Red Brut is the pseudonym of Marijn Verbiesen (Sweat Tongue, JSCA), who creates abstract electro-acoustic audio collages. Analogue synth simmers, cheap keyboards, every day objects-noises, drum loops and lo-fi tape noise don’t provide structured chaos as such, rather the chaotic structures created. The end result is as sinister as it is playful.

NAKED are Agnes Gryczkowska and Alexander Johnston, a London-based duo engaging with noise, industrial, experimental and extreme forms of electronic music. Their new EP— Total Power Exchange — released on Halcyon Veil, uses the sounds of sex, vomit and noise to create a heavy, spine-crushing noise hybrid with Salò-birthed vocals.

Taking its title from a masochistic practice, Total Power Exchange refers to a sexual relationship or activity in which there is the submissive and the master – the control filters down to all aspects of the submissive’s life and existence – which can also be taken as metaphor for socio-political control. NAKED live up to every letter of that premise, subjecting the listener to a barrage of unpleasantries/ecstasies in the destructive maul of “Unleash Me”, then drowning them like “Yellow Tears” in the cistern with the paso-doble flashcore battery of “Spit”, before sousing ears with incendiary sonics in “Disease”, and obliterating the senses via tirade of blastbeats and unrepentant squall in Whip.

NAKED’s live performance is an integral part of their practice – it penetrates, caresses and obliterates all senses. Raw, primordial and uncontrolled, yet ephemeral and highly emotional, their live presence is characterised by the extremity of vocal and sonic deliveries, Agnes’ confrontational destruction of the boundaries between performer and audience, lighting capable of inducing altered states of consciousness, olfactory interventions, and raw power electronics.

This year saw NAKED release two new music videos and an alternative national anthem for DAZED which followed the release of their debut album Zone and a collaboration with Mykki Blanco. They have performed at Unsound Festival, City Hall in London for the Serpentine Galleries, SXSW, RBMA and Cafe OTO and are set to announce their first live dates in Asia.

Group A is Berlin-based Japanese duo specialising in experimental minimal electronics with violin and playing quite odd live shows laying somewhere in between modern punk action and performance art. The band is among a new breed of noise and industrial musicians with the strong DIY spirit that are taking the genre and making it their own.

https://groupa.bandcamp.com/

JK FLESH is the pseudonym employed by Justin K Broadrick for his solo work within the realm of heavy/brutal electronica/techno – informed by industrial, dub, power electronics and the extreme excesses of electronic music driven by beats and bass. Justin initially used this pseudonym in the legendary Techno-Animal with co-conspirator Kevin Martin (of The Bug / King Midas Sound, etc).

https://jkflesh.bandcamp.com/

The London based improvisation duo Tomaga has established itself amongst Europe’s most interesting experimental acts of the last years. Percussionist Valentina Magaletti (now also in UUUU) and bass player / electronicist Tom Relleen have been working together o.a. with French mecano musician Pierre Bastien and releasing numerous albums.

Their latest project focuses on a new live soundtrack for Kenneth Anger’s movie Lucifer Rising from 1972. Lucifer Rising is regarded as a cult classic in the genre of occult film, with numerous magickal symbols and allegories, ranging from ancient Egypt to Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. After a vaulted soundtrack for the film by Bobby Beausoleil (Manson Family) and a later official soundtrack by Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Tomaga takes on the soundtrack into the next century. A special screening of the film with live-soundtrack will take place on the Saturday of Spider, Spit and Broken Bells. Don’t miss this!

https://tomaga.bandcamp.com/

Turia was started in the winter of 2014. The band aims to evoke gripping black metal, stripped to its bare necessities. Utilizing a minimal setup of drums and guitar they bring to life a mirage of sound while anguished screams drag the listener into a vastness of desolation. Turia’s minimalist bare stripped Black Metal makes them stand out in their genre, ascending themselves to be one of The Netherland’s most promising black metal bands of the last years.

https://montturia.bandcamp.com/

Michel Banabila, born 1961, is a sound artist, composer, and producer. Banabila has released music since 1983 and has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. He has worked and performed in The Netherlands, Poland, Lebanon, UK, South Africa, Russia, Japan, Spain, China, USA and Belgium.

Banabila is especially keen on mixing disciplines and music styles, using elements and influences from jazz, electronic music, classical and world music. Therefore there is no particular genre to categorize Banabila’s music. In addition to acoustic instrumentation, Banabila uses electronics, field recordings, and snippets from radio, tv and the internet. He has collaborated with many artists like Anton Goudsmit, Erkan Oğur, Hanyo van Oosterom, Holger Czukay, Joshua Samson, Machinefabriek, Mete Erker, Oene van Geel, Radboud Mens, Salar Asid, Sandhya Sanjana, Scanner, Yaşar Saka , Eric Vloeimans, and Zenial, among others.

His earliest ambient work has been given a lot of attention lately with beautiful reissue albums on labels like Bureau B and Séance Centre: https://www.seance-centre.com/michel-banabila/

One of Britain’s best kept secrets, Giant Swan is a Bristol-based techno-not-techno band, famed for their amazing live performances. They build their music on a foundation of rhythmic tension and frenzied improvisation, so their show is an ever-changing energetic spectacle. Combining hardware, guitar and manipulated vocals, they make thunderous and aggressive music that taps into both industrial noise and psychedelic jamminess.

David edren has been creating electronic sounds as DSR Lines for almost 2 decades, laying out liquifying modular synth stunners as audible acupuncture sessions. Edren keeps his sounds tactly understated and fully improvising explores his scientific aesthetics with delicacy and restrain. In 2012 he co-started the Hare Akedod label, an imprint for electro acoustic improv music. His latest work explores his own take on electronic gamelan music.

http://a-dsr.net

http://dsrlines.bandcamp.com