Splott Warehouse, Cardiff
Sat 11 June
CYNT, in league with Purrmotions, are back again, and with their best line up for years, after a Joy Orbison-headlined warmup on Fri 3 June. This is one of Cardiff’s biggest house and techno events for a long time. Scuba [pictured] has a vibrant history in UK dance music: Paul Rose started the Hotflush label in 2005, and with his own productions played a key role in the creation of the original dubstep sound. He’s reinvented himself multiple times since those dark, gritty rhythm experiments. Four albums down, he’s traversed austere Berlin machine music and shiny pseudo-trance, with his most recent material mastering a big-room 90s-leaning progressive techno sound.
Boddika is an even more shapeshifting producer. Real name Alex Green, he started off deep in the drum’n’bass world’s deeper side, as half of Instra:mental, the name under which he helped rejuvenate a stagnating sound with cold, inventive rhythms and downtempo twists, before becoming Boddika. This alias explored 130bpm sounds, mixing techno, electro and house with technically advanced skills and powerfully futuristic feel.
Elsewhere on the lineup are still more delights for the energetic dancers. Daniel Avery brings the brilliant slow-mo acid and machine chug you might have heard on his album Drone Logic, signed by Erol Alkan to his Phantasy label. And Ejeca brings his limber yet eye-rollingly heavy hybrid sound of adrenaline-heavy techno-house, with breezy UK garage energy infused within.
Tickets: £20. Info: [email protected] (GTDC)