RITOURNELLE x TUNE Munich arrives at BLITZ on May 16 as the official closing party of Various Others 2026, bringing together some of the most adventurous names in contemporary electronic music for a night that feels equally like celebration, ritual and farewell.
For the first time, Munich’s TUNE series and the RITOURNELLE festival join forces across a three-day collaboration connecting club culture, experimental sound and contemporary art practices. The final chapter unfolds inside BLITZ — a venue that has shaped Munich nightlife for years and will permanently close its doors this August.
That reality gives the event additional emotional weight.
More than simply another club night, RITOURNELLE x TUNE Munich becomes part of the final cultural memory of the Museumsinsel era of BLITZ itself.
The lineup reflects exactly that significance.
Blawan returns to the BLITZ main floor after delivering some of the venue’s most talked-about sets in previous years. Across more than a decade, the British producer has built one of the most singular identities in electronic music, combining distorted drum architecture, fractured techno structures and manipulated vocals into a sound that constantly pushes against genre expectations.
Alongside him appears Nkisi, co-founder of NON Worldwide and one of the most innovative artists operating between experimental club music, performance art and radical rhythmic exploration. Her work moves through polyrhythms, spiritual synth textures and deeply physical techno structures shaped as much by choreography and ritual as by club functionality.
The night also brings together dub legend Tikiman (Paul St. Hilaire) with Richard Akingbehin for a collaboration suspended somewhere between reggae sound system culture, techno abstraction and deep atmospheric futurism. Few voices carry the same weight inside dub-techno history as Tikiman’s, particularly through his iconic work with Basic Channel during the 1990s.
Another highlight comes through MJK b2b Pariah, connecting dubstep mutations, grime fragments and broken techno structures into a highly anticipated back-to-back session following MJK’s memorable appearance at earlier RITOURNELLE editions.
Opening the night are Carl Gari with Jonas Yamer, Till Funke and Palestinian artist Lynne Azzam, presenting a darker and emotionally charged live performance balancing experimental electronics and haunting vocal textures.
Meanwhile, the Secret Floor moves in its own direction through Sarmabot and Authentically Plastic, adding additional layers of underground experimentation and alternative club energy to the overall experience.
Part of what makes RITOURNELLE x TUNE Munich so important is its broader context. The collaboration exists not only as nightlife programming, but as a statement about the intersection between contemporary art, radical sound culture and community spaces at a time when independent venues across Europe continue disappearing under economic and urban pressure.
BLITZ’s strict no-phone policy and focus on presence inside the room remain central to that philosophy until the very end.
On May 16, BLITOURNELLE x TUNE Munich becomes more than a closing party — it becomes one final immersion into the world BLITZ spent years building beneath the Museumsinsel.
