Dripping 2025

Dripping returns to the majestic woods of Sparta, NJ for our third excursion June 12-15, 2025. You are invited to join over 40 trailblazing artists for a weekend of hair-raising, explosive and joyful music spanning uncompromising club sounds, evocative concerts and playful experimentation. This edition pushes further into the fringes, celebrating a raw and vital energy that is bound by no genre or format.

UPDATE: 2025 Tickets are sold out, but you can add yourself to the re-sale queue.

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2025 Artists

7038634357

“7038634357 is my phone number. The number wriggles out of the grasp of ownership: I don’t own it and it’s not really mine. I started using the number because I always liked typing on a number pad. The funny part was thinking about how anyone who listened to the music had a way to contact me about it. Let me know what they thought, check in on me. If people use it, it’s just to see if it’s real. It’s definitely real.”

Neo Seven

Adab

“adab” isn’t something I can be, but is a spirit of being that I can invoke in my community in attempts to better it.”

Dekmantel Podcast

Aka-Sol

“all I can do is keep doing the work and believing in my sensibility as and artist and as human that loves connecting with others”

Bandcamp Live at Dripping 2023

Ariel Zetina

“It feels so good to just be with a kick drum sometimes. The physical feeling of a kick drum, I need that every so often. More often than not.”

RA Mix

Arushi Jain

“I always introduce a layer of my voice, even if it's almost inaudible because one of my hypotheses is that your voice is the most unique thing you have. So in order for the music to be truly mine, my voice has to be in it.”

Bandcamp

Astrid Sonne

"Healing and hurting feel like two places on an emotional spectrum and music has access to both sides equally."

Washington Post Bandcamp

Azumi OE

“Every breath, every sound, every flicker of light was born in the moment - a fragment of pure impromptu where three souls exist without words.”

Azumi OE

Baby Leo

“I’m here for the psychedelic avalanche. Overwhelming, full-bodied sonic power. When it crashes down, more space to be our truest selves is uncovered. ”

Live at Dripping 2024

CCL

“I don't want to be babied. I don't want to show up at an event where I know exactly what to expect and it's gonna happen. What's the fucking point of that?”

A Night in the Skull Discotheque (DJ Mix)Bandcamp

Cel Genesis

“In Collaboration with Cel Genesis Innovations R&D, And Esteemed Shareholders, Participants, Only You Can Help END HUMAN PAIN AND SUFFERING”

Bandcamp Live in Oakland

Charmaine Lee

“Coming out of an institutionalized jazz education, the term vocalist had very mixed connotations for me. I spent years being treated like I didn’t know anything about music, expected to stand there, look good, talk between sets, and do the banter. I resented that experience deeply. A big reason why I was so powerfully and magnetically drawn to improvised music was that it gave me the freedom to redefine and reclaim what it meant for me to be a musician and a vocalist.”

Bandcamp Live Waterworks 2023

Chuquimamani-Condori

“If you ever cared for me, if I ever loved you, if I ever did you wrong, if you ever broke my heart, then fuck with me now.”

Bandcamp NTS

Colin Self

“I’ve always felt that my sense of self comes from the assembly of others. I can’t quite articulate how complex I think that equation is. I feel very conscious of this when I’m with my people.”

Bandcamp Artforum

Currency Audio

“Amen bliss system”

Bandcamp Live

DJ Plead

"This is gonna sound really cocky—but there aren't that many people banging out the rhythms that I know."

Bandcamp Live at Sustain Release

Deepchord

“I like air movement. I love stormy days. I prefer rainy days more than sunny ones. I like weather patterns. Weather is a bigger influence than any other music.”

Bandcamp Echospace The Coldest Season

Drew McDowall

“I took my inspiration from those states that we all experience, that we can’t really put a name to. There are moments that fall short of language, and when we try and pin these moments down, it feels like we’re trying to hold water in our hands and it’s slipping out, and we feel adrift.”

Bandcamp Live at Pioneer Works

E Wata

“Slinked-out dance music and slippery club rhythms”

Bandcamp

Eucademix

“I want to make it clear that I don’t mean this in a vengeful way, but my piano teacher told me that I really should quit playing music, that I had no hope. I do say this sweetly as I believe she has passed away, and I now understand how annoying I had to be for her. I didn’t have any discipline. It was hard for me to practice rudiments every day. All I wanted to do was to imitate Cecil Taylor in an 8-year-old’s way. I think she would be happy to see me in music now.”

