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05/12/2024
Full lineup for 2025 revealed: Underworld, Nina Kraviz, Richie Hawtin DEX EFX X0X, Anetha, Marcel Dettmann, KI/KI, plus stage takeovers by Príncipe x TraTraTrax, Enchufada and Dengo Club
Where better to kick off festival season 2025 than in Lisboa?
With the
full lineup
for
Sónar Lisboa 2025
now revealed there’s only one answer: nowhere.
On
11th, 12th and 13th April
next year, we’re bringing the best of the world to Lisbon and showing the best of Lisbon to the world, with a lineup headlined by
veteran innovators
and
ground-breaking artists
, plus
three exclusive stage takeovers
that
connect
Lisbon’s vibrant local underground
with
scenes from around the world
.
In total
, 43 acts
from Portugal and around the world - a
diverse selection of DJs
,
emerging artists
and
radical performances
- all
pushing club culture forward in 2025
.
And until
midnight this Sunday
(8th December)
, you can grab your
Full Festival Pass
for
just €100 plus booking fee
. Make sure you get yours before the price increases!
Full Lineup - Sónar Lisboa 2025 - 11.12.13 April - Pavilhão Carlos Lopes
New additions in
bold
Amor Satyr & Siu Mata (FR)
|
Anetha presents ‘EXHIBIT’ (FR)
|
BASHKKA b2b Ogazón (TR/ES)
|
DJ Caring b2b Dexter (UK/PT)
|
Clementaum (BR)
|
Dee Diggs (US)
|
Gabber Eleganza presents ‘The Hakke Show’ (IT)
|
Héctor Oaks (ES)
|
ISAbella (CO/ES)
|
JASSS (ES)
|
Jennifer Cardini (FR)
| Josh Caffé live (UK) |
Juliana Huxtable (US)
| KI/KI (NL) | King Kami & João Parente AV (BR) | Maki (PT) |
Marcel Dettmann presents ‘My Own Shadow’ live (DE)
|
Max Cooper presents ‘Lattice 3D/AV’ (UK)
|
Modeselektor DJ set (DE)
| Molero (VZ)
|
Nina Kraviz (RU)
|
NOIA (PT)
|
Or:la (UK) | Richie Hawtin ‘DEX EFX X0X’ (CA)
| Sheri Vari b2b Kemetic (PT)
|
Telma (PT)
|
Underworld (UK)
|
Valesuchi b2b RHR (CL/BR) |
Zeynep (DE)
Dengo Club present: BANU (PT) | Lua de Santana (ES) |
Saint Caboclo (PT) | San Farafina (CA)
Enchufada present: Hagan (UK) | Mu540 (BR) | Pedro da Linha (PT) | Quant (PT/BR) | Rita Vian (PT)
Príncipe x TraTraTrax present: Bitter Babe (CO) | DJ Firmeza b2b Nick León (PT/US-CO) |
DJ Lomalinda (CO) |
DJ Lycox (PT) |
DJ Narciso (PT)
Bringing the best of the world to Lisbon…
Headlining are a
pair of acts who’ve shaped the history of dance music
,
but have never stopped looking forward
:
Underworld
and
Richie Hawtin
.
UK duo Underworld brought rave culture to the masses via
Born Slippy
and
Trainspotting
in the ‘90s. As their sound remains timeless (check this year’s
Strawberry Hotel
), their live shows have evolved into high-tech blasts of audiovisual euphoria. With
‘DEX EFX X0X’
, minimal techno pioneer Richie Hawtin looks back to move forward. Premiered at Sónar 2024 in Barcelona this year, it uses immersive sound design and custom lighting to recreate the vibe of an underground club on the festival stage.
Sónar Lisboa 2025 offers a rare opportunity to catch some of the world’s biggest electronic acts in intimate settings. Returning to
Pavilhão Carlos Lopes
for a fourth year, the festival’s idyllic location
Parque Eduardo VII
, is both right in the heart of the city and surrounded by greenery.
Sónar by Night
- on
Friday 11th
and
Saturday 12th April
- offers two nights of uninterrupted, forward-thinking dance music on one single stage. For
Sónar by Day
- on
Saturday 12th
and
Sunday 13th April
- the music also heads outdoors with two additional open-air stages.
