A Colourful Storm

A Colourful Storm celebrates 10 years with a showcase in Berlin. Christoph de Babalon headlines with a rare live performance. Surfacing in the mid-nineties on Alec Empire’s Digital Hardcore Recordings, his signature blend of hardcore, junglist and dark ambient motifs has earned him recognition as a longstanding and vital figure in the breakcore underground. In 1997, de Babalon released his full-length debut, the seminal If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It, an immaculate collision of full-throttle breakbeats and glacial ambience. Twenty years later, its reissue sparked a resurgence of de Babalon's work, leading to interest from, and collaborations with, a new generation of labels and artists. Mark is a solo artist whose meticulous drum and bass abstractions elevate elements of rave, musique concrète and serial composition into dizzying heights. He first appeared on A Colourful Storm in 2017 with Here Comes A Fucking Startup Campus, which instigated a series of 12” singles released on Ostgut Ton's sublabel Unterton. He debuts a new live set. Florence is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Berlin. Her works are primarily voiced in sonic narratives, told through sound collage. Finding thematic threads through cinema, popular culture, and family archives, she creates immersive stories through editing and recontextualising found audio. Her first independently released work, A Requiem for Prime Time TV, was released on A Colourful Storm’s Fleetway Tapes imprint in 2025. She provides the interstitial soundtrack for the night.