Forward-thinking bass eruptions from leaders in the field

Terra Incognita is an intermittent event that takes over Contact in pursuit of exciting new sounds on the freshest frontiers of club music. In the past year alone they’ve welcomed such esteemed acts as Jane Fitz, Tom Ellis, Call Super, Pangaea, Ploy and Asusu amongst many others.

For this latest session, there’s a distinct Hessle Audio flavour to the line-up. The maverick UK label continues to be at the forefront of bass-loaded leftfield dance music, thanks in no small part to the work carried out by co-founder Pearson Sound. As a producer and DJ, he’s set the tone for some of the wildest dance music of the past 10 years, springing from dubstep abstraction into further mutations of techno, house, electro and much more besides.

As a core part of the Hessle Audio family, Bruce’s spirit naturally aligns with the label’s experimental club ethos. The Bristol-based artist’s distinctive approach shatters conventions through accomplished sound design, tension and restraint, space in the mix and much more besides. These traits apply as much in his inventive DJ sets as his own tunes. Terra Incoginita kicks off its Reiwa time with a modernist, earth-shuddering, widescreen vision of electronic music.