Skrillex Launches New Platform CONTRA With 70+ Artist Kraftwerk Takeover

Skrillex is launching CONTRA, a new evolving platform built to spark collisions between artists, scenes, and audiences across contemporary music culture.

Its first move lands at Kraftwerk on May 30 and 31, taking over the vast former power plant alongside Tresor, Globus, and OHM in collaboration with Berlin Atonal. More than 70 artists will perform across the weekend, with the program moving through club music, experimental sound, live performance, and the stranger zones where those worlds start melting into each other.

The lineup is stacked with sharp turns. Skrillex appears alongside Bladee, Ecco2K, Blawan, Juliana Huxtable, Crystallmess, BNYX, Malibu, Nick León, Tohji & Mechatok, Varg²™, KAVARI, ISOxo, Knock2, Isabella Lovestory, Nai Barghouti, Flowdan, Slikback, Batu, JASSS, Toma Kami, Bill Kouligas, Slim Soledad, and many more.

Paris studio Matière Noire will lead the environmental design, reshaping Kraftwerk’s industrial scale into more intimate, light-warped atmospheres. The Kraftwerk takeover marks CONTRA’s opening statement, with Skrillex using the platform to push emerging sounds and ideas into bigger cultural rooms.

Check out the full lineup below.

To secure tickets and check out the bios of all artists performing, visit: con-tra.com