Our favorite electronic festival in the States continues to deliver with a dizzying lineup of the world’s best live acts and DJ’s… Don’t miss it!

For the past few years in a row, we’ve made our way out to Philadelphia for a transcendental musical pilgrimage… Located at the historic Revolutionary War site Fort Mifflin, Making Time ∞ is once again set to expand our perceptions of what is possible in contemporary musical expressions both on the dance floor and within live music contexts. Genius curator / Mad Professor Dave Pianka has been creating moments like these for the past 20+ years with his long-running event series that has pioneered a certain fearless approach to blending artists across genres from the early blog-house era band LCD Soundsystem to indie electronica icon Four Tet to hometown torchbearers Theo Parrish and Glasgow duo Optimo to contemporary Latin music innovators DJ Python and Nick León to LA-based folk hero Jessica Pratt. This year, Dave continues to up the ante with a Stroom showcase, Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons, rising experimental pop singer James K, hypnotic techno legend Donato Dozzy, and much more…

This quote from slow-tempo maestro Vladimir Ivkovic just about sums up the magic of this festival:

“Indeed it felt to me like there is in the end no fiction that can beat the reality. Dave P. with his vision, determination, dedication, hard work (…) to make barely possible possible. I thought about Fitzcarraldo. That haunted place with its history, 56000 prisoners dead only during the American Revolutionary War. I imagine Fort Mifflin being a place that doesn’t want to be disturbed for less than life changing reasons. Incoming tropical storm that was felt on Friday when I played The Lot Radio first, then 3 hours with Lena Willikens as Willikens & Ivkovic. Fragile power supply, wind, rain and mud on Friday night that lasted until Sunday. Logistic, preparation that must have taken such a long time, bureaucracy… Everyone would give up long time before the storm. Not Dave P and his team. He did it for all of us and everyone who follows. Epic stuff. In the end he brought opera to the city. Eternal respect.”

Revisit our coverage of 2023’s Transcendent Dance Experience in the Rain.

Below, a selection of just a few of our favorite artists ( THERE ARE SO MANY ) performing this year at Making Time ∞. We highly recommend picking up tickets to this one-of-a-kind “TRANSCENDENTAL futuristic sounds experience™.” See you in Philadelphia!

Tickets for Making Time (September 19-21) are available now: https://makingtimeisrad.com/

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Joanne Robertson (Glasgow)

If you’re a follower of Dean Blunt, you may have heard Joanne Robertson’s quietly affecting vocals on The Redeemer, Zushi, or 2017’s collaborative effort Wahalla. The Glasgow-based singer / painter’s debut solo effort Painting Stupid Girls landed on Blunt’s own World Music imprint in 2020 and was followed by 2023’s Blue Car. Armed with just her voice, guitar, and some reverb, Robertson takes on fragile folk, ethereal blues, and dream pop with a delivery that’s somewhere between bedroom songwriter and seasoned blues vet. Recommended for fans of Jessica Pratt, HTRK, Arthur Russell, etc.

Ghost Dubs (Germany)

A breakthrough project for German producer Michael Fiedler aka Jah Schulz, Ghost Dubs delivered one of our favorite albums of 2025 on The Bug’s Pressure imprint. Damaged is a collection of earth-shattering dubwise basement techno crafted through an immensely fresh take on mixing board wizardry. We imagine this set will likely happen in one of the underground war bunker stages at Fort Mifflin – a perfect setting for Ghost Dub’s haunted dub grooves!

Merope (Lithuania)

Merope’s roots lie deep in the soil of Lithuania’s folk songs, connecting them with ideas from across the cultural map. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė’s kanklės and singing are the foundation of their celestial folk reinterpretations, joined by ornate, experimental guitar and electronic from Belgian multi-instrumentalist Bert Cools, creating an intimate soundscape and guiding the duo towards the unknown.

