SÓNAR 2025 COMPLETES ITS MUSICAL PROGRAMME, WITH OVER 50 NEW ADDITIONS TO A DIVERSE, ORIGINAL LINE UP IN BARCELONA THIS JUNE

Today’s 51 confirmations bring the total number of live shows, DJ sets and multidisciplinary performances to 117, taking place on 10 stages across Sónar by Day and Sónar by Night – including the brand new Boiler Room stage, and the return of SonarLab X Printworks London.

These new additions reflect the breadth of creativity of the global scene with live shows from Pa Salieu, Sega Bodega, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Josh Caffé and Herbert & Momoko, DJ sets from Dixon, Actress b2b Skee Mask, Dee Diggs and 90’s legend Ultra Naté, and a moving tribute to the much-missed Ryuichi Sakamoto by close collaborators and electronic music icons Alva Noto and Fennez. Elsewhere, the lineup continues to blur boundaries, with Nathy Peluso presenting her upcoming remix album Club Grasa and genre-breaking artists such as Safety Trance, WOST, Emma dj, SICARIA, DJ SOSA RD, Animistic Beliefs & Jeisson Drenth, Lua de Santana, plus many more.

The 32nd edition of Sónar, Barcelona’s Festival of Music, Innovation and Creativity celebrates the originality and diversity of the global scene with a unique lineup that crosses genres and borders. From Pa Salieu’s afrobeat and amapiano-inspired take on UK rap and drill, to Sega Bodega’s unique blend of club and pop music, via Dengue Dengue Dengue’s dive into Andean polyrhythms, or triple Latin Grammy winner Nathy Peluso presenting her Club Gasa remix album; Sónar 2025 is a place for fans of all styles and scenes.

Artists from the house and techno continuum are also well represented on the lineup, from Dixon’s dancefloor mastery, to a live set of sublime house from Josh Caffé, to a number of b2b sets and collaborations that connect eras, styles and scenes: Skee Mask b2b Actress, Alinka b2b Shaun J. Wright, and, for the first time, Brooklyn selectress Dee Diggs performing with ’90s house legend Ultra Naté.

The festival will also see the return of old friends (as well as celebrating those who are dearly missed), with a new collaboration between Matthew Herbert and multi-instrumentalist Momoko Gil as Herbert & Momoko, and what promises to be a moving tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto by Alva Noto and Fennesz with their new show Continuum.

From old friends to new ones, as Boiler Room makes its debut at the festival with a stage at Sónar by Night on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th June. Full details of the lineup will be announced very soon.

Sónar by Night also sees the return of Sónar’s collaboration with Printworks London, with the co-curated SonarLab x Printworks stage keeping the spirit of the iconic UK venue alive during its current re-development. Once again, a 6 x 10m vertical screen, horizontal lighting across the dance floor, and on-point programming come together for a 2-night celebration of the best in international clubbing.

All these new additions join the previously announced live sets from Plastikman, Arca and Polo & Pan; high-impact audiovisual shows from Eric Prydz, BICEP present CHROMA AV/DJ, Peggy Gou, Max Cooper, Cora Novoa and Daito Manabe, sets from contemporary classics such as Four Tet, Vintage Culture, Helena Hauff and Barry Can’t Swim; stylistic workouts from Skrillex b2b Blawan and Armin van Buuren b2b Indira Paganotto; and the new face of the avant garde, with shows by Rone with the (LA)HORDE collective and the Ballet National de Marseille, Yerai Cortés and his ‚Guitarra Coral‘, Maria Arnal, Tarta Relena, Samantha Hudson and many more.

Today Sónar also announces the artists who will play the coveted sunset slots on each day of Sónar by Day. Starting on Thursday 12th June with Brazilian star MOCHAKK, followed on Friday 13th with the inimitable house evangelist Honey Dijon, and culminating on Saturday 14th with the standard-bearers for the UK sound Overmono. Sónar by Day, will also host a series of specially commissioned coproductions with leading European festivals and institutions, including The Barbican London.

Sónar+D announces the content pillars that will form the backbone of Sónar’s congress on creative technologies and digital culture, whose full programme of conferences, presentations, workshops and projects will be announced in a few weeks‘ time. ‚AI + Creativity‘ showcases the most innovative tools and less conventional creative approaches to artificial intelligence, as well as exploring alternative perspectives on this technology in constant evolution. Under the theme ‚Futuring the creative industries‚, new perspectives on both the creation and curation of the creative industries of 2030 will be explored. And under ‚Worlds to come‘, new worlds of the future will be imagined, ranging from quantum computing and non-binary futurism to terraforming and interstellar travel. The full Sónar+D lineup will be announced in very soon.

This year’s Sónar Week runs from the 10th-15th June; 6 days that transform Barcelona into the global epicentre of electronic music and culture, through collaborations and co-productions with the city’s leading promoters and institutions. The week starts with the 3rd edition of +RAIN Film Festival, the Artificial Intelligence-generated film festival co-organised by Sónar+D and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, (whose call for film submissions closes on 9 March), and continues with the OFFSónar parties at Poble Espanyol (10th-15th June), which bring together the leading artists and labels in international club culture, including Solid Grooves, ‚X‘ by Adriatique, elrow, &ME and Adam Port (two of the three members of Keinemusik), FUSE and the Australian band RÜFÜS DU SOL; The official opening concert of Sónar takes place on Thursday 12 June at the Palau de la Música Catalana, with a repertoire of works by Steve Reich and the multi-award-winning composer Raquel García-Tomás. This year’s installation for the SonarMies cycle at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion will also be announced soon, as well as new collaborations with other entities in the city.

