Sw@da x Niczos

“What language is that?”, you asked in 2025, when the Irish rap trio Kneecap performed at the OFF Festival. If you speak Polish, you might ask the same question this year, when Sw@da x Niczos take the stage. “Most people” find the Podlasie dialect they use in their songs “totally exotic,” vocalist and rapper Nika Jurczuk explains. Together with Wiktor Szczygieł, a producer with Colombian roots, the two make what they call Podlasie Bounce, blending languages, traditions, and folk songs with baile funk, phonk, and amapiano. “We’re not a bowl of lukewarm noodles; we know how to get your blood pumping,” they say. They’ve proven as much on their debut LP, #INDAWOODS, followed up by a performance in the final round of qualifiers for Poland’s Eurovision entry, where they stirred up quite a bit of buzz. It’s high time for them to show us what they’re made of at the OFF Festival.