You’ll find three different shades of techno at the top of the bill:
Siberian trailblazer
Nina Kraviz
plays one of her most intimate festival sets of the year; French DJ
Anetha
pushes the limits of the genre with her first-ever AV show ‘
EXHIBIT’
; and Berlin mainstay
Marcel Dettman
premieres a brand-new live show,
‘My Own Shadow’
.
Looking for something a bit different? Catch
Gabber Eleganza
’s high-energy tribute to Dutch gabber culture, ‘
The Hakke Show’
, featuring
hakke
dancers live on stage; or electronic composer
Max Cooper
’s brand new live show
‘Lattice 3D/AV’
(before it appears in Barcelona next June).
Modeselektor
have kept electronic fresh, fun and free-spirited over the past two decades, don’t miss a rare DJ set from the Berlin duo. Don’t sleep on
Jennifer Cardini
, one of modern club culture’s quiet pioneers, who plays a seductive, diverse set of house, techno and everything in between.
…and showing the best of Lisbon to the world…
Three stage takeovers featuring local labels and collectives at
Sónar Lisboa 2025
explore the city’s status as a global crossroads, where the local and international underground collide.
Lisbon’s
Príncipe
and Colombia’s
TraTraTrax
are arguably the two most important underground labels of the past decade, having reshaped the sound of global dance music. They’re teaming up for the first time, linking
batida
, the sound of the Lisbon suburbs, with the new wave of Latin club music. Príncipe offers up two of their most talented artists,
DJ Narciso
and
DJ Lycox,
while
TraTraTrax co-founder
DJ Lomalinda
is joined by hyped Colombian artist
Bitter Babe
. And don’t miss a never-seen-before back-to-back between
DJ Firmeza
and
Nick León.
Local lynchpin Branko’s label
Enchufada
returns to Sónar Lisboa for the second year running, exploring styles from around the world. If you’re tuned into Brazilian baile funk, you already know that
Mu540
is the genre’s next big thing: he headlines the takeover. Also featured are DJ sets by Ghanian-British afro house artist
Hagan
, rising local producer
Pedro da Linha
and youthful Brazilian-Portuguese tech house talent
Quant
. Also don’t miss
Rita Vian
, who updates traditional Portuguese
fado
with r&b, rap and electronic music.
We’ve also invited one of Lisbon’s leading LGBTQIA+ collectives,
Dengo Club
, to curate part of next year’s lineup
.
Resident DJs
Banu
and
Saint Caboclo
have invited Toronto’s
San Farafina
to join them for a celebration of queer, black, and Latin club culture: from baile funk to afro house and everything in between. They’re joined by a spicy live set from rising Galician-Brazilian artist (and Nathy Peluso collaborator)
Lua de Santana
.
…with a lineup that links the local and global underground…
You’ll find links between the local and the global throughout the lineup. Founder of Barcelona queer FLINTA* collective MARICXS,
ISAbella
, plays throwback house and techno with a touch of trance, the same sonic territory as respected Lisbon DJ
Telma.
A ferocious, fast-paced set from Brazilian phenomenon
Clementaum
is right at home next to
NOIA
’s 160bpm+ mix of jungle and hardcore;
Maki
’s UK-friendly blend of bass and breaks with a hint of baile funk should appeal to fans of one of the UK’s best club selectors,
Or:la
.
Syrian-born DJ
Zeynep
is one of Berlin’s fastest rising artists; her understated, elegant sound is the perfect complement to a hi-NRG back-to-back between local heroes
Sheri Vari
and
Kemetic
.
Elsewhere,
King Kami
returns to Sónar Lisboa together with visual artist
João Parente
for a special AV show, while Venezuelan synthesiser wizard
Molero
performs a dreamy, hallucinatory live set.
…packed with acts who are pushing club culture forward in 2025
The shape of trance to come?
KI/KI
is bringing the classic, euphoric sound of the late 90s and early 2000s into the future: don’t miss her DJ set.
Héctor Oaks
has helped bring rave culture from the underground to the mainstream: his vinyl-only sets move from raw techno and electro to ghetto house.
