In a year which made impossible the now highly anticipated annual unveiling of new projects and collaborations that usually accompanies Berlin Atonal, the festival has compiled a major selection of new works by a range of artists from across the advanced musical landscape. Entitled More Light, the compilation traverses the vast spectrum of musical experience. French producer Aho Ssan -- who made his debut at Berlin Atonal's 2019 edition -- has smelted the vocals of Exzald S into a multi-layered track that gestures towards a future language for computer-produced music. New York's Hiro Kone pairs with group A's Tot Onyx to debut their collaboration with an outstanding showpiece of groaning power-surge electronics, while legendary futurist Gerald Donald's XOR Gate alias. Speculative widescreen-electronics protagonists Roly Porter and Paul Jebanasam unveil the first recorded track of their collaborative Altar project, conjuring up an entire ecology composed of both positively and negatively charged emotional-electronic particles. Enchanted Belgian magicians Pablo's Eye offer a new track that grows out of the melancholic ambient-pop that the collective has been making since the '90s, while Nkisi hones in on a section of her premiere Atonal '19 set "Initiation" and reworks it into a brawling, bleak, hard-edged trampler. These tracks sit beside a transformational collab between Abdullah Miniawy and Carl Gari, evocative synthesized works from Caterina Barbieri and Laurel Halo, unclassifiable post-ambient from exael, and Kazakh-British violinist Galya Bisengalieva, and more. The festival's legendary revived imprint which has previously hosted contributions from Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, Marshstepper, and others now has a monumental new chapter. Also features Tunes Of Negation, Lafawndah, Galya Bisengalieva, Alessandro Adriani, Vladislav Delay, Lee Gamble, LABOUR, Peder Mannerfelt, and dBridge.
| More Light 1/5 |
| A1 | Aho Ssan, Exzald S - Wondertomb |
| A2 | Exael - Circle (Squishy Mix) |
| B1 | Tunes Of Negation - Unremembered |
| B2 | Lafawndah - A Walk Beside The Beast |
| More Light 2/5 |
| A1 | Galya Bisengalieva - Aralkum |
| A2 | Alessandro Adriani - I Wish I Could Save You |
| B1 | Nkisi - La Parole |
| B2 | XOR Gate - Boolean Logic Gate |
| More Light 3/5 |
| A1 | Abdullah Miniawy, Carl Gari - The Cyg |
| A2 | Vladislav Delay - Isonainen |
| B1 | Lee Gamble - Polis |
| B2 | Pablo's Eye - A Way You'll Never Be |
| More Light 4/5 |
| A1 | Labour (2) - The Hit Of Enlightenment |
| B1 | Peder Mannerfelt - Let's Get Metaphysical |
| B2 | Caterina Barbieri (2) - Sufyosowirl |
| More Light 5/5 |
| A1 | Altar (12) - Without Bodies |
| A2 | Laurel Halo - Terrain (Prototype 3c) |
| B1 | D-Bridge - Direct Reflection |
| B2 | Hiro Kone, Tot Onyx - DIN DIAN |
