On Saturday, 24 October 2026, we’re coming together once again around the music that has been bringing us together for 17 years — for a full evening dedicated to the local drum’n’bass scene, its artists and everyone who keeps it moving.
At 6 PM, we’ll kick things off with an open floor in front of Jalla Jalla, where the DNBKompilacija music video will also be premiered for the first time.
The action then moves into three clubs — Gala Hala, Channel Zero and Gromka — where you’ll find the artists who shape and drive the drum’n’bass scene here at home.
Schedule:
18:00 — open floor in front of Jalla Jalla
20:30 — box office
22:00 — Gala Hala, Channel Zero, Klub Gromka
Music policy: dnb
Admission:early bird €22 (limited number of tickets), presale €25, €30 on the day of the event
Furious breakcore beats and mindless barking to make your head hurt! Seven B’s spelling out the name of a Japanese victory hardcore duo.
Japanese duo BBBBBBB combine aggressive 808 breakcore, ’90s rave and hardcore punk into what they call victory hardcore, inspired by their positive messages. Don’t let the name fool you, though: what awaits is hyperactive sonic devastation and a proper stress test for Channel Zero’s sound system.
Their upcoming album Poop Disco, presented on this European tour, will be released by cult label Deathbomb Arc, known for early releases by artists including clipping. and JPEGMAFIA. The duo’s main producer Saionji recently also contributed several tracks to the debut album by Lord Spikeheart, vocalist of Kenyan outfit Duma.
A full-throttle, absolutely unhinged evening.
“Thumps, thrash, cartoon clown horns, snippets of Seinfeld bass, demented cackling, and a banjo/lawnmower/eldritch screaming are all in the mix.” – Emily Bick, The Wire
“BBBBBBB find a balance between noise and nonsense.” – Patrick St. Michel, The Quietus
Like their Japanese counterparts, local digicore champions mala roza muca & pixel.bambi take a playful approach to music, drawing on internet underground culture and contemporary deconstructions of rave. Distorted samples of popular culture, glitches and distortion pile reference upon reference, creating a sonic reflection of information overload — fragmented into a feverish digital dream.
They have performed at festivals including MENT, Niansa and Grounded, and were also selected for the international SHAPE+ platform.
“Their manic, synthetically metallic electronic sound and primitive children’s songs, while a hanging mobile reflects horrific images, still confuses pre-internet minds.” – Žiga Pucelj, Odzven
SsmKOSK, a Yugoslav-Swabian glitchcore/breakcore experimentalist from Ljubljana’s Bežigrad district, has released five solo albums over the past decade and played more than 50 shows in dark clubs and damp basements stretching from the shores of the Black Sea to the eastern edge of Denmark’s Zealand.
In 2023, he released his latest album 610a: notranji petki, where flamenco is taken apart and rebuilt through the language of glitchcore — surprisingly resulting in his most accessible material to date.
“Imagine Paco de Lucía’s melodies being mangled with some kind of sonic shredder, chopped up and turned into an unrestrained and chaotic, yet thrilling sound collage of ‘glitched-out’ flamenco abstractions.” – Jaša Bužinel, Mladina
Music policy: 808 breakcore / victory hardcore / glitchcore
Admission: €10 presale €13 on the day of the event €8 U24*
Tickets are available via Olaii.com, at all 3DVA kiosks and petrol stations, and at the club entrance from doors open onwards.
U24 is a discount for visitors aged 24 or under on the day of the event. U24 tickets can only be purchased at the club entrance upon presentation of a valid ID.
Organised by: KUD Channel Zero & Društvo KAPA
Supported by: City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Singer-songwriter KiKi – known online as Kikiwritings – has been described by the media as a “witch of intimate stories”, while her music has been dubbed “magical folk-pop”.
In autumn 2024, KiKi released her debut album KRiKi (extended), featuring sixteen original songs in Slovenian, somewhere between pop and folk. Since then, she has performed at festivals including MENT Ljubljana, Folkest (IT), Waves Vienna (AT), BUSH Festival (HU) and Druga Godba. You may also have seen her at the EMA 2025 Eurovision national selection, where she performed her song O-ou!.
