In between festivals, our friends at Connected Agency
@connected_fam are not wasting any time. This year, they have planned at least two concerts that we wholeheartedly recommend.
The first one is already happening next week: a show by Dälek, a veteran of abstract hip-hop who helped lay the foundations of the genre back in the late 1990s. If you are into clipping. or Death Grips today, missing a chance to see one of their godfathers would be a mistake. The concrete hopelessness of the metropolis, racism covered in a layer of rust, and total info-apocalypse — Dälek was among the first to channel dystopian moods through hip-hop delivery set against bleak industrial beats.
In October, Connected will bring Autechre — one of the most important projects in electronic music. Starting out in the early 1990s, Autechre quickly entered the pantheon of IDM gods alongside Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, and Boards of Canada. Over the three and a half decades that followed, however, they gradually separated themselves from their scene peers, building their own philosophy on the ruins of the genre — one that, for many fans, has become almost a religion.
By steadily expanding the limits of song structures and forms, Autechre eventually began to celebrate the idea of digital chaos itself. Stripped of familiar structure, deliberately plastic, and overloaded with events, their music became a metaphor for the present day. As an artistic gesture, it can be compared to Malevich’s Black Square or John Cage’s 4’33”.
The duo’s concerts take place in complete darkness, while the sound flow contains almost no recognizable elements — only distant echoes of familiar forms, accidental overlaps, and digital ripples.
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@connected_fam 
