STEGI.RADIO Takeover | Day 1

Main Stage

20:00 – 21:45 | ZonetoZone
21:45 – 22:45 | Selofan
23:00 – 00:30 | Helena Hauff
00:30 – 02:00 | Lee Gamble (DJ SET)
02:00 – 03:00 | Animistic Beliefs (HYBRID DJ SET)

Upper Stage

21:00 – 22:00 | Širom
22:15 – 23:00 | Anna Vs June
23:15 – 00:15 | Veslemes
00:30 – 01:45 | FILM | “Who needs a heart” by Black Audio Film Collective
01:45 – 02:30 | FILM | “Handsworth Songs” by Black Audio Film Collective

-1 Stage

20:00 – 21:30 | Retrograde Days
21:30 – 22:00 | Right Clique
22:00 – 23:00 | Pink Siifu x Turich Benjy
23:00 – 23:45 | ΧΑΡΑ Χ ΕΧPE
00:00 – 01:30 | Pink.wav
01:30 – 03:00 | upsammy

Foyer +4

20:00 – 21:00 | Mamorinos Sebgo in conversation w/ Eirini Antonarakou
21:00 – 22:00 | Black Athena In Conversation w/ Kostas Maronitis
22:00 – 3:00 | Entropia Records

ZonetoΖone

ZonetoZone is a monthly show curated by Rou and Selene, two Athens-based music lovers and selectors sharing an interest in the intersection of culture and sound, exploring the diverse rap and trap music scenes around countries of the Mediterranean Sea and beyond.

Selofan

Selofan is a death-inspired love story, a match made in heaven and hell. Since their formation in the cradle of Europe back in 2012, the Athens-based duo has paved their private perditious way, reinventing the modern dark wave scene throughout the continent and worldwide with their prolific creativity and work ethic over the past decade. Well-known purveyors of allusive, synth-infused cold wave music and the driving force behind the Greek label Fabrika Records, Selofan have followed the siren call of the 1980s goth sounds and minimalism, carving out their spot at the forefront of the independent wave music scene.

Helena Hauff

Helena Hauff is a German DJ and record producer based in Hamburg. She is known for her “stripped-down techno and electro tracks” that are recorded using strictly analog equipment, and she draws influences from acid house, EBM, and industrial music.

Lee Gamble (DJ SET)

Lee Gamble is an artist, electronic music composer, and DJ. Over the last several years, Lee has released a string of critically acclaimed albums and EPs on seminal electronic music labels PAN and Hyperdub, creating his own UIQ imprint in 2015. His work incorporates several interlocking themes of hallucination, nostalgia and memory, noise, hyperreality and the imaginary, social realism, the sound objects of musique concrète, and the ever-mutating hardcore continuum. His DJ sets have been aptly described as “nothing short of outrageous [...] rollercoaster through genre and tempo, spanning sub-destroying bass and grime, dubstep infusions, plenty of breaks and a hefty dose of freaky techno [...], while always remaining highly danceable and exceptionally fun.”

Animistic Beliefs (HYBRID DJ SET)

Animistic Beliefs are inventing a new creole musical language. The Rotterdam-based duo forms from techno, IDM, and Global Club to create exhilarating hybrids, applying a fresh perspective that is both deeply personal and political. Animism is the idea found in indigenous belief systems that all objects, creatures, and places possess a spiritual essence. Pre-colonial thought, tradition, and music connected with Marvin’s Moluccan and Linh’s Vietnamese-Chinese heritage are key inspirations and tools through which the duo explore their experience as queer POC living in the Netherlands.

Širom

The intertwining of diverse musical approaches and tools, histories of sounds, and unbridled musical imagination and craftsmanship is the expansive guiding principle of the Širom trio. More than a dozen instruments can be found in the repertoire of Iztok Koren, Samo Kutin, and Ana Kravanja, and at least as many given musical forms can be perceived as an inspiration behind the character of this ensemble. However, in their practice as well as experience, they remain anchored in their creative process to an extent that allows them to avoid merely reflecting existing patterns. What this generates is an original, stylistically homogeneous form of expression that oscillates between a wide array of folk sounds and contemporary acoustic rock-style meditations. The end result is a grounded yet still mystical minimalism. Širom’s music is contemplative but can get harder when necessary; it is closer to being band- than chamber-like, to being street as opposed to urban in nature.

Anna Vs June

Anna Papaioannou is a Greek music producer, singer, and songwriter. i She aims to combine and balance traditional and electronic sounds n her compositions by experimenting with acoustic instruments, analog synthesizers, drum machines, and vocal processing. As a freelance sound artist, she has been involved in theater performances, short films, and community projects. Since 2015, she has released and performed music as Anna Vs June.

