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No Bounds Festival, Unit 1, Hope Works, Sheffield (2026)

09/09/2026

Slikback makes electronic music as a form of controlled instability… 💥💣

Born and raised in Nairobi, Fredrick Mwaura Njau first encountered dance music through commercial EDM on the radio before discovering production through Fruity Loops. A move to Kampala and connection with the Nyege Nyege collective in 2017 completely widened that world, introducing him to experimental club music and helping set in motion one of the most prolific and unpredictable trajectories in contemporary electronic music. 🇰🇪📻

His sound moves through gqom, dubstep, jungle, techno, trap, footwork, industrial noise and ambient without treating any of them as fixed forms. Shattered rhythms, pulverising bass, distorted textures and sudden shifts in atmosphere collide in music that can feel chaotic and hyper-physical, but is always guided by something more personal underneath. For Slikback, emotion comes first, even when that means leaving in the rough edges. 🔊🧨

That instinct has produced a vast and constantly mutating catalogue, from his breakthrough Lasakaneku EP for Hakuna Kulala to collaborations with Hyph11E, Brodinski, Giant Swan and, most recently, Skrillex. His 2025 album Attrition on Planet Mu pushes that language somewhere even more cinematic, folding game and film sound design into gqom, dubstep, techstep and hardcore techno. Dark atmospheres, dramatic pacing, trapdoors and sudden sonic shocks turn the record into something closer to science fiction for the ears. 👾🦠

What makes Slikback so compelling is the refusal to arrive at a final version of himself. Each release seems to open another route, shaped less by genre than by curiosity, instinct and the need to express whatever is happening internally at that moment. 💿🚀

For No Bounds 2026, expect fractured rhythm, colossal low-end and music that seems to mutate while it is happening. Strange, beautiful, volatile and completely uncompromised. 🌀🔮⚒️

Tickets 🎟️ on sale now via Resident Advisor at the link 🔗 in bio above👆

06/09/2026

‘OFF ME NUT x WUB CLUB’ AFTER PARTY 🔊 // No Bounds ’26 // Friday 9th October // Dryad Works // 23:00-05:00 👽🛸

When Sheffield bass culture unites, things tend to get lively pretty quickly. 🤪💊🌪️

This FRIDAY, two of the city’s most loved underground institutions link up once again as Off Me Nut Records x Wub Club take over Dryad for the No Bounds after party. Two crews with deep Sheffield roots, carrying forward a sound built on bassline pressure, jungle energy, garage swing and a healthy disregard for keeping things too tidy. 🔥🔊

At the top of Room 1, two generations of UK club music meet head-on. Oppidan arrives at the sharp end of the new garage wave, twisting swing, bass pressure and rave energy into something fast, playful and unmistakably her own. Alongside her, Sheffield’s undisputed Queen of Bassline, Big Ang, brings decades of warped basslines, huge vocals and pure Steel City euphoria back to home turf. 👑💞

Room 1 goes deep across the wider continuum with Jenny Sparks, Phatworld and a Slambarz x Pattern + Push x Tracks showcase, connecting fresh energy with the sounds and crews pushing Sheffield club culture forward right now. 🌀⚒️

Room 2 keeps the pressure firmly on with Hungry Lungz, Dalts, Thorpey, FORCA and Charla Green, moving through bassline, jungle, garage, 140 and all the murky bits in between. 🧨🧯

And down in Room 3, Bass Off take control for their own takeover, with Pink Octopus b2b Sn8pe b2b Peter Rabbit alongside Lvcky. Another corner of the Sheffield underground given room to do what it does best. 🐙🔉

From Big Ang’s Niche-era foundations to Oppidan’s hypercharged take on UK garage, this one joins a few generations of Sheffield bass culture under one roof. 💥💣

