Kicking on from a thumping springtime showdown which saw Corsica Studios undulating until well into the morning of Monday 6th May (!), we're back in SE17 for the second Colony & Scand of the year, moving a touch beyond our usual August bank holiday fixture to avoid the congestion and bringing you a line-up that cuts just that little bit deeper in the process.
Headlining is the mighty Oliver Ho, a bastion of purist UK techno whose career spans all the way back to 1996 - he's released with everyone from Blueprint to Drumcode to Music Man - and whose current work as Raudive consistently hits the mark, often in daring, unexpected ways: disco, post-punk, drone, classical and IDM all figure prominently in what's a wicked, bubbling broth. He'll be playing his first-ever London live show under the Raudive moniker tonight and, if his recent output is anything to go by (never mind killer older material on Meta sub-label Wires and a beautifully weighted 2010 long-player), Corsica's pounding room 1 rig is in for a... well... pounding. Speaking of which, our good chum Truss will be dropping in too, hot on the heels of yet another stroke-inducing MPIA3 transmission the likes of which he tore 2012 a new a-hole with, with further crushing Perc Trax biz pending. He's been playing here, there and everywhere of late - deservedly so - but his gigs at home are rare: this will be his first London set in nearly six months. Boss. Also playing the big smoke for the first time since March, where they (or, rather, he!) delivered a super-special dose of snaking, at times epic cave techno for Colony vs Broken20, are Manchester's Szare, whose crafty offerings for, amongst others, Horizontal Ground, Idle Hands and Mindset have never failed to impress and who'll be dropping a custom-made live/DJ set for this one. Finally, another close comrade, Simon Heartfield, is onboard too, presenting an all new live show the likes of which he got P/C/M 2 well and truly firing with back in November. Tengui and CB support.
Shifting across to room 2, Scand's line-up tonight is a thing of deep, twisted beauty. Carl Finlow aka Silicon Scally headlines, bringing his tripping, bass-heavy live PA over from Paris to show why electro purists - that's you and me, right? - hold him in such high regard, with productions spanning all the way back to '95 and no less than five SS LPs in the bag (amongst many, many other things). He's joined by another of the scene's most coveted acts, Finnish duo Morphology, whose work for respected imprints like Diametric, Semantica and Scand-affiliated Cultivated Electronics ranks up there with the best deep electro made since the late '00s and whose live show always kills it, while Pyramid Transmissions head-honcho Andy Jaggers aka ADJ will be dropping in for yet further cone-caving badness, hot on the heels of a scorching new EP on Leeds-based Digital Distortions. And just in case all that wasn't enough (which, tbh, would be worrying), Scand regulars Sync 24, Innume, agent2 and Steve Allman are present as standard and armed with a truckload of primetime gear culled from the furthest nether regions of the electro continuum, just the way you like it.
As with the last C&S, entry is as reasonable as we can humanly make it - namely, exactly the same - and, what with Plex rocking their fourth Basement Session in Stokey only the night before, we've teamed up to offer a limited batch of reduced weekend passes for all you P/C/S stamina fam out there (awww). Which means we bloody well better be seeing you out in force - Fri'dee AND Sat'dee - to help us see out the summer in fine fashion!
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