Eucademix Bandcamp

Foodman

“I first started making music as if I were playing a game. It's for a very personal pleasure, it's a lot of fun to create your own idea of a world out of nothing.”

Bandcamp Fact Mix

Joy Guidry Trio

“There are no genres in Black music, you know?” People push back on that, but it all comes from the same source. Even though I play the bassoon and I’m classically trained, let's do this blues song. Let's see what happens.”

Bandcamp Live at Dripping 2024

Laraaji

“I received a telepathic communion in 1974 to start working with the electric zither. I was in a pawn shop with the intention to get money, but this telepathic communication said, “Don’t take the money for that guitar, and instead swap it for the autoharp in the window.” That was my first real conscious telecommunication. It felt like it came from a great, warm cosmic grandparent, full of wisdom and love.”

The New Yorker

Leelee

“I advocate for black queer femmes, one of the most disrespected groups of people in the entire world, first and foremost. I make work for us, showing that we are here, we are worthy of love, joy, and happiness, and we deserve to be seen as the radiant figures that we are.”

NTS

Little Snake

“Remember the deafening echochamber of the wondrous perception of babies? That’s how y’all sound describing my tunes.”

Bandcamp Fallen Angels (feat. Flying Lotus)

Loxy

“A DJ and an assassin are very similar jobs. A contract killer gets paid to travel to a location to take out a target. We get paid to travel to a location and take out the dancefloor. It’s the same thing. Except without the killing.”

Cylon Recordings Soundcloud

Malang Jobarteh

“I saw Malang at the Delancey/Essex stop in New York and it was one of the most magical live experiences of my life. Thank you Malang! You sing for all of us!!”

Live Performance Bandcamp

Mark Ernestus

"I come from listening, being a record junkie, and I have always liked hearing something and imagining it differently."

Ndagga Rhythm Force

Monica Mirabile

“Nobody can do what you do. I think we often don't recognize when our insecurities are sneakily telling us to conform. Truthfully, you are made up of very unique experiences that inform your body language and that is not replicable, it’s like a fingerprint. If you are listening to your body, you'll find what feels right, trust it. Sometimes people need that thing only you have to offer. Continue fighting for liberation.”

This is a Performance School All Things Under Dog

Nocturnal Medicine

“This creation is really just a remembering, a calling back to when we tied ourselves to the cues and timescales of Earth’s many voices.”

Nocturnal Medicine NY Times

Nono Gigsta

“There are some decisions I took early on in my relationship with music (keeping my face hidden, limiting my use of social media, travelling pretty much only by train, etc.) which mean that there is a certain kind of slowness at which things are happening. But a slowness which I enjoy and wouldn’t compromise for anything in the world, because it means every single gig I play usually feels special.”

Live at Free Rotation Fictions Radio Show

Pick Up The Flow

"A lot of people see me as a DJ, but they don't see me out of that box, which I don't like. It's just one hat. It's like if you have six hats and someone saw you with a red hat and decided like, 'Oh, you're a red hat person.'"

PUTF YouTube Page

Primo

“I think you’ll find it’s a more rewarding life when you use da materials as god intended, instead of trying to be Mr Picasso of The Hardware Store”

Soundcloud

Raven

“R&B science fiction”

Bandcamp

Relaxer

“I wanted the morphology of the sounds to guide me, and to let these really slick or artificial or processed sounds just radiate and secrete their essence.”

Bandcamp 29 Speedway Mix

SPF 50

“The vanishing space between electronic and organic”

Bandcamp Live at Sisyphos

Sphente

“Come recenter your mind-body connection through the visceral sensations of pure liquid bass.”

Live at Sustain Release

Succubass

“Keepin’ it Moving”

Down2Earth Mix

Topdown Dialectic

“The only mystery really is that the conceptual idea behind the music is at the forefront and we don’t disclose who did it.”

Bandcamp

Young Boy Dancing Group

“The smell of freedom. The world ruled by dance.”

