Name: Kontravoid // Mvtant // Andi+Machino // Susan Subtract
Start: 2024-10-19T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Twilight Cafe and Bar

$Kontravoid \/\/ Mvtant \/\/ Andi+Machino \/\/ Susan Subtract$

Kontravoid (LA/Toronoto)
Kontravoid’s masked mystique has remained for over a decade. Ever since the release of his self-titled LP in 2012, the Canadian-born, LA-based Cameron Findlay has perfected dark pop with a unique composition which moves eloquently through the EBM, electro and goth genres. His past releases, such as 2019’s “Too Deep” and 2021’s “Faceless,” have no trouble reaching the most derelict corners of foggy, strobe-lit clubs, leaving listeners with no choice but to dance. With an uncanny softness and unmistakable songwriting ability, Kontravoid composes heart-wrenching songs that are both captivating and drenched in melancholy – showcased on 2018’s “Undone”, which has been lauded as a fan favorite since its release.
MVTANT (San Antonio TX)
Mutant Body Horror.
Mvtant was conceived as a cassette tape industrial project: motorik lines pulse out of analog synthesizers and dreamy primitive digital workstations.

Andi+Machino (NYC, Mexico)
Bringing together two body producers with differing but complimentary approaches, Parafernales finds Synthicide boss Andi and Mexico by way of Los Angeles’ Machino combining their powers for a woozy and tense ride. While both acts have been touched on classic EBM and new beat tropes, the music on the EP feels closer to chaotic synthpunk than either artist has in the past; check Andi’s warbling, desperate vocal on the heartracing, guitar-feedback accented “Surface Wound”, or the way “Secret Games” clips its cycling 16th note bassline down to barely coherent blips before blowing it back out with fist-pumping release. That said, the spirit of classic body music is never far off: on “False Passion” you can hear their shared passion from the genre shine through its scarred carapace, its tiny sequences that might be whimsical in another context and drums packed in tight formation giving it some extra muscle behind its convulsive rhythm. Great, if fraught stuff from two folks who should be on your radar.

DJ Susan Subtract (PDX, Physical Wash, High-Functioning Flesh)
Doors 8pm