Thursday 12 February 2026, 7.30pm
Margate Electronics is a curated event exploring the intersection of club music and experimental electronic sound. The events run quarterly at Margate Arts Club and focus on live, hardware-based, concept-driven performances. This London edition marks the project’s debut at Cafe OTO and doubles as the launch of Margate Electronics’ Editions label, celebrating its first tape release by Missing Music, who will perform live alongside Margate-based acts YKLU & Danny and Tomas Jefanovas, and a DJ set from London-based performing artist Soborgnost.
This event is supported by Arts Council England.
Suren Seneviratne is a prolific Sri Lankan sound artist based in London and Kent, UK. His conceptual project Missing Music meticulously documents obsolete music software, VST plugins and sound tools designed for Macintosh computers during the 1990s and 2000s. Originally conceived as an online repository boasting over 300 archival entries, the project has since transformed into a dynamic live audio-visual improvisation featuring Apple iBook and PowerBook computers authentic to the Y2K era.
YKLU and Danny present “the Joane Duo”: a new performance building on the duo’s previous work exploring and reinterpreting east Kentish vinyl records as a memorialisation of forgotten artists and sounds.
The original Joanne Duo released the album “Together” in 1977. It was recorded in Deal for ERON Enterprises, a local record company run out of a house in Deal, and released to supplement the Duo's busy work as live performers in Thanetian clubs and German army bases. YKLU and Danny take the organ and voice-led sounds of the group and channel them through contemporary technologies to both conjure with the past and speculate on other-worldly sonic futures. They also draw on other vinyl ephemera of the era, including a recording of the punk band Lurkers playing at the Margate Queen’s Hotel, just a few miles and months apart from the Joanne Duo’s recording session.
Working with multi instrumental / live electronics, voice and home-made instruments Danny and YKLU offer a sonic landscape rooted in improvisation, critical nostalgia and performing with archives.
Tomas Jefanovas is a Lithuanian, Margate-based multidisciplinary artist exploring experimental electronic sound and visual processing. Combining analogue and digital methods, his practice merges sound and image into immersive live sets built around minimal structures, rhythms and noise-driven textures. He works with hardware synthesizers and drum machines, and generative moving image. He is the co-founder, curator, and creative director of the Margate Electronics project.
Soborgnost is Jim Osman, sci-fi dance punk at the intersection of vaporwave, minimal wave, disco dub, industrial, EBM, proto-house, drone and noise. His DJ sets are of the same liminal space between black dance music and avant-garde experimental weirdness.