Young Boy Dancing Group

RAGGA NYC

RAGGA NYC is the singular, long-running queer Afro-Caribbean party founded by Christopher Udemezue aka Neon Christina. In their own words, “RAGGA NYC is the setting where queer folks can openly enjoy Dancehall and Reggae, where all Black people can rejoice and re-stake claim to electronic music, and where the embrace of countercultures further inspires innovative sounds that reflect the multitude of identities in which they stem from.” They takeover The Barn on Saturday night.

Shyboi

“Tracing sonic histories and dreaming of a new world.”

Live at Dripping 2023 Bandcamp

Sekucci

“Every set is a diary entry. If I’m happy you’ll know it. If I’m going through it, you’ll know it.”

Bandcamp

MZ3

“Every mix I make, song I choose to play or set I’m booked for is almost always going to give the energy that I’m feeling about the world, culture and politics. Lots of fight and lots of love cuz love is what we’re fighting for.”

Live at Nowadays

Nino Brown & Young Teesh

“OLD FRIENDS AND NEW, I CHERISH ALLAH U”

Boiler Room

Ariel Zetina Presents Literary Salon

Ariel Zetina curates a series of readings to start off the Saturday program.

Joss Barton

"You can’t help but understand that as trans women we were and still are writing from the future and that work hits people, especially other trans folks, in incredibly raw ways. All that to say, I said FUCK IT to submission portals and started self-publishing my own work."

Interview Example

Samora La Perdida

"I’m cooking up some good Spanglish Sh!t for y’all"

Playbill's Songwriter Series video

Atticus Bikos

“How to be happy, when you hate your kids”

Hits poem

Kay Gabriel

“Dream language, pornographic writing, direct address, the epistolary, whatever”

website interview

Production

Bloom Studio

Site lighting and more form the Montreal crew

Studio GumGum

Bespoke lighting visionaries

website

One-Source Productions

Funktion-One Audio at every stage

website

Bossy Boots

recovery stretching class held Friday and Saturday at 12PM

website

Festival FAQ

New for 2025

For the first time, Dripping will take place over three nights. Our first night will be on Thursday, June 12th, and will feature two concerts, an outdoor listening session and a special prepaid welcome dinner from Bé Bếp.

Tickets

Dripping tickets must be purchased in advance through ra.co. Shuttle bus rides, parking passes, and Thursday night dinners are also available as add-ons to your ticket. Admission is limited to 750 and no tickets will be sold at the door.

We have a set amount of discounted tickets available for people in marginalized communities and who are experiencing structural adversity. If that does not describe you, these tickets are not for you. If that does describe you, please write an introductory letter to drippingmusicandarts@gmail.com.

Location

Dripping will be held at 251 White Lake Road, Sparta, New Jersey, rain or shine. Performances will take place indoors and outside. The site is a beautiful 200 acres of forest, wooded paths, and a large private lake. We encourage you to explore and enjoy the site. Please help us maintain the grounds by picking up after yourself and leaving no trace.

Our host venue is called Camp Sacajawea. The name is a holdover from the site’s previous owners and stands as a reminder of both the violent history of colonialism and the erasure and co-optation of indigenous cultures. These are forces which continue to shape our world today. We acknowledge that this gathering takes place on grounds that was, is, and always will rightfully be the land of the Ramapo Munsee Lenape people.

Camping

Everyone at Dripping will be tent camping. We have included a packing list below. Camping will be dispersed throughout the site and is allowed anywhere out of direct view of either stage or the lake. The midsummer sun will rise very early, and we highly recommend setting up your tent in a place that has shade. Arrival before dark is strongly encouraged.

If you are new to camping, do not worry, this is a beautiful and easy place to do it. Convenient gear rental is available through OUTDOORS GEEK, which will ship your rented gear directly to the festival (Use coupon code DRIPPING2025 and order by June 3 2025). Rented gear will be available at the designated table in the dining tent. Drop it there at the end and we will ship it back for you.

If you are a person that is absolutely unable to camp in a tent but would still like to attend, we recommend booking accommodation nearby as soon as possible. Trailers and glamping structures are not allowed. Darkness is a part of the experience at Dripping. The majority of the sprawling site is unlit. This is both a reality of camping and as a part of the unplugged experience. Everyone should bring headlamps and flashlights.

