With the first artists for Rewire 2026 now announced, the countdown officially begins. Let's turn our attention and tune our ears to the latest albums from artists set to perform during the festival, to gain a closer understanding of the sounds that will define Rewire 2026. Dive in below:
London-based experimental jazz trio Flur was formed by harpist Miriam Adefris, percussionist Dillon Harrison, and Isaac Robertson on saxophone and synthesiser. Their debut album, Plunge (2025), released in September with Parisian label Latency, delivers a generous glimpse into their world of macro-minimal spiritual jazz, which pays homage to the artists who crystalised this sound – such as Alice Coltrane – while sounding thoroughly contemporary through its bright production and experimental, exploratory approach.
Daniel Lopatin, the artist behind Oneohtrix Point Never, remains one of experimental music’s most restlessly inventive figures. His newest album, Tranquilizer (2025) on Warp Records, showcases his ability to reshape fragments of electronic history into vivid, emotionally charged sound worlds. Ranging from delicate synth atmospheres to dense, chaotic eruptions, the record captures Lopatin’s signature blend of sensitivity and bold experimentation. For Rewire 2026, he returns to the festival with a special live performance built around Tranquilizer, joined by acclaimed visual artist Freeka Tet for a Netherlands-exclusive presentation.
Jamie Krasner is a key figure in New York's underground scene. Her third solo album, Friend (2025), released on AD93 to critical acclaim; it is a fruitful outcome to james K's serial experiments in dream pop and beyond. As a true friend often does, Krasner's Friend leads listeners into a personal and emotive space that is both welcoming and challenging.
Watch "james K - Play (Official M/V)" by "𝒿𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓈 ★ 𝒦 " on https://www.youtube.com/
An alias of producer Jamie Roberts, Blawan has been a mainstay of the club scene for the last fifteen years. On this latest full-length, SickElixir (2025), rough saw-tooth waves and grimey EBM synth lines are perforated by grizzly vocal samples spitting syllabic chants. His inventive percussive sampling and programming bring a chunky chopped-and-screwed sound to the dancefloor, which you can get to experience at Rewire 2026.
Barbara Braccini, aka Malibu, is a French composer and vocalist whose otherworldly music spans drone, neoclassical, dance, and pop. Her euphorically meditative music muses on cities, seas, and the self, pillowing these themes in pianos and woodwinds, strings and pads. Malibu’s latest album Vanities (2025) released in October with label YEAR0001, highlight her dreamlike palette that defines her work.
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Painter and musician Joanne Robertson creates reverberating worlds of rippling halcyon sounds. Her critically acclaimed latest album, Blurrr (2025), was written between painting sessions and while raising a child, which can be heard in the emotive, serene, and lullabic quality of the album. Robertson collaborated with cellist, composer, and producer Oliver Coates, who joins her for a special performance at Rewire 2026 in the blissful Lutherse Kerk to perform the album's songs.
Watch "Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates - Always Were" by "AD 93" on https://www.youtube.com/
On her latest release, Night CRIÚ (2025), Irish artist Hilary Woods returns to using her voice – parting the veil of mystery that ruminates in her compositions, placing herself into the fray of her experimental ambient slowcore production. Night CRIÚ’s sonic palette features floods of texture, brass, strings, drone, and field recordings, which converge around Woods's refined yet powerful vocals. She will perform her acclaimed new album Night CRIÚ at Lutherse Kerk as part of Rewire 2026 all while carrying her devotional songs to a venue with an intimate sense of scale fit for her vast yet close sound.
Hayden Pedigo is a fresh link in the timeworn chain of post-blues instrumental solo fingerstyle guitarists. His latest album, I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away (2025), is the third record in his "Motor Trilogy" of records with label Mexican Summer. His music wafts between joy and sorrow, with him as wordless storyteller, appearing somewhere on the continuum near the sad clowns and the joyful funeral directors. At Rewire 2026, Hayden Pedigo will perform twice: both solo, and with a string quartet.
Jim O’Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi’s, Pareidolia (2025), is their fifth release as a duo; this gorgeous album of deconstructed orchestral sounds, glitchy electronics, and warm fuzz serves as a montage of improvisations and performances captured live. Pareidolia stands as a wonderful document of what the duo are capable of creating when their sparkling electronics, atmospheric strings, glimmering textures, and fortuitous flutes combine.
Flur, Oneohtrix Point Never, Hayden Pedigo, Malibu, James K, Blawan, Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates, Hilary Woods, and Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi will perform live at Rewire 2026. Book tickets via rewirefestival.nl/tickets