Baile do Futuro and Strange Brew team up to bring forth the long-awaited return of the mighty
@principediscos_verdadeiro to Bristol. Rising star Helviofox joins label boss DJ Marfox for a night fuelled by the sounds of batida with support from Marla Kether.
Date: 16/05/2026
Time: 22:30 - 03:00
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@djmarfox is a downright urban, suburban, and ghetto legend in Lisbon, as well as a renowned name on a worldwide network of dedicated seekers of new directions in electronic social music. As one of the pioneers of batida - a genre that blends Lusophone African rhythms such as kuduro, tarrachinha, and kizomba with experimental electronic percussion - Marfox has been instrumental to the birth of a new movement that transcends cultures, uniting both the West African diaspora living in Lisbon and fans of grime and techno from all over Europe and beyond.
He has received accolades from various quarters of dance music culture for his pioneering work and music, published throughout the last decade on labels such as Lit City Trax, Boomkat Records, Warp Records, and Príncipe, for which he is undoubtedly one of its founding architects.
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@dj.helviofox is the little brother of seasoned Angolan-Portuguese producers Dadifox and Erycox, and got his start when he was just 13, establishing the production crew TLS Produções - with E8Prod, DiionyG, Alberfox, and others - only two years later. He’s a producer who’s figured out the shared DNA between garage, Afrohouse and kuduro with whipsmart edits of Jorja Smith’s ‘On My Mind’, Tems’ ‘Found’, and most recently turned Clara La San’s almost beatless ‘Unplanned’ into a sensual, helium-gassed R&Batida floor filler - expressing a mix of rudeness and romance that’s key to Príncipe’s broad, durable appeal beyond its Lisbon hotbed.
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@marla_kether is a bassist, producer, and DJ. Since taking up DJing, Marla has been busy taking her high-energy sets around the world, and in April 2024, she launched Kilengi Dance Party, a bi-annual club night in Bristol celebrating dance music from the afrodiaspora, and showcasing Black women and non-binary DJs.
~Not for the faint of booty~
