Best known as a core member of Anthony & the Johnsons with whom she won the Mercury Prize in 2005, Julia Kent creates magical soundscapes using live looping and real-time sound processing on cello and electronics.

Her compositions have also graced films, television, dance and theater performances, while releasing six personal albums.

The multifaceted Tilemachos Mousas, a longtime collaborator of Blaine Reininger and the late Thanos Anestopoulos, is deeply committed to creating and performing subversive music, from jazz improvisation to avant garde experimentation. Known for his award-winning compositions for the theater which are a combination of spoken word, poetry, classical music, jazz and electric techniques.

Tilemachos will weave a musical fabric over the soundscape of Julia's processed cello, using electric and midi guitar, musical saw and Theheremin producing a sound effect that pushes boundaries and invites the audience on unexplored musical paths.

They already rehearsed in Nik Bärtsch's hometown Zurich earlier this year. Now, finally, the two celebrated Artists in Residence of Enjoy Jazz festival last year’s edition, can be experienced live together in Athens.

From the very first note, one feels overwhelmed and embraced: Over Tania Giannouli's beguilingly pearly melodies Nik Bärtsch gradually lays a web of dark rhythms and tones that - an incomparable experience - you can actually perceive synesthetically on your tongue as a warm earthy taste while listening.

On the basis of the classically trained, highly precise tone formation of both artists, the improvisation uncovers a hidden inner logic in the music, which is then played through in a deeply touching sound language never heard before.

So empathically, so carefully, that the ear seems to become a fully valid third hand in each case. The result is pure magic.

"Colours of Air" is for sure one of the most intriguing collaborative project of 2023: "two artists from opposite sides of the ambient spectrum" Canadian producer Loscil and Australian sound artist and Room40 boss Lawrence English, "find common cause in a 132-year-old pipe organ", as summarised by Pitchfork.

The work has been released on Kranky on February 2023 and originated from "a conversation centered on the notion of “rich sources” as a forge for electronic music".

Andy Stott has progressed from making high-quality dub techno to exploring singular and more adventurous strains integrating hardcore techno, post-punk, and dream pop — among other inspirations — that have evoked feelings ranging from dread to exhilaration.

A few years after he made his full-length debut with Merciless (2006), Stott took a sharp left turn with Passed Me By and We Stay Together (both 2011), grinding mini-albums descriptively (if humorously) termed as “knackered house.”

That creative breakthrough has helped fuel the British producer’s distinctive subsequent albums, from the definitive Luxury Problems (2012) to Never the Right Time (2021), all of which have mixed the atmospheric vocals of Alison Skidmore with a host of sampled and processed voices.

It may not be a very popular subject, but we are convinced that a playlist called “Music to invoke the devil” would be incomplete if it only included Scandinavian metal bands. The drones of evil of these two Aleister Crowleys of electronic music who call themselves Demdike Stare – in honour of a witch who was burnt at the stake in the 17th century- for instance, would be missing.

Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker may look like nice lads when one of them champions the psychedelic folk label Finders Keepers – and the other, the dubstep of Pendle Cove. But don’t be fooled.

The duo from Manchester frightened Lucifer himself with the narcosis of their debut Symbiosis (Modern Love, 2009), and more recently have continued to draw dark beat pentacles on Passion (Modern Love, 2018) and Sketches of Everything (with Jon Collin) (Modern Love, 2020).