Sound of the Belgian Underground 2026

Sound of the Belgian Underground returns to AB on 30.01.2026!

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After 10 years and 5 editions at AB and a first one in 2025 at Botanique, SOBU is now once again landing at Ancienne Belgique, continuing its new rhythm of alternating between both venues to keep each edition of the - now yearly - festival exciting and unexpected.

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For this round, Different Class and AB bring two fresh and sharp-eyed curators on board to spotlight the most emerging sounds from the Belgian underground.

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We’re in for a new round of rule-breaking live sets, DJ sets, and performances from the artists shaping tomorrow.

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SOBU has become a cult night out and a launchpad for future icons. Don’t miss your chance to see them before they blow up.

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Our artwork is made by Emma Caers.

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Sinaas

Fleur De Roeck is a multidisciplinary artist known for her vibrant, intuitive paintings and playful sense of chaos. Can something sound colourful? Sinaas proves it! The musical alter ego of Fleur is playful, poppy, and irresistibly fun. In a summery garden setting, infectious beats meet French lyrics, songs about broken hearts surfing between poetry and fruity, danceable sounds. It’s music that radiates colour; intimate, free, and unmistakably Fleur.

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Rimov Rimov

Rimov Rimov is the collaborative project of Simon Joostens and Robbe De Pestel, crafting music that defies easy categorisation. Their sound blends left‑field hip‑hop, avant‑folk, DIY synths, and inventive storytelling, with tracks that are at once intimate, surreal, and unpredictably playful. Live, they shift between delicate bedroom‑style textures and bold, complex arrangements. Rimov Rimov thrives on experimentation, turning every performance into a journey where the unexpected becomes the norm.

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Oï Les Ox

Oï Les Ox is the solo project of visual artist and composer Aude Van Wyller, crafting immersive musical worlds where surreal synth‑folk, coldwave, and IDM meet poetic French narratives. Her performances blur the line between audience and performer, exploring absurdity, utopia, and the fragile beauty of sound. She creates music that is playful, experimental, and subtly disorienting in a unique fusion of sonic and visual art.

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Maya Dhondt

Maya Dhondt is a pianist, producer, and composer blending classical training with experimental electronic music. She moves between glitch‑pop, contemporary piano, and fragmented sonic textures, resulting in an introspective sound. Previously releasing music under the alias Wendy, Maya now fully embraces her multi‑lingual, identity‑bending artistic voice, combining improvisation and bridging tradition and innovation.

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Amina808

Amina808 is a Brussels-based producer and performer creating music full of rhythm, energy, and emotion. Drawing on African roots and urban club life, her tracks carry warmth and intensity, moving between house grooves, Afro-pop beats, and futuristic electronics. Her shows transform spaces into vibrant, inclusive refuges for the crowd and music to feel inseparable. Amina808’s sound is playful, daring, and alive; a reflection of the city and communities she originates from.

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Leïla Alice & Sereidila

Leïla Alice is a Brussels‑based transdisciplinary artist whose practice emerges from the diaspora experience and the body as a site of storytelling. Under the alter ego Lilo Soleil, they navigate performance, poetry, visuals and sound to make visible what was once hidden. Their work opens ritual‑like spaces where vulnerability and defiance coexist, and where identity becomes both question and celebration.

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Morgen De Knoop

Morgen De Knoop is a collaboration between burger service, Antwerp-based Dutch-born Jan Tromp, and Alex Deforce, a Brussels-based poet-artist renowned in the local scene for his spoken word, sound experiments, and urban-themed performances. As they merge textured soundscapes with poetic texts, low-key but charged, Morgen De Knoop invites us into a space where music and poetry collide.

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Camilo Donoso

Camilo Donoso is a Ghent‑based singer‑songwriter. With Dutch‑language lyrics that feel intimate and direct, he labels his style ‘hartpop’; pop born from the heart, grounded in honesty. Influenced by artists like Luc De Vos and Silvio Rodríguez, Camilo’s music carries a timeless quality while feeling entirely fresh. Whether performing solo with his guitar or with a 3-piece band, his delivery stays sincere, direct, and quietly compelling.

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Abel Ghekiere

Abel Ghekiere is a Belgian multi‑instrumentalist and composer whose work draws equally from minimalist jazz, traditional folk and field recordings. His music explores emotional landscapes with sensitivity, combining intimacy, warmth, and moments of quiet euphoria. A trained guitarist, he also uses clarinet and banjo in his studio and live performances. His music feels intimate and spacious, a gentle journey through sound and feeling.

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Anal Pompidou

Somewhere deep inside the wild imagination of performance artist Simon Van Schuylenbergh lies a new cultural hub: Anal Pompidou. Here, underground desires collide with D.I.Y. special effects and institutional chaos, drawing the audience into intimate mischief. While many art spaces fuel gentrification, Anal Pompidou dreams of reversing it, dragging Brussels’ upscale districts gloriously downwards. This bottom-up initiative blends raw performance art with deep cabaret, serving a sharp parody of power.

‘I am so high on art, but I am so low on money, high meets low, low meets high, where am I?’

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Maraschino

Maraschino is a DJ from Hasselt known for her vibrant, club-ready sets that mix Latin, house, and eclectic electronic sounds. Her sets transcend the usual club rhythm as she navigates deep bass, dub pulses and booty beats with an intuitive sense of space and surprise, turning the dancefloor into a vivid, collective moment.

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Jhayance

Jhayance is an Afro‑queer, non‑binary performer and dancer from Brussels. Drawing on ballroom, hip‑hop, and Afro‑dance, Jhayance brings that bold, playful, and physically charged energy to DJ sets. Performing in clubs, festivals, and cultural spaces, they turn the dancefloor into a space of movement, surprise, and connection.

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Akano Toto

Akano Toto is a Brussels‑based Malagasy‑French pianist and DJ whose sets fuse tsapiky and salegy rhythms from Madagascar and South Africa with high‑speed experimental polyrhythms, breakcore bass and grimy textures. These performances are adventurous and vivid, bridging club chaos and global musical heritage.

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soft:machina

soft:machina is a Brussels‑based DJ whose sets draw from ’90s rave techno, UK bass, deep house and breakbeats. With a dynamic, hybrid approach, they carve out moments that sit between club drive and experimental motion. soft:machina doesn’t just play music, they architect atmospheres where the dancefloor is re‑imagined beyond the predictable.

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LOV b2b NMSS

LOV is a DJ and multimedia artist from Brussels. Bold rhythms, heady melodies, and uncharted sounds in constant motion, drawing from Jersey, Latin Club, Vogue, Brazilian Funk, and Break, their music is free, unapologetically queer, and full of love. Joined by NMSS for a back-to-back set to close the evening, they channel a fearless, eclectic energy that bridges underground club culture with a deep sense of community and exploration.

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After Midnight

FUJIFILM Belgium and Different Class present Shooting Stars, a platform for emerging Belgian photographers. From nearly 200 submissions, three talented artists — Haolin Huang, Léa Konstantinou, and Milo Weiler — were selected to capture the world After Midnight: the quiet, chaotic, and poetic moments when the city slows, and creativity awakens. Their work offers fresh perspectives on contemporary image-making and will be on view at Ancienne Belgique as part of Sound of the Belgian Underground.