Surgeon & Lady Starlight, Speedy J, O[Phase] + more!

THE PLAYGROUND presents a night of techno from the likes of SURGEON & LADY STARLIGHT who will be performing live with support from legendary SPEEDY J, Ø [Phase] and Shxcxchcxsh, Sex of Insects alongside IDM and Acid originators µ-ZIQ, Ceephax Acid Crew, Bochum Welt, Mamiko Motto, CHVRN and Ofdream until the late hours of the morning.

?Over the years Surgeon has shown his versatility as a musician with releases under his own name on FatCat, NNA Tapes and Editions Mego which break all the usual boundaries of electronic dance music. Recently dubbed by Fact magazine as “arguably the finest techno DJ in the world”, Surgeon is also naturally one of the most in-demand, with DJ mixes for Warp and Fabric and a schedule spread across Europe and Japan.

?Lady Starlight establishes a basic pattern of drums and synths and gently twists the arrangement as she goes. It's a style Starlight honed in the live environment. After she was finished messing with Lady Gaga fans (she supported the pop megastar on her ArtRave tour), she went on to forge a solo career and has been playing improvised live shows with Surgeon.

? Speedy J is unanimously considered to be one of the first techno producers to come from the Benelux, raising the genre just after it had escaped the Detroit delivery room. Speedy J has continuously been pushing the boundaries of electronic & experimental dance music. Blurring the lines between Live performance and Digital Djing, he fuses subversive electronics and peak time Techno.

? Ø [Phase] has been part of the UK Techno scene since the late 1990’s. The London based producer whose style ranges from gritty Minimal Techno to Detroit influenced material is best known by his work on Token Records. Regular appearances at the world renowned Berghain in Berlin, REX (Paris), FUSE club (Brussels) and Lux (Lisbon) (amongst others) along with remixes for the likes of Planetary Assault Systems, Robert Hood and Marcel Dettmann confirmed Ø [Phase]’s music beyond doubt as an essential voice within the genre.

?Shxcxchcxsh-live - From their unpronounceable name (which sounds like white noise if you sound it out) to their equally incomprehensible song titles to their complete disregard for the rigid structure of the genre, the Swedish duo don't adhere to the kind of faceless aesthetic we usually see with secretive acts.