XXII WROCŁAW INDUSTRIAL FESTIVAL

Cult of Youth began as a bedroom project in 2006 when founder sean ragon took a broken acoustic guitar, a $20 mackie mixer, and a roland rack synth and tried to recreate the atmosphere of the post-industrial and neo folk records he had been obsessed with since childhood. the project eventually evolved into a fully fledged band and for the better part of a decade released a string of genre-bending albums that made perfect sense to some people and absolutely no sense to others. in 2015, after years of relentless touring, the band packed up a studio’s worth of equipment and drove up to the mountains in vermont with no plan, no songs, and enough psychedelics to brainwash an entire state. by day two they had cleared out a derelict barn and built an entire studio running off a gas powered generator rented from the local hardware store. that studio included a wall of gongs, a 9’ marimba, a weapons grade arsenal of analog synthesizers, a 24 channel mixing console, and a full blown PA system and not to mention some truly unusual instruments ranging from a human thigh bone and a champagne cork! over the following weeks they lived completely off the grid, spending most of their time doing farm chores, shooting guns, hiking, and recording with a clandestine cast of collaborators. every harebrained idea that passed through their minds was exercised – nothing was off the table.

Lina Baby Doll, is the man that sustain the heavy structure behind Deutsch Nepal. A legend in the scene of industrialism, avant-garde, music and art in general. He is capable to re-create and re-design old school industrial and electronica, taking elements from apparently dissimilar concepts such as Dadaism and Tribalism, or “contradictory” ideas such as Heathenry and Christianity and converge them into a typical cocktail blend that characterises a unique and now famous style. Manic rhythmic redundancies, strange indefinable samplers, metallic sounds, distorted guitar chords are common elements found in all his works. His main goal?. Mesmerize the listener to subjugate the mind and put the spirit into reverberation mode.

It is difficult to reduce his works to a simple description. All of them seem to be the evolution of an early idea, a baby that grows old, getting monstrous and divine while doing so. The music itself is a never ending universal paradox in where beats and rhythms have a primary role. Deutsch Nepal is surreal landscapes strongly conducted and cut through with the violent and precise pounding of the repetitive aspect of percussion. It’s a black and white obsession, changing shapes and tonality.

Started DJing and promoting clubs and concerts in 1995. For over 20 years Eric has been integral to organising some of the most important underground clubs and concerts in Dublin namely The Tower and Finisterre. Concerts that have been promoted under the Tower Promotions banner: New Model Army, Front 242, Boyd Rice/NON, Sol Invictus, Blood Axis, Dive, The Levellers, Whitehouse, Job Karma, Der Blutharsch, Nosferatu, London After Midnight, Vendemmian, Spahn Ranch, Sieben, This Burning Effigy, Bain Wolfkind, Faith and the Muse etc. etc...
Eric has DJ'd at many international events and clubs: Schlagstrom festival, Wave Gotik Treffen Festival, Whitby Gothic Weekend, Duncker, Slimelight, Blutenrausch, Resurrection club, Semi resident DJ for Wroclaw Industrial Festival.
Eric is now based in Dresden, Germany and co organises the annual Tower Transmissions festival. In the last 6 years the festival has grown into one of the most respected festival in the Industrial field. Bands that have played at TT include Genocide Organ, Club Moral, Sutcliffe Jugend, Grunt, Consumer Electronics, IRM, Thorofon, Ramleh, Nordvargr, The New Blockaders, Nikolas Schreck, Bizarre Uproar, Brighter Death Now, and many many more.

Lena had the chance to play for a wide audience for the first time in 2018 at the DOM club in Łódź. Over the course of five years, she has played in several clubs and events in Poland and alongside such artists as Ayarcana, Qual, Unhuman and Rosa Anschütz. For more than a year she has been also running the broadcast "Industrial Blast" on Radio Kapitał, where she record sets with all diverse electronic genres she enjoy. On her sets Lena plays dark and raw sounds. She is mostly fascinated by the music of the 80’s/90’s connected to the classic sounds of EBM, electro and techno mixing it with industrial music and sounds inspired by coldwave.

