PROGRAMME
SERVICE
Rathaus – Arkadenhof, doors open at 21:00
21:00–23:00 R3IGN DROPS DJ set
23:00–00:30 Catu Diosis hybrid set
00:30–01:30 Nyege Nyege Showcase feat. Phelimuncasi live
01:30–03:00 Authentically Plastic DJ set
Second floor at Volkshalle with ImPulsTanz on Decks with DJ NÔÖØÒÕRN, inka re, RepliCat, Georgia moon, Andrea D’Arsiè, Nadezhda Pavilion
Tickets pre-sale: 15 euro / 13 euro for workshop pass holders
Tickets evening box office: 20 euro (if still available)
Strobe light effects and loud music may be used at this event.
Admission from the age of 18.
As a goodie, a ticket for the Weekender at the Rathaus – Arkadenhof entitles you to admission to the Burgtheater Vestibül on the same evening. Please note: There may be capacity-related admission stops at the Burgtheater Vestibül, so admission cannot be guaranteed.
ImPulsTanz Soçial Weekender an the Rathaus – Arkadenhof is under the patronage of the Mayor of Vienna, Dr Michael Ludwig.
Burgtheater Vestibül, from 22:00
OFF THE GRID x SUGARSLIP
call me daddy
chrysalide
dirty maria
yves
b.ranks
dj odd
rapha ready
david krieger
Tickets evening box office: 10 euro (tickets only available on site)
Admission is always free for festival artists, workshop participants and holders of a performance ticket of the same evening. Admission from the age of 18.
Phelimuncasi formed in 2012 in the Umlazi township of Durban South Africa as a trio of Gqom vocalists, comprised of twins Makan Nana and Khera and Malathon. Their music is definitely enchanting and potent, richly imbued with an immense storytelling tradition that harks back to southern African toyi-toyi: a powerful dance of protest and struggle accompanied by rhythmic singing that was used during anti-apartheid demonstration to intimidate police and security forces. No surprise that Phelimuncasi have been calling to perform at many political functions for the African National Congress and South African leftwing Pan Africanist party EFF (Economic Freedom Fighter).
Their genre-pushing album that was released in September 2020 on Nyege Nyege Tapes, is a retrospective of Gqom music featuring nine dense, radical tracks realized over a period of six years.
But what establishes this album as a major work of contemporary South African underground music is Phelimuncasi’s spontaneous, mantra-like chanting, vibrant Isizulu Spoken Word and infectious statements that intensify and infuse a sense of revelation and liberation throughout the whole album. Phelimuncasi for sure expands the cerebral boundaries of a genre they helped pioneer and bring it further outside of the continent.
Catu Diosis is a free spirited, energetic, forward moving Ugandan producer, rapper & DJ. Her music is flavorful, highly danceable, always an afrocentric blend of global bass music, taking you from Luanda to São Paulo, from Kampala to Bamako in a second.
Catu has played countless festivals, clubs and stages globally including the CTM Festival, Panorama Bar Berlin, Fusion Festival, Eurockéennes, Kaleidoscope in Kenya, Nyege Nyege, Boiler Room, Locus Festival in Italy, Circulart in Colombia and many more.
She is a member of the Nyege Nyege Collective as well as co-founder of Dope Gal. Together with R3IGN DROPS she performs as the DJ Duo Black Sistarz and they co-founded Dope Gal as a platform for women to collaborate through creative projects.
She’s currently working on her debut album. As part of a DJ/live hybrid set at the imPulsTanz Soçial Weekender, she will give a first taste of what’s to come.
Catu Diosis - Deep Mix
As a DJ, Producer & Artist from Kampala, Uganda, Authentically Plastic’s sound is necessarily political. Between 2018-2023, they ran a roving, riotous, club night called ANTI-MASS, which opened up space for femme and queer artists in Uganda’s increasingly repressive social climate.
Risk-taking in this political environment has shaped Authentically Plastic’s sound, which has an accelerated, densely layered, improvisational feel. Their fiery debut album Raw Space was released in September 2022, receiving critical acclaim for its fresh urgency and prismatic unpredictability. Authentically Plastic’s sets, at once dark & playful, harbor this same propulsive energy, using Gqom, Noise & Techno as a base for exploring other unknown sounds. Their music is influenced by Northern Ugandan (acholi electronic) rhythms, early acid/industrial experiments, and Afro-futurism.
Hailing from Kampala, Uganda, R3IGN DROPS is a young DJ with a taste for Techno and groovy Afro House beats that take you on a Journey of meditative sound and body Twisting adventures. R3IGN DROPS started her journey as a DJ and producer in late 2019 during her residency at Nyege Nyege. She has performed at some of Kampala’s most banging hangouts. Besides being a DJ and producer, R3IGN DROPS is also a creative artist with an interest in modeling, writing and dancing.
R3IGN DROPS (*Kampala, Uganda) - 30-Apr-24
PROGRAMME BURGTHEATER VESTIBÜL
