As part of Rotterdam's Summer Carnival, cultural selectors Raziyah Heath (Chinnamasta), Frederik Teixeira, and Epifania Queta bring together communities through an evening of music, connection, and celebration. Inspired by the sounds and cultures of the Dutch Caribbean, Cape Verde, Angola, Curaçao, Suriname, Jamaica, and others, Roots & Riddims creates space for artists and audiences to meet across borders and generations. See last year's edition and talk with Raziyah Heath here:

LINE UP!
Brassband Talent 4 Music
Chinnamasta
Ferré
Lady Shaka
DJ Marfox

https://soundcloud.com/live-at-expert-death/dj-marfox-live-at-expert-death

Edi & Robinho (Funana music)
Demonia Grafica & DJ Sukana
awhlkuhn
Rav Fasi

In a multidisciplinary environment where music, art, history, politics, spirituality and performance meet, Black art becomes more than self-expression: it becomes transformation. A force that carries stories, resistance, healing, and possibility across generations.

Expect a tapestry of rhythm and resistance. Kuduro shaking the floor. Bubbling calling the past into the present. Dub echoing through every room. DJs, performers, and artists tracing lineages through riddim, sweat, spirit and soul.

Update: Blame the world cup - WWW were not able to leave Argentina for their Euro Tour with Seggs Tape. However, Camy Huot steps up and joins the lineup!! Big thanks to Camy for filling in last minute; her sets are always a blast with her minimal wave, synth punk, wave, und EBM, so come check it out. Also big shoutout to Seggs Tape for making it through their tour without WWW. Rave punk from Madriz, Seggs Tape and leftwingbabyeatingantifascistprochoicemanhatingpussybleedingcistemstompingpunx by Bleed Root from The Hague and Utrecht, all killer lineup!!

CAMY HUOT
is known for driving the pulse of the underground scene via her Wavecrash events, Too Many Creeps livestreams, Batcage Radio shows and DJ sets at live shows & festivals like Best Kept Secret, Gothic Pogo, Club Solitaire, WaveFest and Grauzone. On stage she explores the depths of minimal wave, synth punk, electro, and EBM, weaving them into an evocative sonic journey
@camyhuot

bandcamp

SEGGS TAPE
bandcamp

Supported by @bleedroot leftwingbabyeatingantifascistprochoicemanhatingpussybleedingcistemstompingpunx from The Hague and Utrecht.
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FFO: Rok, Finale, Autobahns

FREE FOR ANYBODY WHO HAS A DMF TICKET FOR THE SATURDAY FESTIVAL
otherwise it's € 6,- which is still doable.

The line up until now;
Synthux Academy
Rides in the Storm
Schreibmachine
Jeroen Visser
Sonoscopia's Joao

more tbc.

Whether you are deep into modular synthesis or just getting started, Dutch Modularfest 2026 gives you a place to connect, learn, and explore. Whet your appetite by watching this amazing video of 2025's festival courtesy of DivKid

MUSIC PROGRAMME:
Titanic Ambient with T. Raumschmiere
T. Raumschmiere - aka Marco Haas - needs little introduction: but for those who need to know, he is one of the brains behind the Shitkatapult label and a fantastic live performer who flits between punk, electro, techno, noise, and pop like a card sharp shuffling a pack. This show will NOT be a normal Raumschmiere show but, as the title suggests, one anchored in ambient sounds. Expect the unexpected!

Raaf and Estroe
Both artists operate at the intersection of electronics, improvisation, and texture — each with their own signature, yet always in dialogue.
Raaf weaves rich melodies and sparkling arpeggios from his modular system. His sound is layered, organic, and infused with a cinematic sensitivity. Estroe, known for her subtle and atmospheric approach to electronic music, brings warmth, depth, and a keen ear for nuance. Live, her love for improvisation shines through: an intuitive play with sound, texture, and timing. Each performance is a carefully crafted whole, with room for surprise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzBBZ1daek

KROON
Bass producers and live performers Hajo Krijger, Kubus and Kypski formed KROON in 2023. This trio of producers made a fierce and vast output of many sizzling and hard hitting bass tracks. In June 2025, the unthinkable happened: Hajo Krijger, musical mastermind and initiator of KROON, suddenly passed away, aged 29. Remaining KROON members Kubus and Kypski pursue their KROON Legacy in Hajo Krijger’s name, keeping Hajo’s productional bass brilliance proudly in the limelight.

