On June 12 we’re setting a trip for the stars: from the cosmic edges of Italian dance music to disco mutations, psychedelic oddities and groove-led after-hours selections, led by headliners Fabrizio Mammarella and Giulia Gutterer.

On Saturday, June 13, Public Possession x Bar Ton x Control come together for a day-to-night excursion through the outer edges of dance music culture, featuring some of the most curious and seasoned selectors of the moment: Bell Towers, Courtney Bailey and DJ City.

Armed with a rebellious edge and an electrifying mix of sub-genres, the Swedish-Ghanian duo blurs the lines between drum & bass, dance, trip-hop, and rap into a sound entirely their own. Unpredictable yet powerful, their live shows hit like a rush - raw energy with no restraints.

On Saturday, June 20, Control and the French Institute bring together two projects connected by a love of exploration and finely crafted club music for Fête de la Musique: LEO POL [LIVE] and Lisière Collectif.

On Saturday, June 20, we flip the action in the Front Room. John Gómez brings decades of global digging, weaving Brazilian treasures, forgotten disco and sideways dance music into richly detailed journeys, along with local legends Bogman and Romansoff.

On July 3, Control gets a dose of tropical weirdness. Rolando Bruno brings cumbia, fuzz guitars and his trademark chaos, temporarily relocating a stranger corner of South America to Bucharest. Influenced by ’60s psychedelic garage punk and Peruvian cumbia, Bruno has spent the last two decades shaping his own mutation of tropical music.

From July 31 to August 2, Bucharest will host the first edition of Stray Lights Festival, a new event dedicated to music that resists categorisation and embraces artistic exploration. The festival marks the partnership between the Stray Lights community, a catalyst for emerging talents whose work often exists beyond conventional genres, and Control Club. United by a shared commitment to creative freedom, they present a festival that shines a light on musicians who transform the fringes into spaces of innovation and discovery.

On September 16, past self make their Romanian debut at Control. The trio channels darkwave, post-punk, dream pop, and ethereal textures through a bilingual mix of Korean and English lyrics. Pulling visual cues from visual kei and sonic influences from bands like The Cure, Molchat Doma, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and The Horrors, their sound drifts between melancholy, haze, and cold dancefloor momentum.

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.