October Tone Parties

Roundtable: “What does indie mean?”

Hosted by Rémi Laffitte, founder of Futur Parlé, this discussion will bring the ideas explored in the fanzine of the same name into an IRL conversation.

Political choice or economic necessity? What forms of autonomy are still possible in an age of constant noise and ready-to-consume culture?

The idea is to bring together different experiences and perspectives, and open up a space for discussion around indie music, its realities and its contradictions. To shine a light once again on the collective and individual energies and initiatives that survive, sometimes barely, outside the radar, and to understand how they take shape and what keeps them going.

Guests to be announced very soon!

Born from the meeting between Simon Sockeel (La Houle) and Wilfried Thierry (Ego Twister, Modulisme), auto.moto could have extended the recent abstract works of the two artists. Instead, the duo surprises with a more pop formula: a voice, a bass, rhythms from modular synthesizers and lots of effects, nourished by their common taste for experimentation. Simon's voice, like the feedback generated by his microphone, is transformed, looped and shaped to become sound material. Wilfried's bass, sometimes melodic, sometimes massive, dialogues with these textures while the rhythms coming from the synthesizers infuse their music with a hypnotic and motoric dimension. Thus, auto.moto multiplies the borrowings: hyperpop autotune, shoegaze effects, post-rock flights, syncopated rhythms between trip-hop and IDM... Between raw intensity, atmospheric drifts and heady melodies, the duo's concerts sit on a crest line between power and sonic maelstrom.

Chevreuil is a French rock duo formed in 1998 by Julien F. and Tony C., three years after they met at the Nantes School of Fine Arts. From the outset, they approached the concept of the band as a performance installation—an autonomous, sound-focused sculptural apparatus involving space and movement—rather than a traditional rock group.

Julien and Tony play "magnetic drums" and "magnetic guitar" respectively—a unique, proto-semantic concept that likens their playing to an instinctive physical phenomenon naturally exerting forces of attraction or repulsion. Their interaction is minimal yet charged, rooted in reduction, repetition, and an architectural mindset. Their music functions as an assembly of interlocking, layered, geometric, and structured rhythmic and harmonic blocks.

After a twenty-year hiatus, Chevreuil returns with *Stadium*, an esoterically tinged double album recorded in France in January 2025 and released on April 24, 2026, via Computer Students™. Chevreuil’s comeback reaffirms their identity: a duo shaped by conceptualism, sonic architecture, and human connection, constructing a musical environment that is precise, raw, and alive.

Constantly oscillating between the ridiculous and the sublime, KG never fails to surprise, distilling unsettling, danceable electronic instrumentals with retro-futuristic undertones. But that’s not all; KG does not choose, he navigates between styles and mixes languages, like a sonic wizard.

KG joins the October Tone roster, bringing along his absurd poetry, ethereal soundscapes, and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor.

After a first album in 2020 ('Funtastic') and a few singles ('IRL' & 'Puzzle' in 2023, 'Superstar' in 2024), Tapeworms returns with a new album entitled 'Grand Voyage' on the New York label Music Website and P-Vine in Japan.

On Grand Voyage the explorations are numerous and assertive: patchwork club pop (Window Seat), over-compressed and saturated electro house (Pitch Pop), synth pop ballad (Puzzle) and ambient interludes completing the general storytelling of the album, all sprinkled with glitches and other surreal sound effects. Playground, the first single from this new opus, presents itself as a convoluted pop testament to all these influences; a direct view of this laboratory of naive and explosive experiments.

"Playground" also aligns with the themes of their previous singles, celebrating the lightheartedness of happy days and the vow to cherish those memories—especially for the times when things aren't going so well.

Newly settled in Tokyo, Théo and Margot explore the corners of their neighborhood, their mini-DV in hand and set out on the lookout for children's play areas to which they wish to pay homage for the video of the song. The result is a raw clip, which plunges us into memories of family vacation videos while carrying a critical discourse on a sometimes dangerous nostalgia.

