Amid scattering glitches and the shimmer of bass vibrato the groove never ceased its constant morphing as Dorian Concepts dilligently juggled it in his hands. Shifting across his table of appliances with moves which could be plucked from an eighties electro party, Mr. Dorian took the audience through a seamless stream of rhythmic consciousness driven by quirky riffs and technical wizardry.
Synyesthesia in one form is manifested as seeing sounds as colours. King Midas Sound were an intoxicated blurry haze, through which the crackle and distortion enveloped KOKO like a giant oven glove. This was tough love. Eerie vocals, channeled as if through a bunker with head nodding feminine dance steps, knob twiddling and DJ wizardry applied for an unsettling but rewarding experience.
Occasionally a DJ succeeds in hitting the nail on the head whilst grappling with the cumbersome nature of a sledgehammer. So much about Mark Pritchard, aka Harmonic 313's music is dense, hard and seamingly remorseless in its uncompromising nature. But, with a set mixing his own work with bass heavy behemoths, tonight he endlessly drops the needle on abrasive yet syncopated grooves to the sole effect of tearing up the laminate boards of KOKO for all they are worth. Endlessly switching up styles, the transitions of which ought to be jarring but which in effect give each new meander a feeling of refreshing surprise, Harmonic 313 proves his ability to marry the dysfunctional with the dancefloor and status as electronic powerhouse. This was an extension of the Detroit swing groove into event horizon looping territory. All that could have topped this was an emcee to master ceremoniously the wildin' out crowd.
And now we reach Kode 9. Really, can you trust a man who has written a book of freaking sonic-warfare to amplify sounds to a few thousand people? The french girl said it was very good "kode 9 just smashed it...it was an incredibly good night...all the line up was properly banging." And as we are still here to write and talk about it, he didn't kill us either. Thank you Kode 9.
And thank you SOUNDCRASH.
By Tom C. Grant
Edited by P. Dominoes
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