Chronotopia Part 2

Kondaktor

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Born in Flamez

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xin (DJ)

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Sote (live)

00:00

Xyn Cabal

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Free entrance

For the second part of the night, a host of formidable, fractured club sounds descended on Romantso to invoke uncharted musical territories on the dancefloor holodeck. Showcasing hybrid sounds that evidence genre collapse and temporal mutations, Chronotopia exploded various traditions with xin and Sote, who presented more club-oriented material — the former with a DJ set, and the latter with a hardcore-inspired live set. 

Shirking notions of identity, Born in Flamez subverts gender and genre with a panoply of influences somewhere in the nether regions between noise, grime, industrial pop, and club-not-club. In 2018, they released Impossible Love via Infinite Machine — a release which questions the restrictions and tactics of queer love in today’s political climate. BiF  presented a live set based off of their more recent work, melding together collaborations, remixes, edits, and other unreleased material.

Athens-based Xyn Cabal appeared with a DJ set that reflected his own futuristic club productions. The Hypermedium affiliate recently shared his Perfect Oracle EP via The Death of Rave. Slick and synthetic, Perfect Oracle synthesizes computerised dread with decimated, mutant kuduro, gqom, dembow, and weightless grime. 

Kondaktor, who also hails from Athens, is a DJ, producer, and co-owner of the Modal Analysis label alongside ANFS and 3.14. His Afrikanochetos LP, which was released via Abstract Reality in 2017, draws on dance music lineages from Africa and their influence on mediterranean music. Presenting various rhythmic and temporal experiments, Afrikanochetos juxtaposes forward-charging momentum with lilting, unanticipated patterns.