Sound of the Belgian Underground 2025

After years of making waves at the iconic Ancienne Belgique, SOBU will now alternate annually between AB and the legendary Botanique, ensuring fresh energy and new perspectives with each edition. The 2025 edition of the Different Class festival will spotlight the finest of the Belgian underground, featuring electrifying live sets and DJ performances that will keep the energy pulsing into the early hours.

SOBU has earned its place as a cult favourite, offering a rare opportunity to experience a wide range of innovative artists in one night, all at an unbeatable price. This is the festival where you can discover tomorrow's talents before they blow up. The Wall of Fame includes acts none other than Loverman, Saliva, Hiele, Chibi Ichigo, David Numwamu and Victor De Roo. 

With curators Bader Shashit (Yalla Worldwide) and Laura Conant (MONTAGE) taking the reins for the 2025 edition, SOBU continues to push boundaries, creating a space for artists and fans alike to explore new sonic landscapes. 

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Graphic Design by Laura Conant

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Laura Conant is a Brussels-based DJ, producer, designer, and developer whose work blends gender theory, technology, and sound. She co-founded MONTAGE, an experimental music label and event series focused on diversity and accessibility in electronic music. As a radio manager at LYL Brussels, Laura advocates for more inclusive line-ups. Her practice includes creating tools through coding to empower artists from the FLINTA* community. Since 2018, she’s also been part of Bye Bye Binary, a collective exploring gender-fluid typography and inclusive communication within the French language.

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Bader Shashit is a DJ, music producer, and filmmaker based in Ghent, whose work blends his cultural heritage, immersed in the sounds of Libyan Bedouin rhythms and Syrian classical music, with a passion for community empowerment. As a multidisciplinary artist and social-cultural worker for Voem vzw, Shashit amplifies voices through projects like Yalla Worldwide, which seeks to democratise nightlife. His work is grounded in creating platforms for communities to connect and express themselves and is committed to fostering authenticity, representation, and mutual support.

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Sound of the Belgian Underground 2025 are:

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4nouki

Based in Brussels, 4nouki produces an electronic project that combines experimental art-pop and ambient music. Her music reveals a dreamlike universe in which vaporous synth layers and field recordings mix with pop and melancholic sung melodies. 

<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1711092291&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/olga_productions" title="Olga Productions" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Olga Productions</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/olga_productions/sets/4nouki-fallen-angel" title="4nouki – Fallen Angel" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">4nouki – Fallen Angel</a></div>

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Lilac Pavilion

The work of Antwerp’s Lilac Pavilion explores the beauty in the mundane and the shifting meanings of existence. His latest album, A Shifting Presence, explores existential curiosity, blending fragmented noise with a clean, digital palette.

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Sunchaser

Sunchaser is a Brussels-based duo that combines shimmering, ethereal sounds, unconstrained by genre. Sunchaser’s music evokes a sense of dreamy exploration, chasing distant horizons.

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Birame

Birame is an 18-year-old artist whose distinct musical identity is characterised by a unique blend, including electro-pop and R&B, with the occasional glimpse of jazz shining through. His lyrical inspirations often revolve around the concept of time and body, giving the songs a poetic nature. 

<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1716685050&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/birame-alloing" title="Birame" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Birame</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/birame-alloing/the-worst-parts-of-u-1" title="The Worst Parts of You" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">The Worst Parts of You</a></div>

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MartyrX

MartyrX, a duo consisting of @o0ryxss_4355 and @sadobsequeen, will present their monstrous hybridisation, between hyper pop’s most noisy elements, experimental sound design, cloud rap, and nu-metal live on stage!

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OLGA

OLGA escaped from a Lynch film and has since been creating electronic dark pop/punk in her bedroom. OLGA has become a specialist in the danceable identity crisis. Through synths and autotune, she now rediscovers who she is in this dystopian, earthly world.

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WE IN THE ZOO

WE IN THE ZOO is a flow of sound, mémoires du monde, RAP discipline and a storm of feathers coming from Brussels, by poets JASMIN and SVDU.

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Brainrot Cowboy

Brainrot Cowboy is a Brussels-based experimental duo navigating through weird sounds, dizzy noises and dismembered rhythms. Embodying influences from noisy post-punk, experimental rock or dystopian electronic music, they articulate sonic pieces leaving space for improvisation.

<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1926547808&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/kioskradio" title="Kiosk Radio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Kiosk Radio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/kioskradio/brainrot-cowboy-kiosk-radio-30" title="Brainrot Cowboy @ Kiosk Radio 30.09.2024" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Brainrot Cowboy @ Kiosk Radio 30.09.2024</a></div>

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Félicette

Félicette is a project by Sam (Brorlab, fur knights, Kotskat). Originally created as a means to experiment with turntablism and sound, the project gradually evolved into more traditional singer-songwriter with folk elements. Somewhere between the ethereal atmosphere of Grouper, h hunt, and the noise of teen suicide. Live, Sam is assisted by Mathilde Luijten (I'm The Hug, Overlast) and Abel Ghekiere.

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Kiche + Mich

Brussels' wunderkind Kiche released his first EP on MONTAGE. The 5-track piece of bliss discovers the formal rules of a ceremony. Through his signature sound of staccato digitalis -or bleeps and bloops in layman's terms- Kiche envelops us in the gestures necessary to perform a function. Special mention for Mich, who will add visuals on stage!

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Yalla Worldwide & friends

Yalla Worldwide brings its live sound system, featuring a collective of DJs and producers—Bader, Acid Ponch, and their friends—serving up an eclectic mix of rhythmic genres. Bader also invites special guests behind the booth and live on stage. All together, that’s a dynamic, genre-blending experience!

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Holy Coco

Holy Coco is a Brussels-based DJ and producer originally from Liège. As a resident DJ on Radio Vacarme and Lyl Radio and a regular contributor to Kiosk Radio, she is known for her unique approach to electronic music, with a special focus on amplifying the voices of FLINTA artists. 

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Gomar

Emerging from the heart of Brussels, GOMAR is a pioneering artist known for their relentless exploration of sound. Blending dancehall, reggaeton, Brazilian baile funk, and rave culture, their music defies boundaries and resonates with a diverse audience, a kaleidoscope of eclectic influences.

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Xaxalxe

Xaxalxe is a Brussels-based musician and DJ who played at Recyclart, HE4RTBROKEN, and Kiosk Radio in the past. Her DJ sets are a fusion of hard dance bangers, experimental electronic textures, and reworked pop anthems. She’s a musical explorer, always pushing the boundaries of sound.

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Gucc Imane

Molenbeek photographer and DJ Gucc Imane brings the underground scenes of Brussels and Paris to life with her electrifying mixes. Known for her signature blend of rap, trap, R&B, and dancehall, she balances hot and cool with every set. Her goal is simple: to evoke every emotion in her audience through diverse sounds.

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Malo Z

Malo Z is a Brussels-based DJ, heavily inspired by old-school club sounds from the 90s, balancing electrifying percussions and hypnotic melodies with a touch of trance.

<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1936179263&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/malo-z" title="Malo Z" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Malo Z</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/malo-z/maloz" title="Malo Z ꩜ Horst Club" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Malo Z ꩜ Horst Club</a></div>