Far from the folklore governed by the binary kicks of current electro-oriental music, Keyvane Alinaghi uses the alias of Hassan K. to transgress Persian music with shifting borders.

Tinkerer, fervent defender of free and open source culture, all-round DIY artist, the one man band mixes without limits Persian rituals and new technologies, West and East, surf music and bellydance, swing and cybermetal, film music and harsh noise.

The multi-instrumentalist musician is a traditionalist who does not play with folklore, but seeks the essence of an ancient culture to give it a second wind without ever damaging it.

Composed without samples, note by note, click by click like a Benedictine monk (Ishraq?), each album produced is an initiatory passage, a theosophical stage which, in the narration, echoes Iranian spiritual chivalry.

Hassan K. works on his tools, diverts or augments traditional oriental instruments (electric setar, sensors, robotic santoor) so as not to drag on in the virtual and draw the audience into a very energetic live performance, bordering on trance.

Cosey Mueller is a musician and artist currently living and working
in Berlin. After finishing her studies in fine art at Udk Berlin in 2018
she started her musical career as one half of the synthpunk duo
DAS DAS whith which they released two albums “DAS DAS (S/T)“
in 2020 and “Leben in Bildschirmen“ in 2021 (label: Detriti).

She also played synthesizer in the hardcore/experimental group
Glaas whith which she co- released their debut album “Qualm” in
2022 and their EP “Cruel heart cold Summer” in 2023 (label:
Static Shock).

“Interior Escapes” was her solo debut, a self released synthwave
project recorded on tape during 2020/2021. It was followed by
her second LP, “Irrational Habits”, released February 2023 (label:
Static Age). Her music is characterized by repetitive synth
melodies, explosive beats, expressive vocals and a playful use of
language. It makes you travel to another time. A pulsating,
shimmering and danceable live experience is guaranteed.

Mara Zuli style includes dubbed-out material of the highest order, incorporating cues from acid, techno, breaks and beyond.

Her sets are deeply informed by time spent on the dancefloor and are shaped from within rather than observed from afar. They move in depth rather than extremes, neither fully dark nor overly euphoric. Around this, the atmosphere stays hazy: dim, fogged, and subtly hypnotic. Elements surface and dissolve again, allowing for subtle, unpredictable turns.

Bingo!

To kick off the evening, we’re starting with a bingo session and a few games, just to get straight back into the swing of things before the concerts.

Up for grabs: burgers from Starling, October Tone merch and a few other prizes.

Attention le tapis prend feu are passionate about rhyming French lyrics on Diddle paper (which still retains that delicious scent)! Martin Mahieu and Carla Descazals flirt with pop melodies infused with electronic and noisy textures. They’ve dug their 3/4-size electric guitar out of the attic to add some distortion to the "memories.mp3" from their old iPod Shuffle. Today, the duo sketches a kind of teenage melancholy in the margins of a squared-paper notebook—just the thing to soften those rainy days spent staring out the window of the RER train. Following two albums, a film, and a video game released via Ab Records and Entresoi, their latest album, Boomboom Duplicata, has just been released on Illogique Musique.

First known as Crocodiles Inc., then BangBangCockCock before becoming BBCC, the Strasbourg-based band has never stopped shifting its shape. From a more frontal indie rock approach to a sharper, more angular and kraut-leaning phase, then toward more conceptual forms, the band moves through constant transformation without ever losing its taste for derailment.

Musically, BBCC builds songs that feel physical, skewed and immediate all at once. Repetitive patterns settle in, drums drive forward, synths spill over, guitars twist the whole thing sideways, and the vocals move between irony, tension and euphoria. Somewhere between art pop, post-kraut and sonic fiction, the band cultivates a singular universe, at once grotesque, theatrical and vibrant.

Following the release of the album Michael, as well as several shows and screenings of its eponymous film in France, BBCC opens a new chapter with “King Michael II & The Trial Of The Axe”, the latest album released in June 2026. It already shows what makes the band stand out: a taste for narrative, marked contrasts, playful energy, and a very personal way of letting the absurd, the sensitive and the excessive coexist.

