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Jarring Fest at SALLE DES RANCY

At SALLE DES RANCY, we are delighted to welcome Jarring Fest, an evening dedicated to adventurous sounds and the kind of boundary-pushing spirit that our stage thrives on. Rooted in the independent scene and driven by a taste for bold artistic choices, the program brings together live electronics, dub-infused textures, bass-forward grooves, and hybrid performances where analog instruments and digital tools converse in real time. Our audience knows this room for its intimate scale and clear, enveloping acoustics, and Jarring Fest is designed to make the most of that character: tactile beats you can feel in your chest, luminous visual design that heightens each crescendo, and a fluid sequence of sets crafted to keep the energy flowing. In keeping with the room’s community ethos, the event shines a light on creators who blur boundaries—producers who perform like instrumentalists, bands that sculpt sound like DJs, beatmakers who invite vocalists and live players to reimagine their tracks on the spot.

What awaits you on our stage

Our technical team has prepared SALLE DES RANCY for an immersive, high-impact experience tailored to Jarring Fest. Expect a dance-friendly floor plan with clean sightlines toward the stage, a finely tuned low end that supports deep dub motifs without overwhelming the midrange, and lighting designed to transition seamlessly from shadowy introspection to vivid kinetic bursts. The evening’s arc favors discovery: live sets that unfold like stories, DJ-driven passages that connect eras and geographies of club culture, and collaborative moments where performers step into each other’s material, bending a groove in a new direction before handing it off to the next act. Between the warm welcome of our front-of-house team, the careful stage management that keeps changes crisp and on time, and the intimate proximity between audience and artists that our room naturally creates, Jarring Fest here becomes more than a lineup—it’s a conversation. Whether you come for sub-heavy meditations, synth-led journeys, or rhythm workouts that invite you to move, the room’s design ensures nuance and impact are equally present.

Jarring Fest arrives amid a fertile burst of creativity for the scene it champions, and our role as host is to give that momentum a focused, human-scale space to bloom. Across the independent landscape, artists tied to this spirit have been shaping new EPs, surprise collaborations, and audiovisual experiments that carry bass culture into cinemascope territory: modular rigs meeting MPC grit, tape-echo dub science updated with granular processing, and percussion-led frameworks that fold hip-hop, electronica, and global grooves into something confidently contemporary. In recent months, you can feel a shared drive toward shows that are more than showcases—they are living labs, open to improvisation while grounded in meticulous sound design. Jarring Fest crystallizes that drive by placing the audience at the center of the experiment. You’ll hear arrangements built for the stage rather than the studio alone, see visuals that respond to the music’s micro-dynamics, and witness artists testing new versions, edits, and transitions in real time. In our hall, those risk-taking gestures read clearly: the quiet crackle before a drop, the sudden shift from skeletal minimalism to full-bodied uplift, the interplay of live drums against sequenced patterns that makes the room collectively hold its breath. For listeners who track the evolution of bass and dub-influenced music, and for newcomers who want an immediate, physical entry point, Jarring Fest at SALLE DES RANCY offers a concentrated snapshot of where forward-thinking performance is headed right now—and the pleasure of discovering it together, shoulder to shoulder, on a floor made for dancing and deep listening alike.