At her concerts, you might find yourself dancing along to upbeat rhythms or shedding a tear during one of her ballads, but in either case, KiKi’s voice will take you into her own fairytale world. Together with the beautiful harmonies of her backing vocalists and somewhat unusual, at times dark lyrics, KiKi weaves stories on stage that draw the listener in close and sound almost like whispered secrets.
Live, the singer-songwriter performs with a band consisting of keyboardist Matevž Košutnik, guitarist Jan Kopač, bassist Ingrid Laventure, drummer Martin Jocif and vocalist Gala Pregel.
With her latest songPovej, available on her YouTube channel, KiKi is already teasing her second album, Pravljice.
“KiKi’s debut KRiKi is a gentle, intelligent and, for that very reason, outstanding album. It shows that it is only by taking life apart into its individual wheels and gears that we can most clearly reveal its complexity. The artist’s unique vision has translated into an exceptionally pleasant listening experience that leaves you with the precious feeling that you understand and are understood. So let us not be stingy with our words and say it plainly: we have a serious contender for domestic album of the year before us. The future, it seems, does indeed have variations, and Kiki has just set off down one of the best.” – Marko Miočić, Radio Študent 2023
“KiKi is undoubtedly one of the most intoxicating musical discoveries on the Slovenian music scene in recent years. Her intimate confessions and relationship with her surroundings gain another dimension through her highly functional, yet far from conventional vocal interpretation. This is true in audiovisual form, and even more so live, where her powerful stage presence and gentle voice effortlessly draw the audience into her world of imagination. And it resonates from the heart.” – Druga godba 2023
“𝐊𝐢𝐤𝐢’s intimate singer-songwriter music is one of the most intoxicating musical discoveries on the Slovenian music scene in recent years. With her powerful stage presence and gentle voice, she irresistibly pulls the audience into her world of imagination.” – Festival Godibodi, 2024
Ladies, gentlemen, witches and devils, hookers and pimps, priests and nuns, little vampires and twisted nurses, deranged movie characters and their victims, young and old, fat and thin — the year has come full circle, and it’s time for some shameless debauchery!
You’re invited to the traditional gathering of weirdos at Gala, one of the city’s wildest Halloween parties, where we’ll be serving up ’80s hits at a hellish pace, so you won’t even have time to run to the toilet.
The name of the event itself, Bright Side of the 80’s, should tell you everything you need to know: we’ll be conjuring up nothing but good vibes, and since we’re stronger together, they’ll hopefully last at least until next year, when we meet again!
Welcome to the world of decadence!
On the witch’s menu: Eurythmics, Wham, The Clash, Dead or Alive, EKV, Killing Joke, Nena, The Bangles, Duran Duran, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Spandau Ballet, Billy Idol, Paul Young, The Cure, David Bowie, Yello, Queen, Madonna, Talking Heads, The Police, A-Ha, INXS, Aerosmith, The Human League, Kraftwerk, Nine Inch Nails, Denis & Denis, Cyndi Lauper, The Smiths…
Music policy: Bright Side of the 80’s
Entry: €10 in costume, €13 without
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A band is coming to town that’s an explosion of energy, hard-hitting riffs and an unstoppable punk-rap hybrid. Codefendants blur the lines between genres, delivering a raw, honest and socially charged live show that leaves absolutely no room for indifference.
Fat Mike (NOFX) started a new project, joining forces with Sam King (Get Dead) and rapper Julio “Ceschi” Ramos. Three seasoned musicians from the punk and hip-hop worlds, united by a desire to bring together the genres they love—punk (rock) and hip-hop—and enrich them with a whole range of other musical influences.
The result is a unique and seriously hard-to-pin-down sound that moves between hip-hop, new wave, punk rock, electronics, Latin rhythms and plenty more. They’ve dubbed the genre crime wave. The lyrics draw heavily from everyday life, dragging various outsiders and outcasts into the spotlight, along with addiction, war, poverty, twisted political games, loneliness—in other words, the inconvenient fact that life isn’t exactly a piece of cake for everyone.
They may not have been around for all that long, but they’ve quickly made a name for themselves with their uncompromising approach and powerful stage presence. Which means it won’t be long before we get our chance to get blown away on the sunny side of the Alps as well!
Music policy: punk rock / hip hop / new wave / electronica / latino / indie / crime wave
Admission: €23 presale, €28 on the day of the concert
