PARKOER: Free showcase festival in collaboration with KASK & Conservatorium Gent

With their first footsteps in the rearview mirror, the first music production masters in this two-day mini-festival trot forward to their artistic destinations. Free showcase festival in collaboration with KASK & Conservatorium Gent 6:30 PM – Doors 7:30 PM – Start Showcase LINE-UP Michiel Balcaen After years of overthinking and despite his West Flemish accent, Michiel Balcaen (Balthazar, Warhaus) ventures into singing his own Dutch-language songs. He brings lo-fi pop that comes straight from the heart and can occasionally be caught hitting a wrong note. Live, he is assisted by Sander Verstraete (Warhaus, Het Zesde Metaal), because making mistakes together is more fun. Kiki Abels Kiki Abels is a songwriter and producer through and through. Her songs are quirky sound worlds, in which the warm and acoustic is united with cold echoes from the digital reality. The glue is her voice, which comes straight from the gut. Kiki builds dreamy atmospheres only to then subtly tilt them, so that nothing is ever quite what it seems. Live, she forms a five-piece band with musicians: Lissa Staepels (synth, backings), Robbe Embrechts (guitar, electronics), Tuur Geldhof (bass), and Lucas Lammers (drums). Each one a creator in their own right with a strong pair of feelers. Kiki herself likes to listen to Saya Gray, Björk, Elliot Smith, AG Cook, and Radiohead. racehorsepablo hello hello mi name is racehorse pablo make is hardcore popcorn punkis also mi favorite breakfast.ad/hd eggpunk, phonecore, bouncerock, funstyle.from a place of happy and a place of sad. SOFTDRIVER SOFTDRIVER is the hyperpop alias of producer Sam Vanden Bogaert. Through his search for extremes and sounds at the Ghent Conservatory, he has ended up in a genre-clashing world of blitz, electro, and rhythms. Imagine yourself in the world of hyperpop with his music, where he doesn't mince words. Enjoy a real live experience of Drag, kickbeats, and a touch of theater. For a remix of your song in the style of SOFTDRIVER, he's your man. Beautiful songs, bursting energy, and pumping drums guaranteed. Liar/Liar A dynamic trio with diverse influences that come together in a love for the thorns on the roses and the silence that surrounds the explosion – a deliberate tangle of song and noise as a soundtrack for a complex reality. Think of Radiohead, think of Sonic Youth, but above all, don't think you have all the answers. Dark Turquoise Dark Turquoise is the musical project of Dries Duchateau, multi-instrumentalist and production student at the conservatory in Ghent. The genre goes from atmospheric dream-pop to rugged psych-rock, always in a rather quirky way. Think of artists like Tame Impala of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Something to dream away to, that then grabs you hard again. Zoutschaap And so we ascended. First cautiously, beat by beat, note by note. Until the floor, the day, the outside world belonged to a distant past. Here there was nothing left. Everything merged into one churning mass. The cadence, the symbiosis of human and sound. We danced all night and forgot. At the crossroads of Dub, Jazz, Jungle, and Klezmer, the unknown bubbles up. And in her woolly appearance, she drags us along and chews us into this four-legged story. Enchanted, barefoot, we stamped the earth, inevitably swaying to the song. There is no escaping it. ZOUTSCHAAP is going to happen. Met Trommels, reeds, basses, and knobs. Lars, Dorien, Andreas, Sten. For fans of Azmari, Kosmo Sound, Blackflower, Stavroz, and all tasty dubs by extension. Daniel Perez Daniel Perez (24) creates music that gives voice to all the faces and perspectives of melancholy and vulnerability. With a voice that crawls straight under the skin and layered productions that he handles entirely himself, he builds an intimate world in which silence says as much as sound. For fans of RY X, Thom Yorke, and Tamino, Daniel brings a unique blend of acoustic depth and electronics. Soft, honest, compelling, and sometimes with a quirky edge. Bitchi Royal Bitchi Royal. No abbreviation, no derivative — a statement. A name born from a primal scream that woke the monster. He only needs two things: dancing shoes and an audience. Fan of pop, soul, reggae, funk, and electronic. Not afraid to lay his egg. Step into a world full of imagination with Bitchi, where you are the king of your own story.