Dripping 2025

Picture This: It’s Dripping time. For year three, we present three nights of boundary-dissolving and soul-expanding music and art. Picture this: You’ve left your home and arrived at camp. The early summer warmth and sprawling forest unlock an immediate sense of calm and anticipation. The pavement is long gone and it's time to get free. 

Thursday evening begins with a welcome dinner from Bé Bếp. It's a moment to commune before the deluge of music. Before you know it, you’re sitting at The Inn. Danish composer Astrid Sonne leads the opening concert, warping the singer-songwriter template through layers of knotty weirdness. Quintessential new age pioneer Laraaji follows with an intimate solo piano concert serving up cosmic bliss that lasts long after the music. Once he’s done, blanket and eye mask in hand, we stroll down to Open Air. Two symphonic gongs reflect the  moonlight in the center of a four-point Funktion-One rig. Sphente deepens the journey inward with an epic late night Long Gong session. At midnight, the program wraps and it’s time to rest. Goodnight.

Friday morning is easy. After breakfast we head down to The Lake for an afternoon of laid back enjoyment. Overlooking the water, Laraaji and Bergsonist are in conversation for Pick Up The Flow and bossy boots leads a recovery stretch session a short distance away at the Catapult Field. A longform DJ set from aka-Sol soundtracks the afternoon with lush downtempo and sensual music for expansive spirits. More people are arriving. Your friends are trying to find your tent, and the camp is starting to buzz. 

Friday at sunset Colin Self and Monica Mirabile launch us into the full program with a participatory mass hypnosis - literally. All you need to bring is a mind. Charmaine Lee follows with the sole concert of the night, unleashing an onslaught of refined-yet-ferocious vocalizations. This set will sear away a layer or two off your onion. 

The Barn wastes no time with a wickedly heady lineup. ADAB lights it up with a rocket straight into the psychedelic void. SPF 50 debut’s his live set of rolling tech house and thick, physical bassy futurism. A second live set from Japan’s Foodman follows, fully accelerating us into avant-freakmode. Succubass pours on the slime, unfurling slippery dubstep, psychedelic broken beat and pure tripping techno. Primo pinballs us across the finish line with a masterclass in uncontained freakdom. As always, no set times will be announced in The Barn so be there when the spirit summons you.

Spirits rejoice: Nocturnal Medicine takes the concepts of guided meditation and land acknowledgment to another level, offering a midnight summoning under the stars at Open air.

Friday’s session at The Inn is all about tripped out dubby space. E Wata starts it up with some of the most advanced post-genre bass mutations currently operating. They are brilliant. Nono Gigsta lands fresh off a cargo ship from Europe ready to show you how radical DJing can be. At 1am, DeepChord plays a tunneling, cerebral live set. Simply put, Rod Modell is the most influential dub techno artist to come from American soil. DJ Plead and Dripping co-founder Baby Leo close it out with a soul-stirring, extended b2b set. Twisting percussive tendrils wrap around savage bass. This will send you. 

As the stages close, we head to Open Air for what has become a tradition: the dawn performance is a rare moment of genuine beauty with early morning birdsong accompanying the sunrise concert. This year, Arushi Jain leads you into the day. Blanket required - you’ll want to bask in this.   

Saturday afternoon is all about The Lake. Ariel Zetina hosts the Literary Salon, presenting a cohort of writers and poets at the amphitheater overlooking the water. Master kora player and subway platform legend Malang Jobarteh soundtracks your first plunge. Rave Reparations founder leelee follows, heating up the lakeside booth before handing it over to one of electronic music’s most visionary artists. Mark Ernestus plays for three hours, bringing the sublime sonic depth and profound curiosity that has defined his peerless catalog. 

Closer to the Inn, Colin Self and Monica Mirabile are leading a participatory workshop called Trickster’s Whisper. The two artists are committed to subverting traditional modalities of voice, movement, and performance. For those who dare, Trickster’s Whisper will take you somewhere weird, cool and personally expansive.

At 7pm sharp, the Saturday concert begins. The program features some of the most daring artists working in the avant garde today - Joy Guidry, Chuquimamani-Condori and Young Boy Dancing Group. Traversing the grounds across three stages including our first performance in The Hammock Grove, these artists embody the thesis of Dripping; radical vision presented with fearsome conviction, bound by no genre or format. 

It's night time, strap your ass in. Your comfort and safety can no longer be guaranteed amidst the absolute onslaught of savagery that’s about to be unleashed at The Inn. It’s thrashing time. Cel Genesis, Ariel Zetina, Currency Audio, Cry, and Loxy deliver a tour de force through digital hardcore, jacking house and rugged dnb. These artists run the gamut stylistically but are spiritually linked through a shared commitment to raw catharsis and undiluted sonic power. 

At The Barn, the long-running queer Afro-Caribbean party Ragga NYC takes over with our sole showcase of the weekend. Ragga reclaims electronic music as a direct product of queer, Black and Caribbean creativity, innovation and community. MZ3, Sekucci, Shyboi, and Teeno (Nino Brown and Young Teesh) run the room with an extended nine hour session. 

Tripping too hard? Sorry bruv, Open Air is no chill out lounge. From 11pm until past dawn, the stage features an all-live lineup of peak psychedelia. Azumi OE & Eucademix, Drew McDowall, 7038634357 and Raven stretch way out under the stars, with sets that span modern butoh dance, quasi-occult synthesis, shadowy ambient and lush expanses of “r&b science fiction.” Closing it out is a landmark event: the first ever performance from anonymous dub techno savant Topdown Dialectic.

The weekend wraps on a celebratory high: CCL closed The Inn with a marathon set. CCL embodies the selector archetype, fusing it with a distinctive gooeyness and impeccable technique that always hits on an emotional level. They’re one of the best DJs today and they make it look easy. Keep some gas in the tank, they’re taking you for one last ride through sunrise into the first day of the rest of your life. 

All weekend, you can lose yourself in the Hammock Grove installation from Little Snake featuring an original quadraphonic composition of mind-melting sound design. Juanita’s is running the Dungeon Cafe, serving your favorite earthly delights and 109 Montrose will be in the dining tent with delicious coffee. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served daily by DILA, Kowloon Baby, Taqueria Ramirez, and Wadadli Jerk.

Dripping 2025 marks a milestone with an expanded program and our first-ever sold out festival and the collective energy is palpable. The world can feel like an extremely dark place. Dripping is an attempt to make space for the things that give us hope and life. We can’t wait to share the weekend with you.