Her recent releases are included in compilations such as the “Elsewhere VXIII,” curated by soFa (Rocket Recordings), “Donne Che Corrono Coi Lupi” (Osare! Editions), and “Mondo Organico” (Invisible, Inc). Her album ”Ersi’” was released in 2023 from Subject to Restrictions, while “Prosper Easter,” based on folk tunes and recordings from Greece, was released in 2020 by the label Yalanci.

She has played her music live at Plasmata II, Stegi Radio (Ioannina), Sonar Festival (Barcelona), Reworks Festival (Thessaloniki), Red Bull Music Festival (Berlin), and Electric Nights (Athens). She has participated in various residencies (25AV, Nature Loves Courage, Goethe virtual sound residency) and has been selected as one of the 64 faces of the “We Are Europe” platform in 2019.

Veslemes

Yannis Veslemes is a film director and music composer, born in Athens, Greece. He makes fiction feature films (“Norway,” “The Field Guide to Evil” [segment titled “What Ever Happened to Panagas the Pagan?”]), scores films (“Cosmic Candy,” “Suntan,” “Thread”), and releases music on labels such as Optimo Music, Invisible Inc, and Byrd Out (as Veslemes or Felizol).

Retrograde Days

Retrograde Days is a DJ based in Athens.

Right Clique

Right Clique is a hip-hop group from Athens consisting of Τωm Unit, Deltah, and Taxi G.

Pink Siifu

Livingston Lemorie Matthews, known professionally as Pink Siifu, and occasionally iiye, is an American rapper and singer from Cincinnati, Ohio, and Birmingham, Alabama. He began releasing music under the name Pink Siifu in 2014, while also producing under the name iiye. Matthews released several projects between 2014 and 2018.

ΧΑΡΑ Χ EXPE

ΧΑΡΑ

Among the most celebrated voices in the Greek hip-hop scene and an undoubtedly promising artist, XARA is here to prove that everything is possible! She has made a bold impression in the rap scene in recent years thanks to her new-school and old-school rhythms and her powerful and socially oriented lyrics. She is currently preparing her first solo album.

EXPE

Expe is a multi-faceted female rap artist hailing from Thessaloniki, Greece. Possessing a unique style that effortlessly fuses rap, trap, and trip-hop together, she captivates audiences, leaving her mark on the music scene. With four albums and several singles under her name, Expe has firmly established herself as a force to be reckoned with in the hip-hop world. Her debut album, “Laguna” (2020), exemplified her raw talent and garnered a committed fan base. She continued making a splash with her sophomore release, “PSTKN” (2021), as well as her next full-length album, “Easy” (2022). Her latest offering, “SNAK” (2023), cemented her reputation as a versatile and innovative artist and proved that experimentation and evolution remain her main priorities. Over the years, Expe's commanding stage presence has enabled her to share her music on various stages, from small shows to large festivals and events. Her electrifying performances have made her a sought-after performer on the Greek music scene and beyond. As a female rap artist, Expe represents a new generation of talent that transcends the genre’s boundaries and challenges the status quo. Her unapologetic voice and authentic lyrics resonate with fans from all strands of life, making her a genuine inspiration for upcoming artists.

Pink.wav

Pink.wav is blissfully roaming sounds and vibes, yearning for collective manifestations as a Greek DJ and artist based in Athens. Her journey keeps unfolding, from playing among friends and introducing herself through novel communities in Thessaloniki to sharing stages with renowned artists for some of the most important festivals in Greece. Notably, Pink.wav has played in Reworks, CHAOS Festival events, and the legendary Nature Loves Courage festival while carving a unique presence in the Athenian scene through collaborations and standout performances like in Qreclaim and the unforgettable IDJTFAY. She engages in various collective creative projects and continues evolving her eclectic mixing even beyond the borders of Greece.

upsammy

As electricity blossoms and leaves glisten, Thessa Torsing, aka upsammy, creates interpretative space, cleverly paradoxical in its concurrent comfort and desolation. Guided by an adventurous and narrative approach, this vividness is present in her DJ sets as well. The music she plays takes cues from trippy electronics, the more experimental side of DnB, and oddball techno but tries to avoid clear genres. As a DJ, she consolidated a firm position in the contemporary leftfield music world, which includes a residency at NTS Radio and Amsterdam club Garage Noord and invitations to festivals such as Unsound and Rewire. As a multidisciplinary artist, she researches these interactions through sound, photography, and video, explorations that simultaneously influence her music production process. Since 2017, Torsing has released a string of singles and EPs on labels Nous’klaer Audio, AD93, and Die Orakel. Her gift for full-length composition is showcased through her albums on Nous’klaer Audio (“Wild Chamber,” 2019), Dekmantel (“Zoom,” 2020), and PAN (“Germ in a Population of Buildings,” 2023). Torsing lives and works in Amsterdam.

