Xylitol (Planet Mu), Kemper Norton + DJ Sarma (Slav to the Rhythm)

Celebrate 50 years of Bunnyhausen with live performances from Xylitol, previewing her forthcoming album on Planet Mu, and Kemper Norton, purveyor of Cornish electronics. They will be joined by DJ Sarma playing pan-Slavic disco, post-punk and electronica and Lula Frango running the gauntlet between techno, electro, breaks and beyond.

Xylitol:

Xylitol is the long running musical project of Catherine Backhouse aka DJ Bunnyhausen. Her 2024 album Anemones, her first for Planet Mu, connected the hidden pathways between vintage electronica, kosmische music, jungle techno and garage.

The Quietus stated: ‘It’s apt that Anemones looks to the lithographs of early biologists to communicate its ideas. Those images contain both discovery and a sense of an ancient throughline. Opener ‘Rosi’ introduces this aquatic world with squiggly percussion, deep bass and spliced loops. It creates images of bustling colonies of fish, or time lapses of primordial organisms gradually growing features […] it remains forward-looking rather than doggedly nostalgic, as “revivalist” jungle and hardcore can sometimes be’

Anemones was hailed as one of The Quietus, Norman Records, DJ Mag, First Floor and Optimo’s best albums of 2024.

As DJ Bunnyhausen she was resident at the fabled London club night Kosmische (now dormant) and is one third of Slavic disco collective Slav to the Rhythm.

Xylitol’s forthcoming album for Planet Mu plunges deeper into the realms explored on Anemones, pairing propulsive breakbeats with subaquatic melodies, cavernous basslines and tactile textures carved from processed samples and analogue electronics.

Kemper Norton:

Kemper Norton's accumulating works stand as a peerless gazeteer of England's occulted history, encompassing half-forgotten children's songs and folk dances and the sunken lands, abandoned mines and anomalous phenomena of his native Cornwall. New album Tall Trees (and other tales) finds him turning his excavatory ruminations inward to the time-befugged spectres of clubs and dancehalls past.

'The music of Kemper Norton streaks across the ages like a tipsy beach-comber, enthusiastically and expertly skipping across time’s tide and handpicking an array of instruments, contexts and influences to form what he succinctly describes as “coastal slurtronic folk”. ' The Quietus

'The lexicon of unusual folk instrumentation, all traditionally English (presumably Cornish), but remarkable for its unearthly, non-Western scales, is tiled up and funnelled, swirling, through the matrix of electronic music.' The Wire

DJ Sarma is a founder of Pan-Slavic disco, post-punk, electronica collective Slav to the Rhythm who have been bringing Yugoslavia and her neighbours to the airwaves and discos since 2019, as well as taking Acid Horse and Supernormal by storm

Lula Frango is one half of Worthing Techno Militia and his legendary DJ sets bring the breadth of electronic music history to the dancefloor by way of house, techno, acid, electro and breakbeat

Doors: 7:30pm

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