C2C FESTIVAL 2025 ANNOUNCES TEN NEW ACTS FOR ITS 23RD EDITION IN TURIN

After its landmark North American debut at New York’s Knockdown Center earlier this year, C2C Festival returns home to Turin for its 23rd edition, running 30 October to 2 November 2025. Coinciding with the city’s Contemporary Art Week, this year’s edition is themed “Per Aspera Ad Astra” — a tribute to late festival founder Sergio Ricciardone — and promises four days of radical programming that once again positions C2C as one of the world’s most forward-facing music festivals.

Today, the festival expands its already bold lineup with the announcement of ten new international artists, including UK electronic innovator Floating Points, techno provocateur Blawan, and experimental rap icon billy woods, whose latest release Golliwog continues to push the boundaries of language, sound, and social critique. Norwegian duo Smerz return to the festival with their minimalist, art-pop vision, while Irish artist Maria Somerville makes her Italian debut, reshaping the contours of dream pop and shoegaze. Also joining are Berlin’s genre-defying producer Barker, Dominican ambient deconstructionist Kelman Duran, ethereal LA-based songwriter Annahstasia, and Mechatok, the German producer known for his collaborations with Bladee and Ecco2k. Rounding out the new wave is Los Thuthanaka, the extraordinary duo of Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, whose debut album has already been hailed as one of the decade’s most radical statements.

C2C’s venues remain as iconic as ever. The festival’s bookends on Thursday 30 October and Sunday 2 November will once again be staged at the grand OGR Torino, while the pulse of the weekend — Friday and Saturday night — will take over the cavernous Lingotto Fiere, with its legendary Stone Island Stage set to host some of the most forward-thinking club music on the planet. In total, over 40,000 international attendees are expected across the four days.

The wider programme features a dizzying range of exclusives and debuts. Blood Orange returns for his first European performance in six years; Four Tet makes a long-awaited comeback to the festival after more than a decade away; and Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar bring their genre-blurring collaboration to Italy for the very first time. Also making their C2C debuts are experimental luminaries like John Maus, Saya Gray, Nourished By Time, and A. G. Cook, who brings an exclusive new audiovisual show fresh off his BRIT Award win and three Grammy nominations. Elsewhere, cult favourite Ecco2k, Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic, and XL Recordings’ rising star Florence Sinclair further underline C2C’s reputation as a radar for what’s next.

Italy’s own cutting-edge talent is represented by the highly anticipated joint performance of IOSONOUNCANE and Daniela Pes, sharing a stage for the first time ever, and a full-throttle set from no-wave noise outfit YHWH Nailgun, who make their Italian debut on the opening night.

With its blend of high-concept performance, cutting-edge electronic production, and an uncompromising artistic vision, C2C Festival 2025 is poised to be a landmark edition — a genre-agnostic space where dancefloor euphoria collides with deep listening, and where underground sounds meet high-art ambition.

Tickets are now on final release via DICE.FM. Full Passport access and Golden Pass options are available, with newly announced Sunday programming at OGR Torino now included.

More info at www.clubtoclub.it

“Part concert series, part art bonanza, and, in largest part, a premium warehouse rave… the ne-plus-ultra of avant-garde eclecticism.” – Pitchfork