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The in­ter­na­tion­ally renowned NYC beat­maker Blockhead will team up with the French beat­maker ProleteR and the Berlin-based pro­ducer Arms and Sleepers for a UK & European tour in Autumn 2026. All 3 artists will be sup­port­ing new mu­sic re­leases as well as a col­lab­o­ra­tive sin­gle to be re­leased in con­junc­tion with the tour.

Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Backstage Club (Reitknechtstraße 6, 80639 München)
Doors: 19:00 | Show: 20:00

• Blockhead

Formerly signed to Ninja Tune, Blockhead’s most re­cent solo al­bum Mortality Is Lit! was re­leased via Future Archive Recordings in November 2024, re­ceiv­ing crit­i­cal ac­claim and cov­er­age from BBC, KEXP, and oth­ers. Recent re­leases also in­cluded a col­lab­o­ra­tive record with Aesop Rock Garbology via Rhymesayers and a rap record The Aux via Backwoodz Studioz. Regarded as one of the mod­ern mas­ters of in­stru­men­tal hip-hop, Blockhead will pre­sent an eclec­tic live set ac­com­pa­nied by vi­su­als and span­ning his pro­lific 25-year mu­sic ca­reer.

• ProleteR

French beat­maker ProleteR has es­tab­lished him­self over the past decade as a lead­ing fig­ure in the in­ter­na­tional elec­tro, nu-jazz, swing-hop and in­stru­men­tal hip-hop scenes. Blending vin­tage jazz sam­ples, boom-bap grooves and elec­tro-soul tex­tures, he has de­vel­oped a warm, in­stantly rec­og­niz­able sound that bridges nos­tal­gia and moder­nity. With more than 200 mil­lion streams world­wide and a de­voted au­di­ence across Europe, North America and Asia, his mu­sic has played a key role in shap­ing the global iden­tity of swing-in­fused hip-hop.

• Arms and Sleepers

Formed in 2006 in Boston and cur­rently based in Berlin, Arms and Sleepers is the elec­tronic trip-hop pro­ject of pro­ducer Mirza Ramic (formerly a duo with Max Lewis), who has sub­se­quently re­leased 14 full-length al­bums and 20 EPs of glitched-out grooves that take as much in­spi­ra­tion from left­field hip-hop ex­per­i­men­tal­ism as they do from the slow­burn am­bi­ence and panoramic eu­pho­ria of con­tem­po­rary post-rock. Latest stu­dio al­bum What Tomorrow Brings was re­leased via Berlin’s Pelagic Records in March 2024 (with cov­er­age in­clud­ing a front page fea­ture in The New York Times), and 2026 will mark the pro­jec­t’s 20th an­niver­sary.