All types of tickets for Sónar 2025 are now on sale at sonar.es, with discounts for European Youth Card holders, and payment by instalments also available now.

LINE UP SÓNAR 2025 NEW ADDITIONS 06/02/2025

LINE UP BY DAY AND NIGHT

Thursday 12th June
Sónar by Day | 15:00 – 00:00

Friday 13th June

Saturday 14th June
Sónar by Day | 15:00 – 23:00

AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS: a bridge between AI and music creation

As part of Sónar+D, for the third consecutive year, the AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS programme reaffirms the festival’s commitment to European culture, supporting artistic projects, creative proposals and scientific research focused on the links between Artificial Intelligence and musical creation.

Within this framework, Ville Haimala (half of the duo Amnesia Scanner) will join the lineup to present his new solo album ‚Hyporeal‘. Also presenting a new album will be British experimental musician and audiovisual artist patten (pseudonym of Damien Roach), as well as Madrid-based artist R-010 and vocalist Venerandi, who, in their live show ‚Phenomena‘, will experiment with sound using digital neural networks and the human voice.

These newly announced artists join the highly anticipated show ‚Ama‘ by Maria Arnal, who is working on a project with more than 14,000 voices that are training an AI which will be integrated into the show,, as well as in her album of the same name (co-produced, by the way, by Alizzz, also present at the festival).

Co-productions and co-curations with 10 European Festivals through TIMES

Sónar is also part of the cooperative project TIMES (The Independent Movement for the Electronic Scenes), co-founded by the European Union. This initiative brings together 10 cutting-edge European festivals to produce original new performances that combine music and visual arts, as well as to co-curate a series of shows.

In this edition, Sónar has collaborated with Insomnia (Tromsø), Terraforma (Milan), Semibreve (Braga), Atonal (Berlin), and Unsound (Kraków) to present six co-curations and two artistic residencies.

Together with Insomnia, Sónar announces Norwegian DJ Niilas, who brings a dreamy and melancholic vision to club music. He joins the previously announced ABADIR, hailed as the new sensation in Arab-origin electronic music. Alongside Terraforma, the festival will feature Catalan violinist Asia, who continues to push the boundaries beyond classical music, and the impeccable, eclectic selector Paquita Gordon. Curated alongside Semibreve, Grand River and Abul Mogard will perform their ambient-drone collaborative album In uno spazio immenso.

Additionally, as part of the project, the first two artistic residencies have been developed. The first has resulted in two unique audiovisual shows. Saint Abdullah, Eomac & Rebecca Salvadori will present A Forbidden Distance, a multidisciplinary collaboration between three electronic musicians and a filmmaker exploring the impact of migration on identity. Meanwhile, Chris Watson & Izabela Dłużyk will present Białowieża, a poignant field recording work from the last primeval forest in Europe, Puszcza Białowiesża, on the Poland-Belarus border—a site that has become a symbol of broader geopolitical tensions. Both projects have been co-created with the festivals Berlin Atonal, Semibreve, and Unsound.

The second artistic residency of the project features Heith, James K, and Günseli Yalcinkaya, who will present The Talk, an experimental project incorporating different formats such as discussion, audiovisual projection, and, of course, live performance.

Sónar Week 2025 – Agenda

Tuesday 10th June
· +RAIN Film Festival | Campus Poblenou-UPF
· RÜFÜS DU SOL x OFFSónar | Poble Espanyol | SOLD-OUT

Wednesday 11th June
· +RAIN Film Festival | Campus Poblenou-UPF
· RÜFÜS DU SOL x OFFSónar | Poble Espanyol | SOLD-OUT

Thursday 12th June
· Sónar de Día | Fira Montjuïc
· Sónar+D | Fira Montjuïc
· Frames Percussion, Espigolé & Otero Correa pres. Reich y García-Tomás | Palau de la Música Catalana
· +RAIN Film Festival | Fira Montjuïc
· ‚X‘ by Adriatique x OFFSónar | Poble Espanyol

Sunday 15th June
· elrow x OFFSónar | Poble Espanyol

Sónar Around the World

Once again, Sónar kicks off its international adventure in the capital of Portugal. Sónar Lisboa returns to the heart of the city on April 11, 12, and 13, with Pavilhão Carlos Lopes hosting a lineup that brings the best of the world to Lisbon—and showcases the best of Lisbon to the world. The event will feature takeovers from local labels and collectives such as Enchufada, Dengo Club, and Príncipe x TraTraTrax, alongside global stars including Underworld, Nina Kraviz, Richie Hawtin with his DEX EFX X0X show, Anetha with her new AV show ‚EXHIBIT‘, Modeselektor DJ set, Marcel Dettmann with his new live show ‚My Own Shadow‘, JASSS, Max Cooper with ‚Lattice 3D/AV‘, and many more.

More information and tickets at sonarlisboa.pt.

Shortly after, on May 9 and 10, it will be Sónar Istanbul’s turn, celebrating its 9th consecutive edition at Zorlu PSM. Among the first 21 names announced, highlights include a special DJ set by The Chemical Brothers, along with Richie Hawtin DEX EFX X0X, Modeselektor DJ set, Aïsha Devi + Emmanuel Biard }§{, and BASHKKA.

More information and tickets at sonaristanbul.com.

SÓNAR 2025 COMPLETES ITS MUSICAL PROGRAMME, WITH OVER 50 NEW ADDITIONS TO A DIVERSE, ORIGINAL LINE UP IN BARCELONA THIS JUNE