This is the No Bounds Sound System continuum.🌀🔊

Friday After Party Tix 💸 via Resident Advisor 🎟️ at the link 🔗 in bio above👆

🎨: MILA K

04/09/2026

96 Back has grown up alongside No Bounds, and every return seems to reveal another version of him… 💞👾

Sheffield-born Evan Majumdar-Swift first emerged while still in his teens, releasing Provisional Electronics through local label Central Processing Unit before developing one of the most restless voices to come out of the city’s electronic underground. His music has moved through electro, IDM, grime, ambient, pop and full-force club music without ever settling comfortably into one shape. 💻🌐

That range is held together by a taste for contradiction. Delicate melodies can buckle into chest-bursting rhythm, intricate drum programming can suddenly turn euphoric, and moments of complicated beauty increasingly give way to something rougher and more visceral. Across records like 9696 Dream, Flex Time and Love Letters, Nine Through Six, 96 Back has built a world where bittersweet emotion and dancefloor pressure are never far apart. 🔊🧨

His relationship with Sheffield runs much deeper than geography. Coming from a musical lineage connected to the Jive Turkey parties that helped lay foundations for the city’s electronic culture, Evan has carried that renegade spirit into his own generation. He later became a Hope Works resident and a regular presence at No Bounds, giving us the rare pleasure of watching an artist develop, experiment and change in real time.🌀🔮

That evolution continues with his forthcoming album tender, exit for SVBKVLT, a record shaped around cycles, change and the strange ways we soften the blow of moving from one chapter into another. It points towards a 96 Back sound becoming more focused, more emotional and increasingly difficult to contain. 💿🚀

For No Bounds 2026, he returns with a major new live show featuring a live drummer. Expect intricate electronics, huge melodies, physical rhythm and that growing screamo burn pushed into something rawer, louder and more alive. One of Sheffield’s most singular artists, metamorphosing again in front of us. ⚒️💣

Tickets 🎟️ on sale now via Resident Advisor at the link 🔗 in bio above👆

02/09/2026

NO FIXED ADDRESS… STILL NO BOUNDS. 🛸💫
 No Bounds Festival Director and Curator Liam O’Shea spoke to Now Then Magazine about our second year as a fully nomadic festival, life after Hope Works and the raw, rave-led curiosity driving No Bounds 2026. 🔮🌀🔊

From grassroots venues and local crews to global artists and collective experimentation, this year is tighter, more focused and rooted in the relationships that keep Sheffield and Rotherham moving.

The building may be gone, but the soul is still in it. 🏭💞

Read the full interview with Wayne Hoyle now via Now Then Magazine 👀

28/08/2026

INDIVIDUAL DAY TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE!! 🚨🎟️

With just over six weeks to go, No Bounds ’26 is beginning to crystallise into its own unique shape. Each year it evolves, spreading into new places and spaces. ⏳🗺️

You can now explore the festival day by day and venue by venue, then choose your own route through the weekend. Who’s playing, where they’re playing and how it all fits together. 📊👀

Day tickets starting at just £10!! ⚠️

Across three days, we’ll move through grassroots venues and gallery spaces in Sheffield and Rotherham, connecting independent venues, local crews and global artists in one huge weekend of radical joy and communal adventure. 🔮🌀🔊

We’d love you with us for the full journey, but if you can only make one day, we’ve got you. 🛸💫

Love love love.
Team No Bounds.
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Individual day tickets 💸 via 🎟️ at the link 🔗 in bio above👆complete with a breakdown of who’s playing where, and when. 🎫📊

26/08/2026

SET TIMES + VENUE BREAKDOWNS!! // 🫟 No Bounds ’26 // 9-11th October // Multiple Venues, Sheffield + Rotherham 👽🛸+++ INDIVIDUAL DAY TICKETS NOW ON SALE!! ⚠️🚨

With just over six weeks to go, No Bounds 2026 is beginning to crystallise into its unique shape for this edition, each year it evolves and spreads into new places and spaces, today we’re starting to roll out the detail…⏳🗺️