Numbers Station
Numbers Station is a sound designer with a background in visual and performative arts. She works with a hybrid modular system consisting of Doepfer and Serge modules. The configuration of her system is intentionally as low-level and patch-programmable as possible. Numbers Station performs atonal pieces using feedback patching and no input mixing techniques. "The machine and I split the work fifty-fifty," Numbers Station iteratively builds generative patches that she deliberately tilts over the edge to allow her system to make its own mistakes, until its path that brought it there can no longer be retraced.

Alberta Balsam
Expect glitchy rhythms, skittering percussion, and sweeping ambient dreamscapes from Rotterdam-based Alberta Balsam. With releases on labels such as Dekmantel and Clone, she channels the space-age spirit of early electronica, the techy, trippy vibes of 1990s IDM, and her lifelong love of science fiction. Her hardware-focused live sets are dynamic, featuring hard-hitting drums, modular freak-outs, and hyper-human voice mangling. Recently founding the label, Terra Atomika, she continues her search for the perfect soundtrack to our distorted reality: sad, beautiful, and cathartic.

Colloid
Colloid is the moniker of Jan Willem Hagenbeek, a Dutch electronic musician and the founder of Ginkosynthese. Colloid is a mixture of insoluble particles throughout another substance. This reflects the live sets by Jan Willem Hagenbeek on his modular synth. His live sets blend dense, unpredictable layers of sound into a cohesive flow. Jan Willem is one of the guiding spirits of Dutch Modular Fest. After organizing Ginkofest in 2016 and 2017 at his atelier The Besturing in The Hague, Jan Willem asked all modular event organizers in the Netherlands to join in a Dutch gathering for modular synth enthusiasts. Ginkosynthese (The Hague) joined forces with Modulation (Utrecht), Noodlebar (Rotterdam), ModuLab (Eindhoven), and Voltage Control Amsterdam, and in 2018 the first Dutch Modular Fest was born. Without him, there would be no Dutch Modular Fest. Our eternal gratitude and respect goes out to him!

TALKS
The Conductive Performer by Jeroen Visser - Touch the cable. Become the circuit.
Patching with banana cables accidentally opened the door to a sort of a punk interface. Unlike shielded minijacks, grab them anywhere, bridge them with fingers, and suddenly the body becomes part of the synthesizer. Like a Cracklebox on steroids, the performer is inserted directly into the flow of voltages and sounds. Resistance, conductivity, pressure, sweat, skin contact — all become musical parameters. Every patch is different. Every body is different. Every performance carries a unique electrical signature of the performer.
It is not control over sound. It is participation in sound.

WORKSHOPS
Workshops will be on these subjects:
- circuit bending and modding
- Synthux (maker)
- Schreibmachine (maker)

CIRCUIT BENDING & MODDING from Jan de Block
In this talk & demo four topics will be covered:
- how to create a great BoC lofi sound for less than €100?
- how to expand your Volca Modular into a west coast easel in a simple way?
- how to mod a PT2399 delay module to get endless feedback and glitchy sounds?
- how to expand your modular with DIY sensitive touch points and piezos?
Before diving into these topics, we start with general modding & circuit bending tips: understanding the basics will drastically reduce white smoke moments! The whole session is about analog & DIY: no coding or firmware.

Jan De Block designs and builds noise circuits, modules and installations under the name AddictiveNoise. With his project Silent Noise Revolution he combines electronics and minimalist piano. He is also founder of Modular404, a label dedicated to modular synth tracks with a duration of 404 seconds.

MARKET
The Dutch Modular Fest Market will take place across two spacious rooms at WORM in Rotterdam, providing exhibitors and visitors with a comfortable and inspiring environment to explore the latest in modular synthesizers, electronic music gear, DIY projects, and creative technology.

A Headphone-Only Market Experience
To create the best possible experience for everyone, this year’s market will be a no-speaker event. Amplified sound systems and loudspeaker demonstrations will not be permitted at exhibitor booths. Instead, exhibitors and visitors are encouraged to use headphones for product demonstrations and listening sessions. This approach reduces noise levels, allows for more meaningful conversations, and ensures that every booth can be enjoyed without competing sound sources.

akunna
Natasha Reign
VAKABON COLLECTIVE (dj)
Navxja

22:00 - 02:00
IT’S GONNA BE AFRO-DIASPORIC, EXPERIMENTAL, ELECTRONIC MUSIC ALL NIGHT 🌍

FREE ENTRANCE 444 ALL 🦋

Moor Mother (US)
Moor Mother is an international touring musician, poet and visual artist. Her work speaks to many genres, from electronic to free jazz and classical music. Through the lens and practice of Black Quantum Futurism, the art she makes is a statement for the future, as well as a way to honour the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities and future outcomes.

