TECHnique for Inverness in April 2016.
Whilst sharing a venue with Wet Wet Wet (who will be playing earlier in the year), the 6 hour techno event couldn’t be further apart from the Glaswegian popsters. TECHnique boasts four iconic techno influenced DJ/Producers led by the “Baron of Techno”, Dave Clarke.
Clarke has remixed legends Depeche Mode and New Order as well as the more contemporary A Place To Bury Strangers and Gazelle Twin. His DJ sets are described by Thomas Green of Mixmag as being “all punchy, kick-arse hip hop-flavoured mixing, alongside a stern devotion to real techno. He brings punk attitude to everything.”
He will be joined by Kenny Larkin (aka Dark Comedy) who in an interview with Low Life last year said of his music “I’m gonna try to do something that has some kind of substance to it, instead of just bangin’ people out with a drumtrack, which is easy.. you can just make it hard, and heavy, and people go wild.. but where’s the art in that?”. With an ethos like that, it’s perhaps no surprise that he has been credited with some of the most timeless and soulful techno during his career that has stretched two decades.
Fellow Americans, brothers Lenny and Lawrence Burden, known as Octave One will also be performing live at TECHnique. The duo currently announced gigs range from Canada to Europe.” If anyone can make cookie-cutter techno?” asks Peter Kern “then improvisation is the route back to heart and soul. And there are few people as good at making dense, bass-heavy improvised dance music as Detroit’s Octave One.”.
Completing the bill is another veteran of the scene, albeit from closer afield, in Glaswegian Funk D’Void. With hits including “Jack Me Off”, “Bad Coffee” and “Emotional Content”,he has been at the forefront of the global electronic music scene since the mid Nineties.
Steve Robertson, TwentyTen MD said of the event;
“I’ve been passionate about electronic music especially techno for many years and it’s amazing to be involved in an event of this nature & size happening in my home city, April 30th is going to be an amazing day for Highland dance and electronic gig goers”.
Tickets , for the event to be held at Ironworks , Inverness , and are available to buy on-line NOW.
