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Lomi is a musician and sound artist who focuses on emotional and societal dimensions of interconnectedness. His creative practice converges at the intersection of sound, architecture, and data-driven exploration of social relationships. Inspired by architect Peter Smithson's view on Brutalism not being concerned with the material as such, but rather the quality of the material - that is with the question of what it can do - lomi's work explores it as a creative principle in electronic music through crafting immersive soundscapes that interact directly with space, evoke emotions and stimulate engagement.

After co-founding BRUTALISM in 2015, he uses the label as a cultural research platform that explores sonic forms through materials, textures and structure. The label introduces a unique approach at the intersection of electronic music and spatial aesthetics. Delving into art across genres and media, BRUTALISM defines a distinct sonic identity through their confrontation with the concept of "sound-based brutalism" in muscular designer techno and experimental soundscapes. 

Having spent half of her youth deeply immersed in Cologne's techno scene while remaining rooted in Georgia’s abundance of electronic music, Mariami has been playing at renowned venues such as like Tresor West, Left Bank, Weltspiele & Gewölbe as part of Brutalism Cologne since 2021. 

Mariami also created a platform called Samaia, designed for FLINTA* individuals to connect and raise awareness about the structural disadvantages in the music industry. The platform includes DJ workshops, panel discussions on awareness, and collaborations with FLINTA* collectives that focus on intersectionality.

Gentle yet assertive like Mariami herself, her sets create a delicate, organic texture enriched by warm tones of tape delays and characterized by powerful basslines and energetic climaxes with driving, raw, and hypnotic sounds. Mariami loves to draw from diversity, enjoying the exploration of contrasts and creating fluid transitions between seeming opposites.

low Ki’s music collection comprises everything between obscure club tunes, heavy Bass, mind bending Techno groovers, half and double time, spherical meditation and percussive energy.  This eclectic choice is carefully selected and merged through skillfull mixing . As a co-founder of the Cologne based Illusion event series he shared the booth with artists like Batu, OJOO, Ben UFO, Bruce, Object Blue and Simo Cell. On Elotrax, his monthly radio show on Radio 80000, he regularly collaborates with exciting local and international artists.

In the daring sonic fiction of JP López, the Medellín artist collides in his productions and DJ sets Latin-influenced tribal techno, hyper-Electronica, carefully crafted IDM and cutting-edge perreo-bass technology with both intensity and precision. Verraco is also one of the heads behind of TraTraTrax and Insurgentes, labels that have become key platforms for Latinx sound explorers in recent years. In 2020 the Colombian released his debut album,'Grial’. Reviews and journalists have described it as "Colombian electronica of the highest order" and "a cue from the well-known legends of this style, but makes it his own with subtle details and an outsider mentality." He has collaborated with the Berlin institution Tresor and has presented his dynamic performances in Mutek, Sónar, Nuits Sonores,among others.