Day 2 | Borderline Festival 2025

On Ground Level, Pinna Bounce opens the stage experimenting with forging narratives and spaces through the use of trumpets, keyboards, objects, amplifiers, and whatever else suits her fancy. The enigmatic figure of DJ Sex performs one of his extremely rare and unpredictable live performances. Lastly, Turbo Teeth initiates us to his genre-defying, wildly playful, and textural take on broken electronics.

On Basement, Joy Orbison brings his bottomless bag of UK hybrid music, pushing UK garage, bass music, and countless other styles toward the future. Bill Kouligas and Forensis present their audiovisual performance “The Drum and the Bird,” examining the relationship between lost ecologies and colonial exploitation. Dub techno legend and Basic Channel co-founder Moritz von Oswald presents his latest release “Silencio.” Madam X, fresh off her acclaimed first release, “Homecoming,” and tours all across the globe, sets the dancefloor alight with her characteristic blend of all things bass. Athens’ own Echo Canyon performs live his futuristic version of footwork, jungle, IDM, and more.

Ground Level

20:00 – 21:00 | Pinna Bounce

21:00 – 22:00 | DJ SEX

22:00 – 23:00 | Turbo Teeth

Basement

22:00 – 23:00 | Forensis x Bill Kouligas

23:00 – 24:00 | Moritz von Oswald

00:00 – 01:00 | Echo Canyon Live

01:00 – 02:30 | Joy Orbison

02:30 | Madam X

Pinna Bounce

Using trumpet, keyboards, objects, effects, amplifiers, a framework or a plan, gentleness and harshness, Pinna Bounce, an Athens-based musician, architect, and DJ, experiments with forging narratives and spaces through musical sound.

DJ Sex

DJ Sex is one of the many monikers of the enigmatic figure behind the obscure label Live Adult Entertainment and a member of Christian Love Forum.

Turbo Teeth

Turbo Teeth is Giorgos Axiotis’ solo project; has also been a member of Free Piece of Tape, Tom Cruisin’, and Balinese Beast.

Forensis x Bill Kouligas

“The Drum and the Bird” is a new multi-sensory performance made by Forensis in collaboration with Bill Kouligas. An immersive auditory experience, the work examines the relationship between lost ecologies and colonial exploitation. Growing out of research on Germany’s colonial history in Namibia, originally undertaken by Forensis and its sister agency Forensic Architecture, the work weaves together generative environmental audio, oral testimonies, and spatial-visual modeling and compels an audience to contemplate the price of colonial amnesia by highlighting voices and sounds that have been silenced or altered as a result of this history. Landscapes are repositories—carrying within them all life’s narratives. Rocks, sediments, flora, and fauna have all witnessed transformations beyond human perception. How has witnessing been encoded within them? What stories do they wish to tell? The audiovisual project, “The Drum and the Bird,” is thus a form of memory work. Each actor/character—sand, water, wind, tree, shark, human–within the Namibian landscape responds to time uniquely. Dub theory provides a framework through which these testimonies may be understood at the threshold of loss.

Moritz von Oswald

Moritz von Oswald (b. 1962) is a German record producer and percussionist from Hamburg, based in Berlin. He is a co-founder of the production duo and record label Basic Channel. Moritz has collaborated with Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, and Nils Petter Molvær. He also leads the Moritz von Oswald Trio, which has featured musicians such as Vladislav Delay, Tony Allen, and Laurel Halo.

Echo Canyon

Echo Canyon is the project of Dimitris Patsaros, a producer and sound artist from Athens, Greece. He materializes abstract dance structures while casting polyrhythmic spells through field recordings and noise soundscapes upon a dissolving and uncertain dancefloor.

Besides Echo Canyon, he is a member of various musical projects such as Kooba Tercu, Misuse, and M.G.C. He has worked as a composer and sound designer in theater, musical, dance performances, and sound installations.

He is also a resident producer at STEGI.RADIO, where he hosts his monthly show “Porous Core.”

Joy Orbison

First coming to prominence in 2009, the London musician, DJ, and producer, Joy Orbison, is undoubtedly one of the most respected and influential electronic artists of his generation. Whether through his own game-changing releases such as “Ellipsis,” “GR Etiquette,” “Hyph Mngo,” “Big Room Tech House DJ Tool-TIP!” or “red velve7,” collaborations with the likes of Mansur Brown, Overmono, cult UK skate label Palace, and cutting edge Japanese clothing label Cav Empt, a run of genre-defining releases on his Hinge Finger label, a BBC Radio 1 residency, Grand Theft Auto radio station, or live appearances that span the most credible underground nights to festival headline slots around the world, the name Joy Orbison has been a constant byword for understated, uncompromising quality.

Madam X

Madam X has spent the last decade reshaping the UK underground as a genre-defying DJ and visionary behind her KAIZEN imprint. Driven by a fierce desire to innovate and a passion for the off-kilter, she earned her place as one of the most respected figures in contemporary club music.

Her 2024 debut EP, “Homecoming,” is a powerful statement of that vision. An expertly crafted release that celebrates her musical roots in rave culture and the 10-year anniversary of KAIZEN, “Homecoming” pays tribute to the sounds that ignited her passion for the underground while maintaining her commitment to pushing boundaries and rejecting trends.

Rooted in the pressure of dubstep and the propulsion of techno, her bass-driven sets are a masterclass in storytelling, propelled by purposeful intent, sub-heavy drums, and raw energy. Designed for small basements with big sound systems.