Making its celebrated Flow debut last year, the popular X Garden club venue returns to this year’s festival. Showcasing the vast diversity of club music, X Garden is the place for every adventure-thirsty clubber, presenting a daily changing, unique program produced by three club concepts. Friday is being curated by Changeless, a label and club organiser with a focus on experimental electronic music, Saturday by the Berlin-based queer club Herrensauna, and Sunday by the techno-trance phenomenon Korgy.

Changeless is a Helsinki-based label focusing on experimental electronic music, known for organising club events in venues such as Post Bar and Ääniwalli. On Friday, August 9, Changeless presents the French producer Crystallmess, who works in the fields of music, contemporary art, and fashion, the b2b collaboration between LCY, a DJ known for their avant-garde style, and the Changeless-founder Exploited Body, and the Angolan-born producer Nazar, whose music combines powerful percussive elements with well-crafted soundscapes. Additionally, the Friday program includes the sound designer, artist, spoken word artist, DJ, and producer SITOI, the genre-defying DJ Max Jaarte with a reputation for intense sounds, and the Helsinki-based composer-producer 111X. Changeless also presents the collaborative project by Jonathan Engeldahl and Paavo Piekkari titled Hollowland and the opening act of the whole venue, the corporeal Megabondmon performance that creates connections by using the multifaceted means of performing arts.

On Saturday, August 10, X Garden will be captivated by the Berlin-based queer club Herrensauna. Having risen as a global phenomenon, the club offers its audience a wild experience faithful to the uncompromising techno culture of its hometown. Based in the legendary club Tresor, the collective presents ferocious DJ sets deriving from hard and fast techno as well as live industrial acts. Performing at Flow are the club founders CEM, who runs on the frenzy of punk, and MCMLXXXV, who utilises the dark sounds of industrial and hard trance. Playing also are the Herrensauna residents, DJ Saliva, combining the sounds of different techno eras, and SPFDJ with her fast techno, acid, and trance beats.

Korgy is a queer, tongue-in-cheek techno-trance phenomenon making an awaited return to X Garden. Last year, the collective brought the house down; the same is expected this year as well. On Sunday, August 11, Korgy presents the German producer on the rise, a guaranteed feel-good ambassador Narciss, and Korgy’s own KEMIK, CEB, and 2THEMAX with their b2b sets. NOEI will play Eurotrance-spiced techno, whereas Sallindoing will melt elements from straightforward tech songs to emotional pop tunes. Lara Silva’s set will be filled with dirty techno, playful trance, and sexy bass, Saffet will present fiery organic and euphoric grooves, and Aino Collin will charm with her genre-bending bubblegum songs and delightful energy.

This year, X Garden will renew and expand as the venue takes over the lush yard above the space. Previously known as Flow’s Gold Area, the yard will include additional services, such as a versatile bar. A pathway straight into Resident Advisor Front Yard will be available through the yard, making access between club venues more effortless than before.

X Garden lineup announced today:
FRI 9.8. Changeless X Garden: Crystallmess, LCY b2b Exploited Body, Nazar, SITOI, Max Jaarte, 111X, Hollowland, Megabondmon. SAT 10.8. Herrensauna X Garden: CEM, DJ Saliva, MCMLXXXV, SPFDJ. SUN 11.8. KORGY X Garden: Narciss, KORGY: KEMIK b2b CEB b2b 2THEMAX, NOEI, Sallidoing, Lara Silva, Saffet, Aino Collin.

Read more about all the artists here.