight minority voices. Each set becomes a sensitive and political journey, often unpredictable, always joyful.

GRAND HOTEL LOVE (formerly DIRTINOYZBOYZ), founded in 2021 by VEEXEN (Ginger Mother), IDMS (FiizY), and WERT (Damaghead, Who's Who?), and joined by SLAD3R (Ginger Mother) in 2024, is a collective of DJs, producers, and artists from Strasbourg.
Residents at Karmen Camina since September 2024, a club already renowned on the French scene, they deliver progressive and rugged sets and play with the codes of 90s/2000s nostalgia through a second degree where filtered house, trance hits, and emotive jungle flicker.
Their third mixtape, GRANDIOSE MOTEL Vol. 2, embodies their gritty and minimalist direction, featuring garage and baggy jeans.