CTM 2025 is a wrap! A huge thank you to everyone who helped make CTM 2025 such a momentous 10 days of performances, exchanges, and encounters that went straight to the heart. We heard from many of you how important and relieving coming together and rebuilding connections through shared music experiences felt this year. For us it was equally nourishing and deeply meaningful to be in community with you all through sound. We're happy to share a first batch of recordings and documentation for those wishing to explore or relive certain festival moments:

➝ Listen to a selection of club sets grouped together in our CTM 2025 x SOFT CENTRE playlist and CTM 2025 at OXI playlist

➝ Listen to select talks and discussions from the CTM 2025 Discourse programme playlist

➝ Refuge Worldwide x CTM 2025 broadcasts

➝ Browse a selection of photos in our Best of CTM 2025 photo gallery

Stay tuned as video recordings will be published soon. We look forward to seeing you at next year's festival!

17.04.2025  |  Festsaal Kreuzberg
Support: Pharaoh Overlord

This concert marks a fresh chapter in SUMAC's boundary-pushing journey, as they unite their intricate, heavy soundscapes with Moor Mother's uncompromising voice and radical poetics, bringing their new collaborative album The Film live on stage, released via Thrill Jockey on April 25. Joining them are the Finnish krautrock experimentalists Pharaoh Overloard, known for colossal compositions built on toxic slump-dump sludge, hardcore, and improvisational noise.

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5.10.2025  |  Bi Nuu
Support: Insect Ark

Supporting their latest album Muuntautuja, Oranssi Pazuzu merge the hypnotic rhythms of krautrock with the chaotic intensity of black metal. Their boundary-sneering explorations owe much to the band's emphasis on sound as a multidimensional entity and experience as they weave complex textures and alien timbres into hypnotic latticeworks. They will be joined by Insect Ark, a band founded by multi-instrumentalist and composer Dana Schechter (Swans, Angels of Light), with recently-recruited legendary drummer Tim Wyskida, known for his work in Khanate and Blind Idiot God. Their fourth album Raw Blood Singing is a writhingly beautiful evolution: swirling lashes of doomgaze, experimental textures, and an absolutely meticulous approach to dynamics and emotion.

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10.08.2025  |  Bi Nuu

A night of full metal alchemy fusing ancient rituals with modern extremities with NYC-based trio Imperial Triumphant, who summon a roiling fusion of jazz, black metal, and electronic textures, with an extra-heavy emphasis on atmospheric compositions and avant-garde performance. Japanese collective Sigh merge avant-garde metal with traditional instruments like the Shakuhachi and Taishogoto, incorporating symphonic and extreme metal elements with performance-based weirdness. Together they'll deliver an evening of extremes, blending nightmare musical virtuosity and voidic theatrics.

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