This Saturday, Dark Disco is back at Good Units once again, this time with a lineup that’s sure to inspire some serious debauchery. Although the artists featured this week are varied in their musical productions, they have all pushed the envelop of what electronic music is understood to be, each in their own individual way.
Toronto native Merrill Nisker, better known as Peaches, is an electroclash artist whose songs are mainly focused on sexuality. She lives and works in Berlin. She plays almost all the instruments for her songs, programs her own electronic beats, and produces her records. Peaches’ music is preoccupied with gender identity. Her lyrics and live shows self-consciously blur the distinction between male and female: she appears on the cover of her second album Fatherfucker with a full beard. Peaches is a state of mind as much as she is an artist. Essentially, Peaches is a revelation — an embodiment of sexual freedom, a damnation of gendered and lookist labels, and an admirable nasty attitude.
Creep are two girls from Brooklyn making sexy and spectral trip-hop that sounds like the soundtrack to an unearthly porno. Composed of producers/DJs Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard, the duo are calling in acts such as The xx and Nina Sky to sweeten their sinister soundscapes. Though they’ve been acting primarily as producers, Creep will soon be a full on band, using heavy visuals in their live performances.
Saheer Umar, together with Olivier Spencer, is one half of the infamous duo House of House. House Of House was formed to inject a grandiose and soul-searing bit of drama onto the dance floor, a lost element that made legends of the great clubs of yesteryear. They have been influenced by the classic sounds of New York and New Jersey Deep House, seminal Techno outfits like Basic Channel and Underground Resistance and the soulful sounds of Imagination, Womack and Sade.
Relatively new to the scene, Rinsed combines some of the best upcoming drum & bass talent in the Midlands area. Promoted by Wizzdom and Jonty, Rinsed holds regular drum & bass nights at The Caddyshack, Whitchurch aswell as supporting many other promoters in the area.
Advanced tickets can be purchased HERE.
Check out photos from the last Dark Disco HERE.
