Printemps de Bourges

Since 2019, Goth-Pop singer Mathilde Fernandez and Casual Gabbers’ Producer Paul Seul have been working together under the alias ascendent vierge. The unique sound they create through their collaboration is a progressive but distinct hybrid between Gabber and Pop featuring Mathilde’s ethereal vocals in French.

Roméo Johnny Elvis Kiki Van Laeken, (born 13 December 1992), better known by his stage name Roméo Elvis, is a Belgian rapper and hip hop artist.

His career began with the release of two EPs in 2013 and 2014, titled Bruxelles c'est devenu la jungle and Famille nombreuse. In 2016, his album EP Morale was released. In 2017 and 2018, two more albums were released: Morale 2 and his reissue Morale 2 luxe (released from his collaboration with producer Le Motel). He has close connections with Belgian band L'Or du Commun, duo Caballero & JeanJass, and French rapper Lomepal.

Instinctive and avant-garde, Reinel Bakole is a multidisciplinary artist whose free spirit leaves no one indifferent.

Having already made notable waves as solo artists, Spanish-born Caballero chanced upon Belgian producer and rapper Jean Jass at a radio show in 2011. Since their meeting, the two embarked on a union that marked a much-needed playfulness in the Belgian scene. Citing East Coast rappers as key influences, the pair’s tracks highlight Brussel's take on women, drugs and the police in rap music.

Glauque are not the first band attempting to blur the frontiers between electronic music and hip-hop, and doing so with a French-speaking voice. Many contemporary artists in France and Belgium have chosen these two genres to make music and express themselves, and some of them have even had great chart success. Glauque do their own thing, though. It’s perceivable in their keen sense of aesthetics, in their poetic lyrics and of course in their music itself, which is dark and tender, intimate and rebellious, atmospheric and striking.

ML, deux lettres, deux initiales pour Maria-Laetitia Mattern, l’un des piliers de Sonnfjord, trio de pop rythmée qu’elle monta avec son frère Aurelio Mattern, et un de leurs amis, Francois de Moffarts, dans leur ville natale, Bruxelles. Mais voilà, Maria-Laetitia, qui pourtant exècre le changement, avait besoin d’un nouveau souffle, de dire son moi le plus profond. Exit l’anglais des textes de Sonnfjord, place au français sur un premier EP solo. Comme une volonté de dire, enfin, l’intimité des doutes et des tourments dans sa langue maternelle. « Quand j’ai commencé à écrire en français j’alignais les métaphores. Puis jai précisé mon propos. Maintenant j’essaye d’écrire ce que je pense, pas de la manière la plus directe possible mais de façon assez simple. » Une simplicité toute en poésie, tournée avec acuité et sens de la mélodie. ML décoche des morceaux comme autant de flèches en plein cœur.