ALTER: AUNTY RAYZOR + ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U + AYA
14/9/2024
EVENT: 00:00 - 04:00 // Entrance: 100 DKK // Alter Festival Partout: 615 DKK
ALTER creates inspiring and vibrant spaces for boundary-pushing and adventurous art and music. The festival takes place from September 12th to 14th at multiple locations in Aarhus, with a spectacular closing party planned at turkis Saturday night featuring, among others, Aunty Rayzor and ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U!
ALTER aims to present new impulses, genres, and directions, while also exploring artistic roots and history. They work to promote a range of expressions - sound art, experimental sound, and electronic dance music - expressions that they believe naturally complement each other. Artistic expressions that encompass both exciting and complex themes, but can also be experienced without necessarily having in-depth prior knowledge.
ALTER is proud to present this year's program. A potpourri of various artistic expressions and genres - majestic drone, Nordic folk singing, Celtic myth, medieval grimoires, modern pop music, Arabic texts on freedom and revolution, innovative R'n'B, and a kind of fusion of boogie rock and doom.
PROGRAM
➤ Doors open: 00:00
➤ Aunty Rayzor: 00:30
➤ aya: 01:30
➤ ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U: 02:30
➤ Entrance: 100 DKK (only 60 tickets for sale) or Alter Festival Partout: 615 DKK
Link for Alter Festival Partout: https://www.alterfestival.dk/tickets/
AUNTY RAYZOR
Aunty Rayzor's sound is piercing and chaotic with a character of absolute control. It roars in your face and then flirts with you from across the room, swiveling its hips and stomping its feet. Rayzor's musical roots were innocently planted when she began singing in church as a child and started writing her own songs at the age of nine. But after a long and brutal education in Nigeria's underground rap scene, Rayzor's flow has become provocative in multiple ways. Her teeth tear through producers' beats, chewing them up and spitting them out as a twisted sonic wonder. Her hooks sink deep into your skin, and her rhythms are relentlessly danceable. As one of Nigeria's most ruthless emerging artists, Rayzor contributes to a growing movement that redefines what it means to be punk.
¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U
Versatility doesn't even come close to describing why the humble Japanese DJ ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U is regarded by many of his peers as one of the best in the world. Your favorite DJ's favorite DJ, Yukimatsu, hails originally from Osaka—where he held his Zone Unknown parties—but is now based in Tokyo. His legendary mastery over CDJs delivers mind-blowing yet seamless transitions of every imaginable genre. From his debut at DJ Nobu's FUTURE TERROR event to performing three years in a row at the Berlin Atonal Festival, Yukimatsu's sets must be heard to be believed. His experimental approach results in versatile sets; from the more meditative and atmospheric to high-intensity and noise. He often mixes unexpectedly, driven by his captivating performative presence.
AYA
aya is a London-based artist and DJ. She is known for her exalting performances, often described as having a compositive and ambivalent feel, due to her ability to present a show that is intense, frightening, and intimate, yet also jocular and almost gaudy. aya's work is primarily concerned with the transfigurative power of experience and memory on the physical body. And the theme of change and transfiguration is clearly expressed in her music: sounds change their shapes; rhythms morph; timbres transmogrify. aya favors volatile textures evocative of blown glass, oily concrete, and quaking Jell-O, but the provenance of any given sound is rarely clear. Through her art and music aya serenades feelings of loss and regret that come from change, but certainly also the convalescent possibility of becoming something more and better.
Listen to aya: https://aya-yco.bandcamp.com/album/lip-flip