ELECTRIC SOUP #10
Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff. Sat 8 June
Electric Soup is a semi-regular night usually held at M.A.D.E., an art gallery and shop in Roath, Cardiff. Its approximate remit is to showcase electronic music, or music with some demonstrable electronic element, in the form of live sets; having done this nine times in the last couple of years, they’re marking a minor milestone by taking #10 to a larger room a mile or so away.
The biggest Electric Soup lineup to date is typically eclectic. Headliner Kayla Painter [pictured]covers a fair bit of ground herself: the Bristol producer typically wanders between glitchy IDM, wispy folktronica and chunkier, dubsteppier jams. She played Cardiff twice last year and went down a treat both times. Private World are the most ‘rock’ entity on the bill, but their dreampop-via-Roxy Music style is built to a large extent around gauzy, impressionistic keyboards. Jaxson Payne, meanwhile, is a sight to behold, playing triggered MIDI drums which produce ravey results – 90s jungle in his latest set – you’ll hardly believe was made with human hands.
Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio, who played an Electric Soup night in January, offer looped-up ambient jazz. Lecu, a Cardiff resident, is somewhere between 90s melodic techno and DIY synthpop and opening duo Massa Circles drone lushly on analogue synths.
Admission: £15/£10 adv. Info: 029 2047 3373 / www.cardiffmade.com
words Noel Gardner