Rhythm Junction, Brighton
Berlin’s Florian Kupfer first became widely known in underground club circles for his track Feelin’, one of the biggest hits of the outsider house movement spearheaded by LIES, the New York label run by ex-punk Ron Morelli. Released on that imprint in 2013, the aching vocal sample recalled Omar-S at his most soulful, but drained of its lustre and set to a ruinous, awkward drum machine grind that set the teeth on edge. Kupfer’s releases have since become more freeform rhythmically, and less tied to traditional dancefloor styles, but still tonally punishing. Denis Sulta, a Skream-touted Glaswegian responsible for hip-shaking techno and sinister house is also booked to play, and the pair are joined on the decks by two respected local vinyl traders and DJs: Donga, of the city’s pioneering but sadly now defunct label Well Rounded, and Rhythm Junction boss Mehtola.
Patterns, Fri
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Tiga, London
Tiga has never played live in London before now, which seems incredible given his contribution to club culture. He emerged in the early 00s as a keystone in the electroclash scene, where etiolated Europeans would make tinnily gothic pop that moved with all the sensuality of a porn actor on their eighth take. It was great. Tiga’s American Gigolo compilation is still the definitive document, and he used it, as well as his Sunglasses At Night cover, to launch himself as the nearly man of pop. You Gonna Want Me and Far From Home were beloved underground but didn’t break the top 40. In 2014 the pattern repeated with Bugatti, a camp strut through Ibiza that was one of the year’s best tracks; even a guest rap from Pusha T couldn’t get it into the charts. No matter: they should all make for a witty and constantly peaking show, along with material from his forthcoming third album and collaborative tracks with Hudson Mohawke, Boys Noize and Paranoid London. The latter support with their own live set.
KOKO, NW1, Sat
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Wasabi Disco, Edinburgh
Factory Floor have a long history of coercing audiences into losing all their inhibitions, or obliterating them entirely, from coalescing ravers and goths into a broiling mass at the ICA to rendering half a crowd topless in the basement of the Tate Modern. As the group’s driving percussive force for the last decade, it’s safe to say Gabe Gurnsey knows a lot about making people move. His debut solo 12-inch, Falling Phase, released earlier this year on Richard Fearless’s Drone label, exemplified this further, with fleshy rhythms galloping over taut drums and silky vocals from Factory Floor bandmate Nik Colk Void. Here, he’ll be putting the dancefloor through its paces, with support from resident Kris Wasabi.
Sneaky Pete’s, Sat
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Autechre, London
They have a reputation as obscurantist boffins, fussing about with beats that never do the same thing twice, but that’s a moronic reading of Autechre, who are actually masters of groove. Profound funk seeps into the gaps of their constantly shifting compositions, and their unmissable live show keeps body and brain entwined in a fevered foxtrot. There is superb support here from electro pinup Powell, his new labelmate Russell Haswell – who is currently blending his traditional noise with thudding 90s techno – and Objekt, whose 2014 smash Ganzfeld was in thrall to the headliners.
Electric Brixton, SW2, Sat
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Jaunt, Newcastle upon Tyne
Having amassed more than 30,000 records in two decades DJing, DVS1, resident at Berghain and internationally in demand, specialises in techno that’s tough and deep in equal measure. His credentials stretch back to his youth in Minneapolis, where he endured a stint behind bars for dealing acid to fund his notorious parties. Years later and fully legit, DVS1 aka Zak Khutoretsky is playing as part of Jaunt’s eighth birthday, where he’ll be joined by north-east techno talent.
Cosmic Ballroom, Fri
