CTM Festival 2019: Lsdxoxo + Sho Madjozi + More

Returning to CTM to celebrate the festival’s 20 years anniversary is Through My Speakers, a family united through their shared love of bass music. Founder Sarah Farina and members LeFeu, Qumasiquamé and Walter Vinyl have invited special guests Slikback, Gafacci, Phatstoki and Sho Madjozi to join them.

Kenyan producer Slikback made a name for himself with 2018’s gnarly, bassy Lasakaneku, which came out on Nyege Nyege’s new label, Hakuna Kulala. One of Ghana’s most sought-after producers, Gafacci has created hits for some of the biggest names in Ghanaian music. DJ Phatstoki is part of the Pussy Party team, a night that provides a regular platform for queer, femme, and women DJs and artists to “practice, incubate, exchange, and expose.”

In room two, US-based queer club icon Lsdxoxo will present the inaugural edition of Floorgasm, a queer-centric party focusing on unyielding sounds, featuring Juliana Huxtable and Wallis. Lsdxoxo is the House of Vogue ambassador known for 2016 mixtape Fuck Marry Kill, as well as 2018’s Baltimore club-tinted Body Mods. Polymath Juliana Huxtable is a DJ, producer, writer, poet, and artist, responsible for organizing NYC’s Shock Value night, and for authoring Mucus in My Pineal Gland. Berlin-based producer Wallis crafts crunching, caustic techno.