Thought I’d post this as I’m in the laptop standoff competition :horay::horay:
Solvent Live
The Laptop Standoff (aka the Mouse Factor)
Laurent Pastor (Sonar Kollektiv)
Mr Mafro
Friday 26th May
The Sub Club
10 pm till 3am
£6 before 12 am £8 after
Solvent is Jason Amm, a robot music composer and analog synthesizer fetishist. Born in Zimbabwe in 1972, Solvent currently resides in a room full of machines in Toronto, Canada.
Solvent has been releasing his unique brand of synthesizer-pop music since 1997, and is best known for his releases on Morr Music (2001’s Solvent City) and Ghostly International (2004’s Apples & Synthesizers, 2005’s Elevators & Oscillators). He is also co-founder of the obscure, yet influencial electro(nica) label, Suction Records.
Solvent has created his own unique version of electro-pop: too elegant and sincere for the electroclash set, too complex and contemporary to for retro-obsessives and too seeped in the time-honoured traditions of melody, songwriting and hands-on synthesis to be lost in the overcrowded world of IDM.
Solvent is widely regarded in the underground electronica community as being at the forefront of electro-pop’s return to form and has been gleefully blurring the lines between modern techno and vintage techno-pop.
+ on the Afro Comb stage the return of the Laptop standoff showcase
In a mouth watering warm up to Solvent we present the cream and the c*m of Scotland’s underground producers.
Six artists are set to go head-to-head in front of a panel of industry judges through a series of heats to win cash prizes and the Kinky Crown of Laptop legend (wow).
We did this last year and went down pretty well.
Vouchers to be won, acclaim to be delivered, careers to be forged, etc..
