Perera Elsewhere
Perera Elsewhere, also known as Mother Perera, is an experimental singer/songwriter, DJ, MC, producer, and style icon. During her youth in London, she was influenced by the Notting Hill Carnival and Jamaican music, citing Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Horace Andy, and Mad Professor among others as key influences. After living in Malaysia and Singapore, she moved to Berlin in 2000 and founded the band Jahcoozi with friends. Her party series Grimetime and Boombox, which she organized with protagonists of the Berlin club scene, also attracted much attention, while a number of intensive musical collaborations took her to Kenya and Southeast Asia together with Modeselektor and Gebrüder Teichmann. 

A performer of different styles and genres, Perera Elsewhere’s approach always involves exploring the possibilities of new technologies and constantly transforming herself. She writes music for films, art installations, and dance projects and has performed at Berghain, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In addition to the sonic dimension, visuals are also important within her practice, as demonstrated by her spectacular outfits and the sophisticated visuals that typically feature at her shows—unless they take place open air in the sunshine, as on this occasion at HKW.

Kumbia Boruka
The band Kumbia Boruka has its roots in Monterrey, the Mexican capital of cumbia music, where bandleader and accordionist Hernán Cortés grew up in the 1980s. Cortés was taught accordion by cumbia legend Celso Piña, and played percussion in his band, touring internationally for many years. Kumbia Boruka enlivens the classic cumbia sound of the 1960s with influences from reggae, dub, Peruvian chicha, rock and psychedelic guitars, a heavy rhythm section, and powerful horn arrangements—creating what they they call Nueva Kumbia.

Selektor Bony & Calamidades Lola
Selektor Bony grew up in Mexico City, surrounded by the noise of the megalopolis and its nearby airport, but also by the inspiring rhythms of Caribbean and Latin American music styles. After a stopover in Spain, he has lived in Berlin since 2014. Here he founded the Cumbia Fest Berlin, made a name for himself as one of the best local cumbia DJs around, and also became famous for his mixing of rhythms from different times and different parts of the world. With his partner Calamidades Lola, Selektor Bony creates an elegant arc from Latin and tropical beats to cumbia, funk, boogaloo, cha-cha-cha, reggae, and dub. Calamidades Lola is a record hunter, DJ/selector and radio host born and raised in Barranquilla, a city on the Caribbean coast of Columbia. She grew up surrounded by massive and colourful picó sound systems that made the whole barrio vibrate with African and Caribbean rhythms. Calamidades Lola is a resident at Refuge Worldwide, hosting her own radio show where she shares her most recent finds on wax and invites DJs, musicians, and researchers of African diaspora sounds to join.