(The next event's line-up is enough to tempt me into booking a flight - Cristian Vogel, Violetshaped, PAN's Bill Kouligas and more are on the bill). Kerridge also runs the Contort night in Berlin, which acts as a platform for experimental electronic musicians. Kick drums are frequently squashed into the background, but that never seems to detract from the musicʼs forceful impact – sometimes it even strengthens it. Dripping with distortion, his is a slow and sensuous take on the genre that draws from classic 4/4 music, but also the tectonic drones of Sunn O))), the occult industrial electronics of The Haxan Cloak, and even Pink Floyd, all the while retaining a caustic and noisy edge. Bleak techno may have been attracting a great deal of press lately, but he's no bandwagon-jumper. Samuel Kerridge may have only released one EP to date, the almost impossibly accomplished Auris Interna on Horizontal Ground, but youʼre about to hear a great deal more from him, beginning with his new Waiting For Love 12", which is about to be released through Regis' Downwards label.
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