Ines Felicienne is an Italian DJ and musician with a tendency towards distorted and oneiric sounds. Her sets fuse broken rhythms, noise, post-punk, and experimental electronics. She also hosts the monthly show 'Glimmers of the Riot' on the Parisian community radio Station Station."

Resplandor is a Netherlands-based shoegaze band, blending shoegaze with elements of post-punk and post-rock. Their latest albums, Tristeza and Pleamar, were produced by Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and mastered by Simon Scott (Slowdive). The current lineup features Jomie Bagchus, Antonio Zelada, and Minne Davids.

In 2025, Resplandor kicked off the year with sold-out shows in Amsterdam and
Paris, followed by standout performances in Berlin, Rotterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Düsseldorf, Kraków, Katowice, Antwerp, Utrecht, Malmö, Copenhagen, and at the legendary Wave Gotik Treffen festival. They also joined LSD and the Search for God for two memorable sold-out shows in Utrecht and Paris.

Throughout their career, Resplandor has toured extensively across Europe, South America, and North America. Over the years, they have shared the stage with iconic acts such as The Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive, Drab Majesty, The House of Love, and many others.

Dancing & Crying is a club, just outside Carmel Vista, that is open
24/7. Here you can dance and cry on your favorite Emotional Dance
Music. Producer Palmbomen II (Kai Hugo) teams up with different
performers to release a series of EP’s made for the fictional Dancing &
Crying club. Music that makes you dance and cry.

The music has been recorded over the last few years; from COVID-19
confinement up till now, while Kai was building a new recording
studio, during which he made a small temporary studio in a hallway of
his house and while doing soundtracks for films and series. In this
edition singer Naiara Trivino takes a special spot and sings in French,
Spanish, and English and she features in the music video made around
this EP. This EP ranges from dramatic French synthwave (“Tes Yeux”),
touching the world of Kai’s other project Cindy, to proto-techno
“Darker Days” (with Antenna) to dreamy breakbeat (“Your Eyes Are
Empty”). Welcome to Dancing & Crying.

After their live set the night before, Tapeworms put another coin in the machine with a DJ set. Things stay deliberately wide open, with the same taste for pop, electronic and dreamy tracks, plus anything a little off-kilter. Another way to keep their world going and see where the night might lead.

Le Prince Harry is an unconventional synth-punk/electro-punk duo from Belgium, renowned for explosive performances that blend electronic beats, catchy synth riffs, and a punk attitude. The band has played hundreds of shows across Europe and toured in Canada and Réunion, proving equally at home on major stages—such as Fusion, Dour Festival, Le Cabaret Vert, and La Villette—and in intimate club venues. They have shared the bill with artists including The Horrorist, The Spits, The Exploited, DAF, and The Kids.

The group has released three albums (LPs) and seven EPs (along with split records) on the Teenage Menopause, Rockerill Records, and Jaune Orange labels, consistently entrusting their visual design to longtime friend and collaborator Elzo Durt.

A new ten-track album, A Long Way Down, was released via Teenage Menopause Records on June 14, 2024.

DJ, musician & sound explorer. Myriαm Stαmoυlis is as active on the turntables as in the studio. Bass player with a disco punk spirit alongside Patrick Vidal produced by John Cale in the 70s with his group Marie & Les Garçons, she now plays in the avant-garde orchestra of New York composer Rhys Chatham with whom the members of Sonic Youth began.

In addition, she mixed at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games with the projection of an original creation made using 60 years of Olympic TV archives preserved by the INA. The show took place after a live performance by Dombrance in the presence of 5,000 people and filmed by France Télévision. She notably mixed at Etienne Daho's aftershow at Bercy - Accor Arena and for the 20th anniversary of the group Nouvelle Vague.

A pioneer at heart, it was during her travels that she developed a keen passion for vinyl gems and DJing. Exploring club cultures more fully led him to create incandescent mixes including as many rarities as new releases and where mutant disco & electronic beats mingle. This research into the underground will initiate a unifying and cosmic journey to the confines of the night.