For the weekend of Thursday 17 through Sunday 20 September, the most concentrated musical proposition sits in Liège’s Rue Roture. KulturA. hosts three sharply different events across Friday 18 and Saturday 19 September: Blunt’s Inglorious Club release party, High Rollers with Seja, Dreessen, Larson and Primeur, then YESTERAVE x KULTURA – ELEVATE #2. The sequence is useful because it shows the venue’s working logic in miniature: a place shared by collectives, able to give a project launch, a specialised late-night invitation and a six-name electronic programme their own space on successive nights.[1][2][3][4][5]

KulturA. is collectively run through the 13 Rue Roture association, with a network of participating associations and collectives sharing the building and contributing to its programming. Its own project history describes two concert spaces, while the Wallonia-Brussels contemporary-music federation Court-Circuit identifies the venue as a cooperative, collective-led cultural space. That structure gives this pair of dates a particular texture. The calendar reads less like a single promoter’s fixed musical identity and more like adjacent communities placing their own proposals in the same address.[1][5]

Friday begins at 20:00 with Blunt : Inglorious Club – Release Party, presented by KulturA. as a concert for the release of the project. It is the direct, local anchor of the weekend: an occasion built around a new work entering public circulation. Two hours later, High Rollers takes over with Seja and support from Dreessen, Larson and Primeur. The event page frames Brussels-based Seja’s selections through underground sounds of the 1980s and 1990s, citing strange vocals, crooked rhythms, cosmic textures and imagined futures. Seja also hosts Studio Vaessen on Microwave Radio with her father, a detail that suggests a selector’s practice grounded in deep listening and shared musical curiosity.[2][3]

From the release room to the late set

The two Friday bookings can be approached as a change of scale and clock. Blunt’s 20:00 release party carries the focus of a concert tied to a specific project. High Rollers starts at 22:00 and makes the invitation itself central: Seja is joined by three supporting names, with the programme promising an exploratory route through off-kilter, groove-conscious material. KulturA. also states an LGBTQIA+-friendly policy and zero tolerance for violence, racism, sexism and discrimination for the High Rollers event, setting out a practical social framework alongside the music.[2][3]

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ELEVATE #2 on Saturday

Saturday’s YESTERAVE x KULTURA – ELEVATE #2 begins at 21:00 and runs until 05:00. The second edition follows an earlier ELEVATE event held on 1 May, according to the organisers, and names Bonjour, Frank Yunck, XY, Nova Nostra, Luc-K and Alexisvan in its line-up. Its stated route moves from tech house to techno, with intensity designed to increase across the night. After Friday’s project-centred concert and selector-led session, this is the long-form option: a full evening organised around collective momentum and a deliberately paced dancefloor arc.[4]

Practical route through Rue Roture

KulturA. is at 13 Rue Roture, 4020 Liège, in Outremeuse. Start Friday at 20:00 for Blunt, arrive at 22:00 for High Rollers, or reserve Saturday from 21:00 for ELEVATE #2. Each event has its own ticket route and event information, so recheck KulturA.’s official pages before travelling for admission, running order and any last-minute changes.[1][2][3][4]

Sources

  1. Le Projet — KulturA.
  2. Blunt : Inglorious Club – Release Party — KulturA.
  3. High Rollers w/ Seja • Dreessen • Larson • Primeur — KulturA.
  4. YESTERAVE x KULTURA – ELEVATE #2 — KulturA.
  5. Asbl 13 Rue Roture (Kultura) — Court-Circuit – Fédération des Musiques Actuelles