CTM 2025: These New Puritans + Dis Fig & Spooky-J
Returning to silent green in 2025 for their 26th edition, CTM Festival brings a host of adventurous and transgressive concerts once more. Concerts, performances and multisensory experiences from avant-garde music ensemble 33, Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko’s reimagining of Hildegard von Bingen, the genre-defying These New Puritans returning with their first LP since 2019, the Egyptian composer Yara Mekawei and Spooky-J – the British electronic architect behind Nihiloxica’s rhythmic force—bringing the raw intensity of traditional Bugandan percussion with the throbbing pulse of underground techno.
8pm: Dis Fig & Spooky-J
Using her acrobatic voice and physical presence to transmit emotional complexity from a pit deeper than language, Dis Fig dredges forth a cathartic distillate that oozes between vulnerable beauty and retching chaos. With Nihiloxica’s Spooky-J on drums, she will present a live show developed during her 2024 CTM x Goethe-Institut x Somerset House Studios Residency, with the material forming the basis of an upcoming full-length release.
9pm: These New Puritans
Returning with their first LP since 2019, the only thing one can expect from the genre-defying These New Puritans is the unexpected. Equal parts high-concept artisans and ambitious pop architects, twin brothers Jack and George Barnett are defined by a restless drive to dismantle boundaries between genres. Their music has an intentional ambiguity, weaving a persistent undercurrent of questioning and a sonic warmth that resists clear interpretation.
Festival passes are on sale now, along with further program details. More acts, and event details and tickets will be released as of December.
For 25 years, CTM has been highlighting new strains of underground club culture and art that ventures through the weird, the challenging, the cathartic, the esoteric, the contagious, and the ecstatic – simultaneously exploring sonic histories, contexts, and political and technological entanglements.
Saturday, January 25
Doors 7pm / Start 8pm
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