Lee Gamble
ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY team up with The Bunker to present a late-night lineup (11pm-6am) at Ridgewood's K&K Super Buffet.
Regis (Downwards, Blackest Ever Black | Birmingham)
Lee Gamble (PAN | London)
Keith Fullerton Whitman (eMego, PAN | Cambridge) LIVE
Laurel Halo (Hyperdub | Brooklyn) LIVE
Bill Kouligas (PAN) LIVE
Regis the pseudonym of Karl O'Connor, best known for his influential Downwards label that he has run with fellow art terrorist Peter Sutton (Female) since 1993. Unconventional and single-minded to say the least (what label can boast a back catalogue free of the industry standard cash cow remix ) by decentralising the focus on the DJ/producer personality, he remains one of the more highly regarded creative forces within the British techno/electronic scene.
Lee Gamble started out as a teenager dj-ing on pirate radio and on the emerging Jungle scene, and his approach to music has taken a more experimental direction. Exploring the outer realms of abstraction through digital synthesis/resynthesis, Lee has described his current compositional process as: “…The configuration of material (ex nihilo) via various digital synthesis methods, prompts further disfigurations and reconfigurations. What you then have left is often the detritus or debris of an idea. Phantasms of both previous and current musical, pseudo-scientific and sculptural influences are manifest as new material abstractions, created from the digital blank canvas. This abstraction allows several interests to appear in the works simultaneously…”. He is a also a founding member of the UK-based CYRK collective and has curated/co-curated several Cyrk events. He has also produced and curated three radio series for London based radio station Resonance104.4FM and he continues to DJ. Lee has released his computer compositions on the Entr’acte label and has collaborated with composer John Wall and artists Yutaka Makino and Bryan Lewis Saunders. 'Diversions 1994-1996' E.P is is the beginning of a longer-term collaboration with PAN which also includes a full length album later this year.
Laurel Halo is a recording artist from Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Taking influence from her Midwest roots, Halo has developed a unique take on electronic music; loosely defined as experimental, her music has touched on a variety of styles, combining hardware pulse, ambience and intricate sampling to address themes of physical process and virtual violence. In a live context Halo’s music is centered around hybrid rhythms, sub bass and psychedelic push. Halo’s debut album “Quarantine” was released on Hyperdub to critical acclaim in 2012, receiving such accolades as #10 Album of the Year in The Washington Post, and the #1 Album of the Year in The Wire Magazine.
Keith Fullerton Whitman is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drone, electronic, drill and bass, musique concrète and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski and has been also member in many 90s bands, including El-Ron, The Liver Sadness, Sheket/Trabant, The Finger Lakes and Gai/Jin. He started recording using his own name in 2001, and most of his work recorded today is under that name. He studied computer music at Berklee College of Music, where he was exposed to modern electronic music composition and synthesis.
Bill Kouligas is a musician, designer and dj operating between NYC and Berlin. He is founder of the record label PAN, which recalibrates perceptions of the avant-garde and electronic dance music. Bill’s insistence on following his own path and passion has won acclaim from thinkers, collectors, and dancers alike, and puts his vision at the forefront of the electronic vanguard. After many years of performing and producing experimental music under different aliases this will be an all new live electronic set.
