Ring Noord is the collaborative project conceived by previous Noisia member Nik Roos (Sleepnet) and producer/visual artist Jasper Scholma (Former). Based in Groningen, the Netherlands, the duo launched the project in 2025 with the goal of exploring the emotional and experimental edges of electronic music through genre-fluid production and immersive audiovisual design.
Drawing from Drum & Bass, Techno, Hardcore, UK Garage, IDM, Emo, and ambient textures, Ring Noord’s music is stripped back, physical, and purposefully restrained. Their debut single Wild Flowers introduced their cinematic, rave-inspired world, while the follow-up Little Finger dove further into minimalism - raw, sensual, and built to be felt more than heard.
Their audiovisual set featuring 29 unreleased tracks - premiered on the VISION YouTube channel - offering an unfiltered window into their creative world: part live sketchbook, part installation, part performance. With strong ties to VISION and a growing list of tastemaker support, Ring Noord represents more than a new act - it’s an artistic movement in the making.
As electricity blossoms and leafs glisten, upsammy creates interpretative space, cleverly paradoxical in its concurrent comfort and desolation. With a keen ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm, her music sculpts a certain perpetuity and spatiality, sliding across tempo scales, while retaining an organic touch as a gentle hum of nature digitized. During her live shows she creates kaleidoscopic terrains built from micro textures and field recordings, fluidly mixing between inner and outer environments.
Guided by an adventurous and narrative approach, this vividness is present in her DJ sets as well. The music she plays takes cues from trippy electronics, the more experimental side of DnB and oddball techno, but tries to avoid clear genres. As a DJ she consolidated a firm position in the contemporary left-field music world, which includes a residency at NTS Radio and Amsterdam club Garage Noord and invitations to festivals such as Unsound and Rewire.
COIDO is a new project from an accomplished artist who is all about engineering bold new sound worlds. It draws on a lifetime of collecting sonic data and pulls from techno, Jersey club, breakbeat, global groove and much more. Previous high-energy works found their way to labels like YUKU, Vision, Nerve Collect, TwTw London and Exit and into the record bags of artists like Jamie xx, Ivy Lab and D Bridge. His sound sits in a space-time playground that imagines a new future for club music.
Hong Kong native gyrofield is becoming a distinctive force on the global club circuit, with widespread praise accelerating their growing influence within dance music. Since discovering electronic music via online communities as a teenager, gyrofield has followed curiosity and inspiration into disparate musical territory, exploring the realms of drum and bass, techno, ambient, pop and free jazz, bending recognised genres into bold new forms. Fuelled by an unrelenting drive to push boundaries, their digital productions become moody and introspective through IDM experimentation, jungle breakbeats, melodic synths and chopped vocal samples – as showcased on recent releases with XL and FABRICLIVE.
Ring Noord is the collaborative project conceived by previous Noisia member Nik Roos (Sleepnet) and producer/visual artist Jasper Scholma (Former). Based in Groningen, the Netherlands, the duo launched the project in 2025 with the goal of exploring the emotional and experimental edges of electronic music through genre-fluid production and immersive audiovisual design.
Drawing from Drum & Bass, Techno, Hardcore, UK Garage, IDM, Emo, and ambient textures, Ring Noord’s music is stripped back, physical, and purposefully restrained. Their debut single Wild Flowers introduced their cinematic, rave-inspired world, while the follow-up Little Finger dove further into minimalism - raw, sensual, and built to be felt more than heard.
Their audiovisual set featuring 29 unreleased tracks - premiered on the VISION YouTube channel - offering an unfiltered window into their creative world: part live sketchbook, part installation, part performance. With strong ties to VISION and a growing list of tastemaker support, Ring Noord represents more than a new act - it’s an artistic movement in the making.
CURRENT VALUE stands as one of the producers at the very forefront of experimentation and renown in his field – a creator truly reaching the top of his game and one who has walked an unmistakable path across the drum and bass landscape. He has consistently delivered a style so unique that it sets him far ahead of the pack, evident in both his unmatched experimentations in synthesis and his trademark finely crafted percussion which is as evident in both his heavy but stripped down sound of today as well as the relentless amen barrages of the past.
His lengthy and remarkable career has seen his sound evolve to always be ahead of his time and collaborate with notable creators such as Bjork and Amon Tobin. His sound moves deftly between sub-genres, but with each movement he delivers creations that are both unmistakenly his and utterly inimitable. His most recent notable albums appeared on game- changing labels such as Noisia's INVISIBLE imprint, Serum's 'Souped Up label, Critical Music, the YUKU experimental music platform, and many many more.
George Patrick (aka No Plastic) is the co-founder of Refuge Worldwide, a radio station, cultural platform and event space in Berlin. Originally from Glasgow, he has been involved in curation and community organisation since 2008. George is now responsible for Refuge Worldwide's day-to-day life as a broadcaster, educational hub and music archive.
Under the No Plastic alias, he collects everything from dub, dancehall and disco 7 inches all the way through to street soul and jukebox classics. Gigs include Panorama Bar, ADE, GALA and We Out Here. Over the last twelve months, he has appeared as a DJ and panelist at festivals in Lithuania, Uzbekistan, the UK, Holland, Italy and beyond.