Looking for intense, relentless, but forward-thinking dance music?
Juliana Huxtable
and
JASSS
are both pushing the sound of the rave into the future. Open-minded? Catch a wild back-to-back from Latin club pioneer
Valesuchi
and Brazilian bass fiend
RHR,
as well as
Amor Satyr & Siu Mata
’s combination of tribal techno and ‘speed dembow’.
London’s
Josh Caffé
(who’ll perform live) and Brooklyn’s
Dee Diggs
are dedicated to reminding modern audiences of the black, queer roots of house, while two of underground house music’s most in-demand selectors,
BASHKKA
and
Ogazón,
go back-to-back for the very first time. And two artists with deep roots in the local scene,
DJ Caring
and
Dexter
, also go back-to-back for a set that moves through the past, present and future of dance music.
Full Festival Passes available at €100 plus booking fee until Sunday 8th December
Offering
unbeatable value for three days of Sónar Lisboa,
Full Festival Passes
are available for
just €100 until
midnight this Sunday
(8th December)
at our
tickets page
. Hurry up and get yours before the price increases.
Individual tickets for each session will go on sale very soon - watch this space!
Plus more news on Sónar+D Lisboa 2025 coming soon
With the musical lineup now complete, the only thing left to say is that
Sónar+D
also returns to Lisbon next April. Looking beyond music and exploring
the shared spaces
between the
creative industries
,
innovation
and
technology
, more information on the full programme, supported by
ME by Meliá
, will be announced very soon.
Welcome to Sónar Lisboa 2025. Welcome to the frequency of now.
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13/11/2024
SonarMix 053: NOIA - Relentless jungle, footwork and UK hardcore from Porto’s rising ‘160’ champion
SonarMix 053
goes out to the 160bpm crew. Hailing from Porto,
NOIA
is Portugal’s resident ‘160’ champion, part of a wave of artists who are bringing uptempo, bass-heavy music back to dancefloors across Europe and beyond.
Opening with
DevNull
’s shattered amen breaks and closing with *that*
Rashad and Spin
remix of
Addison Groove
’s ‘Footcrab’, the
XXIII
co-founder has sent us maybe the most relentless SonarMix to date. Serving as an introduction to the geographically and stylistically diverse universe of 160, it’s proof that there’s more than one way to play fast as we career towards 2025. Of course, there’s plenty of jungle and footwork, but she also veers into ravey UK hardcore and breakbeat (
Sweatpea, ODF
), hyperspeed bass hybrids (
Jurango
,
Jensen Interceptor
), and even takes a detour into mutant ghetto house
(Big Dope P, Feadz & TT The Artist
).
Even through your headphones, you can feel the infectious energy that’s NOIA’s calling card: it’s a challenge staying seated for the duration. She’ll bring that same intensity when she plays at
Sónar Lisboa 2025
: we’re expecting her to set the pace on the festival’s final day. We can’t wait.
Tracklist:
DevNull - Beats Track
Slim Sinna - Ragga Gal
Pete Cannon - Hear Dis
Junction 17 - So High
Aerbreak - Sucka Punch
Bone Box - FFB
Big Dope P, Feadz & TT The Artist - Ride It
Arkyn - Dance Still U Wet
Minor Science, Seppa - Reckless Daddy
Amen Holmes - Kicking
WE ROB RAVE - RIO
Jensen Interceptor - Selective Empathy
Cesco - Fake [Unreleased]
DJ B - Let It Go
Jurango - Sink
Soeneido - No Turning Back
Komai - Sweetie Dub
ODF - Alien Bass
Selector Spinach - The Tenth
Janaway - Till Dawn
Fez the kid - Drop the merchandise
Sweetpea - 10 B&H Gold ft. Origin8a & Propa, Hypershé)
Arkyn & DJ B - Be Free [Unreleased]
Drinkwater - Bring u Hcore
Krunx & DJ Fantastic - Propaganda Remix
Arkyn - Openness [Unreleased]
Sweetpea - The Afters
Fluid Haunts - Keep It Hardcore
Sknit - Yo Free
Addison Groove, DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Denham Audio - Footcrab (Rashad & Spinn Mix)
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