Entropia Records

Entropia Records launched in late 2017 as a record store with a distinct aesthetic and a love for musical chaos. Based in an old apartment in the center of Athens, they’ve sought to find or build bridges between contemporary urban soundscapes and traditional rural music. As a duo of selectors, they run monthly radio residencies on Movement Radio and the Palestinian Radio Alhara; they have also played gigs and festivals in Athens and Thessaloniki and on Mount Olympus. They host live sets, installations, parties, and screenings inside their record store and at various locations and venues in Athens.

• Who Needs a Heart (1991, 78΄, dir. John Akomfrah)

“Who Needs a Heart” is a parable of political becoming and subjective transformation and remains BAFC’s most controversial film. Akin to a sophisticated home-movie history, a record of life on the fringes in London between 1965 and 1975, the film explores the forgotten history of British Black Power through the fictional lives of a group of friends caught up in the metamorphoses of the movement’s central figure; the counter-cultural anti-hero, activist, and charismatic social bandit Michael Abdul Malik. Formerly known as Michael X and christened Michael De Freitas, he left England in 1970 and was tried and executed for his role in an unsolved murder in Trinidad in 1975. The film nevertheless holds him at a distance, tracing his career through contemporary TV and radio bulletins that counterpoint and parallel the lives of the group.

Dialogue is strictly a subsidiary element in Trevor Mathison’s allusive, inventive sound design; narrative emerges in snatches, as Akomfrah flashes back from 1972 to the early 60s and then forwards, recalling the properties of the times in music, fashion, and art. “Who Needs a Heart” is a largely silent film whose soundtrack of Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton, John Coltrane, and the ritual music of the Llamas and Tibetan Monks of the Four Great Orders investigates the expressionist potential of music to create the conditions for the movement of images.

• Handsworth Songs (1986, 58΄, dir. John Akomfrah)

A film essay on race and civil disorder in 1980s Britain and the inner city riots of 1985, “Handsworth Songs” takes as its point of departure the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and the urban centers of London. Running throughout the film is the idea that the riots were the outcome of a protracted suppression by British society of black presence. The film portrays civil disorder as an opening into a secret history of dissatisfaction that is connected to the national drama of industrial decline. The titular “Songs” do not refer to musicality but rather invoke the idea of documentary as a poetic montage of associations, familiar from the British documentary cinema of John Grierson and Humphrey Jennings. “Handsworth Songs” won the British Film Institute Grierson Award for Best Documentary in 1986, the country’s most prestigious distinction in documentary cinema.

Mamorinos Sebgo in conversation w/ Eirini Antonarakou

Mamorinos Sebgo and Eirini Antonarakou analyze the current status of the immigrant and refugee issues in Greece, with a focus on integration issues.

Black Athena in Conversation w/ Kostas Maronitis | Culture and Football: Honoring the shirt

Did the World Cup really take place in Qatar? Can football survive in the shape of a simulated spectacle bereft of its cultural and historical roots? Black Athena and Kostas Maronitis attempt to answer the above questions by drawing on the concepts of simulation and imagined community, Adidas and Pepsi advertisements, and fan-led campaigns for the decommodification of football.

The repeated attempts to institute the European Super League, in conjunction with Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup, made the problematic relationship between consumerism and participation in the imagined community of football explicitly apparent.

The market’s invisible hand is not limited to the allegedly objective assessment of success through monetary rewards and commercial agreements. At the same time, it increasingly defines the status of the fan and, together, their social and class position.

TV subscriptions, exclusive content on social media, purchases of season tickets, and licensed products are pulling football away from its “grassroots” beginnings and local credentials. The rejection of the traditional fan on the grounds of their limited purchasing capacities coexists harmoniously with sponsorship advertisements that sing the praise of social work committed by football clubs and the romance of amateur football.

Mamorinos Sebgo

Mamorinos Sebgo is a member of the Burkina Faso community in Greece. He is also the host of “The Conference Radio Show” on stegi.radio. The show’s themes revolve around politics, society, and art in a pleasant discussion with an open mind.

Eirini Antonarakou

Eirini Antonarakou is an educator in intercultural education and has been involved with similar refugee and immigrant issues for more than twenty years.

Black Athena

Costis Nikiforakis presents Stegi Radio's main morning show and is co-founder of Black Athena. He has served as an executive in record companies and is currently managing artists, while he has also given lectures on music and culture at the University of Greenwich in London, at SAE Athens, and at the OTE Group Telecommunications Museum.

Kostas Maronitis

Kostas Maronitis is a Professor of Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on the political theory and policies of immigration, labor, and European integration. He is the author of the books “Robots and Immigrants” (Bristol University Press, 2022) and “Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece: The Transformative Power of Immigration” (Palgrave, 2017). He frequently appears in local, national, and international media (BBC, LBC, Uncovering Politics, Yorkshire Post, Huck, Rzeczpospolita, La Razon, ITV News, New Statesman, Friedrich Ebert Foundation) and is a special contributor to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology of the United Kingdom.