MUST-SEE AT GARAGE FEST 2025

One of our favourite clubs in Amsterdam, Garage Noord, teams up once more with Nyege Nyege: the Kampala-rooted collective known for tearing up the blueprint of electronic music and rebuilding it in full colour. This year’s Garage Fest is stacked with talent, but a few names leap off the lineup for their innovation, energy, and deep connection to the future of club culture. To mark the moment,  we have recorded exclusive sets for Glamcult TV with some of the artists, coming to you right after the festival. Stay tuned and read below on who else not to miss at GarageFest.

TASH LC
Tash LC’s sets are a rush of movement and memory, weaving Soukous, Kuduro, Merengue, Soca and next-gen percussive club sounds into something that feels carefully considered and joyfully instinctive. She’s a resident on NTS, the founder of Club Yeke, and a high-key powerhouse in platforming Afro-diasporic sounds. She’s aways spotlighting voices that deserve more space: whether she’s playing afro-jazz on Worldwide FM or sending dancefloors into overdrive with Gqom, she moves with quiet authority and deep cultural fluency full of body-first, borderless music that reminds you: knowledge can move you, literally. If anyone can turn deep research into a party, it’s her.  Trust us, you’ll want to move with her.

MC YALLAH
MC Yallah raps like her life depends on it: urgent, fast, and with a fire that doesn’t flicker. Born in Kenya, raised in Uganda, she’s been cutting through East Africa’s underground hip-hop scene since the late ’90s. The multilingual rapper moves between Luganda, Kiswahili, English and Luo like flipping pages of the same book. Her flow is tightly wound, breathless and bulletproof, backed by the glitchy, industrial energy of longtime collaborator Debmaster. Together they create a sound that doesn’t so much nod to genre as tear straight through it.

DJ MARCELLE
DJ Marcelle turns every set into a sonic prank—smashing together dub, techno, industrial, African percussion, and straight-up weirdness into something that shouldn’t work, but absolutely does. If you’ve ever felt like the DJ booth was missing a touch of absurdism, chances are you’ve just never seen Marcelle in action. Part sound artist, part anarchist, she’s completely unbothered by what a DJ “should” be doing. It’s messy, brilliant, and entirely her own. No surprise, then, that Nyege Nyege Music Festival has appointed her their lifetime resident DJ.

AUTHENTICALLY PLASTIC
Nothing about Authentically Plastic is background noise. Their sets feel like a confrontation: techno laced with Ugandan rhythm, distortion, and raw politics. Their sound is a riot of justapositions: techno that flirts with vogue, Ugandan polyrhythms pushed through distortion, basslines both punishing and seductive. Through ANTI-MASS, their Kampala party series, they’ve carved out a radical space for queer, femme, and experimental artists to take up room. Dancefloor therapy, but make it revolutionary. Come for the bass, stay for the reckoning.