The descendants of Afrika Bambaata have spread far and wide, a vast and untraceable diaspora with corrupted genealogies – there are bastard children growing up everywhere, the Planet Rock family resemblance monstrously reinterpreted. Tonight CTM presents mutant strains of Abstract Hip Hop that have carried the recessive Kraftwerk gene through generations, finding expression in the weirdest ways.
 
First up is recontextualised Rap and experimental rhythms from the East. The lyrics of Ludditák, full of jokes and sex talk in Hungarian, become a rhythmic patter, a sound poetry slam with funk. The rhymes of Pet’o Tázok and Karaoke Tundra, the first Czecho-Slovac alternative Hip Hop artists, are a collection of plosives, vowels and half formed syllables, the power of the original intact, all sense removed – transformed into Kurt Schwitters Dadaism.
 
From the far west, Mad-EP shreds lush instrumental samples over experimental beats in his funked-up soundscapes; from the French underground come the dDamage duo with their unmistakable 808 Hip Hop deconstructions, and DJ Aï with a set full of throwbacks and eclecticism.