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Sad Night Dynamite (UK)
Favourites of Gorillaz and FKA Twigs, who took the UK scene by storm over a year ago - lo-fi hip-hop punk duo Sad Night Dynamite. They supported Glass Animals on last year's US tour and have played festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds, Pukkelpop, Lowlands and Primavera in 2022. What would it sound like if Gorillaz, The Specials and Backstreet Boys had a baby? Exactly like this.
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Kirin J Callinan (AU)
Enfant terrible of the Australian underground scene, cowboy from the arid bush, one-man show, living legend. Kirin J Callinan, known for collaborations with Mark Ronson, Caroline Polachek, Mac Demarco and Julian Casablancas, and whose viral single Big Enough has a whopping 69 million views on youtube, is the perfect gift for Flaam’s 10th birthday - so make sure you don't miss him on Saturday as he closes out the main stage with a swagger all his own.
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Porsche Boy (SK)
I'm going mhm-mhm-mhm-mm, mhm-mhm-mhm-mhm-mm... He's been on the rap scene since 2019, his tracks like "Stanko Lobotka" and "Blinky Blinky" have racked up millions of views and listens on streaming services in a short amount of time. His first EP Peniazky was followed by his debut album Z domu preč, in which he mixes rap with elements of other genres such as house, garage or techno, and with which he convinced the whole Slovak scene that if he belongs to any summer festival - it's Flaam!
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Berlin Manson (SK)
Depeche Mode, spaceships and soundcloud trends in companion of melancholic synths. They comment on the current scene happenings with an ironic grin, but still remain a fresh & sharp part of it. After their first hit single “Počítať po nemecky je ľahšie ako rátať” they released first EP “Život končí keď máš trinásť” containing even bigger banger “Netancujem, kývem hlavou”. They were awarded “Discovery of the Year” Radio Head Awards in 2022.
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Tokyo Drift (CZ)
Scorpio season doesn't end. On the debut of singer and producer Pavla Bastlová, aka Tokyo Drift, contemporary rap aesthetics collide with urban songwriting. Acoustic guitar intertwines with trap beats, and dreamy vocals carry through nighttime Prague. Even melancholy can be a flex.
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Dušan Vlk (SK)
A crown-prince of Prešov and an alternative rap sound master, which could hardly be classified into one discipline. Phonk, LO-FI, or trap influenced by a pinch of punk atmosphere is the basis of Dušan's debut album ASTHMABOY, which was released in December 2021 and still forms the essence of his concerts. Since August 2022, these wild sets have been complemented by the new EP KORPORÁT, which follows a similar sound. In February 2023, he released a new EP entitled ANTICAPITAL MERCEDES, which features collaborations with Muris and Absu_NTQL.
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LUVVER (SK)
Really? LUVVER at Flaam? After the release of It Is VVhat It Is, our local trio Tom, Mišo and Zajo are back on the festival and club stages and Flaam is not to be missed. LUVVER is a project that presents a cohesive club sound, in which the guys are not ashamed to admit the influences of foreign pop stars like The Weeknd or The Neighbourhood combined with an inventiveness and rejection of musical boxes inherent to them.
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Pantaloons (SI)
Slovenian Comet is Coming! A vibrant and sometimes a bit (z)bouncy trio, first met in 2016 when they started experimenting with musical melodies and rhythms in a jam session form. After a few acoustic compositions, that are well represented on the Pantaloons EP (2019), their genre evolved to electronic dance music with a hint of jazz, funk, breakbeat, dubstep, and more.
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Kewu (CZ/TN)
A mainstay on Prague’s club scene and one of the most versatile local DJs, known for his cross-genre selection. Vibrant rhythms of Latin America, tribal pulse of south Africa, timeless pop, rap and R&B or fresh stuff from the UK underground. Kewu is a member of the infamous Addict crew and an honorary member of the first local ballroom collective Kiki House of Velvet. He performed next to the likes of Tommy Genesis, Coucou Chloe, Jimmy Edgar and Teki Latex. Last but not least, he co-hosts a regular show on Radio Wave called FLÁM.
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Tamara (CZ)
The names that they are inspired by – Frankie Cosmos, Hinds, Dehd, thanks for coming, will give you a hint, the apt characteristic of the server AlterEcho will suggest something else: "Well-remembered riffs, ringing guitars and slightly discordant vocals transport the listener to lazy summer festival afternoons…” Or as they introduce themselves on social media: girl power sentimental punk.
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Vojdi (SK)
After many years of playing strictly progressive indie rock, Vojdi transformed into nextgen music playing simply pop – and if you add an “o” into “pop” you get “poop”. No coincidence in this world… Delivering powerful sound waves directly to you your ears since 2012, so please don’t stand there alone. Join them – Vojdi.
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Purist (SK)
Purist first appeared on the scene in 2012 and right from the first recordings their sound was characterized by precise and slick electronic production that perfectly matched the band's name. Purist present their next release from their upcoming album. Purist's new album TOXIC will surprise you not only with its fresh sound, but also with the fact that the band has decided to release a single for the first time in Slovak.
