REISS
Breathe @ warehouse venue TBC, Cardiff
Sat 30 Mar
The (inverse) lustre of the secret warehouse venue still holds sway in techno, over 30 years since acid house blew up. Remember those deeply heinous ‘abandoned warehouse rave’ events that were advertised on Facebook in every city but were actually non-existent scams to spam your profile? Well, this all-day-and-some-of-the-night rager is nothing like that. Breathe are authentic promoters, although this event is certainly their most ambitious to date, and their headliner Maurits Reiss – who, as a DJ or producer, goes simply by his last name – is a Dutchman who’s accrued a fair whack of popularity as part of the VBX collective in Amsterdam, and for his own lush post-minimal sets.
Reiss’ last 12 months have found him sharing bills with some of his clearest inspirations and forefathers, including Ricardo Villalobos, Voigtmann and minimal techno pioneer Zip. As such, he’s often employed in a warm-up role on these occasions, although by no means always, and has smashed multiple peaktime slots in a duo named Spokenn with his good pal Jasper Verrijzer, aka Ferro.
The remainder of the bill, spanning 2pm-2am, includes Alex Taylor, Jack Darwin, Läuft, Shaun Edwards, Siah and Xono. And, because you probably still want to know where the warehouse is even though it’s a secret, for now Breathe are merely saying “the industrial district”.
Tickets: £12-£16. Info: facebook.com/breathemusiccardiff
words Noel Gardner