The Parisian label took over the Centre Pompidou with a unique exhibition featuring more than 200 T-shirts retracing its story. More than just clothing, these pieces tell the musical, visual, and collective journey of Ed Banger. The show also celebrates the work of SO ME, the label’s iconic art director, behind almost all of the visuals on display.
A composer and occasionally a cinematographer, Thomas Bangalter presents CAMERA / MAN, a new installation composed from two of his existing camerawork. A space reflecting two particular moments he captured 19 years apart. “We have entered an era where plausible images, generated without a camera, are gradually appearing in our field of vision, challenging in unprecedented ways our relationship to reality, memory, and truth.”
A musical film by the French electro duo Justice, IRIS AUGMENTED. This unique immersive screening was especially reimagined for Because Beaubourg by Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay.
Mariam carries the adventure forward on stage, joined by her son Sam Baga and the band’s longtime musicians. Together, they’ll bring to life the timeless melodies that defined Amadou & Mariam’s success alongside new songs from the album. To celebrate the release, Mariam performed an exclusive showcase on October 24 at 10:40 p.m. as part of Because Beaubourg.
An iconic landmark of Parisian nightlife, La Main Jaune transforms the 6th floor of the Centre Pompidou turned into a roller rink for an unforgettable weekend, driven by DJ sets from artists of Ed Banger and Because Music created in collaboration with La Main Jaune.
Conceived as a true scenographic journey, Jolie Garce Club is an immersive installation that retraces Shay’s trajectory through iconic elements—music videos, performances, sets, and objects—that have shaped her artistic identity. Each room became a sensory experience, offering a gateway into the artist’s visual and musical imagination, and revealing the singular power of her work.
ALIAS: A Sensory Exploration by Shygirl transforms the record’s core themes—identity, intimacy, and distortion—into a multisensory environment with a series of body-inspired installations where anatomy, sound, and memory intertwine. Developed with London-based multidisciplinary duo Francesco Loy Bell (Man About Town, Wonderland, ES Mag, Milk Machine) and Oliver Bell (LVMH, Off The Block, Arc’Teryx, Sinead Gorey) and renowned lighting and set designer Shaun Murphy (Charli XCX, Arca, Aphex Twin), visitors will enter the space to encounter a living skin speaker that sweats to a constant pulse base. The cymatic installation uses light and vibration to visualize all seven tracks of ALIAS, translating the sonic landscape of the EP into something that’s not audible to the naked ear but instead experienced visually..
Shygirl presented a special live performance of the EP on the evening of Saturday 25 October at the Centre Pompidou. A collaboration with London-based transmedia artist, future mythologies theorist and practitioner and the founder of HYDRA, Anna Gloria Flores, the performance looks to bring to life a site specific adaptation of “HYDRA Breathing Orchid (a cervix a throat) Portal”; research piece, artefact and ritualistic gear using Shygirl’s body and voice as an activator.
On Saturday night, during the 100% Ed Banger Records event, Pedro Winter and Erol Alkan were performing a back-to-back set when Pedro invited global superstar DJ and producer Fred again.. to join them on stage. The excitement reached a new level when Thomas Bangalter one half of the legendary Daft Punk — appeared, marking his first DJ appearance since 2009. The unexpected collaboration turned the evening into a true celebration of French electronic culture, thrilling several thousand spectators.
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