SONOTOPIA: ATHENS DUBS w K.atou [DJ set] & Jay Glass Dubs [live]

ATHENS DUBS [SONOTOPIA]

Thursday, October 8th
ROMANTSO
23:00 - 02:00
Free Entrance

K.atou [DJ]

Jay Glass Dubs [live]

SONOTOPIA welcomes two distinguished Athens selectors and DJs, bridging styles and genres, in this soft opening party intended for BAUTOPIA guests and local audiences to engage. From melodic electronica, over bass-infused tracks and slow-burn rhythms, get a taste of Athen’s favorite dubs.

Jay Glass Dubs (live set)

Dimitris Papadatos, aka Jay Glass Dubs, is a Greek-American composer, musician and sound artist, and a key figure in experimental dub electronics and the Bokeh Versions collective. His work explores spirituality and transformation through a stripped-down, experimental approach to dub, focusing on rhythm, bass, vocals and effects. He has released extensively on labels including Bokeh Versions, DFA Records, Ecstatic and Berceuse Heroique, and collaborated with artists such as Not Waving, Guerilla Toss and Leslie Winer. His work has been presented internationally at institutions and festivals including Berlin Atonal, Meakusma Festival and documenta 14, as well as venues across Europe. His music has also been featured and broadcast by NTS Radio, BBC Radio 3, WFMU, dublab and Resonance FM.

K.atou (DJ set)

K.atou has been the strongest female voice in the local Greek scene for more than a decade. After spending time in London and Berlin, she moved back to Athens in 2009 and established residencies at Six d.o.g.s., co-presented a series of parties under the name “No Expectations”, regular appearances at the queer mobile parties “Qreclaim” and as a resident DJ at PTX Athens with her second moniker “Janet Davis”. Meanwhile, her international DJ schedule blossomed, with performances across Europe, South and North America. She has performed three times at Glastonbury Festival while also she has performed in Zukunft (Zurich), Recyclart (Brussels), Bassiani takeover @ Block (Tel Aviv), Marble Bar (Detroit) to name a few. She also currently holds two residencies on Fade Radio and Movement Radio. With her mind focused on carving this dedicated path through DJing, K.atou maintains her position at the forefront of the electronic music scene. The ingredients of her particular sound can be attributed to the classic realms of the 90s house and techno from Detroit, Chicago and Frankfurt, with a penchant of the trippy, dubbed out and sublime.

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SONOTOPIA - The Soundtrack to Bautopia Festival

This years’ seventh edition of ECHN’s annual BAUTOPIA event is the largest to date. It is a culture and creativity festival in the true sense of the word, with numerous programs across different venues, including exhibitions, guided tours, book launches and special activities. It is only logical that it also presents its own music programming, across the venues Bios, Romantso, Latraac and Plex.

Each BAUTOPIA event is co-hosted by one of ECHN's member hubs. Under the title CREATIVE AGENCY: Sustaining Culture & Creativity in the Age of Intelligence, creative hub managers, CCSI stakeholders, artists, creative professionals, students and the general audience will explore sustainability not only from the environmental standpoint, but also the sustainability of creative professions in the face of multiple crises.

This October, our host will be BIOS in Athens, which encompasses several well-known venues and hubs, including Bios itself, Romantso, Plex and Latraac, each offering a different spatial context for exhibiting, performing and learning. With many CCSI professionals converging to Athens for the event, we decided to extend and develop the event’s music program, and give it its own identity under the SONOTOPIA banner.

You can expect four distinct music events, featuring artists from Greece, Switzerland, France, Denmark, the UK and Uganda, from playful experiments and pure noise, over eclectic dance selections, all the way to cutting-edge drum’n’bass, jungle and dubstep plates, rounded up by a party focusing on the sounds of the global south and bringing the vibes of renowned Nyege Nyege Tapes label, which recontextualized contemporary African dance music for the new generations of audiences.

The artists include the meccano master Pierre Bastien, making a comeback to Athens after 15 years since his last performance; Kampire, the lady on the forefront of the Nyege Nyege Tapes global takeover; Binetou, founder and director of Wèrè Wèrè Music which builds Bridges between African contemporary music and the world, and a producer and DJ herself; Klinical, one of the leaders of the new wave of UK bass music; Insomniac, Swiss bass and jungle DJ regularly moving around the European circuit; Ivanol, Chilean-born but Danish-based noise doctor; as well as selected local contributions from the likes of Jay Glass Dubs, K.atou, Adamantios and Cryogenics.

More confirmations are being expected, as well as a safe, easy-listening afternoon refuge at Latraac, for those wishing to move away from the noise and the crowd, and the Craft Club pop-up, in which everyone is invited to dance or chill, but one way or the other - to do some crochet!

A little bit of everything, for everyone!