STONE ISLAND PRESENTS BERLIN

Beatrice Dillon is a London-based artist and musician. Her recent solo debut album ‘Workaround’ combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro-Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Bill Kouligas is an artist, designer and musician based in Berlin. He is known as the founder and artistic director of the multidisciplinary platform and record label PAN, which has hosted artists such as Pan Daijing, Pelada, Anne Imhof, Puce Mary, Amnesia Scanner, Lucy Railton and Yves Tumor. In his artistic practice Kouligas draws inspiration from diverse sources, traditions, and various subcultures. He adapts those sources and relates them to contemporary life through an evolving experimentation with different media in multidimensional works through sound.

Born in Nairobi and currently based in Berlin, KMRU is a sound artist and producer whose methods include field recording, improvisation, noise, machine learning, radio art and drones. In 2020, he released three albums that showed the depth and range of his sound: Peel, an LP of hypnotic drones on the avant-garde institution Editions Mego; Opaquer, a collection of vivid and dreamlike sound sculptures; and Jar, a dreamlike cassette of found sounds and analog ambience.

Constant researcher of mechanisms and elements that compose dance music, Lorenzo Senni explores the building up idea of euphoric dance music as a starting point to create more introspective tracks which implicitly keep the same pathos.
In 2016 he entered the prestigious British label Warp where he debuted with ‘Persona’, a work in which he ironically resumed the nineties IDM. Following his “pointillistic” path, in 2020 he published ‘Scacco Matto’.

Pelada, the duo of singer Chris Vargas and producer Tobias Rochman, broke out of Montreal’s underground warehouse rave scene in 2014 after uploading tracks to Soundcloud which caught the attention of the global dance music scene. They spent the next five years touring the globe extensively before signing with Berlin experimental label PAN in 2019 and releasing their debut LP ‘Movimiento Para Cambio’.
Their collaboration is a blend of urgent Spanish language vocals centered around themes of power, control, social justice with hardware samplers, synths, and drum machines.

Skee Mask is a versatile producer from Munich, who got influenced by a lot of different types of music over the last years, which made his productions pretty various. In his sets he tries to create a deep trip, consisting of organic grooves and diverse clang accompaniments.