Percolating grooves across the electronic music spectrum

Committed to exploring a variety of styles, Konvektion returns to Contact with another finely-curated line-up that fills out two floors with cutting edge sounds from warm and buoyant grooves to tough and propulsive workouts. Making his first appearance at Contact by heading up the Studio X floor, which will be focusing on noise and industrial, Henning Baer represents the beating heart of Berlin techno. As a co-founder of fabled party Grounded Theory and the K209 imprint with Milton Bradley, Baer has helped stimulate the club scene in the German capital with a combination of focused aesthetics and a desire to push things forward. Just like his productions for his own Manhigh label, he’ll be bringing a scorching heat to the dancefloor with his gritty, uncompromising techno with an industrial edge.

The Contact floor will sit in contrast to the pounding intensity of Studio X as it welcomes John Osborn’s DRED label. As well as Osborn himself, the night will feature Tasoko toasting the release of his album on the label alongside his fellow Okinawa resident and Contact mainstay IORI. Stretching from house and electro to leftfield sounds, this DRED showcase will be the many-sided inversion to the steely focus of the main room, which is another curational feat of Konvektion that will make for sheer dynamism as a whole.