We’re getting ready for another trip to Groningen and looking forward to attending ESNS again this year with the We Move Music Croatia team. As Europe’s first major music industry event of the year, ESNS remains an important meeting place for exchange, networking and discovering new perspectives across the sector.
We’re excited to reconnect with partners, festivals, bookers, and fellow professionals from across Europe, and to follow this year’s showcase and conference programme while continuing our work to strengthen the international presence of Croatian music. See you at ESNS!
Croatian Artists at ESNS 2026
Ki Klop
Performance Time
Fri 16 JAN – Huize Maas Front – 22:10-22:50
Ki Klop is a Zagreb-based disco-pop mutant and a new theatrical face on the alt scene. The band has become a generator of raw energy, drawing from the stage, everything before it into a black disco hole. By May 2024, the debut album Otopljeni Disko (Melted Disco) had seeped from every speaker, taking listeners on a conceptual dark electro-disco odyssey.
Neon Lies
Performance Time
Friday to Saturday night 17 JAN – USVA – 00:50-01:30
Neon Lies is the synthwave solo project of Goran Lautar, a notable member of the thriving D.I.Y punk/post-punk scene from Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2016, he has been working on his solo project, exploring dark and melancholic synth themes alongside reworked atmospheres from the minimal wave movement. Currently touring to promote the LP Demons (2024), Neon Lies brings a live set with backing tracks played entirely from a 4-track analogue tape player, vocals and synths intertwined into a raw, direct sound, delivering an intense performance, suspended between claustrophobia and euphoria.
The We Move Music Croatia / SHIP festival team, which this year consists of Ante, Jozefina, Davor, Dražen, Frane and Mirko, will be present at ESNS. Feel free to say hello!
We would like to remind you that applications for SHIP festival are open until February 16, 2026. You can apply at the link above.