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Ikon Eastside Closing Party: ON/OFF
Thursday 12 November, 7.30 – Late, Free.

Oscillating between zero and one, are you switched on?

We’re collaborating with Ikon Eastside on a party that echoes the binary principles at the heart of Japanese sound and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda’s work. We’ve got a very special performance from acclaimed electronic/ post-rock act worriedaboutsatan and we’ll be DJing our picks of the best electronica,  synth-pop, ambient and IDM music new and old.

Dress code and lighting will be suitably monochrome.

About worriedaboutsatan

The pairing of Tom Ragsdale and Gavin Miller released their debut Arrivals earlier this year to great reviews. It subtly weaves ambient, minimal techno and post-rock structures to create an incredible sonic landscape, recalling godspeed! you black emperor and aphex twin’s ambient works in its ability to summon and sustain a vivid, otherworldly environment.

The album recently received a glowing 7.6 review from Pitchfork, who had this to say:

“like the back of an immense sea-creature rhythmically slipping above and below the waves. The percussion is manicured yet spritzy, with the baroque cadences of spitting rain. Periodic vocal samples are hung about in hazy washes, making it sound a bit like Burial for English-Lit majors. The structures are crescendo-based, but arrive by such creeping degrees that we’re never jarred, only soothed, lulled.”

Upon hearing Arrivals, we knew we had found the perfect band for On/Off: a British band that are pushing the boundaries of electronic music and integrating advances in digital technology. The stunning Eastside gallery space, an enormous former warehouse in Digbeth, Birmingham’s former manufacturing district, is the ideal setting for their soaring guitars and dramatic beats to envelop.

MP3: worriedaboutsatan – You’re In My Thoughts

Ikon Eastside

183 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE