Spacific presents:

Pitch Black

Pitch Black + Polyop

Sebright Arms, London, GB

£12
Entry Requirements: 18+

Electronic producers Pitch Black bring their hugely popular show back to London. Fusing live music with customised visuals, the sensory feast aims to recontextualise their new album Third Light.

Support on the night comes from audiovisual act Polyop.

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Pitch Black are Michael Hodgson and Paddy Free. Having pumped their way through New Zealand’s electronic music scene since their inaugural performance at the annual Gathering New Year's eve festival in 1996, they have spent the subsequent years rousing dance floor punters, generating rave reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the world.

Hard to box into a single audio 'genre', Pitch Black is a combination of musical journeys. Their sound is distinctive; ranging from organic ambient beginnings and layered soundscapes to skanking keyboards, cutting acid riffs and thumping rhythmic grooves, with dub being the glue that holds their sound together. One critic has described them as like "Orbital meets King Tubby, or Rhythm and Sound in Technicolor".

It is their live show that really makes Pitch Black stand out from the rest of the crowd, both sonically and visually. Their tracks take on an added dynamism and their performances reveal the dialectic behind the band - Paddy wants to do it for the crowd, Michael wants to do it to the crowd. Visually they are in another dimension thanks to Michael's cutting edge visuals.

They have toured the world relentlessly, playing everywhere from Amsterdam to Zagreb and the streets of Las Vegas to the Australian outback, supporting acts such as Coldcut, Skream, Easy Dub All Stars and System 7 along the way.

POLYOP are a live techno/electro act based in London. They have developed an audio-visual show performed using synthesisers, drum machines and their own visual software. With energetic electro and generative visuals, the show tells the story of an alien god travelling through an alternate dimension.

Enlist on an audio-visual cosmic pilgrimage to distant reaches of an alternate polyhedral universe, occupied by psychedelic soundscapes, rhythmical acid entities and uncharted electro artefacts.

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