Higher Intelligence Agency (aka HIA), formed by Bobby Bird in Birmingham, will close the NightGarden stage with their hybrid live / DJ set of viscous electronic music. 

The early 90’s were the heady days of HIA's live electronic music club Oscillate in Birmingham where he was also resident DJ and technical director. Here HIA and other emerging acts developed live performance for immersive environments, bespoke sound systems & attuned audiences. 

Artists including HIA, Autechre, Biosphere & Orbital gave early live performances and Bobby describes "for me, Oscillate was about connecting with people through frequency and rhythm, like the dance hall or the dub sound system, a cultural event for an evolving community of electronic music listeners and performers." 

Early HIA tracks featured on Warp Records Artificial Intelligence 2 and Beyond Records Ambient Dub compilations. 

Zyggurat, an electronic music project by Pete Grimshaw on modular synthesizer, featuring Piera Onacko on accordion and Nathan England-Jones on drums perform their collective release, Broken Circle. 

The name ‘Zyggurat’ derives from the inverted ziggurat of Birmingham’s lost brutalist library. Completed in 1974 and demolished in 2016, the music of Broken Circle ties in with Birmingham’s history for rebuilding and remodelling its architecture and cultural heritage - a cycle of destruction and regeneration. 

The band have received acclaim for their skilful and spontaneous modular synth performances, drawing special praise for the sonic interplay between their synth work and organic flow of jazz-infused drums.

Operating on a plane between avant-garde indie, bubbling electronica and cosmic psychedelia, Voka Gentle have an addictive, amorphous sound. A three limbed beast made up of twins Ellie and Imogen Mason, and William J. Stokes, each is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer with an imperious understanding of three dimensional sound.

With the studio as their playground at one end and a live show bursting with raw, manic energy at the other, the trio craft viscerally off-kilter songs. Voka Gentle are fast making a name for themselves among some of the most respected figures in their genre: after opening for the Flaming Lips in London, Wayne Coyne enthusiastically appeared as a guest vocalist on subsequent release WRITHING!; a record described by Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman as “the kind of album I wish that I had made” and dubbed “one of the underground albums of the year” by Loud And Quiet magazine.

Manchester based, high energy electronic two piece. Fusing world music with analogue arpeggiators, aggressive bass, live breakbeats and vocals in English, Mandarin and Shanghainese. 

Inspired by human culture, science fiction and all the video games you’ve never heard of. Formed in the spring of 2024, SILVERWINGKILLER has had a fying start, taking the UK live music scene by storm after touring with London band Fat Dog and supporting bands such as The Body & Dis Fig, Violent Magic Orchestra, Minami Deutsch and Litvrgy.

Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with songwriting, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. 

The project of Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, her work has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out".

With her prolific writing and extensive touring schedule, her unique sound has won much support across the musical spectrum. Dent has notably performed live for BBC Radio 3's After Dark Festival and as part of the 2022 BBC Proms alongside Spell Songs, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Voices of the Rivers Edge Choir. She received the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and was 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at Sage Gateshead.

Life Aquatic Band’s music brings sunshine to drab days - a mix of 70s Pop, NewWave and 2000s ElectroClash - the band sit between Graceland-era Paul Simon, DEVO, and LCD Soundsystem.

Sheffield based, LAB has built a reputation for high-octane live shows straddling dance-punk and disco - expect grooves from around the world, bubbling synths, scratchy guitars and coordinated dance routines.

They have toured across the UK, both as a headliner and as a lead support for Skinny Lister. They are at their best playing festivals, and have played Glastonbury, Shambala, Live at Leeds, Wild Fire, Y Not, Green Island, and won a public vote held by BBC Introducing to play Sheffield’s Tramlines main stage. Their latest singles YOU CAN DO IT and BRUNCH MINDSET received airplay from BBC 6 Music.

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Immortal Bloom

(Lead Artist: Rachel Rea and Technology: Anzir Boodoo)