On the first night of our anniversary, Liars, once imagined by Pitchfork as “aliens who’d heard some rock, classical, and whale songs”, share top billing with Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, back at Control with Pale Bloom, an art-pop record that draws on dark folk and slowcore.

You asked for Acid Arab again, and we listened. After selling out in a blink of an eye and causing beautiful chaos on the dancefloor earlier this year, the duo returns for our 18th anniversary on Friday, October 2.

On the second night of our anniversary, Opus Kink arrive with brass, bite, “chainsaw pop” and The Sweet Goodbye, their debut album produced by Grammy winner Craig Silvey.

Eighteen years of Control calls for someone who knows how to keep things unpredictable. Roman Flügel and Khidja map the Berlin Room on Saturday, October 3.

On Thursday, September 24, aim+wall kick off a new season with a proper Berlin Room session. And for this one, they’re bringing a piece of living club history: A Guy Called Gerald live.

The Control and ICHIGO joint venture, Roger Rabbit hops in with a second chapter this autumn, dedicated to the people who know that rhythm is something you experience with your whole body, bringing together dancers, selectors and sounds that move freely between hip hop, house, funk and everything in between.

On Thursday, October 8, ctrl x Millennial Studio: Audio Files lands in the Berlin Room with Bianca Oblivion, Miss Jay & Softboi Beni. Bass, Jersey club, experimental electronics and whatever else hits hard enough to make the cut. Three very different selectors, one night with little interest in staying in one lane.

We've had our eye on AEREA for a while now. This is a project that's generating serious heat, and we’re hyped to welcome them to Bucharest on Friday, September 25.

On Friday, October 16, Damon Jee takes over the Berlin Room with a sound that rides on trance melodies, cosmic chords, and robotic vocals over a wave of energetic drums.

Your first taste of System Olympia is coming to Bucharest on October 23! This night oozes nocturnal decadence, don't sleep on it.

15 years into their cult career, The Underground Youth return to Control on October 24 with Décollage and a darker new sound.

Acclaimed avant-garde composer and lutenist Jozef Van Wissem returns to Bucharest for a special show – Thursday, October 29 – as part of his worldwide tour supporting his new album, This Is My Blood, released this spring.

As we keep rolling out names for the new season, we’re excited to announce that Dar Disku, your guides to Arabia’s forgotten dance floors, will be taking over the Berlin Room on October 30.

Imarhan have always ripped up the rulebook, and they’re coming to enforce this on Saturday, November 7. Since 2006, the band has challenged preconceptions about the Tuareg desert blues sound known as assouf, popularised by the likes of Tinariwen and Mdou Moctar, by blending its ancient poetry and rhythms with funk, psych-rock and pan-African rhythms.

inTension returns to Control Club on November 21, with a deep dive into the faster, harder side of Trance, headlined by the Belfast-born trance heavyweight Greg Downey.

On Thursday, November 26, Arab Strap arrive at Control for their first-ever show in Romania, bringing with them a new album due this September: Half-Told Tales. What began in 1995 as lo-fi intimacy, post-rock drift, and brutally personal storytelling has kept mutating ever since. Before and after the hiatus can feel like two different creatures, now caring even less about genre conventions.

On Saturday, November 28, DELUXE arrive at Control with moustaches, boundless energy and an unwavering commitment to a good time. Funk, jazz, rock, pop and hip-hop all find their place in DELUXE's exuberant universe discovered by Chinese Man, and are transformed into high-energy songs designed to sweep audiences along.