C2C FESTIVAL 2026

Arca, Alejandra Ghersi, carves a blazing path through the zeitgeist: musician, diva, philosopher, fashion plate, party girl, technologist, Ghersi – a Latin chanteuse nonbinary trans woman. Her liquid nature has allowed to work for Björk, Kanye, and FKA twigs; composed for Museum of Modern Art and a retro gaming console; DJed Frank Ocean’s PREP+ party; and performed at a Burberry runway show for Riccardo Tisci. Arca the beatmaker grabbed the attention in 2012 with the ‘Stretch’ 1 & 2 EPs, her mischievous mind reverse-engineering contemporary pop and re-coding it in her own image. In 2019 she debuted at The Shed with ‘Mutant:Faith’, the four-night performance piece that transformed her body into an instrument in ways never been tried before. Her Grammy-nominated 2020 album ‘KiCK’ i is a hologram holding all of her musical identities in a state of simultaneous superimposition. Released the following year, ‘KiCK II’ to IIIII, represents the evolution of the shapeshifting musical worldbuilding of Arca’s identities. This year marks her return to C2C Festival in Turin after 2 years.

BADBADNOTGOOD, the four-piece, Toronto-bred jazz outfit that has melded instrumental hip-hop with jazz improvisation and spacey electronica ranks among one of the most anticipated live acts at this year’s C2C. With collaborations including household names like Kendrick Lamar, Tyler, The Creator, Frank Ocean, MF Doom and Pharaoh Monch, BBNG have distinguished themselves as the group leading a new generation of jazz musicians. Since forming in 2010, instead of working with traditional jazz standards, the group sidestepped and drew from hip hop and other contemporary genres to create a unique sound rooted in Black American music. Their latest album, ‘Talk Memory’, demonstrates them going back to their instrumental beginnings. Instead of looking at the now, they reflected the history and innovation of those that influenced them.

Chanel Beads, the project centred on Shane Lavers, emerges as a key figure of the New York DIY scene,  whose intersecting influences meet in an intimate, psychotropic art pop. Since his first few singles and EP’s, he has incorporated into his music the scrappy sonic imagery of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music. In 2024 he released his first album ‘Your Day Will Come’, where he continues to craft unique and unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes. He will make his Italian debut at this edition of C2C Festival.

Chuquimamani-Condori is a Pakajaqueño Aymara artist born in California’s Inland Empire. The folding of past and present, indigenous and American, is a feature across her work which fuses traditional drum and ceremonial music with vivid synths, warped folk melodies, dense noise and fragments of pop music. For more than a decade, they have been one of the leading figures in the electronic underground scene, and recently awarded a Silver Lion at Venice Biennale Musica. Following last year’s memorable performance alongside brother Joshua Chuquimia Crampton as Los Thuthanaka, in 2026 Chuquimamani-Condori will come back to Turin as DJ E, delivering a boundary-liquefying DJ set that combines sonic cacophony, astonishing emotional vulnerability, and a raw overload of textures. An unpredictable set which liquidates the distinction between tradition and futurity, chaos and communion.

Christelle Oyiri, aka Crystallmess, is a Franco-Guadalupian-Ivorian multidisciplinary artist: 

music producer, DJ, writer and performer. She grew up in the world of clubbing, her sonic world moving from percussive zouk to dancehall and then onto afro-trance and Detroit techno. She is a resident at NTS Radio and part of the roster of SHAPE artists. In 2018 she self-released her debut EP ‘Mere Noises’, followed a year later with a collaborative EP on PAN Records. This is Crystallmess first appearance since 2023 at C2C Festival in Turin.

Joanne Robertson is a British musician and painter based in Glasgow. She has collaborated with artists like Dean Blunt on ‘Black Metal 2’, and Sidsel Meineche Hansen on ‘Alien Baby’ among others. Following a few critically acclaimed records like “Painting Stupid Girls” (2020) and ‘Blue Car’ (2023), in 2025 she published her new solo album ‘Blurrr’, one of last year’s most surprising releases. A deep and intimate collection of songs, carefully crafted as a haunting and spellbinding strain of folk music punctuated by poetic lyrics.

