Saturday 27 April 2024, 7.30pm
Another excellent bill from Chinabot, a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music, established in 2017.
Jaeho Hwang is a London/Seoul-based DJ, producer, and visual artist. As a producer, he recontextualizes traditional Korean instrumentation and brings it into the contemporary club music scene. As a DJ, he has been recognised for forward-thinking mix styles including Techno, Bass, Hard dance, Reggaeton, Post-Club, Experimental with Asian sounds.
After releasing his first EP on Chinabot in 2019, he has been featured in DJ Mag, The Wire magazine, BBC Radio 6 Music, 4:3 Boiler Room, Boiler Room, NTS Radio, XLR8R, DUMMY Magazine, Nowness, and Mixmag Korea, Coeval Magazine. He is a member of Chinabot but also he is one of founders of Seoul-based collective called “Fragmented Service” that represents Seoul’s sub-club scene and curates shows with International artists in Seoul such as ZULI, ENDGAME, Dis Fig, X/O and etc. Recently, based primarily in Seoul, he is involved with Seoul’s underground club scene such as Cakeshop, Visla FM and Seoul Community Radio, etc.
“Hwang incorporated traditional Korean instrumentation into the familiar palate of post-apocalyptic underground London club music...While the whole EP is excellent, this relentlessly visceral finale is its best track” – The Wire magazine
“It’s a remarkable mixture, and the result is an intense rush of sounds that converse at a ferocious pace; thunderous kicks propel sweet-yet- sharp melodies, disjointed voices and wild FX into a dazzling orbital motion.” – DJ MAG
https://www.chinabot.co/jaehohwang
https://linktr.ee/jaeho111111
Neo Geodesia is Saphy Vong, a French Cambodian audio visual artist born in a Thai refugee camp after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, and grew up in the suburbs of Nancy, northeastern France. His unique musical outlook fuses the experimental and DIY ethos that can be found in both the local Nancy Hardcore and Grindcore scene that embraced him as a teenager, and the sounds broadcasted from Cambodia into his home through his parents pirated tapes and videos of Khmer pop, karaoke, monk chants and movies.
His recent project has been dedicated to fusing experimental electronic processes with traditional Khmer music and exploring the far edge of sonic expression to include noise, Bek Sloy, Funeral Smot and Roam Vong.
Over the years, however, he has focused his approach less upon heaviness than slipperiness, granular textures and head-spinning polyrhythms.
Active for more than a decade under the alias Lafidki, he has produced, composed and released electronic music for Orange Milk Records. His music has been featured in Resident Advisor, NPR, NTS, BBC, Mixmag, The Quietus and Bandcamp Daily.
NEO GEODESIA has performed with the likes of Foodman, Evicshen, Object Blue, Why Be, Zoë mc Pherson, Sunik Kim, Ecko Bazz, Still in locations as Cafe OTO, Tate Britain, Museum of Asian Arts in Turin.. His music was played by Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone, Zuli, Animistic beliefs.
He currently lives in London and runs the multidisciplinary Asian platform and record label Chinabot, on which he released his latest album 2562 Neon Flames.
“anticipation and frenetic discord into something more dreamlike, with delicately plucked and breathy arpeggios melting into sombre synth-organ – it evokes some massive futuristic requiem and cinematic longing; proto-religious and majestic.” – If Only UK
“Calmly negociating iridescent electronic and ancient acoustic instruments, the track plays out like an odyssey, some long, winding tale which leaves much up to the imagination. Piercing Asian instruments duet - or duel, depending on your stance” – Inverted Audio
https://www.chinabot.co/neogeodesia
https://linktr.ee/neogeodesia
Tanat Teeradakorn (b. 1991 Bangkok, TH) Tanat Teeradakorn is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, DJ, and graphic designer based in Bangkok, Thailand. Working across multiple mediums including sound, music, performance, text, printmaking, merchandise design, and installation. By combining fragments of his biography, memory, data, and historical narratives where multiple fragments of story and information collide, juxtapose, and are transformed into new bodies of work. Tanat’s work interrogates the ways in which cultural narrative constructs, circulates, and replicates across media, culture, and spatial context. Recents work and performances include: CHAOS MANDALA: NATIONAL COLORATION COMPLEX, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Transmediale: Out of Scale, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany (both 2023); CTM Festival: Hacklab, Studio 1–Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Soy&Synth: South by South Sonic Serenade Series, Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany; Dance Non-Stop Mix, Cartel Artspace, Bangkok, Thailand (2017); Life/Distraction, Performance Lecture at BACC (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre), Thailand (2013).
http://tanatteeradakorn.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pgm_991/
www.linktr.ee/t4n47
EMILIA ÁLVAREZ is a transdisciplinary artist and techno produ-cer from Argentina. She lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Her sets promote a characteristic Techno sound of experimental style and melodies coming from House, Noise, Darkwave and Hardcore subgenre.
She proposes a LIVE format for the dance floor. Although she also has a project for listening and movement sessions which she calls Technolecturas. A set that builds from the reading of works and environments through field recordings, voices and production of electronic sounds. Seeking to generate and evoke the atmosphere of a nightclub, in environments outside the club.
Emilia has presented her work in various clubs, museums, galleries, institutions and public spaces, among others, in Argentina, Mexico, USA, Switzerland and Japan.
https://www.alvarezemilia.com/
