Messias (Florian Hofer)
Born as a project at the dawn of the new millennia in midst the blossoming second wave of speedcore, which bent the common borders of the bpm range beyond known limits, and right into a punky diy scene filled with enthusiastic fellow speed freaks, the first contribution to the yet young movement happened as part of the Mascha Records crew - one of several active groups in Switzerland organising parties, playing music and releasing records. The label got defunct in 2004, the relentless beats however, continued. Straight 4/4 in the beginning, but later on slowly moving into a direction of speed breaks, incorporating flashcore elements and with a heavier emphasis on atmosphere than on pure splintering kicks. The corresponding platform for this sound came with the introduction of Cathartic Noize Experience in 2011. A vinyl record label focusing on the progressive and experimental side of speedcore which served as homebase his own tunes as also the creative output of like-minded individuals. Up to now, over 20 records have been released, ranging from analogue flashcore to atmospheric breaks and further towards distorted noisecore and among them, Messias own fractalbreaks, flashjazz and psydrones – enjoy the journey.

Aya Metwalli
Aya Metwalli (*1988) is an Egyptian vocalist, songwriter, composer-performer and improviser, particularly skilled in singing microtonal Arabic maqam. Described as «a musical enigma» by The Guardian and a musician who has «crafted a spellbinding brand of anti-pop» by Pitchfork, Aya currently uses analog synthesizers to produce gritty textures and strange, unsettling soundscapes announcing the arrival of a grim reaper who never comes. She sings like a woman in a death wail, heavily influenced by traditional Arabic song, combining the sultry with the macabre and wedding noise to melody. At present, Aya is in conversation with her demons and continues to experiment with live performance and improvisation.

Catatonic Leisure alone (Anton Ponomarev)
(solo power-electronics/noise performances)
Lives and works in Zurich. Main instruments: saxophone, clarinet, trumpet and electronics. Works mostly (but not only) in the field of experimental and extreme music genres: punk- jazz, free improvisation, jazz-core, noise, power electronics, drone, etc. Organizes concerts in Zürich and runs experimental music series called „Buy my snake oil“. Owns his music label Skuckx Records.

Apart from different collaborations with musicians all over the world (Merzbow, Alex Buess, Guillaume Cazalet, Violeta Garcia, Tim Dahl, Marc Urselli, Lasse Marhaug, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ryosuke Kiyasu, Ryoko Ono, Toshinori Kondo, Balazs Pandi, Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Burton Greene, Peter Ole Jorgensen, Sainkho Namtchylak, Raoul van der Weide, John Dikeman, Arrington de Dionyso, Marco Papiro, Christian Muller, Li Xing, Alexander Gabrys and many others) he also performs with Pussy Riot (Riot Days show) and his core bands are: P/O Massacre, Catatonic Leisure (alone / duo), Teufelskeller, Dodsdromen, Radiant Haze, Augenblick, Sanscreed kanon, Speedball trio, Brom.

Lua Jungck
broken field recordings, naked sound, cut into pieces and clipped to squares, embrace sliced noise, together they lie in a bed of nails that stab them in the back like the transients of what is yet to come. will you lie down with them? they cover themselves with dust of digital ash, hiding and waiting to be pushed aside by the up and down beats of a future music, music composed for dark spaces and sweating bodies, resisting the expectations of today, like sand in the wheels of a patriarchal and capitalist environment. this is what queer music of the day after tomorrow sounds like - tomorrow we will rest.
Lua Jungck (she/her) lives and works as an artist in Zurich. With a background as a jazz pianist, Lua has been focusing on her work as an electronic and improvising musician for several years. Two constantly intertwining ways of working are at the center of her practice - solo as a producer and collaborative in improvisation. With her solo music she focuses on harsh sounds and deconstructed rhythms, trying to grasp the abstraction, lonelyness and brutality of late capitalism in 2024 and shape it into her own soundtrack.

Steve Buchanan
in his 40 year + career he has the rare distinction of having made a name for himself professionally in two fields, music and dance respectively. As well as playing alto sax and guitar, he is also the inventor of the Interactive dance / music instrument 2nd Line. Currently based in Zurich he continues Touring extensively worldwide; In his transformative “live” he uses samplers, sequencers, noize elements creating dense sonic structures, and layered rhythms with a definite flavor of 4 am.