GRIM has been active since 1985 and continues to present works and live performances in Japan , Eurozone, United states etc.
One-man industrial/power electronics/noise project. In the early 80s Jun formed White Hospital together with Tomasada Kuwahara. They released one album called "Holocaust" in 1984 before disbanding. Kuwuhara moved on to Vasilisk, while Jun released a number of solo records as Grim .
This WIF live will be a GRIM ritual by Jun Konagaya alone.

Harmony of Struggle is a Polish power electronics project created in 2020 by Neithan (Whalesong, Grave of Love, Lugola). HoS compositions can be described as hypnotic and extremely deformed with various effects industrial tracks. The main lyrical themes are: war, control, domination, manipulation.
FFO: Anenzephalia, Genocide Organ

Orphx have been creating their unique fusion of rhythm and noise for almost thirty years, combining the propulsion of techno with the experimental techniques and critical themes of industrial music. They have been working across different genres and music scenes over the last three decades, moving from audio/visual noisescapes in local clubs and art galleries during the 90s to shoestring tours across Europe and on to the last decade of performances at techno clubs, festivals, and underground events around the world. 

The project was founded in 1993 by Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey, and Aron West, who began creating improvised performances inspired by early industrial music and new waves of noise from Europe and Japan. Following cassette releases on their own Xcreteria label, West departed to focus on the noise project Tropism while Oddie and Sealey began to push Orphx in a more rhythmic direction. Their distinctive sound used powerful layered rhythms, modulating soundscapes, and processed vocals and samples to explore themes of personal struggle and social control. Over the last few years this early work has been documented by releases on Hospital Productions, Mannequin Records, and Oddie’s own Ekstasis label. By the late 90s, Orphx was drawing inspiration from the more experimental fringes of techno, electro, and dub. The project became Oddie's solo studio effort but live performances continued to be collaborative. Working closely with Germany's Hands Productions label, the duo gained an international following as one of the pioneering acts within the European "rhythmic noise" scene. Over the last decade, Oddie and Sealey have again collaborated on both live performances and studio recordings as their work connected with both techno and industrial audiences through a series of acclaimed releases on the Sonic Groove label and remix work for a wide variety of artists, including Front Line Assembly, Oscar Mulero, Nomeansno, Perc, and Conrad Schnitzler.

Orphx have refined their sound across numerous releases and many changes in tools and techniques: from reel to reel tape machines and homemade instruments to software sequencing and processing, and moving back again to hardware following Sealey's adoption of modular synthesizers in 2008. Oddie and Sealey are renowned for delivering improvised live performances that combine modular synth, drum machines, software, and live vocals. They have toured throughout Europe, North America, Japan, and China, appearing at international festivals such as Berlin Atonal, Forte, Katharsis, Labyrinth, Mutek, Rural, Voltage, and Unsound, and regularly performing at techno temples such as Berghain, Tresor, and Khidi. Their work has been featured in film soundtracks and documentaries, including I Dream of Wires (2014) on the resurgence of modular synths and Soundtrack for the Urban Decay (2015) on the history of industrial music. In recent years, they have been working on new audio / visual performances using infrasound and multi-channel speaker systems, working in collaboration with video artist Patrick Trudeau and McMaster University's Institute for Music and the Mind. Active collaborations and side projects include Eschaton (Orphx + Ancient Methods), Ontario Hospital (Rich Oddie + Huren), Orphx + JK Flesh (Justin Broadrick), and Oureboros (Rich Oddie + Aron West).

"SARDH" was founded as an experimental sound-image collective, after they had already been "painting" with sounds in loose formation in the Dresden experimental scene since the early 1980s. Since then, the "Mother of Saxon Ritual Music" (R. Dittmann, Bad Alchemy) has been organizing thematic performances, its own exhibitions and sound installations, sound field research, concerts, festival contributions, self-produced multimedia environments, and has published sound carriers, artifacts and videos, mainly in its own publishing house. For 17 years, "SARDH" has also been running the sound laboratory "Morphonic Lab", which is now well established in Dresden.

In the 1990s, "SARDH", which always strives for a concrete spatial reference, developed a system of variable instrumentation with flexible use of installation and media possibilities, which they set up according to the situation. Self-built objects or objects of everyday use converted into sound bodies shape the sound image.