Driving and Parking

Dripping is a 1.5-2 hours drive from NYC depending on traffic. Parking on-site is limited and requires a pre-purchased parking pass at ra.co. Carpooling is strongly encouraged and parking off-site is not possible or allowed.

Shuttle Bus

If you are traveling from NYC, we recommend riding the shuttle bus. Buy a bus ticket as an add-on to your general admission ticket at ra.co. Buses pickup Thursday and Friday and drop off Sunday at Nowadays.

Check-in

If you are taking the shuttle bus, check-in will take place when you board at Nowadays.

For those driving, check-in will be open:
Thursday 3pm - 10pm
Friday 12pm - 10pm
Saturday 1pm - 5pm
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Please plan your trip accordingly. Guests arriving outside of check-in hours will not be admitted.

Trash and Cigarettes

Respect for the site is essential and we need all attendees to help us maintain the natural beauty of the grounds. We have a Leave No Trace policy, and ample trash cans will be provided. Do not leave any trash on the ground, period. Cigarettes must be disposed of in designated orange buckets. We want to keep working with the venue for many years to come, please help make that a reality.

Facilities

Ample portable toilets and handwashing stations will be brought in for the weekend. There is a central bathhouse near the Open Air Stage with hot showers.

Swimming

Swimming at the lake is allowed while a lifeguard is on duty. There are some boats available and people are welcome to bring their own floatables. If you do so, please remember to take them with you.

Food

Dripping is delicious! Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served with GF & vegetarian options always available. This year we welcome back chefs Lj Almendras, Taqueria Ramirez, and Kowloon Baby for regular service, as well as newcomers Bé Bếp for a special, prepaid welcome dinner on Thursday night and Wadadli Jerk for lakeside BBQ. Full menus from each chef will be announced in the lead up to the festival. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be available from 109 Montrose, and The Dungeon cafe will return with a variety of earth’s blessings. As always, vegetarian onigiri will be available at the bar for late night snacking. Cash or card is welcome. If you prefer to bring your own food, please do. Outside alcohol is not allowed.

Please note: Thursday’s welcome dinner is a special dining experience and a part of the evening’s program. You will need to purchase it in advance. Thursday dinner’s will not be sold on-site.

Wellness

EMS can be found during all hours at the Wellness Center, behind the dining tent. We also have a team of safe space workers at the stages who are available to assist with any wellness-related issues or dancefloor concerns. They can be identified by their glowing wristbands. Security will be on site as well to help you.

Free harm reduction testing will take place in the dining tent during the following hours:
Thursday 4 - 8PM
Friday/Saturday 5 - 10PM

Group stretching class will be held in a field near the lake Friday and Saturday at noon. There will also be an open, all-fellowship 12 step meeting at 4pm on Friday and Saturday at the same place for anyone in, or interested in recovery or sobriety.

What to Bring

Cash/Card/ID: Our vendors will accept cash and card. An ID that matches your ticket will be required for entry. If you use a different name than your ID, please be able to show the purchase confirmation email.
Waterproof camping tent, sleeping pad, blanket/sleeping bag: Be prepared for rain. Again, we also recommend finding a shady spot to pitch your tent as it will be hot and the sun will rise early.
Refillable water bottle. Free drinking water will be readily available throughout the site.
Flashlight/Headlamp. It gets very dark at night. There are paths, but you are in the woods, and site lighting will be minimal.
Swimsuit and towel. There is a large natural lake for bathing, boating, and playing. There will be a lifeguard on duty for limited hours. Swimming outside those hours is not allowed.
Picnic blanket for relaxing. Some performances will allow for floor/lawn seating…get cozy.
External battery. Again, we are in the woods and there are no outlets available. Charge up and come prepared.
Sunscreen, bugspray, wetwipes etc. Bring anything you need to feel comfortable outdoors for a peak summer weekend.
A good attitude: All are welcome at Dripping. Please treat fellow attendees and staff with kindness and respect.

What NOT to Bring

NO weapons, alcohol, drugs, laptops, electronics, fireworks, illegal stuff, expensive stuff, confetti/glitter, annoying LED clothing, camping stoves.
NO bad attitudes. Discriminatory behavior, cruel or abusive language, aggression towards others, burdensome entitlement, and leering will get you kicked out and banned from future events.
NO trailers or glamping structures: Glamping, RV camping or anything involving much more than setting up a tent is not going to work here.
NO extra speakers or instruments. We’ve got you covered.
NO pets, people under 21 years old, or people without tickets.

