Uncompromising futuristic techno exploration

dB comes back to Contact with a heavyweight line-up of techno innovation from two visionary live performers. SHXCXCHCXSH are a mysterious Swedish duo who have taken the Scandinavian country’s strong techno tradition and matched it with a fierce modernity that transcends geo-location. To date their five albums have appeared via Avian and Rösten – fitting homes for the steely, many-layered and dynamic form of techno they produce. As incisive on stage as they are on record, their live set on the Studio X Floor promises to be a rush of kinetic energy and psychoactive sound design.

Providing a perfect counterpart to the rush of SHXCXCHCXSH, Ena returns to Contact to deliver his own distinctive twist on live performance. As his career progresses, Ena’s sound takes on increasingly abstract forms without losing sight of the techno and drum & bass touchstones that have informed his subliminal work in the past.

With the Studio X Floor given over to both artists for the entire evening, the scene is set for extensive exploration of live performance within the realms of forward-facing, left-of-centre electronics.