After two editions in June, the showcase festival MENT Ljubljana returns with a new date in early Spring!
MENT Ljubljana reveals 2023 lineup!
The Slovenian festival of music discoveries MENT Ljubljana has confirmed this year’s lineup in full. 77 artists are performing in Ljubljana between 29 and 31 March.
The 9th edition of the festival of musical discoveries will take place at more than 15 concert and conference venues around Ljubljana. Focusing on new, stylistically diverse acts, MENT Ljubljana showcases up-and-coming and established artists from all over Europe. The MENT conference is also an indispensable part of the festival, attracting hundreds of professionals from all over the world who visit Ljubljana to enjoy the wide-ranging music programme, make new acquaintances, meet professionals from the Balkan region, strengthen their networks and get the latest updates on the trends in the music industry.
“MENT Festival has gained a reputation of one of Europe’s most significant showcases – unconcerned by hype and far more likely to get it right by showcasing the weirdest, most thrilling acts.”
Fergal Kinney, LOUD AND QUIET MAGAZINE (UK)
This year, MENT presents The Baltic Focus, a joint initiative dedicated to the vibrant scenes of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which will bring together a wide range of performers, professionals, presentations and conference themes related to the Baltic states. The Baltic Focus is co-produced by the export offices of Music Estonia, Music Latvia and the Lithuanian Music Business Association with the support of the Baltic Cultural Fund.
This year, MENT presents The Baltic Focus, a joint initiative dedicated to the vibrant scenes of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which will bring together a wide range of performers, professionals, presentations and conference themes related to the Baltic states. The Baltic Focus is co-produced by the export offices Music Estonia, Music Latvia and the Lithuanian Music Business Association with the support of the Baltic Cultural Fund.
MENT is also joining forces with Ljubljana-based electronic music and sound art festival SONICA and SHAPE+ platform with an exclusively curated SONICA & SHAPE+ Stage, presenting adventurous electronic music from Eastern Europe. SONICA’s founder and artistic director Martin Bricelj Baraga and head of SHAPE+ Michael Brenner will participate at this year’s conference, while MENT’s Specials will include two workshops by the SHAPE+ alumni Wojciech Rusin and Katarina Gryvul.
3RD BATCH OF ARTISTS:
Slovenian singer-songwriter duo 3:rma, Estonian avant-pop/disco-not-disco alliance Ajukaja & Mart Avi, Slovenian techno sorcerer Alleged Witches, Slovenian pop/trip hop artist Astrid-, Austrian indie, r&b and dream pop cocktail Aze, Croatian rising pop star Bad Daughter, Serbian ambassador of “capitalist blues” Bojana Vunturišević, Italian electronic music adventurer Capibara, North Macedonian star in the making Dina Jashari & Drugari, representative of the Czech electronic music underground DJ ORY, Czech bass music ambassador DLKTek, representative of the Slovenian club underground DVS, Serbian alternative r&b talent Dzipsii, Latvian avant-pop adventurer Elizabete Balčus, Slovenian jazz futurists Etceteral, unconventional Czech chamber ensemble Floex Ensemble, Hungarian ambient/electronic music producer iamyank, Ukrainian EBM/dakwave duo Kurs Valüt, French icons of glamorous psych-punk La Femme, Hungarian techno/house live act LAU, adventurous Czech DJ Lednicka, Croatian alternative pop/hip-hop duo litl itali, North Macedonian post-punk youth Lufthansa, Slovenian jazz percussionist and composer Luka Matić (Mladi Raziskovalci VI.), Swedish sound experimenter Max Wainwright, Slovenian garage/psychedelic rock act Morvern, charismatic Slovenian selector Moska, Hungarian psychedelic music luminaries Óperentzia, up-and-coming Slovenian bass/breakbeat/dnb selector Raketa, Czech experimental jazz duo Ranjevš & Obasz, Slovenian indie dance/nu-disco duo RotorMotor, Slovenian experimental techno outfit Stagnat, Lithuanian retrowave nostalgics Superkoloritas, Slovenian noise rock/no wave/improv eccentrics Svojat, French post-punk/noise rock formation The Psychotic Monks, Czech soundboy Toss and Austrian techno/bass producer Toupaz.
ALREADY ANNOUNCED ARTISTS:
### (HR) I Bel Tempo (LV) I birds of unknown (SI) I boebeck (HU)
DayKoda (IT) I DUF feat. VJ5237 (SI) I Eliza Legzdina (LV) I Fran Vasilić (HR)
Global Charming I (NL) Gugutke (SI) I Jausmė (LT) I Just Mustard (IE)
Kačis (SI) I Katarina Gryvul (UA) I Kenji Araki (AT) I Klotljudi (RS)
LAZZARETTO (IT) I Lelee (SI) I Luka Prinčič (SI) I manna (EE)
Miha Gantar Trio (SI) I Moveknowledgement (SI) I Nesen (LV)
GMB+jesusonecstasy: Nexus AV (SI) I NIVVA (CZ) I O. (UK) I Planeta Polar (LT)
Plié (LT) I proto tip (RS) I Puuluup (EE) I PVA (UK) I Sam Handwich (SK)
Tittingur (SK) I UCHE YARA (AT) I Unschooling (FR) I X.U.L (SI)
Wojciech Rusin (PL) I Wu-Lu (UK) I Zahir (EE) I Zouj (DE)
MENT 2023 PLAYLIST:
To help you discover MENT artists, we’ve refreshed our
MENT playlist.
Find more at www.ment.si/en.
CONFERENCE
The MENT conference is an indispensable part of the festival, attracting hundreds of professionals from all over the world who visit Ljubljana to enjoy the wide-ranging music program, make new acquaintances, meet professionals from the Balkan region, strengthen their networks and get the latest updates on trends in the music industry.
Here’s the full program and the list of speakers for this year’s
MENT conference!
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SPEAKERS
SPEED NETWORKING
TICKETS
LINKS
Website: https://www.ment.si/en
Lineup: https://www.ment.si/en/lineup
Tickets: https://www.ment.si/en/vstopnice
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1343715606436202/
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M E N T Ljubljana. Produced by Kino Šiška. Conference co-produced by Sigic.
The festival is supported by the City of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