Information Sharing On-Site

Occasionally set times or locations have to be changed during the event. If that happens, we will post updates at the affected stage. We will also be sharing updates on our Discord, which is now public. Join here for the most immediate notifications in the lead up to Dripping, to coordinate carpools, share camping tips etc.

PACBI

We reject all forms of normalization, pacification or affinity with the US/Israeli war machine. Dripping believes in BDS. As such, we endorse the Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. We will not work with:

Israeli cultural institutions
Cultural products commissioned by an official Israeli body or a non-Israeli body that promotes Israel
All non-Israeli cultural products that are funded by official Israeli bodies or organizations
Events and activities sponsored by an official Israeli body or a complicit institution
Any cultural activity or event carried out under the sponsorship of or in cooperation with an official Israeli body, an Israeli lobby group, or non-Israeli institutions that serve Israel’s branding/propaganda
Israeli Normalization Projects

For more info, go to https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi

Artist Archive

2024

FESTIVAL

Azu Tiwaline // Bendik Giske // Carmen Villain // Elena Colombi // Gaze // Jake Muir // Joy Guidry // Kilbourne // Nailah Hunter // NTHNL // Significant Other // Sigrid Lauren // Sully // Surya Botofasina // Tongue In The Mind // upsammy // x3butterfly // Ten Years of Groovy Groovy // Akanbi // Ayanna Heaven // Baby Leo // BRAVA // chuki // DJ Temporary // LOIF // The Large // Human Pitch Showcase // Asa Tone // Simisea // Tristan Arp // Hannah Baer Presents: Reading & Movement // David Velasco // Early Shinada // Josie Bettman & Hannah Baer // Juliana Huxtable // Kyle Dacuyan // Zora Jade Khiry

CLUB

7038634357 // 2K88 // Aaron J // aka-Sol // Atrice // Azumi OE & eucademix // Baby Leo // bela // Bobby Beethoven b2b Shyboi // Clarissa Kimskii // DeepChord // DJ Synclaire // Elori Saxl // Gaze // Hieroglyophic Being // Lychee // Max In The World & Kroba // Neffa-T // Poncili Creación // Purelink // Relaxer // Relaxer // RP Boo // Sepehr // Time Wharp // Viiaan // VTSS b2b TYGAPAW

2023

FESTIVAL

Æirrinn Ricks // aka-Sol // Baby Leo // Bergsonist // Colin Self // Deli Girls // DJ Marcelle // DJ Voices in conversation // Earthen Sea // Elori Saxl Quartet // G. Zifcak // Hannah Baer // Laraaji & Arji OceAnanda // Nidia // Relaxer // RP Boo // Rrose // Shyboi // [FALSE PEAK: Amelia Holt, Ben Bondy, deep creep, Dekalb Works, Plebeian, Pontiac Streator, Yumi] // [BIG ROOM BOOGIE: Akanbi, DJ Temporary, Enayet, K Wata, rrao, Simisea] // [29 SPEEDWAY: ex wiish and Laser Days, James K, Laser Days, Poncili Creación, Time Wharp]

CLUB

aka-Sol // Atrice // Baby Leo // Bergsonist // Davis Galvin // Dj Healthy // Dj Temporary // Earthen Sea // Emilie Weibel // Jake Muir // James K // K Wata // Kiernan Laveaux // Ma Sha // Raw Unkut // Relaxer // rrao // Shyboi // Significant Other // Ulla // Nap // Ben Bondy // Shawn Reynaldo in conversation with Avalon Emerson // Azu Tiwaline // Bruja // Ehua // Pent // Stuart B Myers // Gaze // Spf 50 // Amelia Holt // Yumi

2022

CLUB

Æirrinn Ricks // aka-sol // Baby Leo // Ben Vida // Charmaine Lee // Elori Saxl // ex wiish // Gryphon Rue & Stuart B Meyers // Laser Days // Lea Bertucci // Ohyung // Pent // Relaxer // Trophy Hunt

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Dripping is organized by Daniel Martin-McCormick and Leo Miller. Dripping at Nowadays is organized by Daniel Martin-McCormick and Sol León. Design and website by M.C. Madrigal.

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