October Tone Parties

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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!"

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.

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.