LEV Matadero Lineup Revealed
Audiovisual arts festival L.E.V. expands its scale with new edition LEV Matadero taking place this October in Madrid.

Audiovisual arts festival L.E.V. expands its scale with new edition LEV Matadero taking place this October in Madrid.
O Yuki Conjugate’s Hallucinations Mix draws on Melanie Smith’s films of South and Central American jungles, bringing organic sounds and electronics together in a warm, disorienting journey.
We listened to a lot of diverse music last year and picked some of the records, which resonated most throughout 2018 and were not widely covered.
Sigillum S maps the contrasts behind its industrial sound: Dizzy Gillespie frames a passage through harsh noise, airy ambience, electroacoustic experiments and the melancholy of Bing & Ruth.
Eartaker draws a line between Japanese experimental sound and the depths of death and doom metal, bringing musique concrète, noise and Goth-Trad’s early work into abrasive proximity.
CoH offers warmth for the darkest nights, allowing jazz, Indian classical music and intimate electronics to drift together in a quiet selection that includes his friend Mika Vainio.
Koray Kantarcıoğlu explores the Turkish experimental underground through tape loops, hazy electronics and unreleased work, revealing the scene’s close connections and quietly distinctive textures.
Paulie Jan takes the long route through ambient, musique concrète and experimental electronics, shaping more than two hours of music into an intricate, slowly unfolding journey.
Sorrowing Christ brings Kali Malone and A.M. Rehm’s worlds together in a stark passage through noise, metal and experimental electronics, moving between raw intensity and hypnotic restraint.
The fifth New Blood call, announced in 2018, asked for musical journeys built around altered states. Its six winners appeared in 2019.
Twenty-nine broadcasts from Cashmere Radio, originally hosted by Ilius and Švenčionis and continued by Ilius and guests. Experimental electronics, post-punk, industrial and ambient, 2018–2022.
Ancient Methods’ first LP combines the arcane, the mystic, and the industrial, resulting in a diverse, powerful and striking work of art.