Dusky

Techno as a whole seems to be a difficult genre to comprehend. On the one side we have the enormous party jams that can only really be stomached in a dark room filled with people raving so hard they could cause some serious harm with a single limb. On the other we have the austere, impenetrable head music that makes Phillip Glass at his most concrete sound like Oasis. It’s one of the very, very few genres of music around where the extremes of the genre are the most well-known. What better examples of this are there than Tomorrowland being one of the world’s largest music festivals the same year that Aphex Twin releases a top ten album the world over? However, London based duo Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman, otherwise known as Dusky, prove that the two extremes can be put harmoniously together in their live sets. Yes, the music draws influence from and contains samples from the likes of Jazz, Classical and avant-garde Electronica but that doesn’t mean that you can’t dance to it like an absolute maniac. In fact quite the opposite, the effect of such strange music being so danceable is unlike few others in the world of electronic music. Techno is a difficult genre to comprehend but so are most genres when you think about it, Techno just needs more artists like Dusky, who can bring together the best of both extremes and give everyone a show to remember because of it. Highly recommended.