Top MENT Ljubljana 2018

Úlfur Úlfur

Based in

Iceland, Reykjavík

Style

Hip-hop

Rap always found its frontiers marked down by languages. It’s hard to convince someone to listen to something that they can’t understand, especially when one of its main appeals is lyrics. But how the world has changed, for the past few years the world has ...

5K HD

Based in

Austria, Vienna

Style

Electro

5K HD offers you never seen before resolution - enjoy the highest standard available with subtle nuances and more vivid sounds. 5K HD makes you rethink what you thought of the importance of a good band name. 5K HD - apart from being a technical standard for ...

Fran Palermo

Based in

Hungary, Budapest

Style

Folk, Rock

Listening to Fran Palermo’s sun-kissed psych folk-pop-rock, you wouldn’t think they comes from a country with no beaches: Hungary. And when reading their list of influences (classic rock ‘n’ roll, acid rock, surf rock ...

Wandl

Based in

Austria, Vienna

Style

Electro, Hip-hop

Maybe it's because it simply fit the image of Vienna being a laid-back, high-standard-of-living, nothing-to-do metropolis that cloud rap became such a big phenomenon all over the region in 2015.

Tolstoys

Based in

Slovakia, Bratislava

Style

Electro, Pop

Tolstoys is a nickname for a bunch of five musicians and friends who partly chose their moniker using their frontwoman’s name, Ela Tolstova. It's Ela (main vocal), Frederika (violin), Michal (bass), Pavol (keys) and Matej (drums ...

We Bless This Mess

Based in

Portugal, Porto

Style

Folk

We Bless This Mess is a solo project. At least, it started that way. Now playing with a five-piece band, headed by Nelson Graf Reis, the project started to gain supporters with the utmost ease. When Nelson presented his project in Brazil, he ended up recording ...

Chui

Based in

Croatia, Zagreb

Style

Groove

"Chui" was just a Swahili word for "leopard" when keyboard maestro Toni Starešinić, also known as the creative force behind Zagreb's neo soul combo Mangroove, decided to start another band and play some prog jazz with a modern approach. After a few years of ...

Karpov not Kasparov

Based in

Romania, Bucharest

Style

Electro, Pop

Chess is math and like chess, Karpov not Kasparov’s sound is a mathematical fusion of electronic music, an early 80’s sound and some jazzy-oriental flavours. Like in chess, the drum machine and the vintage synths take turns on the offensive, wrapping around ...

Trad.Attack!

Based in

Estonia, Tallinn

Style

Folk

Sometimes, it can take while before one’s true calling is discovered. The three members of Estonia’s Trad.Attack! had spent more than 15 years floating around the country’s music scene before joining forces in 2014. Yet what started as something that was just ...

Whynnel

Based in

Slovenia, Lljublana

Style

Electro

Artists hide behind a mask for many reasons. To give themselves a persona perhaps, a character to play. Or stripping music of the cult of personality, where who you are is as important as what you (continue) to do. But for mysterious masked Slovenia ...

Hater

Based in

Sweden, Malmö

Style

Pop

The world might be in thrall to Scandi pop right now, but look beyond those hovering up the column inches and fame and the Nordic countries – in particular Sweden – have diverse and exciting music scenes with talented artists operating in all manner of genres ...

MRFY

Based in

Slovenia, Novo Mesto

Style

Rock

In the last few months, probably most of us saw a person from Slovenia making headlines all over the World. To be more precise, someone from a small city just south of Ljubljana, Slovenia ...

Top MENT Ljubljana 2018

Who to see at MENT Ljubljana : our selection of the 2018 line-up