Spoken / Voigtmann
Delete @ Jacob’s Market, Cardiff
Sun 25 Aug
Another one at Jacob’s! Dutch duo Spokenn spell ‘tech-house’ with a capital H and play peppy, steppy, pristinely-produced tracks with popping staccato grooves that change twice in the half-hour, therefore bringing a kind of Fabric feel to the room like some sort of mandy-scented candle.
Voigtmann’s sets are a bit harder to pin down; like Spokenn’s, they’re all pretty upbeat and peppy, (also steppy), but there’s a lot more keyboard-mashing that’s been happening, and more weird textures at play. Layers upon layers of loops of dissonant synth bloops and snarls that mash together in a building groove that drops back into that rushing peppy, steppy groove that the Delete crowd will have grown to love after nine or so hours on the car park roof in the daylight, alongside the regular Delete DJs who must have their own coveted plinths between the grandfather clocks at Jacob’s by now.
This is Delete’s last summertime hurrah for the year (how is this happening already?), with an afterparty in the basement that stretches on until 4am and will presumably feature Delete residents again. The event marks the last bank holiday of the season with a big blast of twinkly, metropolitan dance music – some kind of popping, constant-motiony house. If only there were any words to describe it.
Tickets: £18. Info: facebook.com/deletecardiff (JM)