Their own melange of ambient, noise, industrial, sound collages and muzak is based on a strictly defined dramaturgy as well as on intuitive arcs of tension that they develop in a collective process. Through their opulent instrumentation, "SARDH" create brute sound images that merge with their bizarre video scenarios or special lighting arrangements in the background.

Te/DIS stands for "Tempted Dissident". Behind it is a solo artist from Germany who dedicates himself to electronic music. This has a Angst-Pop basis and is kept clear and efficient and precisely structured with hard, sometimes monolithic rhythms. It is also carried by a voice that shows an emotional or sometimes rough post-punk aesthetic. The voice is also what gives the music of Te/DIS the soul and ensures a high recognition value. In terms of content, a profound cynicism is cultivated and a gloomy abyss is represented. The cool and structured soundscape frames the immanent, inner tension as well as intense emotions. Te/DIS has so far released three albums and an e.p. on the german cult-label Galakthorrö.

THAT'S HOW I FIGHT [Psychedelic / Space / Experimental] They debuted in 2021 with the album "Movement One" for Requiem Records. Although they have only been active as a band under this banner for a short time, the musicians behind it have a lot of experience on the music scene; they have previously been associated with activities in groups such as Rigor Mortiss, Titanic Sea Moon and Rongwrong or Ewa Braun. Initially, they limited their activity to studio work only. However, in January of this year, they played their first concert on the smallest stage in Poland as part of the "Zawieje" event, opening another chapter in the band. After a well-received debut on Requiem Records label and a cassette and digital EP ("Between Movements") their second regular album THAT'S HOW I FIGHT came out in April. "Movement Two" picks up where the previous session left off. Along the way, the band expanded its lineup and merged into a single organism during numerous sessions to embed improvisation even more boldly as the main building block on which their music is based. Using their existing instrumentation, expanded to include samplers, synthesizers, and accordion, among others, and taking advantage of their numerous sonic qualities,the musicians managed to record compositions, somewhat ethereal and ethereal in nature, yet deeply memorable to listeners. Everything here has been refined to the smallest detail, so that eventhe tiniest sound gently filling the space seems to be an equally important part of the larger whole.The key building block from which this monolith is woven is the characteristic sound, giving thewhole a final touch, imprinted in rich yet ascetic forms. All this makes their live performances, supported by numerous improvised phrases, capable of delighting even more.... "Movement Two" and the performances promoting it are an invitation

Thighpaulsandra (Tim Lewis) is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. As Tim Lewis, he began his career working with Julian Cope. Born June 19 in Pontypridd, Wales to a family of musicians. His grandfather being a conductor and mother, Dorothy Lewis an opera singer. He was frequently taken to classical concerts from an early age and studied French horn, church organ and piano. He had a strange band in school with odd combinations of instruments. Avant-garde was normal to him even though he didn't care much for the concerts he went to. He has worked as a session musician for unmentionable acts as well as a recording engineer and spent 8 years working in a psychiatric hospital as a staff nurse. He eventually quit the day job.

Beginning his career in the early 1980s with the hair metal band Temper Temper, Lewis next became the house engineer and studio manager at Loco Studios near Newport. Stuck in S. Wales, Lewis was at first unable to capitalize on his real influences, such as krautrock and improvised electronic music. Eventually, his work with Julian Cope provided the right atmosphere and Thighpaulsandra joined the band Spiritualized. He also joined Coil and performed on such albums as Astral Disaster, Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1 and Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 2. His first three solo releases came out via the Coil label, Eskaton. John Balance provided vocals for Thighpaulsandra's first release Some Head EP, and Peter Christopherson designed the artwork for the I, Thighpaulsandra double album and for the following albums.

When asked to describe Thighpaulsandra's work to somebody recently, it was difficult to find the right words to serve any justice. Perhaps the best thing to therefore do is simply respond by illustrating this highly accomplished and visionary musician has been known for his assistance with groups and artists as diverse as Coil, Spiritualized and Julian Cope as much as his own albums during recent enough memory. Combining musique concrète, quasi-dimensional electronics, ravaged hums, atmospheric tones and all manner of different instruments nodding into focus makes him very unique and original artist.

Vonsechsundachtzig is a duo based in Lodz that creates extreme electronic music. Inspired by classic industrial music and power electronics.