Hydroponic Music

“From Rockabilly to Rave”

Featuring:

Andrew Weatherall

Michael McKeown (Hydroponic Music)

Penthouse Bar - The Waterfront Hall, Belfast

Admission - £10

Door Times – TBC

From gritty all night raves to Holywood wrap parties and reggae sound systems to funk & soul revues, Hydroponic Music is one of the leading purveyors of danceflooor debauchery.

Overlooking the Belfast skyline at sunset, this will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of this year’s TRANS Festival, offering an unorthodox journey to the twisted underbelly of modern music. “From Rockabilly to Rave” will mirror Weatherall’s own ‘Wrong Meeting’ club night, where he worked with Ivan Smagghe on a sonic rollercoaster from early rock n roll to stomping techno, somehow joining the dots and making it work.

The swaggering, original moody DJ; The pop star producer; One-time (ahem) Balearic figure-head; Electronic experimentalist; Peerless explorer of the minimal techno sound; Arch grumbler; Londoner; Honorary Yorkshire man.

As the producer of ‘Screamadelica’ he took The Primal Scream, twisted them (best not to ask how) and in turn created the hybrid of narcotically challenged rock and acid house now seen as a generation-defining release. Throw in his unrivalled history as bastion of the experimental underground with Sabres of Paradise, his formidable brand of lo fi machine emissions as one half of Two Lone Swordsmen, a mind bending succession of incredible mix CDs and a worldwide series of DJ residencies, Weatherall has earned a reputation for tearing up the script time after time.