Bristol’s Realist Alive join forces with London’s PETRICHOR, bringing to Exchange’s main room a line-up of electronic mavericks both long-tenured and burgeoning. Nairobi’s unmissable Slikback descends for a solo live debut after shattering Loco Klub last year alongside Aïsha Devi. SVBKVLT’s Hyph11e delivers her iridescent bass-driven style of industrial dance. Paris’ prey coded debuts in the UK as one of contemporary dance music’s more alarming, admirable and inscrutable newcomers.
Slikback [live] -
@slikback is an experimental electronic producer from Nairobi, Kenya. Racking up a decade now of genreless, inimitable releases, characterised by the absorption of anything and everything from Gqom, hardcore techno, trap and dubstep, entwining Pan-African instrumentation with some of the fiercest low-end punishment worldwide, he is a titan of club music equal parts radically deconstructed and fearlessly personal.
Slikback arrives to Bristol for a live solo debut off the back of 2025’s Attrition on Planet Mu, a record that melded sensitive moments of orchestral ambience, exploratory soundscapes and Slikback’s bass music iconoclasm. Few records in recent memory have been more immediate proofs of an artist’s singularity, as Attrition’s generic dexterity and visual flair combine with each track generating a world uniquely its own. Smoke-laden sci-fi speedcore, blends of baile funk and gabber seemingly voiced from the wreckage of a spacecraft, ludic dreamscapes. Slikback is essentially an artist whom words cannot contain.
Hyph11e - Primarily associated with Shanghai-born, UK-based label SVBKVLT,
@hyph11e has long practiced an original mode of bass music, integrating industrial atmospherics with the hyperactive patterns of drum and bass and footwork. An international act, she has played from Dekmantel to Rewire, regularly showcasing her uniquely dystopic style across Asia and Europe.
The bill features the UK debut of Parisian super-talent
@_preycoded + PETRICHOR head-honcho
@kaitrwu & Bristol’s qwerty-uiop going b2b with Realist co-founder tskali.
Exchange
Friday 29 May
11PM-4AM
Tickets on Headfirst
Poster by
@grinnallll and
@sam_baraitser_smith 
![Bristol’s Realist Alive join forces with London’s PETRICHOR, bringing to Exchange’s main room a line-up of electronic mavericks both long-tenured and burgeoning. Nairobi’s unmissable Slikback descends for a solo live debut after shattering Loco Klub last year alongside Aïsha Devi. SVBKVLT’s Hyph11e delivers her iridescent bass-driven style of industrial dance. Paris’ prey coded debuts in the UK as one of contemporary dance music’s more alarming, admirable and inscrutable newcomers.Slikback [live] - @slikback is an experimental electronic producer from Nairobi, Kenya. Racking up a decade now of genreless, inimitable releases, characterised by the absorption of anything and everything from Gqom, hardcore techno, trap and dubstep, entwining Pan-African instrumentation with some of the fiercest low-end punishment worldwide, he is a titan of club music equal parts radically deconstructed and fearlessly personal.Slikback arrives to Bristol for a live solo debut off the back of 2025’s Attrition on Planet Mu, a record that melded sensitive moments of orchestral ambience, exploratory soundscapes and Slikback’s bass music iconoclasm. Few records in recent memory have been more immediate proofs of an artist’s singularity, as Attrition’s generic dexterity and visual flair combine with each track generating a world uniquely its own. Smoke-laden sci-fi speedcore, blends of baile funk and gabber seemingly voiced from the wreckage of a spacecraft, ludic dreamscapes. Slikback is essentially an artist whom words cannot contain.Hyph11e - Primarily associated with Shanghai-born, UK-based label SVBKVLT, @hyph11e has long practiced an original mode of bass music, integrating industrial atmospherics with the hyperactive patterns of drum and bass and footwork. An international act, she has played from Dekmantel to Rewire, regularly showcasing her uniquely dystopic style across Asia and Europe.The bill features the UK debut of Parisian super-talent @_preycoded + PETRICHOR head-honcho @kaitrwu & Bristol’s qwerty-uiop going b2b with Realist co-founder tskali.ExchangeFriday 29 May11PM-4AMTickets on HeadfirstPoster by @grinnallll and @sam_baraitser_smith](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6739195268691438202965_0_12afbe970527165f6e146642390f0708.jpg?o=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&h=a36fc79d64db82539611b7f5e5cbce94)
