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 the recording name of Saphy Vong (born 1982), an experimental electronic music producer and composer born to Cambodian parents, raised in Nancy, France, and currently based in Brighton, UK. He is known for creating intricate electronic music that is characterised by its emphasis on melody and hypnotic pacing, conceptually stylised structures and extreme use of audio processing techniques.
Early incarnations of Neo Geodesia date back to the mid 2000s when performing under the moniker Lafidki. That project saw him begin using the stylistic forms of electronic and experimental music, combined with the structure and abrasiveness of noise music. He has released on Orange Milk records before founding Chinabot, a collective of Asian artists. In 2021 he released his LP ‘2562 Neon Flames’ on Chinabot, which focused heavily on experimental funeral compositions.
His work has been extensively presented in festivals and venues across the world such as the Tate Modern, Hyperdub night, Pitchfork Festival in London, Act Festival Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, Lost Music Festival in Parma, and Unsafe+Sounds Festival in Vienna.
https://www.chinabot.co/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/
