This evening’s musical arc appears at first glance to span two widely distant poles: Functional instrumental club music on the one hand, and musical identity politics with rampant lyrics in the guise of entertainment on the other. The latter is in any event part and parcel of Snax’ Gay-Sexy-Motherfucker-Soul-Funk-One-Man-Band and also of Soft Pink Truth’s Cut-Up Elektronika, which pays hommage to 70s/80s gay Disco and House culture and doses them with a pinch of primal Punk: their way of lashing back at the worst excesses of neo-conservative backlash. By way of contrast, those pillars of Techno, Alter Ego and Der Dritte Raum, both associated with Sven Väth’s Frankfurt „Harthouse“ label, are exponents of an extremely functional concept of Dancefloor. Despite being oriented more to the tonal than conceptual level they nonetheless stand for an open format of track-based club music and for those special social occasions that somehow get so very out of hand. Sieg über die Sonne, the German-Chilean duo, serve up highly vocal Elektro-Pop that is the perfect link in the programme. There’s an equally broad sweep in the visuals department tonight. Whilst Tourette-TV pushes its ironic brand of scene politics, the Berlin group contentismissing devotes itself unstintingly to formal elegance. Let them entertain you!