OCTOBER TONE PARTIES 2026

The October Tone Parties are back.

After long operating on a biennial basis, the festival is now moving to an annual schedule. Every autumn, October Tone returns to Strasbourg for two nights of concerts, celebration, and guest artists you don’t come across just anywhere.

In 2026, the OTPs will take place on October 23 and 24 at Karmen Camina. Having chosen the weekend of the switch to winter time for the past decade, we’ve turned this administrative quirk into our own personal time warp to keep the party going longer.

October Tone Parties 2026
October 23 and 24
Karmen Camina, Strasbourg

It’s all systems go. More details coming soon.

Le Prince Harry is a weird synth punk / electro punk duo from
Belgium, famous for their energy fueled performances mixing electronic
beats, catchy synthesizer riffs and punk attitude. They played hundreds
of gigs all over Europe, toured Canada and La Réunion, at ease on big
stages ( Fusion, Dour festival, Le Cabaret Vert, La Villette...) and in
small clubs. They shared the bill with names like The Horrorist, The
Spits, The Exploited, DAF, The Kids...

Chevreuil is a French rock duo formed in 1998 by Julien F. and Tony C., three years after they met at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes. From the outset, they approached the concept of a band as a performative installation—an autonomous sculptural device dedicated to sound, space, and movement, rather than a traditional rock ensemble.
Julien and Tony play “magnetic drums” and “magnetic guitar,” respectively—a proto-semantic concept unique to them, which compares their playing to an instinctive physical phenomenon that naturally exerts attractive or repulsive forces. Their interaction is minimal yet intense, grounded in reduction, repetition, and an architectural approach. Their music functions as an assemblage of interlocking, layered, geometric, and structured rhythmic and harmonic blocks.
Rejecting a traditional setup, Chevreuil has developed a quadraphonic system in which Tony’s guitar passes through four amplifiers surrounding Julien’s drum set. This configuration allows them to play anywhere, requiring nothing more than an electrical outlet. The result is both physical and spatial: a minimalist engine of rhythm and resonance that functions as much as an installation as it does as a band.

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Resplandor is a Netherlands-based shoegaze band, blending shoegaze with ele-ments of post-punk and post-rock. Their latest albums, Tristeza and Pleamar, were produced by Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and mastered by Simon Scott (Slowdive).

The current lineup features Jomie Bagchus, Antonio Zelada, and Minne Davids.

Resplandor performed their latest album Tristeza as the opening act for The Cure in
2023, as part of The Cure’s Shows of a Lost World Tour. They also opened for The
Cure in 2013.

After a first album in 2020 ('Funtastic') and few singles sprinkled here and there ('IRL' & 'Puzzle' in 2023, 'Superstar' in 2024), Tapeworms are back this year with a new album untitled 'Grand Voyage' !

Listening to this new opus it feels like the band wrote the album as foreshadowing for their year away in Japan, taking airports, trains and bus stations as a background setting for a 42' long run in a world that celebrates both the mundane and the fantasy of life.

Cosey Mueller is a musician and artist currently living and working
in Berlin. Her music is characterized by repetitive synth melodies, explosive beats, expressive vocals and a playful use of language. It makes you travel to another time.

Dancing & Crying is a club, just outside Carmel Vista, that is open
24/7. Here you can dance and cry on your favorite Emotional Dance
Music. Producer Palmbomen II (Kai Hugo) teams up with different
performers to release a series of EP’s made for the fictional Dancing &
Crying club. Music that makes you dance and cry.

Born out of a collaboration between Simon Sockeel (La Houle) and Wilfried Thierry (Ego Twister, Modulisme), *auto.moto* could have been a continuation of the two artists’ recent abstract works.

As a result, auto.moto draws on a wide range of influences: hyperpop autotune, shoegaze effects, post-rock soars, syncopated rhythms straddling trip-hop and IDM… Blending raw intensity, atmospheric drifts, and haunting melodies, the duo’s live shows walk a fine line between raw power and a sonic maelstrom.

Attention le tapis prend feu are passionate about writing rhyming French lyrics on Diddle sheets (which still have that delightful scent)! Martin Mahieu and Carla Descazals experiment with pop melodies infused with electronic and noisy sounds. They dug their 3/4-size electric guitar out of the attic to distort the “memories.mp3” files on their old iPod Shuffle. Today, the duo paints a picture of teenage melancholy in the corner of a large-ruled notebook, just to brighten up your rainy days as you gaze out the RER train window.

DJ, musician, and sound explorer. Myriam Stamoulis is just as active behind the turntables as she is in the studio. A bassist with a disco-punk spirit who played alongside Patrick Vidal—produced by John Cale in the ’70s with his band Marie & Les Garçons—she now performs with the avant-garde orchestra of New York composer Rhys Chatham. She creates electrifying mixes that blend mutating sounds and electronic beats. A unifying, cosmic journey to the far reaches of the underground night.

Hassan K is the solo project of Franco-Iranian artist Keyvane Alinaghi. A sound artist and DIY tinkerer, hacker using free software. On stage, he performs a unique and extreme live experience, bordering on trance.

Bollywoodcore, oriental surf music, hindustrial techno… a blend of swing, cyber-metal, electronica, harsh noise, and rock in opposition, amplified by the sounds of Iranian spiritual knighthood.

Mara Zuli style includes dubbed-out material of the highest order, incorporating cues from acid, techno, breaks and beyond.
Her sets are deeply informed by time spent on the dancefloor and are shaped from within rather than observed from afar. They move in depth rather than extremes, neither fully dark nor overly euphoric. Around this, the atmosphere stays hazy: dim, fogged, and subtly hypnotic. Elements surface and dissolve again, allowing for subtle, unpredictable turns.

Constantly oscillating between the ridiculous and the sublime, KG never fails to surprise by crafting infectious electronic dance tracks with retro-futuristic touches. But that’s not all. KG doesn’t limit himself; he navigates between styles and blends languages, like a sound wizard.

Ines Felicienne is an Italian DJ and musician with a tendency towards distorted and oneiric sounds. Her sets fuse broken rhythms, noise, post-punk, and experimental electronics.

First known as Crocodiles Inc., then BangBangCockCock before becoming BBCC, the Strasbourg-based band has never stopped shifting its shape. From a more frontal indie rock approach to a sharper, more angular and kraut-leaning phase, then toward more conceptual forms, the band moves through constant transformation without ever losing its taste for derailment.

Musically, BBCC builds songs that feel physical, skewed and immediate all at once. Somewhere between art pop, post-kraut and sonic fiction, the band cultivates a singular universe, at once grotesque, theatrical and vibrant.