Bristol
9-12th OCTOBER
We begin at Document - our biggest space yet. . One room, one ceremony. Expansive sound, high-impact live works, and a programme that moves between the intimate, the poetic, and the overwhelming.
DJ Python is known for his unique blend of deep reggaetón rhythms with ambient textures and hypnotic house, a style often referred to as "deep reggaetón." His music combines the slow, syncopated beats of Latin club genres with ethereal, introspective soundscapes.
Coby Sey & Continue fuse experimental electronics, spoken word, and post-industrial textures. Rooted in South London’s underground scene, Coby’s work often blends moody atmospheres with raw, improvisational energy, blurring the lines between genres like hip-hop, ambient and noise.
Abdullah Miniawy is an Egyptian musician, writer, and vocalist known for his powerful fusion of spoken word, jazz, Sufi poetry, and experimental. His work explores identity, resistance, and spiritual longing, delivered through emotive, chant-like vocals that blur the line between protest and prayer.
Mary Hurrell is a Bristol-based vocalist and composer creating immersive, visceral soundscapes that fuse voice, electronic textures and heavy beats. Her debut album FORMATIONS (2024) explores the voice as a site of transformation, weaving intimate and expansive sonic worlds
After a year’s hiatus, we revisit Trinity Centre, one of Bristol’s most iconic venues. A room built for weight, energy and connection.
Paul St. Hilaire (AKA Tikiman) is a Dominican vocalist and artist with a roots-reggae lyric style, best known for his collaborations with Mark Ernestus & Moritz von Oswald as pioneering dub techno act Rhythm & Sound. Bristol’s Batu is a renowned producer, DJ and founder of Timedance whose approach blends raw UK bass roots with bold, avant-gard and modern design with metallic textures. En Masse will host their first time playing together, paying homage to their roots but with a contemporary twist.
ojoo is a Moroccan-born, Brussels-based DJ and curator renowned for her fearless, genre-blurring mixes. Her sets blend old-school dancehall with its futuristic and distorted mutations, weaving through dub, dembow, reggaetón, grime, illbient and musique concrète. En Masse will mark her Bristol debut!
Shackleton founded the legendary Skull Disco label. He is known for his dark, atmospheric sound that blends dubstep with tribal rhythms and hypnotic percussion with ritualistic and otherworldly ambience. His wide-ranging sound has seen collaborations with Six Organs of Admittance, Holy Tongue, Scotch Rolex, Anika and many more.
A sound artist from Kanagawa, Japan, Saskia explores the deep connections between space, emotion, and music. Now based in the UK, she creates works that move between ambient and rhythmically experimental sound, while also performing live and DJing.
Jurango is a Bristol-based DJ, producer, and radio host known for fusing soundsystem culture with the Hardcore Continuum, house, and techno. His sets are unpredictable yet deeply rooted in the UK’s underground, spanning DIY spaces to major festival stages.
Our spiritual home. Each year we return to Strange Brew, and each year it delivers. A room that holds memory and momentum, this time we are here early evening for live antics.
KAKUHAN are a duo formed in 2022 of Koshiro Hino (of goat and YPY) and Yuki Nakagawa, blending cello with haunting electronics. Their incredible live show explores contemporary and club, traditional and modern, physical and metaphysical, composition and improvisation.
Sissi Rada is a Greek artist who bridges classical and electronic music. Trained as a classical harpist, she has performed with major orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic and Deutsche Oper. In her electronic work, she blends classical technique with songwriting and experimental production, collaborating with artists such as Brian Eno, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Andi Toma, and Jay Glass Dubs.
Twelfth House is a new project formed in summer 2025 by Derridea (Georgia Cusack), Norman Church (Kinlaw), and Fohn (Tom Connolly, Quade). Emerging from an impromptu jam in a Nova Scotia beer garden, their sound explores themes of lineage, land, and displacement through raw acoustic elements and sweeping, atmospheric textures. Folk traditions are reimagined with modern tones, creating music steeped in melancholy and quiet mysticism.
loto retina crafts hyperactive, chimeric music that blends chaotic micro-samples, gloopy bass, and erratic percussion. Their sound, equal parts digital glitch and feral energy, feels like a malfunctioning machine possessed by a forest spirit. Released on cult labels like Orange Milk and Promesses, their live sets are a tangle of sequencers, MIDI cables, and battered drum pads, producing music that growls as much as it grooves.
Expect an ensemble of performance and collaborative AV pairings, all under one roof.
We re-emerge at The Island after our gig over the road for an intimate close to Saturday night. We go until 5am for this one with extended sets from 2 of our favourite DJs.
Powder’s music exists just around the bend - subtle, elusive, and quietly transformative. Her tracks blend minimal, floaty, and left-field elements into authentic dance music that feels both familiar and entirely fresh, deconstructing club forms with gentle weirdness and restraint. In 2019, she founded the label Thinner Groove as a safe space for her own output and that of her close-knit community, sharing a deeply personal and patient approach to sound.
Kiernan Laveaux is a DJ and rhythmic energy conduit from the Great Lakes, known for her ecstatic, genre-fluid sets and deep roots in Cleveland’s underground. Emerging from DIY party crews like In Training and Disco Paradiso, she channels chaos, joy, and psychedelic momentum into dancefloor experiences that are both cathartic and transcendent.
This event is not individually ticketed, you must have a Festival Pass to attend!
In a first for En Masse, we will finish the weekend at The Love Inn.
Whilst our usual Sunday jaunt is a radio slot, we thought we’d make a proper party out of it this year we can collectively decompress, connect, and share one final dance.
An ode to Bristol’s low-key chameleons: the locals who keep the city’s sound alive and vibrant. Expect friends, family, and a few special guests guiding us through the last chapter-intimate, playful, and rooted in community.