Alister Spence (AUS)
The Fender Rhodes is a vintage instrument from our sound studio that is rarely played. But... when we heard Spence's album Within Without, featuring only the Fender Rhodes but in a radically inventive and unconventional way, we said: we need this guy over here to breathe some new life into it! During Electric Umbrella #33 he will use preparations, effects pedals and percussion with the Rhodes.

Some press quotes about Within Without:
'The album opens up the famous and yet somehow mysterious Rhodes...and finds an orchestra inside.' Derek Walmsley, The WIRE.
'The Fender inches toward warped generator territory...subtly piercing scrapes of surprising harmonic complexity'. Peter Margasak, Nowhere Street.

Spence himself wrote:
"I first owned a Fender Rhodes electric piano in the late 1970s. It was a Mark 1 model (wooden key action). I had a band with my younger brother and my best friend from school and this was my ‘portable’ gigging instrument that weighed ‘a ton,’ and only just fitted in our small car. I had one effects pedal, a Boss chorus. Sadly — due to the rise of synthesizers and electronic keyboard instruments — I sold this lovely instrument in the late 1980s.
Fortunately in 1990, I was able to buy a Mark II model (plastic keys). As time went by my approach to the instrument began to change as my interest grew in more broadly sonic forms of musical expression. The Rhodes became for me a place of exploration where any part of it was open for investigation as a sound source. I used it in tandem with a growing selection of sound modifying guitar pedals and slowly began to settle into a collection of those and a sound area that I enjoyed delving into. It is in paired back solo exploration that I find the strongest connection with the instrument."

With the main actress, Esmee de la Bretonière, present for Q&A!

According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind.

Cineville valid at the door and online the day of the screening!

Host
Sabina Lukovic
Weet als geen ander hoe ze het publiek kan bespelen met haar meeslepende teksten. Stond zo'n beetje in alle steden en op alle festivals, zoals Solar, de Gentse Feesten en Lowlands. Sabina is koningin punchline. Ze weet situaties altijd zo te schetsen dat ze onder je huid kruipen en je huid kan niet voorkomen dat dat kippenvel oplevert. Haar teksten gaan over kwetsbaarheid, mental health en rising like a phoenix. Ze is onmisbaar in het Mensen Zeggen Dingen leger, en gaat overal met hen mee naar toe om zalen omver te blazen. Want dat doet ze.

Artiesten
Oumaima Hayiaoui - meer info volgt!
Siham Amghar - meer info volgt!
Moze Naél
Tussen dag en vandaag manoeuvreert Moze Naél (curator) langs spoken word, poëzie, visuals en muziek. Woorden die diep door huidlagen snijden, zinnen die emoties doorklieven en melodieën die je meevoeren naar plekken waar je nooit bent geweest. Moze Naél vind je tussen de regels, voorbij genres. In voorgaande jaren bracht hij o.a. de ep ‘Lange Leegtes’ uit, maakte hij het audiovisuele project ‘Dicht bij zee, ver van huis’ en creëerde hij een uur durende audiovisuele liveshow genaamd ‘Zielsrust’ samen met componist Winterdagen, lichtkunstenaar Nick Verstand en drievoudig wereldkampioen breaking Menno van Gorp. Naast artiest is Moze Naél ook de oprichter van het online en offline platform Motel Poëzie, waar hij een plek creëert voor kunstenaars die zich bevinden op het snijvlak van spoken word poetry, muziek, dans, visuele kunst en lichtkunst.

Esca$h
Esca$h is een elektronische popartiest uit Zwolle die muziek maakt voor mensen die vaak buiten de boot vallen. Haar muziek is een plek om je masker af te doen kwetsbaar en eerlijk. Geen gemaakte perfectie, geen toxic positivity, maar echte verhalen en emoties. Bij Esca$h mag je zijn wie je bent ook als je dat zelf soms nog niet helemaal durft, of nog niet precies weet wie dat is.

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