American singer and songwriter Kelela, has established herself as one of the most refined and forward thinking voices in contemporary R&B. Crafting a unique sonic and aesthetic vanguard, blending intricate, experimental beats with her ethereal vocals, Kelela straddles the frequencies of both R&B and dance music to create a genre-defining style of deconstructed club music. Following the critically acclaimed ‘Raven’ in 2023 and last years’ ‘In The Blue Light’, she is set to return to C2C Festival in Turin for the first time since 2014.

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms. He has earned international acclaim from his performances and his profound releases on labels like Editions Mego, Subtext, Seil Records and his own imprint OFNOT. This year KMRU will publish his second release on Edition Mego, “Kin” (following on from the classic 2020 release “Peel”) and he is set to perform live at C2C Festival in October.

French vocalist, producer and composer Oklou has established herself as one of the most promising artists of her generation, collaborating with names like Flume, Mura Masa, Pomme and Flavien Berger, and remixing stars including Dua Lipa and Angèle (‘Fever’), Caroline Polachek (‘Door’) and A.G. Cook (‘Being Harsh’). In 2025 she published her first solo album, ‘choke enough’, a record that has earned cult status for its blend of ethereal pop, Y2K references, and baroque-tinged atmospheres. A musical journey imagined as a reflection on the very status of the artist, between assumed ambient sounds and rhythms that are more reminiscent of club energy. 

Swedish singer, songwriter, producer and icon Robyn has shaped the pop sound for more than three decades. After the era-defining ‘Body Talk’ trilogy in the early 2010s and the 2018 club music-oriented ‘Honey’, the generational pop icon will release her ninth studio album, ‘Sexistential’, out next March on Young. Self-defined as the most ecstatic record that she has ever made, Robyn embarks on a musical journey that is both emphatic and punchy, defiant about both emotional and biological pleasure, need and softness. Marking one of the decade’s most anticipated comebacks, ‘Sexistential’ will be performed at C2C Festival 2026 for Robyn’s only Italian date for this year.

A truly legendary figure, Washington D.C. born and Chicago raised, Theo Parrish is the American visionary who has left an indelible mark on the sound of Detroit house and remains a key voice for Black music in its many forms. Through the years he developed a deeply eclectic, genre-defying style that has made him a singular force in electronic music. Known for his refusal to conform to conventional DJ sets, Parrish seamlessly weaves together raw house, soul, jazz, funk, African rhythms, and experimental sounds into extended, unpredictable journeys that honor dance music’s roots while continuously pushing its boundaries. As one of house music’s most uncompromising and visionary selectors, he is expected to deliver an extended set at this year’s C2C Festival, showcasing the breadth of his range and distinctive ability to build fully realised sonic narratives.

Filipino-American producer, singer and songwriter April Harper Grey started making music as underscores in middle school alone in her bedroom, noodling around on GarageBand and trying to make something no one has heard before. Crafting intelligent, guitar-packed electronic pop with shades of post-punk and dubstep, underscores has gained wide recognition after her official debut album ‘fishmonger’ in 2021. Independent since the project’s inception, underscores signed to Mom+Pop last year. She also debuted ‘Count of three (You can eat $#@!)’ – co-written with Dylan Brady (of 100 Gecs), Cashmere Cat and Benny Blanco. She’s also produced music for Alice Longyu Gao, glaive, Whethan, and renforshort. C2C Festival 2026 will host underscores’ Italian debut.

Yung Lean and Bladee are two household names in the cloud rap scene. Starting from Soundcloud, and now performing onto the world’s top stages, they both share the same drive to find new unexplored paths in music. They’ve collaborated for well over a decade, becoming mainstays of the scene in Sweden, and now the world. For the past 15 years Bladee with the Drain Gang crew (Thaiboy Digital, Ecco2k and producer Whitearmor) have created a new wave of uncanny and immensely influential, highly unclassifiable type of music, while Yung Lean has become a global phenomenon with viral hits like ‘Ginseng Strip 2002’ and collaboration with artist such as FKA Twigs, Skrillex and Travis Scott. But it was only in 2024 that these two joined forces on the album ‘Psykos’ (Swedish for “psychosis”). A tale about the deep bonds and friendships, blending their trademark hyperpop beats and sounds heavily inspired by post punk and alt rock. Yung Lean and Bladee, will perform together in Italy for the first time at C2C Festival 2026.