FOMO FATALE

Line-up:

22.00 - 23.30u Hekkla         
23.30 - 01.00u Annebel            
01.00 - 02.00u Alberta Balsam (live)      
02.00 - 03.30u NVST

If you show up before midnight, you pay the price of €5. After midnight the entry is €7,50.

Hekkla (he/him)

Hekkla is a Dutch DJ/Producer hailing from the southern part of the Netherlands. This Den Bosch based UK aficionado serves up productions and DJ sets wandering between a broad array of styles and influences, favouring low frequencies, percussive elements and murky atmospheres. In 2021 he released a track on the mentoring program compilation for Martyn's 3024 label, following up with an EP on Bristol's Out of Sorts Records and just released his latest EP on Amsterdam's Flippen Disk.      

 Alberta Balsam (live) (she/her)

Straight from Rotterdam comes Alberta Balsam: producer, live act, and DJ. The sound of her productions is deeply rooted in IDM, experimental acid, and pounding techno and electro. Classic drum machines are layered with intricate harmonies and 303 bass lines. Her live sets are strictly hardware-based. The result is danceable, but never without her lush and adventurous sound. While she mainly focuses on live sets and productions, her DJ sets are characterized by an eclectic and bold track selection, ranging from cold hard techno, booming electro, and fuzzy acid to warm and dreamy ambient.     

 Annebel

Tilburg-based Annebel aims to push the boundaries of her sound by layering harmonies and rhythms into new soundscapes when mixing her broad taste in music together into an energetic whole.       
Her sets are characterized by her energetic and genre-fluid approach to mixing, merging high-energy rave, leftfield techno, UK-inspired breaks, bass, dubstep, and jungle into mixes that feel roused but consistent.    

NVST (she/her)

NVST’s growing reputation is built on sharp, powerful, and deeply engaging sets. She surprises her audience and doesn’t hesitate to put them in uncomfortable situations. The values that define NVST's approach to DJing are far removed from conventionalism and commercial approaches. As an advocate for a more open and inclusive electronic music scene, she is part of the Female family and fights for better representation in nightlife.      

Expo Blind Spots

During FOMO you can admire the exhibition 'Blind Spots' (curated by Lucia Femia). The artists involved are Amber Lotte Penders from Den Bosch, Esmina Merks and light artist Martin van Staveren.

In an era overshadowed by the formidable forces of the Capitalocene, hegemonic narratives escape our control, shaping our realities in to standardised liminal spaces.   
As Children of the In-between we look for corners, hidden spaces where we can escape from the unilateral illusions of borders and individuality. We look for symbiotic places where we can celebrate our hybrid nature. There we explore our multilayered natures. There the borders of lands disappear, as the borders of skin, self and gender.   
In the blind spots of the Capitalocene we play with animal, plant, and mineral, becoming companions of the Multispecies, feeding our incessant metamorphoses.

Amber Lotte Penders

Engaged in the exploration of connection and nostalgia, Amber Lotte’s work finds its roots in the realm of paradoxes. She shapes a neo-reality, a dimension perpetually present but rarely perceived.  
Amber Lotte’s creations boldly escape the confines of the white cube. Drawing inspiration from pre-existing images, Amber Lotte weaves intricate narratives. From existing images stories unfold… Stories that resonate with her personal experiences, her circle, and, intriguingly, with you, with us.

Esmina Merks

Preserving the uncanned.  
Esmina transmutes recollections into a visual record, ultimately into artefacts. These remnants of what once was and never will be again, highlight a constant urge to preserve and protect. A personal narrative that alludes to ideas of both safeguarding and sharing of this collective memory we call childhood.  
Driven by a need to remember and encapsulate, Esmina's art ensures that these memories are neither forgotten nor disregarded. Jewellery and hair serve as vessels, while toys act as gateways to the world of reminiscence. Fragmentations from her personal archive convert into a visual story, merging into recurring symbolism that conveys their importance.

Martin van Staveren

Martin brings his work ‘In Sideout’ to Den Bosch. In Sideout is a light sculpture that has nothing to hide. Constructed from cold industrial materials, it shows all sides of itself. But as the power and data begin to flow through its cables, it comes to life and shamelessly shows the beauty of its inner.