Electrónica en Abril 2025: Expanding the Boundaries of Electronic Music
Electrónica en Abril, La Casa Encendida’s longest-running and most iconic music festival, returns for its 21st edition this spring with a renewed curatorial vision and a bold, forward-looking programme. Taking place from April 3 to 6, 2025, the festival invites audiences to discover some of the most original voices in contemporary electronic music, sound art, and club culture today.
This year, the festival also connects with the TMLAB – Transnational Music Lab European project, which supports new forms of collaboration and artistic mobility across the continent. Several artists and curatorial elements presented during the festival are part of this wider transnational dialogue, contributing to a broader vision of sound as a shared, critical, and inclusive space. Highlights from this year’s programme include:
- Colin Self, presenting GASP!, a performance with a local amateur choir that blurs the lines between concert, ceremony, and community gesture
- Abdullah Miniawy & Maurice Louca, whose live set reimagines Sufi musical heritage through radical electronics
- A hands-on workshop by producer and DJ Merca Bae, exploring club music’s links to Latin American and Caribbean rhythms
- A round-table on Madrid’s electronic music landscape, featuring voices from collectives, curators, and promoters shaping the city’s current scene
Curated by Elisa Luengo—music programmer at Dekmantel and one of the most insightful voices in the European music scene—this new cycle opens up the genre to its edges, weaving connections with traditional and popular forms, community rituals, and alternative listening practices. The 2025 edition features a compelling mix of concerts, listening sessions, music production workshops, and public talks, creating a space where electronic sound becomes a tool for experimentation, cultural reflection, and collective experience.
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