OCTOBER TONE PARTIES 2025 - OCTOBER 25

With Slowride, the debut album from her new eponymous label, Tryphème unveils a new, offbeat equestrian ride.
As we encounter the artist's past influences—My Bloody Valentine, Techno Animal, Abstract Keal Agram, and Bowery Electric—touches of bass rock, dub, and electronica appear against a trip-hop backdrop.

This Amsterdam-based trio straddles wave, disco, and dub, merging into gloomy yet catchy melodies. Their music blends hypnotic electronic rhythms and undulating vocals. Their debut single, "Fixed Position," was released on Swiss label Bongo Joe Records, and their debut album is expected in spring 2024.
Housepainters consists of Anna Fleuri, Tom Ogilvie, and Marnix Wilmink.

Laura Krieg is a form of geocritical self-defense. A cold wave of brutalist pop. A drum machine, a microphone, and silver glitter.

With Crépuscule, I wanted to make people dance, even if they were sad. I worked with a more ethereal and warm sound, with songs to listen to with an open heart. I wanted to explore the imaginary world of the end; to construct a series of images captured at the moment when everything is about to disappear. A red sky, in the desert, a blurred character taking shape while resisting becoming real.
I approached writing the album as multiple attempts to capture this entity,
resulting in a collection of fragments. I drew inspiration from classical Greek tragedy: Medea, the stranger, standing in the middle of the abyss, in the middle of nothingness. And from postdramatic theater: Hamlet-machine, the impossibility of having a voice in the shadow of the Spectre. The omnipresence of death where one waits for life. Another idea that inspired the album is the "in-between": bringing together an emotion that takes me to the depths and another that takes me upwards, that seeks transcendence. In this liminal state, exploring the space between melancholy and desire. Dancing the end: I placed the body in the middle of the process, as a form of resistance. "In the middle of the night, bodies are brilliant."

Crush of Souls is the not-so-new musical adventure of Charles Rowell (Crocodiles, Flowers of Evil, Issue, etc.).

After moving from New York to France, Charles worked hard to finalize the project over the past few years. But it wasn't until he was living in a hotel in northeast Paris, a stone's throw from La Station and Espace B, that Rowell found the inspiration for Crush of Souls. The city provided him with the context and the playground of friends who pushed his creativity even further.

There has always been a common thread of electronica, death rock, and DIY noise in all of Charles's projects, but Crush of Souls goes further and deeper, with guitars revisiting sounds only discovered by Chrome, primitive rhythms akin to Wax Trax, and demanding noise passages that vibrate the spectrum of Genesis P. Orridge—the rain and wind ultimately complemented by stormy saxophone entries.

Tricératops is the electro band of DJ Bouto, Eïkisan, and Djane Ki.
Influenced by the spirit and energy of sound systems, these three 1990s veterans freely pursue their sonic trajectory.

"We've returned to raw, memory-less machines (everyone writes down their settings), and we sequence everything via MIDI, a return to the Atari spirit. If we don't use our best machines (TR 909, etc.), it's out of a desire for lightness and mobility: our challenge is also to make this slightly cheap gear sound good!"

An electronic playground for musician Tioklu, the recipe can be read forwards, backwards, and improvised: a soup of creamy breakbeats and tangy synthesizers, new-age pads, enchanting melodies, and a dubby bass. To be sipped at sunset or sunrise.

XIXAVEGA is a multidisciplinary artist whose musical universe is rooted in immersive techno with complex rhythmic structures. A producer, composer, violinist, and singer, she develops a sonic language where percussive polyrhythms, electronic textures, and modulated vocals intertwine to create a sound that is at once raw, organic, and hypnotic.
Her music is based on an approach to rhythm that goes beyond simple pulses. By layering syncopated patterns and evolving cycles, she sculpts grooves in perpetual motion, oscillating between tension and release. Her compositions, influenced by her Albanian roots and instrumental background, fuse tribal sounds with techno featuring deep bass and modular structures.

A musician and producer for over 10 years, Samy Abboud has brought Nancy to international prominence with his bands M.A BEAT! and Ghost In The Tapes. He now presents his new solo project, mahō shōjo, influenced by atmospheric jungle, trip-hop, and video game soundtracks from the 90s and 2000s. His DJ sets combine devastating breaks and melodic richness through a sharp selection.