MELT: 15 YEAR ANNVRSRY at CANNI

Schedule

Sat, 10 Jan, 2026 at 04:00 pm to Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 12:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

Canni-MKE | Milwaukee, WI

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MELT CELEBRATES 15 YEARS — A MIDWINTER CONVERGENCE AT CANNI
Saturday, January 10, 2026 | 4PM – Midnight | Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee’s long running experimental electronic gathering returns for a landmark moment. On Saturday, January 10, 2026, MELT marks 15 years of boundary-breaking sound, ritual energy, and underground community with a full-scale anniversary convergence at CANNI — stretching both indoors and outdoors, heated by fire and subwoofers built to shake the cold out of the city.
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THE DEMIX
https://thedemix.com
https://instagram.com/thedemix
An electronic artist, producer, DJ, and architect of MELT, THE DEMIX sculpts sound like collapsing architecture — cinematic, dirty, heavy, and alive with ritual energy. He builds experiences that blur the line between performance and transmission, and welcomes you to step through the portal as MELT marks its 15-year convergence.
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Tunnel
https://www.facebook.com/tunnel.into.mind
https://webuildmachines.bandcamp.com/album/personas
https://www.instagram.com/tunnel_techno/
A visceral exploration of the human experience told through the pulse of warehouse aesthetics; blending jungle, techno, and bass music with seamless precision. Back in the before times, circa 2018-19, Tunnel was a resident artist at a certain Destination in the Milwaukee underground (if you knew, you knew), now he steps back through the door.
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They Want Blood (Tron Jovi, Mad Static)
https://www.facebook.com/theywantblood
https://www.instagram.com/theywantblood414/
https://tripleeye.bandcamp.com/album/they-want-blood
Tron Jovi joins forces with Mad Static to fuse hip-hop grit with industrial and punk intensity, delivering a raw, politically charged debut that hits with precision and purpose — furious, focused, and built to rupture. They Want Blood make their live debut at MELT.
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Lorna Dune
https://www.lornadune.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lornaduuune
https://lornadune.bandcamp.com/album/sequential-dreaming
Lorna Dune is an acclaimed electronic musician, keyboardist, producer, and sound designer whose work bridges electronic soundscapes with contemporary classical roots. Her career spans ambient, orchestral, dance, and experimental realms, carving out a sonic world that feels both forward-thinking and deeply human.
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Barry Paul Clark
https://www.instagram.com/barry_paul_clark/
https://www.patreon.com/barry_clark
A classically trained bassist and multi-media artist, Barry Paul Clark has been part of MELT since the beginning — first as adoptahighway, most recently as Cathedral Becomes Tomb. His return marks a new chapter, and we cannot wait to witness what comes next.
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Thomas Wincek
https://www.instagram.com/thomaswincek/
https://alltinycreatures.bandcamp.com/music
Known for his work with All Tiny Creatures — and remembered by many as Emotional Joystick or Richdad — Thomas Wincek is an electronic music mastermind in every form he takes. His fingerprints run across decades of Midwest experimental and electronic sound, from glitch-charged beatcraft to shimmering, delicate structures that bend the room in unexpected ways.
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XEXYZ
https://www.instagram.com/xexyzz/
https://soundcloud.com/xexyz
A DJ suspended somewhere between the earth and the sky, XEXYZ chooses to stay lost in the in-between. Her sets move in hypnotic, rhythmic waves — a place where disorientation becomes direction and getting lost becomes the point.
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Ipaghost
https://www.ipaghost.com
https://ipaghost.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-spook-to
IPAGHOST crafts a comprehensive blend of happy beeps and quizzical boops, weaving playful tones into shadowy, late-night atmospheres. Their music is a companion for creeping through the dark—equal parts curious, eerie, and beautifully off-kilter.
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Mosh Wah's Palace
https://www.instagram.com/414_mosh_wah/
https://www.facebook.com/steven.watkins.522
One of Milwaukee’s most trusted vinyl selectors, Mosh Wah steps away from the decks and into a new realm with his live project, Mosh Wah’s Palace. A lifelong music lover and beat maker with a free-spirited, universe-tuned approach, he channels the same “nite wurm” energy that defines his DJ sets — keeping it fonky, raw, and unmistakably his own.
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Piledriver
https://www.instagram.com/piledriver427/
https://soundcloud.com/chris-jansky-31431969
A versatile presence on the decks, Piledriver moves from hardcore breakbeats to bouncing techno with unexpected detours and curveballs. His sets hit with the chaotic joy he’s become known for.
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Sound provided by: Speaker Kreatures
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MELT brings artists together in a shared act of creation — immersive and alive — a night built to be lived, felt, and carried forward.
MELT has never been just another night of music; it is a passage, a gathering, a doorway.
In a world that asks you to scroll, be numb, and repeat, MELT asks you to show up, feel, and be changed.
The portal reopens Saturday, January 10, 2026.
Keep the fire close.
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Born in Milwaukee on 1/11/11, MELT began as an experiment in sound — an unauthorized transmission vibrating through venues, clubs, bars, and forgotten corners of the underground.
Each Convergence is a point of impact — the moment when frequencies align and fracture spreads. We assemble. We ignite. MELT pushes outward into everything.
No headliners. No gatekeepers. No genre gods.
Each event is a singular rite — never repeated, never safe.
The 15 Year Convergence on 1/10/26 will end at midnight — bringing us into 1/11/26, 15 years to the day from MELT #1 (1/11/11).
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Art is resistance.
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https://thedemix.com/MELT
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