The British School around Electronica monoliths, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre and the labels Warp, Planet-Mu and Rephlex are the inspiration for this evening with Post-IDM and Electronica from Spain and Hungary.
These are ingenious compositions in a state of permanent transformation, woven from the clash of metamorphosing sounds, always heavy with the beat and yet, something more for the mind than the dance-floor. Fractal beats, fine harmonies, floaty sci-fi melodies and abrupt breaks describe psychic landscapes of digital clarity and mathematic complexity. The overlay of abstract, flexible rhythms and broadly meandering threads of melodies constitute the scaffolding for a finely resolved sound that calls forth rich associations with a modern and future world: mechanical gadgetry, robotic and kinetic motion, technical laboratories, microscopic structures and agravic space travel – wrapped in an atmosphere that lies somewhere between flowingly elegiac beauty and the nerve-shattering titillation of cold-blooded psycho-thrillers and horror films.
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