Music
2025
Nightmare People From Hell
Activist musicians share dangerous leftist hooks in their sets.
"This machine kills fascists," wrote Woody Guthrie on his guitar. Sophie Straat and Nushin Naini (bassist of the Amsterdam dub group Devon Rexi) write it in big letters on the turntable. Together they are Nightmare People From Hell and they spin at the cutting edge. Theirs is a dance party against patriarchy, nationalism, and cultural homogenity, with the afterparty as the revolution. Expect hard-hitting Punjabi pop, Arab trap, punk, baile funk, and kuduro. Music you've never heard before, unmistakably so. Free sounds for a free world. Damn, incitement has never sounded so good.
Vera van der Berg is creating a special AI artwork for this set.
During the festival resistance echoes everywhere: in the church, on stage, at night, in the cafe, in the audience. From disobedience to contemplation, from poetry to protest. How do we remain Wide Open? And what can we resist together?