PARISSA CHARGHI is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, based in Cologne. As a Creative Director, Graphic Designer, and Vinyl Selecta, she has car- ved out a distinctive niche in the creative industry since over 15 years.
With a clear vision for the intersection of music and creativity, Parissa foun- ded HEAVY FEELINGS — a brand that serves as a dynamic hub for like-min- ded artists. HF is centered on collaborations within the realms of arts, culture and music, offering a platform for emerging and exceptional talent to explore their creative ambitions and find their voice in a competitive industry.
As a Vinyl Selecta, Parissa assembles a vast and eclectic assortment of records. Sourcing inspiration from both historical and contemporary sounds, regardless of their organic or electronic origins. Guiding listeners through a cross-genre odyssey from soulful melodies to compelling rhythms. Her musical repertoire is broad, encompassing genres such as Reggae, Hip Hop, Jazz, Beats, Afrocentric Sounds, Dub, and electronic music. Particularly where the rhythm and drums come alive.
Somewhere between spiritual, soulful and uplifting afrodisiac moves effortlessly through genres and lifts the energy of the room. A Berlin based DJ, music curator and cultural producer with a deep sense of storytelling, musical curiosity and an ear for selections that feel intentional and guide you through dancefloor moments that are both expansive and intimate, deeply inspired by musical lineages from the Black Atlantic to the Black Cosmos
Smiki, a HF family member, started out as a bedroom producer, creating mostly lofi beat tapes, but has since proven that his sound can also adapt to dancing crowds and move floors. His first appearance at HEAVY FEELINGS came through an open call, and since then he has been steadily shaping his own lane—as both a producer drawn to global samples and a DJ whose sets feel like live productions unfolding right in front of you. What he plays and what he produces exist in the same universe, but on entirely different orbits. At home, Smiki stays loyal to his roots: trip-hop, lofi, and sample-heavy beatmaking built from sounds he gathers from every corner of the world. On stage, he taps into a faster, club-focused side—switching between baile, ghetto tech, jersey club, jungle, and anything else that pushes the room into motion. The result is a fluid, ever-evolving sound shaped by instinct and the energy of the moment. His most recent HF release, What Does A Memory Sound Like?, explored themusical past of his own heritage through samples from Thailand. Since then, he’s continued digging deeper, uncovering new textures and cultural fragments that will shape his upcoming work.
Ring Noord is the new project conceived by Nik Roos (formerly of Noisia, now releasing as Sleepnet) and long-time friend and creative partner Jasper Scholma, better known as Former.
With Ring Noord, they’re taking that connection further — pulling apart the DNA of club music and rebuilding it in their own image. The result blends elements of Drum & Bass, UK Garage, Hardcore, Techno, IDM and even a touch of Emo, but it’s stripped back, atmospheric, and designed to hit on a deeper level.
On Feb 28th Ring Noord play two sets and curate the line up with - upsammy, gyrofeild, Coido and Current Value at Open Ground.
22:00 – 23:00 Ring Noord
23:00 – 00:30 upsammy
00:30 – 01:30 Coido
01:30 – 03:00 gyrofield
03:00 – 04:30 Ring Noord
04:30 – 06:00 Current Value
Ring Noord describe their vision for Open Ground.
'We’re currently in a reductionist phase, trying to use as little decoration and massaging as possible and seeing how that affects the conviction and hypnotic qualities of the songs, as well as making them more singular. The ingredients we are currently obsessing over are 2000 era techno d&b and naive, artificial vocal poetry. Finding ways to juxtapose these two can be a great way to avoid pure nostalgia or repetition.
We like the idea of having the space for a lot of the music we have made that isn’t immediately kinetic or high energy, a space for exploration around the fringes. We’ve not done this before, the added early set, so we’re both excited and a little unsure to be showcasing all this other material. This threshold of slight discomfort is something we think is necessary for meaningful progress in creating things. The second set will be more danceable, more high energy
With upsammy's music we get a sense of endless potential, new lenses to look through, laser focussed artistry but also just really good dance music and heady connections with club culture. It's inspiring and we're just really curious to see it live and see the connections it has with our music and the rest of the line up :)
gyrofield found such an interesting abstract space that feels very personal and that reads as some sort of diary. It feels like it’s all led by curiosity and therefore creates a wide variety of work. The philosophical character that's in the music mixed in with the low-brow rave stuff is just instant poetry to us.
Coido is just destroying it with all these releases lately, the quality and the restraint is unbelievable. He made us interested again in stuff we in some ways lost touch with a little bit, purely by doing it very very well. I think we hear something in it that is just built for clubs and dancing, but doing it in a way that also carries over to your living room. Which resonates heavy with us.
Current Value is a fucking legend. With some producers the magnitude of the artistry is well hidden and it makes it even better. To us he represents a - head down and do great shit and don't listen to anyone else - mentality that we really admire. There is no one else that brings this elegant violence that we want to close the night with.
There is an overlap in philosophy between Open Ground and ring noord in the leaving out of unnecessary distractions. The devotion to sound and its fullness requiring no additional spectacle is congruent with ring noord’s deconstructed and reductionist approach We have heard incredible things about the sound system and the space. The prospect of sound at this level, the transparency it promises of the artists’ material, is something that gives us both great giddy excitement as well as a confidence and relaxation, knowing it will sound true.'
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