Suzanne Kraft – “10 Years of Talk from Home” (Los Angeles)

Suzanne Kraft performs his beloved Talk from Home album live for the first time !!! Talk from Home was recorded over a few weeks in the winter of 2014 at a small recording studio in Los Angeles helmed by dublab founder Ale Cohen (Café Ale). The songs are intimate and beautifully minimalistic in structure with most of the tracks developing slowly and organically from an initial melodic idea.

Tara Clerkin Trio (Bristol)

We’ve been following Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio ever since their stunning self-titled debut album in 2019. They have yet to miss, with each new release expanding on the trio’s eclectic inspirations that range from avant-pop to baroque classical to trip-hop and jazz. Self-described as “a communal jam sessions group,” the trio will surely bring a deeply inspired psychedelia to their live set which will feature layers of looping clarinet, percussion, synthesizers, and vocals.

Milan W. (Belgium)

Another favorite of 2024, Milan W.’s fifth album Leave Another Day is driven by undistorted guitar, echoed vocals, and a lackadaisical vibe that recalls David Roback’s work with Opal and Mazzy Star.

“Milan W. crafts music that is intimate yet expansive. Traditionally electronic-oriented, his latest work meanders through guitars, saxophones, and heartbroken crooning. Milan W. is a testament to an artist who ceaselessly ventures beyond the horizon, pushing musical boundaries with a wink, a nod, and the quiet laughter of the uncharted.”

Holy Tongue / Moin (London)

A double header of groups powered by the prolific Italian drummer Valentina Magaletti, Holy Tongue and Moin showcase two sides of Magaletti’s multi-faceted expression. Magaletti’s drumming style is hard to pin down and perhaps best characterized by a constant drive to experiment. Over the years, she has absorbed multitudes of percussive traditions from Italian progressive rock to American bebop, krautrock to dub, Indonesian gamelan to West African polyrhythms. Expect psychedelic tribal dub with her Holy Tongue project alongside producer Al Wootton (TRULE Records, FKA Deadboy), and beautiful, chaotic experimental post-punk with Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead (Raime / Blackest Ever Black).

Powder (Tokyo)

One of our favorite DJ’s in the entire world, Moko Goto aka Powder delivers long-form, deeply psychedelic sets that traverse through house, techno, disco, electronica, and much more. In recent years, she has taken a step back from her previously relentless touring schedule to focus on her label Thinner Groove and local events around Japan. Her 2021 “band” album project 5am alongside 5ive and Andry remains one of our most listened to albums of the past few years…

Kuniyuki Takahashi (Tokyo)

A live electronic music master in every sense of the word, Kuniyuki Takahashi has been releasing deep, futuristic sounds since 2001, largely on the iconic Mule Musiq. A longtime collaborator of DJ Sprinkles, Takahashi is one of the most important figures in Japan’s underground house scene, and continues to make his name known around the world as a dance music producer, but also as an ambient artist with two compilations of his early tape works released on Music from Memory. This year at Making Time, he’ll deliver both an ambient and dance set!

Windy & Carl (Michigan)

Beloved Michigan-based space rock duo Windy & Carl make a surprising, but delightful appearance on this lineup of largely younger artists. With releases dating back to the early 1990’s on labels like Kranky and Blue Flea, Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren have influenced numerous ambient and post-rock artists with their expansive, ethereal drones and textures.

Maria Somerville (Ireland)

Maria Somerville draws on folk forms alongside post-punk, traditional Irish motifs, starry eyed pop and hypnotic drones to create wholly original music that is borne of her roots in Connemara, Western Ireland. Somerville has recently found a perfect home at cult British label 4AD, who released similarly dreamy and spectral music from the likes of Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, inc., etc.

Salamanda (Seoul)

Seoul-based leftfield electronics duo Salamanda craft textural, organic electronic music featuring mallet sounds, ancient textures, and playfully organic melodies. Influenced by 20th century minimalism, Salamanda’s music is characterized by distinctive patterns and harmonies with glowing tones that feel as though they’re wrapped in blankets, gently vibrating in a round, buoyant manner.