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Zonmai is a French artist who has been based in Brussels for several years. Active on SoundCloud since 2020, she has been shaping a hybrid and forward-thinking musical universe, blending autotune with influences from French and UK rap, contemporary pop and French chanson. With her distinctive flow and unique melodies, she embodies a new generation of artists where experimentation and intimacy naturally come together.

Bobbi Watson is a Brussels-based DJ, producer, and live performer with a multidisciplinary background in sound engineering, lighting, and stage direction. Her practice moves between organic techno, cinematic ambient, and broken rhythms, shaped through both DJ and live contexts, with releases on YUKU and work spanning solo performance, the Soum-Soum duo, and the improvised live project Pölen Biotope. Opening the Viaduct stage, her early Friday afternoon set establishes a narrative-driven flow, setting the tone through textured rhythms and carefully paced atmosphere.

Led by the two drummer leaders, this band boasts a lineup of seven musicians, all hailing from the vast, ever-evolving universe of jazz!

Influenced by the pulsating heartbeats of dance music genres such as electro, house, and funk, HYPERCONTENT! delivers a fresh, organic, and rhythmically groundbreaking experience by raising the groove bar to unprecedented heights!

Lindy Versyck (vocals), Melvin Slabbinck (guitar) and Klaas Leyssen (bass) make up the musical trio TJE. What started as a playful diminutive evolved into the band's name, reflecting their distinctive approach: with a minimal instrumental setup, they aim for maximum impact, pushing their instruments to the edge in search of dissonance and musical friction. Following their third-place finish at the 2024 Rock Rally, HUMO praised the band for "filling the stage with atmosphere, musical craftsmanship, and three songs that built an arc of tension worthy of a full-length set."

Their debut EP, IDOLS, released in autumn 2023, blends idiosyncratic indietronica with melancholic art pop and experimental post-rock. Imagine Portishead colliding with Fever Ray, ML Buch and Astrid Sonne, while Versyck's voice — described by De Standaard as "a Belgian Björk, capable of drifting between childlike innocence and quiet menace" — ties it all together.

TJE have also earned a strong live reputation, performing at festivals such as Little Waves, Boomtown, and Left of the Dial (Rotterdam), as well as opening for artists at renowned venues including Ancienne Belgique (AB), OLT Rivierenhof, and Trix.

Judy Vendredi is the new name of the solo project by Brussels-based artist formerly known as Dorothy Gale. After emerging on the Belgian scene in 2023 by winning the Court-Circuit competition, she went on to perform at renowned festivals and venues such as Dour Festival, Les Nuits Botanique, AB, Esperanzah, La Semo, and La Maroquinerie in Paris. Her debut EP, T0t0, explored dark and dreamlike sonic landscapes. The EP tour came to an end in summer 2025.

With her first album under the identity of Judy, Even if the curtain falls, the artist opens the curtains on her inner world. Rooted in alternative pop, the record moves between different influences and emotional landscapes, created in collaboration with producer Clyde Arcalis.

Judy transforms the scars of the past into a Saturday afternoon spectacle: honest, fragile, and beautifully imperfect.

Breaks, brutalist, rave and punk is the best way to describe the three headed electronic group. Longtime friends Wig, Nasta, and Yaga have each spent years building careers inside a system that, eventually, stopped making sense to them. Club and bass music became their artistic home and offcircuit was born. The sound moves fast, hits hard, and refuses to resolve neatly. Not confined by genre but governed by its own internal logic: raw, physical, and built entirely for the moment it occupies. Live, crowds don't just watch, they get consumed. 

offcircuit exists outside the circuit.