SLAM

Con7rol @ The Attic, Swansea

Sat 23 Mar

“Slam radio… tune in!” blurts the overtly robotic voice introducing the Glaswegian duo to their weekly broadcast. Showcasing mixes from their most esteemed peers and rising talent, this is just one of the many ways Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle contribute to techno culture. For decades the pair have trounced the scene, back-to-back, six decks and dressed in black. Now co-running Riverside Festival in Glasgow, hosting Maximum Pressure warehouse parties and managing their label Soma – even offering Soma School to those aspiring to techno greatness.

Revered for their ability to remain at the genre’s heartbeat worldwide. The pair deal on the darker side of the techno spectrum, providing ruminating vibrations, eclectic melodies and beguiling repetitions. They epitomise power in techno, doing nothing at half measures: Slam is six decks, bouncing Funktion Ones, echoing warehouses, entrancing light work and dark rooms filled with thousands of fist-pumpers.

This will be the ninth installment of Con7rol, promoters who’ve previously brought the likes of Dense & Pika, Latmun and Mark Reeve to Swansea’s Attic club. Suffice to say that Con7rol have made another move towards becoming the benchmark for Swansea’s techno scene.

Tickets: £15. Info: facebook.com/theatticswansea 

words Campbell Prosser