Tbilisi's Substation Club Reopens After Two-Year Silence
The Tbilisi club returns on 19 September at a reduced 380 capacity, with Barometric and DJ Provenance on the opening bill.
Silas Reyes
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Scene Report: Tbilisi's Basement Techno Renaissance
Substation has been dark for two years. In the wine cellars, car parks and stairwells of Tbilisi, the crews who kept the city dancing have built something they may not want to hand back.
At the Fjord Festival, the Weather Is the Headliner
Three days, twenty-two hours of rain and 1,400 people in borrowed waterproofs. The best set of the Fjord Festival happened after the generator died, with no power and no microphones.
Postcards From the Reykjavik DIY Circuit
Five rooms, one borrowed PA and a bus timetable that decides when everything has to end. Postcards from a circuit that runs on other people's keys.
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Live Session: Barometric Turn a Storm Into a Set
Barometric booked this session off a forecast. For fifty-one minutes a collapsing low pressure system chose the tempo, opened the filters, and decided when the set was over.
The Warehouse Kids of Sao Paulo Are Building Their Own Grid
Sixty-two addresses, two diesel generators and a rule about who is allowed to add a room. In Sao Paulo, the parties that outlast the venues are the ones with better logistics.
Night Bus to Nowhere: Manchester's After-Hours Revival
Four buses, one night, and a set of rules nobody wrote down. Manchester's after-hours scene has quietly rebuilt itself around the bus timetable and the end of the late shift.
Five Questions for Barometric, the Duo Turning Weather Data Into Techno
Pressure to filter cutoff, humidity to delay feedback, wind speed to tempo. Ines Aalto and Marta Reis explain the rules of their machine, the treaty that stops them cheating, and the night the weather refused to do anything at all.
Seoul's Modular Scene Meets in a Former Bathhouse
Once a month, in a tiled room that has not held water since 2011, thirty people plug their machines into one another and find out what the building will allow.
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