Musical & Visual Artists Merge for Lunchmeat – The Lunchmeat Festival 2026

Prague’s Lunchmeat Festival returns this week with a packed programme of experimental sound and visual art. The 2026 edition brings together established names and emerging artists from Europe, the Americas and beyond.

Lunchmeat is a forward-looking festival in its 17th edition that invites new media artists in digital technology, merging music producers, composers, DJs and musicians with multimedia artists from abroad and locally; this year’s surprise is Autechre, with more music than ever from Latin America.

Autechre is among the most influential electronic groups of the 21st century, and is a clear influence on the Lunchmeat aesthetic. Autechre is a duo, Rob Brown and Sean Booth, from Greater Manchester, UK, and they have been recording artists for Warp Records since 1992. Autechre stands out as a project that has evolved from the influences of 80s electro and hip-hop, to a so-called IDM or “intelligent” dance music. By the mid-90s, they shifted to a harder, experimental, or a cold rhythmic sound, a mechanized pulse. Since the new millennium, songs have become regenerative, abstract, and harsher to the ear.

For contrast, later-night pleasures, the multilingual Spanish-speaking Americas bring their range of regional Latin club music with Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean and more with Buena Tarde from Mexico, Bitter Babe from Bogota and Paris, Lechuga Zafiro of Uruguay, and Safety Trance of Venezuela.

Buena Tarde plays dubstep and trip-hop with atmospheric phases of lo-fi sounds and spoken word. With experimental electronic artist ztaa doing live visuals, they present Resonant Mass. Bitter Babe plays sensual tracks, the most sultry with a Colombian-meets-Miami and cool sophistication of the Parisian scene; she will DJ b2b with Lechuga Zafiro, who is an artist going to zones of hyper Mambo spiced with Indigenous tribal beats of Brazil’s Amazon or the Indians of Mexico. Safety Trance, based in Barcelona, mixes up Reggaeton with the hardest and fastest thumping techno beats, Latino style.

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Below is a short list of just some of the up to 50 artists who are participating in this year’s festival.

A special guest is Bapari, a producer and artist-remixer from Los Angeles, who is Haitian-American with a re-born sound integrating vocals and live instrumentation for a haze of electronic, ambient and percussive trip-hop. Bapari has produced songs for fka twigs, MYSHA, and has done Shygirl edits.

Yawning Portal, a duo from South London (Jess Mai Walker and Joseph Ware), are noted for their electronica that glides across genres of dream pop, trip-hop, trance, ambient and down-tempo, as on their album “Anywhere” inspired by driving around the American Midwest with no aim in sight, just in motion across the wide open lands. Sometimes they have songs with vocals, as does the French artist Oklou.

Woesum is aligned with a curious posse of rappers in Sweden, i.e. the Drain Gang (Gravity Boys Shield Gang) with Yung Lean, Thaiboy Digital, Ecco2K, and Bladee; but Woesum’s songs are kind of pop, with that typical Swedish flair. He’ll play along with visuals by Guz Reichwald, Bladee’s brother.

Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti (from the Netherlands and London, UK, respectively) will perform their recording Seismo, released on Berlin’s PAN recording label. As a producer, upsammy is known for organic, down-tempo, IDM club sounds, while Magaletti is a rising percussionist and composer.

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From Berlin, As Nature is described as a multisensory mirage with sound artist KMRU (Nairobi/Berlin) performing a sonic ambience incorporating field recordings for slow-moving waves of drones, harmonic structures and occasionally noise. He is paired with Nick Verstand for light design.

Kevin Peter He, New York-based artist from Shanghai, performs Passage using a sculptural camera controller to navigate a virtual forest in real time with sound-mass project FITNESS from Los Angeles.

And just added: Kevin Richard Martin, aka The Bug, creates ambient soundscapes at a glacial pace, described as drug-tech, dub, or dreamy-noise. He’ll be with London-based Charlie Hope for visuals.

Contemporary abstract electronics is the term used to describe the American sound artist and composer Matt D. Gantt, weaving IDM, ethno and ambient jazz, sound effects, you name it, through a blender of digital and modular synthesis, while the DJ set by the high-profile producer umru, from Lithuania, the so-called Prince of hyper-pop might be the best dance floor night for the fest, and there’s much more.

Prague-based producers include Isama Zing with DJ GAP, and Slovak artist Miriam Kardosova presents an audiovisual piece, “I Tell Her to Speak” combining avant-garde performance and cabaret.

Lunchmeat runs five dates, Wednesday to Sunday (September 23rd – 27th) from early evening till early morning with the festival’s main program deep underground in the Trade Fair Palace, Prague National Gallery, with additional sites: Ankali and the Planetarium 360 LED Dome in Stromovka.

For full information about this year’s list of artists and collaborations, see: Lunchmeat festival 2026.


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