A confrontational, camp and seductive dramaturge. Slash Need have earned a reputation for putting on high-energy theatrical live performances. For Toronto's industrial performance art outfit Slash Need, they’ve become a conduit for a collective and defiant form of liberation. The duo craft songs that slither, satirize, and scream. Sonically aligned with artists like Boy Harsher, Ministry, and Skinny Puppy, their live show traces an urgency familiar to anyone who’s ever felt combustible in their rage against systems of power. Served up raw, Slash Need’s distinct style of propulsive techno and metallic darkwave serves as the backdrop to a unpredictable, ever-changing, and communal performance piece  Following a viral bout of unplanned, and gratifying, attention from right wing media in 2023 after their lore-making performance at Toronto Pride, the group has developed a cult following. (A widely-circulated video earned 2.3 million views with one comment calling the group ”nasty, filthy perverts”.) Conjuring the essence of cherry red lipstick smudged on the rim of a spilled energy drink, baby powder masquerading as Chanel perfume; pheromones, smoke machines, and crossed wires, Toronto’s Slash Need is an invitation: demanding that we blur the line between repulsion and desire, to arrive at a fierce reclamation of personal autonomy. 

Night Ritualz is the sonic embodiment of moody, haunting soundscapes fused with raw energy. Drawing inspiration from iconic bands like "Depeche Mode", "Deftones", & "At The Drive In" their music blurs the line between dark wave, electronic, EBM, & post-punk creating a genre they call “fuck wave.” With deep roots in Mexican culture, Night Ritualz also weaves Tejano influences into their songs, blending English and Spanish lyrics to tell stories that are both deeply personal and universally relatable. From shadowy atmospheres to pulse-pounding beats, their sound is a reflection of both sadness and vitality.

Jehovah’s Princess is a Texas-born, NYC-based electropunk artist/producer channeling unfiltered emotion through distorted industrial beats and brutally honest lyricism. Their sound confronts mental health, alienation, and spiritual survival with a voice that’s both sacred and scorched. After surviving a tumultuous upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness and experiencing homelessness as a teen, they earned a scholarship to NYU and moved to New York. There, immersed in the Brooklyn noise and rave scene, they created Jehovah’s Princess—not just as a musical project, but as a sanctuary for the exiled and outcast. Their music is pure catharsis: screamed prayers, glitchy breakdowns, and razor-edged truths delivered with unapologetic intensity. Rooted in DIY ethos and divine rage, Jehovah’s Princess doesn’t aim to please—they aim to provoke, to purge, and to survive. They’re not just breaking genre—they’re breaking silence.

SILKRØAD is a live electronic music project blending the sounds of industrial, acid techno, hypertrance, and breakbeat. SILKRØAD's music is contextualized within the queer framework of a nascent digital apocalypse, pairing desperately nostalgic rave hooks with relentless post punk drumming, elevated by a custom built drumkit that modulates the progressive destruction of accompanying visuals.  SILKRØAD's destructive "AMV chic" is drawn from her intimate transfeminine experience with anime, video games, and imageboard culture during her youth. Her work is an intimate exploration of how the borders of digital landscapes are expanded, beyond the limitations of the hardware they were rendered on.  SILKRØAD also frequently DJ's for Pansy Club, a Calgary-based queer dance pop-up. Her style has been described as "terminally online rave girl". 

Ceremony Shadows is based in Portland, OR. We evolved from a solo ambient/experimental project by Timo towards making Ritual Darkwave via the addition of the two vocalists Anastasia and Jakub. Our music is influenced by our diverse geographical upbringing across the USA, Germany and Poland, and our lifelong immersion in alternative music scenes and cultures. Our ambient compositions have been featured at the Sonic Matter experimental music festival in Zürich, Switzerland in 2021, and placed in the Top 10 of both the 2023 and 2024 AI Song Contests. Visual presentation is very important to us, and our live performances are unique experiences across sound, light and space. Artists like Boy Harsher, The Knife, Depeche Mode, Kite and Coil have been mentioned as occupying similar sonic territory.

The fusion sound of MORRISMORRIS are a love letter to the underground and audio synthesis. Their sonic vision harmonizes buzzy post-punk influences with a profound appreciation for some of the most important electronic movements of our times, such as Chicago Footwork, UK Jungle, and Detroit Techno/Electro.  MORRISMORRIS' ever-evolving sound is raw and evocative of the future yet unmistakably human with a sensual and tender quality. It is music for dancing and feeling, depending on where you are.