Realist Alive locks in a second gig to start 2026, arriving to The Croft with an EU debut for South African post-club marvel EatSleep, London avant-garde club linchpin SOL741 with a fledgling live set of shattered ambient, alongside the South-West's most prodigious newcomer, enys mottet, and their essential, intimately destructive avant-rap.

EatSleep [DJ] (EU Debut) - Arriving to Bristol from Edinburgh (via Cape Town), EatSleep remains one of the more secretive and supernatural talents in the world of deconstructed club. Rare in appearance, ES has released a smattering of singles over the last two years, each of which operate as both evidence of an inimitable talent and as records of its rapid evolution. Equally capable of the most earnestly moving ambient and archly abrasive deconstructed club, there's something mercurial and implacable in EatSleep's music, the indefinite and indescribable capturing of something that marks only the rarest of musical talents. Content not with this alone, an ES mix or track might veer into skram-gabber, harshcore, baile-inflected hypertrap. With inexplicable ease and regularity, ES conjures the new. EatSleep joins with Realist Alive for their European debut, presenting a rare DJ set to headline the bill.

SOL741 (Live) - One of the more enigmatic, individual entities in London's current wave of deconstructed club, SOL741 practices a mode of deconstructivist ambient informed by both industrial, boundary-pushing club music and experimental music more broadly. A sonic meld synthesising the halcyon sites of the quests for inner peace, with states of fractured frenetecism and inward turbulence, SOL741 is a singularity in her scene for these persistent, individual attempts at articulating an emotive space between peace and extremity. Having, as a DJ, played at any and all of the vanguard club nights of the city's contemporary culture, from Hypoxia to SYPHEN to Trauma Unit, she performs now a nascent live set, exploring via her own productions these opposed but orbiting themes of calmness and ferocity.

enys mottet - When enys mottet re-emerged on an Improv's Greatest Hits bill this Summer, it felt like the most desirable of haymakers. A precocious talent, building on formative work in drone, ambient and sampledelia, now tearing a Stokes Croft basement to its foundations with a self-possessed amalgam of sculputural deconstruction, performance art and some of the most emotionally interrogative UK rap I'd heard in years. An interdisciplinary artist of England, New York, working from beats made of voice, synthesis and online rubble, their performances are accompanied with projected, performed cut-scenes.

Off the back of a flurry of shows in late 2026 that saw them outline the blueprint of their vision as solo artist, titled in totum as "This Is New York", they now shift into a second phase to present "Close 2 U", a new work investigating maternity, the breadth of excavation and grief.

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