Blog: SoundsXP

Demdike Stare entered stage left, took to their seats under a stained glass window, and quietly, without fuss, plugged the Union Chapel into the universe. What followed was an hour and a half of astonishing deep-space drone. Throughout the performance, a projector splattered a degraded flickering mess of film fragments over the walls behind the duo as they wrung a series of epic crackles and groans from their equipment, the whole sound often soaked in enveloping sub-bass. The techno thump and rumbling bass often found room for an Autechre-like algorithmic churn from which [...]