Platform @ The Scene Club, Swansea
Sat 25 Mar
Alongside Isis Salvaterra, DJ and producer Claus Voigtmann founded the Toi.Toi.Musik brand of London warehouse parties in 2010, and it’s become respected for the integrity with which they’re organised and run, not to mention the quality of the music therein – often house and techno with a deep, minimal and abstract edge. In Voigtmann’s own words, “Music needs to be challenging and to us, if it doesn’t have that element of risk and complexity leading to change, we are really not interested.”
As well as hosting sets by the likes of Zip, Delano Smith and Move D and being invited to curate lineups at Fabric, Sonar and Rex Club, the imprint is an agency and a record label too. Voigtmann himself is similarly ambidextrous, running parties with one hand while operating the mixing desk and the turntables with another, DJing with reptilian control and producing suave, sophisticated techno for labels including Hello? Repeat.
We’re sad to say this great booking marks the promoters of Platform exiting Swansea after sharp and unusual bookings over the past couple of years – another sad loss for the city’s nightlife after the demise of Dogruff last year. Hopefully there will be more promoters to fill these two nights’ shoes, but for the time being, this is set to be another night of bittersweet jittering to deep, minimal techno while you wonder when your next rave will be.
Tickets: £12.50/£10. Info: [email protected]