News/Announcements: C2C Festival Announces 2025 Lineup and Theme

Originally created in the early 2000s as Club to Club Festival, Turin’s C2C Festival has gradually evolved from one of Europe’s premier dance festivals to an internationally celebrated event showcasing some of the most adventurous avant-garde and contemporary music.

C2C Festival’s 23rd edition will take place October 30, 2025 – November 2, 2025. The festival’s two main venues will again take center stage: The gorgeous ORG Torino for Thursday and Sunday shows, and the iconic Lingotto Fiere, where cutting-edge production will reach its zenith on Friday and Saturday nights.

This year’s theme Per aspera ad astra (Through hardship to the stars) is a tribute dedicated to the festival’s founder and director, Sergio Riccadione, who tragically died last month.

The celebration, honoring Riccadione’s vision, will continue to carry his legacy forward, charting new creative paths while embracing the avant-garde. The 23rd edition of the festival currently features 21 international artists to date, including six new ones announced in this wave of artists.

In this lineup wave announcement, festival organizers announce six new internationally recognized artists joining the festivities — including Daniel Blumberg, fresh off his Academy Award win for The Brutalist soundtrack, will be playing an exclusive Italian show for the festival’s opening night, Thursday, October 30, 2025. Florence Sinclair, Honduran-born, perreo-pop artist Isabella Lovestory, Norwegian experimental pop artist Jenny Hval, French producer Malibu and New York-based outfit YHWH Nailgun round out the festival’s latest wave of artists.

The festival’s program will also feature special performances from undisclosed artists, as of this posting. Currently marked with question marks on festival artwork and marketing materials, these sets are meant to pay tribute to Riccardione while featuring some of the most iconic artists of the contemporary music landscape. Additional initiatives to carry about Riccardione’s visionary spirit will unfold during the festival. More details on that will be available in the upcoming weeks.

Festival organizers have announced the initial daily lineup, which you can check out below. The full schedule will also be announced in the upcoming weeks. But in the meantime, the 23rd edition of C2C Festival will feature sets from the following:

Blood Orange, the project of Grammy Award-nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Devonté Hynes will be making his C2C Festival return. His C2C Festival appearance also marks his first European appearance in over six years.

Kieran Hebdan, a.k.a. Four Tet, will be making his first appearance at C2C in over a decade. Over the past 20 years, Hebdan has established himself as one of the most distinctive figures in electronic music, known for effortlessly blending spiritual jazz, indie rock, krautrock, folk and hip-hop — and for continually reinventing himself creatively.

Nicolás Jaar, whose DARKSIDE project headlined last year’s C2C Festival, will be returning alongside Ali Sethi the acclaimed Pakistani vocalist and novelist. The pair explore ghazal, a poetic form introduced to the Indian subcontinent by Sufi mystics blended with Jaar’s electronic production. Their C2C Festival appearance will mark the collaboration’s Italian debut.

Grammy Award-nominated artist and producer A.G. Cook, who played an unforgettable set at last year’s edition, returns with an exclusive audiovisual performance, which will make its Italian debut.

Ecco2k is known for playing a groundbreaking role in experimental pop. known for being a member of the cult collective Drain Gang, which he co-founded with Bladee, Thaiboy Digital and Whitearmor, Ecco2k has made a name for himself as a musician, vocalist and as a fashion designer and video artist, creating a distinctive aesthetic that has deeply influenced rap and hyperpop.

The lineup features two of the Italian scene’s hottest and most acclaimed artists: ISONONOUNCANE, who’s celebrating the 10th anniversary of his seminal 2014 album DIE and Daniela Pes, who recently won the Targa Tengo for Spira, an album produced in collaboration with ISONONOUNCANE. Both artists are known for their ability to blend electronic experimentation with singer/songwriter traditions. And for the first time ever, the two Italian artists will be performing together in an exclusive, live debut in Turin.

Saya Gray, a Japanese-Canadian artist, who recently released her sophomore album, Saya, an effort that sees her crating genre-blurring compositions with nonlinear structures and shape-shifting arrangements will be making her Italian debut.

Nourished By Time, the project founded and led by Marcus Brown has received attention for bending New Wave, R&B, and dance music with a deeply personal touch while thematically exploring work, existentialism, love and consumerism, will also be making his Italian debut.

John Maus, a renowned master of experimental art pop, whose work sees him weaving cinematic synth wave soundscapes with surreal humor will be playing the festival.

Rising New York-based outfit Model/Actriz, will be playing a set likely featuring material from the their forthcoming album Pirouette, which is slated for a May 2, 2025 release. They’ve received attention nationally and internationally for channeling raw, theatrical energy into a pulsing mix of noise, dance grooves and post-punk.

Mabe Fratti returns to C2C Festival with her latest project Titanic. Following the success of Se Ve Desde Aquí, Fratti embarks on a new artistic chapter, which see started back in 2023’s Vidrio, With Venezuelan multi-instrumentalist Hector Tosta, a.k.a. I. la Catolica, the project sees its collaborators moving fluidly between jazz and chamber pop.

Felix Manuel, best known as Djrum, is known for blending intricate sound design, years of meticulous DJ practice, ethnomusicology studies and technical practice along with Bavarian producer Skee Mask, best known for reimagining 90s techno and electronic music will also be playing the festival.

C2C Festival will be launching the inaugural NYC edition of the festival, C2C Festival NYC on May 9, 2025 at Knockdown Center, fittingly taking place during Frieze New York Art Week. C2C Festival NYC will feature a headlining set from acclaimed Oneohtrix Point Never and sets from Nala Sinephro, Two Shell, Evilgiane, JLIN, John Glacier, KODE9, Nick León, Dave P, Devon Turnbull/OJAS and more.

A month after that event, the Turin festival will release an expanded edition. So be on the lookout.

THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER

Daniel Blumberg [UK] – EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW

Jenny Hval [NO]

YHWH Nailgun [US] – EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW & DEBUT

TO BE CONTINUED

FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 

LINGOTTO 

Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar [PK/US + CL/US] – EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW & DEBUT

Blood Orange [UK] –  EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW

Djrum [UK]

IOSONOUNCANE & Daniela Pes [IT] – EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW & DEBUT 

Isabella Lovestory [HN/CA]

Saya Gray [CA/JP] – EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW & DEBUT

Skee Mask [DE]

Titanic (I. la Catolica & Mabe Fratti) [VE + GT]

SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER
LINGOTTO 

A. G. Cook [UK] –  EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW

Ecco2k [SE] –  EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW

Florence Sinclair [UK]

Four Tet [UK] –  EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW

John Maus [US]

Malibu [FR]

Model/Actriz [US] –  EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW

Nourished By Time [US] – EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN SHOW & DEBUT

TO BE CONTINUED  

SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER 

OGR TORINO 

TO BE ANNOUNCED

A limited number of early bird tickets for Thursday October 30, 2025, Friday, October 31 and November 1, 2025, as well as both the Passport and Golden Pass options will be available on DICE.FM on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at Noon.

The Passport ticket option grants entry to all C2C Festival events including Sunday November 2, 2025’s programming, which will be announced.

The Golden Pass ticket option includes access to events at Lingotto on Friday, October 31, 2025 and Saturday, November 1, 2025

For more information, head to: www.clubtoclub.it