When aya takes the stage with her breathless, high-energy outbursts, the intensity constantly teeters between euphoria and collapse. The British electronic artist operates at the heart of today’s most vital club and experimental scenes, and her shows are intense, uncompromising, and designed to go directly to the bones. Gavnlig opens the evening with her raw take on alternative club music.

aya’s music moves freely between techno, hardcore, noise, club deconstruction, and emotional overload. This is electronic music that refuses to be polite or comfortable, instead pushing the body, tempo, and senses to their outer limits. Her sound world is fragmented, aggressive, and vulnerable all at once – a perpetual tension between control and breakdown.

With her debut album im hole, aya established herself internationally, and with hexed! on the influential Hyperdub label she has fully cemented her position as one of the most relevant electronic artists working today. The album is a breathless, high-energy release that has placed her at the centre of both club culture and the experimental electronic underground. It draws on the chaos of the internet, the physical weight of soundsystem culture, and the raw directness of hardcore aesthetics. Live, aya is known for delivering intensely present and physically demanding performances, where beats, distortion, and vocal fragments fuse into one massive surge. It’s music that invites movement and collective ecstasy – but also the feeling of losing your footing, if only for a moment. We look forward to presenting aya for a night of uncompromising, forward-thinking club music.

What they say about aya

“Following up an incredible debut with something more ambitious and immediate is hard. Most sequels buckle under the weight of expectation. On hexed!, aya doesn’t so much rise to it as tear right through it.” – Resident Advisor

Best new music: “hexed!” – Pitchfork

Gavnlig
Gavnlig opens the evening and sets the tone with her uncompromising take on alternative club music. As a distinct voice in Copenhagen’s underground, she moves curiously and fearlessly through the many corners of techno, shaped by heavyweight sound systems and late nights in the club. Her music is created in the in-between spaces – between parties, afters, and comedowns – balancing the bleak and the hopeful with a playful, almost teasing edge. Live, Gavnlig unfolds new, richly textured productions on a hardware setup, where intensity and fragility merge into a conflicted and compelling sonic universe.