Minimal Music Festival 2026

Festival café & partner programs

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Festivalcafé / Foyerdeck 1

Opening hours: Thu 16 Apr / 15.30 - 0.00 Fri 17 Apr / 17.30 - 1.30 Sat 18 Apr / 12.00 - 3.00 Sun 19 Apr / 13.30 - 0.00

Live in the Festival café / free entrance

Thu 16 April

22.00 - 0.00 / Spiritual Embassy
Spiritual Embassy are Temo Gonzalez and Tibor Pasman, two voracious diggers based in Amsterdam. With a deep penchant for vinyl and an often improvised anything-goes approach to piloting the decks, the duo has been building momentum on the Amsterdam circuit. As hosts of Interference Patterns on Echobox Radio, they investigate the connections between wildly different genres, eras and scenes. Their DJ sets likewise traverse a lot of sonic ground, disregarding genres and embracing curiosity while managing to pack a great deal of heart into their sonic explorations.

Fri 17 April / Subbacultcha & Nothing Here Now x Minimal Music Festival

22.15 - 22.45 / Gra Paulo (dj)
As a dj Gra Paulo basically speaks and talks ice cold broozy guitar lines, with flakes of shivering voices and 808s. Forming snappering and dawn-like dew. Mixed together, a typical CDJ upside down DJ.

22.45 - 23.15 / Leïla Alice
Leïla Alice is a Brussels-based transdisciplinary artist whose practice emerges from the diaspora experience and the body as a site of storytelling. They navigate performance, poetry , visuals and sound to make visible what was once hidden.

23.15 - 0.15 / Alpha Maid (live)
Alpha Maid is the project of South London guitarist, vocalist and producer Leisha Thomas. Her music unfolds through layered guitar, electronics and fragmentary vocals, where textures slowly accumulate and dissolve. Drawing on influences from dub, post-punk and experimental pop, she balances raw, lo-fi sound worlds with an instinct for song and melody. Her debut album Is this a queue (AD 93) was written over several years and across different places, reflecting on time, movement and the unknown. With the guitar as a constant centre, Alpha Maid’s live performances build layered soundscapes that gradually take shape in the moment.

0.15 - 0.45 / Mhm, Mhm
Mhm, Mhm is the project of a multidisciplinary artist working between Amsterdam and New York. Their artistic research unfolds across sound, performance and installation. It examines how time can be structured, framed or interrupted. It also looks at how the relationship between performer, audience and social context shifts in the process.

0.45 - 1.30 / Gra Paulo (dj)
As a dj Gra Paulo basically speaks and talks ice cold broozy guitar lines, with flakes of shivering voices and 808s. Forming snappering and dawn-like dew. Mixed together, a typical CDJ upside down DJ.

Nothing Here Now & Subbacultcha
Subbacultcha teamed up with Nothing Here Now and Minimal Music Festival to present a few of their favourite emerging artists at Muziekgebouw’s Festivalcafé. The line-up consists of Alpha Maid (live), Leïla Alice (live), Mhm, Mhm (live) and Gra Paulo (dj). 
Nothing Here Now - Music for Nobody is a live-curated night exploring the edges of sound.

Sat 18 April / Radio Hinter x Minimal Music Festival

17.00 - 17.25 / Victor Marbus – Threshold (live)
This improvised set using cello and live electronics explores what occurs when we struggle to engage with what we actually want.
As a sonic artist and composer, Victor Marbus is drawn to the glitches and fragile moments that others might overlook. Often, a specific experience or an everyday story serves as the starting point, with the music sonifying these moments in a nearly literal way. By placing recognizable components out of context, the original aesthetic fades while the meaning of the experience remains.

17.25 - 17.50 / Bram van Klink
Bram van Klink is a composer and sound designer. He focuses primarily on spatial composition, sound art, and sound synthesis. Much of his work draws on the principles of musique concrète, using found sound and field recordings to inspire performances, compositions, and installations. Bram’s projects start with a core concept: he works towards a clear narrative or vision, often combining artistic experimentation with technical precision. He uses Max/MSP to develop algorithmic compositions and interactive systems. During his performance at Minimal Music Festival Bram interacts with his cybernetic system, releasing or restricting the system's boundaries.

18.15 - 19.00 / Noem Waal
Noem Waal is a collective around Anna Randt and Papi Gaba that creates installations and performances in which sound emerges through a constantly evolving process. Using vintage electronics, cassette fragments and reel-to-reel tape loops, they build a layered soundscape on site. Magnets pendulating above the spinning tapes erase and transform the recorded material as it plays; what you hear dissolves to make room for new sound. A tension unfolds between control and chance, structure and improvisation. No two performances are the same, Noem Waal unfolds before your eyes and ears like a composition that writes itself.  

23.00 - 23.45 / Mangruv & The Social Lover
Mangruv and The Social Lover met one another through a shared interest in all that can be percussive and how it translates as one interacts with it. As they are working on their first album, their live performance at Minimal Music Festival is one of the earliest public glimpses into this playful, intuitive dialogue between a drummer and producer. Mangruv, born Alek Kurniawan, is an Indonesian multi-instrumentalist based in Amsterdam-Noord. A drummer, percussionist, producer, and DJ, he operates Studio Tumbuh, a studio and space dedicated to experimentation, recording, and gathering. The Social Lover, real name Ruben Verkuylen, is a Dutch producer and cultural instigator. He co-founded the music labels Plafond and Rubber and is also co-founder of wysiwyg, a platform for artists’ film.

23.45 - 0.45 / Laima Adelaide (live)
Laima Adelaide moves between deep techno and ambient, where textured noise and luminous melodies gradually converge into hypnotic sound worlds. With a background in composition in Stuttgart and sound engineering in Riga, she combines musical sensitivity with a precise approach to sound design. Working with vintage-inspired timbres, layered synthesis and subtle rhythmic motion, her live sets unfold as immersive sonic environments. As co-founder of the label Predawn Records, she is also active as a curator and organiser, supporting new voices within electronic music and shaping a space for exploratory club and listening cultures.

0.45 - 3.00 / Spekki Webu
Spekki Webu is a Dutch DJ, producer and multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between experimental electronics and the physical intensity of club music. Shaped by early encounters with gabber and tekno, he developed a sound that is driving, ritualistic and deeply immersive. In his DJ sets he weaves together rhythm, texture and atmosphere with a strong sense of narrative and tension. Alongside releases on labels such as Amniote, Blue Hour and Positive Source, he runs the labels Mirror Zone and Optic Portal and develops audiovisual projects exploring sound, space and perception.

Radio Hinter
Radio Hinter is an Amsterdam-based community radio station that broadcasts live each week in front of an audience. The station brings together local and international artists working at the edges of electronic music and sound art, creating space for experimentation, exchange and unexpected collaborations. For Minimal Music Festival they curated a program that follows their vision: to foster creativity and open up new perspectives on how music can be shared, experienced and heard.

Sun 19 April

19.00 - 20.30 & 22.00 - 23.30 / Oceanic
Since 2011, Oceanic has been part of Minimal Music Festival: first as a visitor  since 2017 as an artist, including live performances in duo with Greetje Bijma. This year he closes the festival with two free-spirited DJ sets before and after the concert by The Necks.
Within the European electronic music scene, Oceanic is known for his mechanical rhythms, minimalist melodies and layered electronics. With a curious and intuitive approach, he moves effortlessly between styles and contexts, shaping each setting through sound.

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