SET TIMES + VENUE BREAKDOWNS ANNOUNCED⚠️
+++ INDIVIDUAL DAY TICKETS NOW ON SALE!!🚨

You can now explore the festival day by day and venue by venue: who’s playing, where they’re playing and how each part of the weekend fits together. 📊👀

This year we take No Bounds back to its roots: moving through 13 vibrant grassroots venues and gallery spaces plus a special an exhibition exploring the connections between street art and fine art at Sheffield Institute Of Arts.🔮🌀🔊

Independent venues, local crews, global artists, new collaborations and venues are explored, all connected across one huge weekend of radical joy and communal adventure.🛸💫

We move further into nomad mode since closing our beloved Hope Works in 2025, but after the success of last year’s festival, we are nothing but excited for our shared future, we felt the love from you all last year, and this has given our team the strength and belief in our mission to drive No Bounds forward with love and passion into a new era.🏭⛪️🏢

We would love you with us for the full journey, but if you can only join us for one day, we’ve got you!!

INDIVIDUAL DAY TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE via Resident Advisor alongside weekend tickets and opening concert tickets. 🎫🚨

Dive into the breakdown, find your route through the festival and let us know where we’ll be seeing you!! 🛸💫

And REMEMBER: there is still MORE to come!! 👀 Art, installations, more artists, talks, workshops and further surprises will be revealed over the coming weeks. This picture is far from complete… 👁️🔐

Love love love 💞
Team No Bounds
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21/08/2026

Neffa-T treats the decks like an instrument… 🎹💿

Across more than 18 years behind them, the London-based DJ and producer has developed one of the most technically advanced and expressive mixing styles in UK club music. His sets move with total precision through grime, dubstep, techno, breaks and bass, layering rhythms, textures and ideas at a pace few selectors can match. 🌀🔊

That pursuit of what is possible sits at the heart of his long-running Technical Mix series, culminating in the world’s first documented eight-deck technical mix. Yet the impact of Neffa-T’s performances is never just about difficulty or spectacle. Beneath the control is instinct, emotion and a deep understanding of how contrasting sounds can be pushed into conversation. 💣🔮

His meticulous approach extends across radio and production too, from residencies on Rinse FM, Reprezent and Pyro Radio to his ongoing shows for Brussels’ Kiosk Radio. Releases for Tectonic, collaborations with Pinch and a steady stream of independent work reveal the same combination of technical discipline and restless creativity.
Sheffield has already witnessed that energy first-hand. 🧪🦠

His legendary appearance at the Hope Works x 23 Degrees Summer Schoobz remains one of those sets people still talk about, a full display of speed, precision and fearless musical range. 🧨💞

For No Bounds 2026, Neffa-T returns ready to test the limits of the dancefloor all over again. 🚀👾

Tickets 🎟️ on sale now via Resident Advisor at the link 🔗 in bio above👆

15/08/2026

Anz plays like someone who knows the whole map and has no interest in taking the obvious route… 🗺️🚦

Driven by deep musical knowledge and formidable technical control, her sets move at speed through the UK’s rich rave history and whatever lies beyond it. Techy rollers and classic acid collide with speed garage, breaks, bass pressure and perfectly judged curveballs, all stitched together with an ease that makes even the sharpest turns feel inevitable. 🌀🔊

From Glastonbury, DC10 and Panorama Bar to Primavera, Sonar and Dekmantel, Anz has become one of the most distinctive selectors in contemporary club music. Her long-running NTS residency, celebrated Spring/Summer Dubs mixes, releases for Hessle Audio and emerging OTMI label reveal an artist constantly pushing forward, without ever losing the pure sense of fun at the heart of what she does. 🌍🧨

She is no stranger to Sheffield either. Across multiple appearances at Hope Works over the years, Anz has built a real connection with the city and delivered the kind of fast, fearless sets that stay lodged in the memory long after the lights come up. ⚒️💣

