Alberta Balsam

A vast technical understanding underpins the work of Rotterdam's Alberta Balsam. It allows her to deconstruct norms and rebuild music by her own rules, drawing on electro, IDM, heavy techno, broken beats and avant-acid sounds. She has become a firm favourite at artful events across Europe, where she joins the dots between outlier sounds while never forgetting to make people dance. Her records have come out on Dekmantel, Carista's United Identities and Tzusing. A passion for sci-fi motifs and a love of 90s textures run through her sets: icy, sparse electro, unhinged drum flurries, sleazy broken beats and freaky sound design, always with a maverick streak.