Under the moniker Sote, Ata Ebtekar deftly weaves the rich sounds and textures of hardcore club sounds and acoustic and electronic instrumentation both futurist and traditional. Opening the night, the woozy rhythmic noise and sonic manipulations of Behrooz Moosavi react to memory warp and societal dissolution.

A driving force behind Tehran’s vibrant electronic music scene, Ata Ebtekar is the founder of the Zabte Sote label, a platform to promote experimental and electronic music in and across the Iranian diaspora. His latest LP Sound System Persepolis on Diagonal revisits and actualizes his unique take on synthetic hardcore to once again push the very limits of underground brain/body music.

Behrooz Moosavi’s work spreads across the multidisciplinary; aside from his skills as a musician, producer, DJ, songwriter and performer, he’s also a concept designer, video/projection mapping expert, and curator, initiating the Tehran Contemporary Sounds arts and music festival, collective and label in Berlin in 2015. Ever-evolving, his music lurks uneasily through the grimy pummel of rhythmic noise, woozy ambience and mind-warping loops. His 2022 release On Ontological Death breaths heavily an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist edge honed razor-sharp and an outlook of dissolution that blurs memory and sound at the center.
His follow-up to that album, the upcoming Zabte Sote release On Schizophrenic Ears and Amnesic Listening, is an auditory memory in becoming. Inspired by Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus and their Schizo-analysis of politics, culture and subjectivity, the album is the result and a continuation of Behrooz Moosavi’s »schizo-listening« in his auditory memory since moving to Berlin from Tehran. Made up of tape manipulations, loops, and other digital / analogue techniques, it attempts to dehistoricize and re-historicize the musical heritage that he has brought with him to Berlin.