For No Bounds 2026, she returns to Sheffield to join forces with Commodo. Two singular artists with deep roots in UK club culture, meeting at the point where technical precision, bass weight and complete dancefloor freedom collide. 💞🔮

Tickets 🎟️ on sale now via at the link 🔗 in bio above👆

14/08/2026

OPENING CONCERT: Max Cooper [3D/AV Live], The Black Dog (Live A/V), Emergence Collective (Live) & more 🫟 No Bounds Festival ’26 // Friday 9th October // Peddler Warehouse, Sheffield 👽🛸 INDIVIDUAL TICKETS ON SALE NOW!🚨

No Bounds 2026 begins by transforming Peddler into something else entirely. 🌀✨

For our opening concert, Max Cooper brings his immersive 3D/AV Live show to Sheffield, building a world of light, sound and movement around one of Sheffield’s best grassroots venues. 🎆🌐💻

Featuring music from his latest album Feeling Is Structure alongside work from across his catalogue, the performance brings scientific ideas and deeply human stories into the same space. Intricate electronic composition meets generative visuals as they move beyond the screen, wrapping the room in shifting sculptures of light and sound.👨🏻‍🔬🧪📽️

Joining him are The Black Dog, one of the foundational forces in Sheffield’s electronic music story. Formed close to the birth of techno itself, their records helped define a distinctly British strain of machine music, intricate, emotional and strange, sitting somewhere between techno, ambient and a future nobody had quite named yet. Nearly 40 years on, they’ve never behaved like a heritage act. 💞⚒️💣

For this special No Bounds performance, they present a live A/V version of Loud Ambient, pushing ambient music out of the background and into something huge, physical and slightly overwhelming. Their relationship with No Bounds runs deep, from commissioned work to live shows, and with Peddler’s Danley subs involved, we’re expecting the foundations to get a proper test. 🧨🔉

Emergence Collective complete the bill with a very different kind of intensity, creating slowly unfolding improvised sound worlds shaped by the acoustics, history and character of the space around them.🔮🪐

Three distinct approaches to live electronic performance, brought together for an opening concert at the meeting point of music, art and technology. 🎹🦠💫

Individual Opening Concert tickets 🎟️ on sale now via Resident Advisor & Skiddle at the link 🔗 in bio above👆

11/08/2026

Gyrofield makes club music that seems to expand as you listen…🌀🔊

Born in Hong Kong and now based in Utrecht, they first discovered drum & bass through online communities as a teenager, learning to listen critically and build music long before experiencing it through a club system. That unusual route into the form helped shape an ear led by texture, juxtaposition and possibility rather than established rules. 💻🌐

Their hyper-modern sound draws drum & bass and jungle into conversation with techno, ambient, IDM, pop and free jazz. Intricate breakbeats, futuristic rhythms, tactile bass programming and atmospheric textures collide in music that resists easy description. The energy is kinetic, but never blunt. gyrofield understands that intensity can emerge through pressure and velocity, but also through space, restraint and the moment the drums suddenly fall away. 💿🚀👾

That balance sits at the heart of These Heavens, named among Resident Advisor’s best records of 2024, alongside releases for XL, Kapsela and FABRICLIVE. Their latest EP, Your Fight, casts that emotional intensity outwards, channelling rebellion, repossession and collective energy into music built for action as much as reflection. ⚒️💣🔮

The release also marks the beginning of Field Research, gyrofield’s newly launched label and a home for emotionally entangled music, unusual ideas and deeply personal work. It feels like a natural next step for an artist whose practice has always been about creating space for sounds and emotions that sit beyond established categories. 🧪🔬🦠

For No Bounds 2026, gyrofield presents the UK premiere of their live show. Expect technical precision, futuristic rhythms and kinetic club energy, balanced by moments of atmospheric suspension and emotional depth. A bold new live expression from one of the sharpest talents working across drum & bass and beyond. 🧨 💞

Tickets 🎟️ on sale now via Resident Advisor at the link 🔗 in bio above👆

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