GROUP A

Japanese avant-garde synth wave duo group A was formed in 2012 by Tommi Tokyo (synthesizers, vocals, percussion) and Sayaka Botanic (violin, cassette tapes). Their early shows came as a shock to most spectators, non-stop waves of experimental noise, intensely emotional poetry readings and nude live-paintings.

groupaband.com

Los Cripis (ARG)

The sound of Los Cripis is simple and primitive, no pedals or effects. Full of melodies and dissonance.

http://loscripis.com.ar/

Megan Nolan, Reading

Irish writer based in London. Her work has been published widely online and in print including The Guardian and i-D. She has read and performed in a variety of settings including "Disobedient Children" curated by the artist Dorine van Meel at Kunstraum, Hoxton, and in the Irish Museum of Modern Art at a live recording of the curator Morgan Quaintance's radio show STUDIO VISIT. She is currently writing her first novel. She tweets @mmegannnolan

Raisa K

Experimental producer, whose industrial, climactic sounds are layered over keyboard works. The London producer, credited for her ability to avoid easy categorisation, creates tracks which straddle the borders of genre thanks to her hypnotic vocals and distorted bass. (Ruby Hutson-Gray)

Sneaks

Sneaks all about pithy punk poetry—incantations condensed into tracks that never make it to the two-minute mark, minimally underscored by bass lines and not much else. With a sometimes monotonous, sometimes self-amused vocal delivery and clean melodic bass lines, Sneaks sometimes feels like a one-person Household, sometimes like an early draft of a Le Tigre song. (Nina Mashurova)

Terribilis

Cafe OTO debut for this dark, biting club & drone wrenching producer & DJ.
Terribilis is a resident of London's XQUISITE NIHIL collective & a co-founder of feminist dance music movement UNITI.

https://soundcloud.com/molly-oreilly-1

Vindicatrix

Vindicatrix is a producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, working mostly with electronics but also incorporating histrionic vocal improvisation, maudlin crooning, and composition for chamber ensemble. Previous releases can be found on Mordant Music, Scum Yr Earth, purge.xxx and Cellule75.

http://vindicatrix.tumblr.com/

3MPTY SPACE (ARG)

Adriel David (Metal Mothers/Pure Shit/Dronevil) from Buenos Aires A/V dense drone ambient project.

Patchfinder

strong and stable electronics of austery-death

https://patchfinder.bandcamp.com/releases

Bas Jan

London-based ensemble Bas Jan return with a new expanded line-up and their second album ‘Baby U Know’. Released on Lost Map in January 2022, it is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2018 debut album Yes I Jan, which was hailed for its “messy majesty” (9/10, Uncut) and “beautifully fractured art-pop” (★★★★, Mojo). Bas Jan were co founded in 2015 by Serafina Steer, Sarah Anderson and Jenny Moore. The band now features Emma Smith (Jarv Is, Meilyr Jones, Seamus Fogarty and founder member of the Elysian Quartet) on violin and bass, Rachel Horwood (Trash Kit, Bamboo, Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business) on drums, Charlie Stock (The Irrepressibles) on electric violin and Steer on keys and bass.

Photo by Sophie Baker

WVS

BATERIA: MARTA Z GUITARRA Y VOZ: PAZ M GRABACIÓN Y MEZCLA: NICOLAS B/ SANTA RITA RECORDS

http://xwivesx.bandcamp.com/album/domestic-bliss

DJ Woman as a Phallic Symbol

(A/V performance at HUB 16) Ruth Angel Edwards received a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in London (UK) and currently lives and works in London. Music, the body, sex, and politics are themes that she mixes and mashes in order to create images and videos that are tense and complicating. The female body (and how it is packaged in culture) is examined through repetitions that reveal the queasiness of it all. And yet her works are far from being a hit-you-over-your-head investigation; they seek to seduce rather than convince. To approach the sexualized gaze is a difficult task, yet Edwards accomplishes it with raw intellect and uncompromising vision. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally at institutions including Tate Modern, London; Human Resources, LA; Royal Standard, Liverpool; Arcadia Missa, London; Auto Italia South East, London; MEYOHAS Gallery, New York, and the Plymouth Arts Centre.

Time is Away

Time is Away is Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney, two visionary storytellers who map personal, poetic and sometimes playful dérives through the histories of their imagination. The voice is an instrument, a letter from home, the colour of pomegranates. Over the better half of a decade, they have made tender and heartfelt transmissions through countless mixes, sound works, live appearances and radio. Exploring themes of memory, persistence and resistance using an assemblage of source material, the duo’s unique mode of storytelling has culminated in Ballads, their first officially licensed compilation, due for release in October 2022.

Chloe Frieda, DJ

Initially started as a radio show, London-based Alien Jams has since evolved into a record label, event series and more - widely exploring sounds across experimental electronics, industrial, electro, EBM and noise. The label from founder and DJ Chloe Frieda has long nurtured local artists and released music from rkss, Wilted Woman, Karen Gwyer, Beatrice Dillon, YAWS, and oMMM.

http://alienjams.com/

Lorenzo Tebano