A full-club takeover with three diverse floors of international mayhem! In the main hall, Morgan Garrett’s aurals are an intimate confrontation with personal and regional anguish, traditional hymns disfigured by layers of abrasive feedback, jagged guitars, trembling vocals, and electronic elements: visceral expressions of alienation that squat squamous upon the soul. Brooklyn’s Murderpact pushes digital hardcore and experimental rave music into chaotic realms, using frenetic tempos and fractured soundscapes to build a glitchy, high-speed sonic rollercoaster of perpetual, dizzying drops. For when you need dance music that befuddles as much as it delights, aya’s weirded and fragmented rhythms caper around surreal textures with a molecule-rearranging earfeel. In a special collaboration, she’ll come together at CTM with acclaimed German light and scenography artist MFO. Rooted in themes of bodily transformation and the fluidity of memory, the performance traverses the intersection of memory, corporeality and experience, combined with dynamic visual artistry that interrogates both perception and identity. Kasimyn traverses a kaleidoscopic range of sonic mayhem, from gabber and grindcore to Indonesian jathilan trance rituals in thrillingly unpredictable ways as he approaches distortion as a means to “destroy something for the future.” Expect high-BPM chaos with a hefty dollop of dangdut koplo and funkot—pure ecstatic cultural collisions. Japanese crew Minna-No Kimochi blast forth immersive environmental raves, deconstructing 90s trance and 10s EDM through a post-club lens into a sonic stew of corporeal intensity and spiritual elevation. With a now-legendary presence in Tokyo's club scene, they’re masters of crowd-jacking transformative and trance-endental club experiences. In Panorama, the SHAPE+-supported alys(alys)alys smashes experimental club and Soundcloud vibes into wild, unpredictable works and DJ sets that are as much party as experiment: playful, collage-heavy jams thriving in that sweet spot where genres clash and brains get dropped in the blender. One of the minds behind the now-defunct collective and Tresor residency Dry Berlin, this is her second appearance at CTM. Rattlesnakke slithers through sonics with beats that hit like thunderclaps and vocals dripping with unrelenting energy. Filled with the defiant energy of Argentina’s youth, she’s bringing a live set of bass-heavy guaracha vibes, urban swagger and glistening latincore rap-pop to CTM. A key innovator in Gqom’s evolution, State OFFF’s debut EP GQOM TODAY pushes the boundaries of the genre’s minimalist, dark rhythms into gnarly territory, blending its driving pulse with a dynamic range of contemporary sounds from the African diaspora and beyond. Budots pioneer DJ Love will explore the origins, characteristics, and unique structural components of the genre, including a walk-through on the process of creating a Budots track from scratch. Formerly one half of the duo Black Cadmium, Joginda explores an esoteric range of styles, from dub and breakbeat to African tribal tech and IDM. A captivating force behind the decks, his body-jacking, oft-vicious and always-immersive sets never fail to cuck expectation.