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shjva (UA)
Nobody owns time. Some people, like Shjva, can however, make it warble. Through the ebb and flows of hyper-immersive dub techno, low-swung goa sound & almost jazzy, blue after-hour sounds, she channels the aura of spaces that she subsequently made her own. From post-industrial zones in Western Ukraine, via ecstatic nights that she provides for the community of Warsaw through the war-induced anxiety of living in transitionary places – her music juxtaposes an affective kind of microhistory against a wider continuum.
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Metastavy (CZ)
To be able to transcend the moment and gain insight into it – this is the enigmatic reflection of texts that mirror the experiences of all involved. With each listen, Metastavy take you on an excursion through a life you've never known, but have lived anyway, and the second album's glowing silence seems to say that less is sometimes more, and that eventually there will always be a day - even if it seems impossible after endless darkness.
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Toyota Vangelis (CZ)
Singer-songwriter Toyota Vangelis is using his uniquely autotuned voice and seamless merging of the electronic and (simulated) acoustic sounds to dismantle the binaries of the human and the machine. While always inventing new ways to interact with electronic music as lead designer at the synthesizer company Bastl Instruments, he still manages to find elaborate ways to sculpt the Czech language into his rhythmic and melodic structures. His songs revolve around love metaphors while in fact they sneak intimacy into topics such as big data, climate crisis or alienation.
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shallov (SK)
Shallov. was formed in a garage of Bratislava in 2013 where their first DIY release “no place for two” was recorded. Since then shallov gained its final 3-piece form in 2015 and created their first studio album “concrete & glass“ in 2017. The album was followed by dozens of shows throughout Europe, and also the biggest Slovak music festival Pohoda. At the end of 2019 they released a concept-album „Compress, Expand“ consisting of only two songs looping in a 23-minute long cycle of despair, confusion, apocalypse, love and hope. With this record, shallov has moved ahead of their genre into their own sound, authentic atmosphere and even weightier musical contrasts.
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XCES (SK)
A modular band/collective bringing an audiovisual spectacle of post-genre age. In their album debut “It’s Happening” and in their work as whole, prevail topics of information overload, social alienation, meta-irony, AI, mental health and conspiracy traps of recent times.
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Marhule (SK)
With the release of their first album Dno Dien, Marhule confirmed that it is not necessary to constantly reach for new heights. No. You might as well go in the opposite direction - to plunge into raw emptiness, hit a hard bottom and find yourself in the middle of an uncouth, yet authentic primitivism. There is no such thing as "too much" or "enough is enough". No. Just keep on with the set course.
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C4AT (CZ)
Prague born and Strahov stadium based, C4AT is a rising modular act, operating in industrial techno music. He uses his equipment to craft out odd sounds and rhythms that aim to drive one’s mind wild. He’s involved with Prague based audiovisual collectives Wrong and Organizovaný Plevel. He is also a resident artist at the Prague club Fuchs2. Constantly evolving, he’s searching for new means to generate hardness in music.
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Marie Pravda (CZ)
When Marie Pravda settles into a DJ booth she’s there to spark some chemistry first and foremost – with those willing to embrace it. While she is perfectly capable of bringing that energy into her recordings for the online world, it’s the endless push & pull with the crowd that charges her selection and mixing. In 2020 she joined the resident collective of Ankali & Planeta Za where she runs her regular Planeta Pravda club series. Marie’s performance at Flaam 2023 was supported by Gravity Network.
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Adela Mede (SK)
Adela studied music at Goldsmiths University and released her debut album Szabadság in February. It has been praised by renowned international music magazines such as The Wire, The Quietus, Dazed, Full Moon Magazine and Foxy Digitalis. The Wire said of her debut, "It's an exploration of what it means to find home in different countries, cities and languages, reveling in the ne/comfort of a life stretched across borders." She charmed us at her April concert at the Meetfactory, where she opened for Colombian experimentalist Lucrecia Dalt.
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Italo Mario Italo (SK)
Italo Mario Italo is the DJ project of the devious cultural worker and sweeper of sports venues and bars, Mario Bezák. His mixes are full of different musical styles, from weird italo disco to funk to crazy pop and house tracks. His constant exploration of new sounds and combinations makes his sets interesting, almost unforgettable.
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Bilčo (SK)
Can he get by with a guitar? He can. Having a band and having nothing at the same time is a challenge that Bilčo is dealing with. It is, after all, his friendly name, which he uses after taking off the epidermis of his musical projects such as the band Marhule, Matej Tále or Noeho Kanoe. Alone – as the last decent person from the Klokočina estate – he manages to deliver a profile of curated tracks without anyone having to knock them off first. Love will ooze from the aorta cross-section, washed down with cucumber soda.
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Dedinský rozhlas DJs (SK)
The indestructible and annoying excursionists into the archives of hits of yesteryear who traditionally wake up Saturday Flaam alongside breakfast and morning hygiene from the main stage. Žbirka, Vondráčková, Matuška, Grigorov, you can't wake up to anything nicer after two hours of sleep.
