STEGI.RADIO Takeover 2025

From vibrant DJ sets and live performances to discussions, STEGI.RADIO Takeover 2025 becomes the ultimate meeting point for those looking for something beyond the usual sound. Are you ready to let go?

Two days, four stages, more than 30 artists from all over the world. STEGI.RADIO Takeover returns with an even more resonant lineup to unfurl its diverse character and transform the Onassis Stegi into a kaleidoscopic musical playground. With guests from the international and domestic scene and unpredictable and original selections, the online radio station of Onassis Stegi celebrates for another year the many different aspects of contemporary sound through a multi-dimensional curation that runs the gamut of the global electronic scene.

The Main Stage is once again ‘dressed’ as a club that fills with the electro outbursts of Kittin, who comes to Athens after her impressive performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, the impetuous rhythms of the ‘Pope’ of minimal techno Robert Hood, the politicized, insurgent jazz of Irreversible Entanglements, who released their latest album on Impulse, the playful mix of disco, acid, and techno of David Vunk, the unpredictable genre marriage of Crystallmess, the cheeky combination of trap and rebetiko of Black Morris, aka Negros tou Moria, and the uproarious garage psychedelia of Acid Baby Jesus.

Onassis Stegi -1 radiates the intensity and hedonism of an underground club in a metropolitan center where different communities and subcultures meet and mix, with the frenetic beats of De Schuurman, the Mediterranean new club blend of STILL and Deena Abdelwahed, and the Afroglobal energy of Catu Diosis, artist of the Nyege Nyege Tapes label.

The Upper Stage is dedicated to Greek artists, with live performances by the now-acclaimed The Boy, the introverted, idiosyncratic Larry Gus, the up-and-coming cabaret pop singer-songwriter Kristof, and Venus Volcanism, who mixes polyphonic and traditional singing with experimental electronic music. The Upper Stage also includes a performance by Grand River, an Italian cinematic ambient artist.

Meanwhile at Onassis Stegi +3, join us for two hours-long sets by Dimitri Papaioannou, with eclectic ambient selections, and A@H2O, with dub, calypso, and reggae sounds, as well as a listening session by Invernomuto and a conversation between Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou and Stoffel Debuysere, as part of the “Ways of Listening” program.

Friday, January 24

–1

20:00 – 21:00 | j biloba
21:00 – 22:30 | Catu Diosis
22:30 – 00:00 | STILL
00:00 – 01:30 | DJ Problems
01:30 | Deena Abdelwahed

Main Stage

20:30 – 21:30 | VASSIŁINA
21:30 – 22:30 | Acid Baby Jesus
22:30 – 23:30 | Curses
23:30 – 01:15 | Kittin
01:15 | David Vunk

Upper Stage

21:00 – 22:00 | Malibu
22:00 – 23:00 | Kristof
23:00 | The Boy

+3

21:00 – 22:00 | Stoffel Debuysere (discussion/listening session)
22:00 | A@H20

Saturday, January 25

–1

20:00 – 21:15 | A.Square
21:15 – 22:30 | Andreas Palmer
22:30 – 00:00 | De Schuurman
00:00 – 01:30 | Runner
01:30 | RHR

Main Stage

20:30 – 21:30 | Irreversible Entanglements
21:45 – 22:45 | Holy Tongue
23:00 – 00:00 | Black Morris, aka Negros tou Moria
00:00 – 01:30 | Crystallmess
01:30 | Robert Hood

Upper Stage

21:00 – 22:00 | Invernomuto (listening session)
22:00 – 23:00 | Grand River
23:00 – 00:00 | Venus Volcanism
00:00 | Larry Gus

+3

22:00 | Dimitri Papaioannou

+1

"Technopoetics" | 2017 - 2025 | Mixed media installation

In “Technopoetics,” we encounter isolated phrases used in twenty rave anthems, displaced from their musical as well as their spatial context, i.e., the warehouses and city outskirts where these tracks were usually played in raves. Via this displacement and through the use of basic graphic and typographic elements, “Technopoetics” highlights these stark, commanding phrases as something more than artifacts of rave culture: a new form of poetry that draws as much from the street and the samples as from the ecstatic, repetitive nature of the rave.

Spatial Audio Design: Stefan Konstantinidis

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"Ménage à trois" | 2025 | Mixed media installation

Three iconic machines—the Roland TB-303, TR-808, and TR-909—are placed side by side, their waveforms displayed as they begin to play. Instead of remaining in a locked loop, they drift out of sync, challenging the precision-driven norms of contemporary culture. This shift from perfect synchronization to deliberate disarray explores time as both rigid and fluid. In sync, the rhythms embody time as structured and measurable; out of sync, they create a chaotic, unpredictable soundscape that reimagines time as flexible and non-linear. Together, they become a metaphor for the human experience of time: rhythmic yet prone to disruption.

Technical Support: Stefan Konstantinidis

Oscilloscope Development: Alex Retsis

TB-303, TR-808, TR-909: Dimitri Papaioannou

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"Teen Age Riot" | 2025 | Mixed media installation

Homage to The Clash and The Who; an object radiating the youthful rage of rock music and at the same time its negation: the onset of conservatism within rock in its later years and its consequent abandonment by young people in search of more radical scenes.

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"Our Data Is a Battlespace" | 2025 | Mixed media installation

As war and its various modalities change, so do the words we use to describe them: from battleground to battlefield, and then, with the creation of the internet and the subsequent employment of cyberwarfare, battlespace. Wars were waged for gold or oil, among other resources. Now, data has become an extremely valuable commodity, one most people give out for free to various social media and their adjacent companies and advertisers. One has to look no further than the election-influencing Cambridge Analytica scandal and the advent of surveillance capitalism in general, where personal data is collected and commodified by corporations.

For two days (January 24 & 25) and across four stages, STEGI.RADIO retakes Onassis Stegi for Takeover 2025 with a mission: to push Athens to the limelight of artistic events.

With Athens always at its center, Takeover 2025 builds bridges between Detroit, Amsterdam, Baltimore, Milan, Paris, Rotterdam, Berlin, and other landmarks on the worldwide music map. Within Onassis Stegi, it comprises a stellar transmitter that exudes vivacity and the excitability of contemporary electronic music.

Without becoming trapped in the confines of genres and trends, it modifies the spaces of Onassis Stegi in such a way that the artists can leave their particular audiovisual imprint through colors, lights, music, and intensity, enticing the audience into a grand musical narrative that draws from the trajectory of electronic music, mixing the organic with the electronic, the established and the emergent, the local and the global.

-Voltnoi & Quetempo (STEGI.RADIO artistic directors) and Akis Chontasis