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Presse

Festival 19th – 21st April 2019
19th at Radialsystem: The Bug presents a PRESSURE Special on a VOID Incubus Rig
20th Soundtank Clash by Nik Nowak
21st at Yaam: Club Night on the Lion’s Den Sound System
STAY TUNED for the Wackies Showcase on the KILLASAN Sound System with Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes, Claudette Brown, Milton Henry, Wayne Jarrett and others – in cooperation with Terraforma

Press information

It hits you, but you feel no pain, instead, pleasure. This is the visceral experience of audition, to be immersed in an auditory volume, swimming in a sea of sound, between cliffs of speakers towering almost to the sky, sound stacked up upon sound.

– Julian Henriques, Sonic Bodies. Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing

The Only Good System...is dedicated to the history, present and future of bass culture. The festival, curated and conceived by Zuri Maria Daiß and Pascal Jurt, deals musically and theoretically with the materiality of sound systems.
There will be three music nights devoted to bass culture and sound system cultures. In addition, different aspects of sound system culture, sonic warfare and paths of hybrid production, reception and distribution will be discussed in keynotes and panels.

The festival opens with a lecture by Julian Henriques, cultural studies scholar at Goldsmiths (University of London), filmmaker (Babymother) and author of the groundbreaking standard work Sonic Bodies. Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (2011). Julian Henriques' keynote speech Sound "System as System of Sound: Street Cultures and Crossovers" will begin by exploring the street technology of the sound system to find out how it actually works. This will be followed by a theoretical reflection on the tacit, embodied and situated ways of knowing displayed by engineers and crew members, in recognition of the creativity that invented the sound system as a musical instrument.

Diedrich Diederichsen, German author, cultural critic, and Professor for Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna will also give a talk. Diedrich Diederichsen played dancehall and roots reggae together with Gerd Gummersbach as part of the DJ duo Dreadbeat until the mid-1990s. In his lecture "Amor vacui: the Ghosts Uptown in Firehouse and its Vibrations", he will explore the question of who lives in the subject's house after dub has scared all the residents away.

The Bug will perform on the first night: The Bug presents a 'PRESSURE' Special on a Void Incubus Rig. The Bug will play with grime forefather Flowdan and the Israelian dancehall MC Miss Red. He also invited Equiknoxx live (Gavsborg & Time Cow) to play an instrumental dub session in the style of their two incredible albums. And he sent for grime veteran Grandmixxer, the Bristolian OSSIA, and Mr. Mitch, producer of tracks by Skepta, Trim and Riko Dan, who will perform one of his infamous 'techno dancehall' sets. It's gonna be massive, because the icing on the cake is The Bug's weapon of choice: a VOID Incubus rig to bring the bass, rhythm and noise and madness.

Sonic warfare will be brought on in a sound tank clash by Nik Nowak. Nik Nowak is a German artist, musician and curator interested in sonic affect. His research examines the role that sound systems play as cultural transmitters and acoustic weapons. Nowak will present his new sonic behemoth 'The Mantis', a two-ton sound sculpture that rears up in a biomimetically hydraulic manoeuvre, preparing itself to do battle with Nowak's earlier 'Panzer' at a height of four meters. There will be live musical interventions by Nowak, as well as by She's Drunk (a grime, R&B and ballroom project launched by Berlin-based French producer David Monnin with queer New Yorker Le1f). There will also be performances by Infinite Livez from East London, up and coming rapper Ché, ALI.Keys from Detroit and Awa Khiwe, one of the most interesting female voices of African hip hop.

Carolyn Cooper, a feminist, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and author of the books Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993) and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004), will give a keynote speech titled Lyrical War: Clashing Sounds In Jamaican Dancehall Culture. The talk will be about the sound system clash as an arena in which warring selectors detonate their arsenal of dub plates and establish dominance in the field. Brandishing superior lyrics and riddims, the champion selector asserts mastery over lesser rivals. In Jamaica, the sound system clash becomes a warning signal indicative of contestation over public space in the wider society. The political elite attempt to police all aspects of dancehall culture, especially the ‘noise’ that emanates from sound systems. Through legislation that is enforced increasingly aggressively, the ruling class seeks to dictate the limits, both spatial and auditory, of dancehall culture. But, like a skilled selector, dancehall culture clashes tune for tune with the establishment, more often than not claiming supremacy long past the official 2:00 AM curfew. Lyrics are the weapon of choice in this war, as the letter of the law clashes with the permissive body language of the streets. The dancehall sound clash enacts literal and metaphorical class warfare between uptown and downtown, between ‘decency’ and ‘vulgarity’, ‘culture’ and ‘slackness.’

After Carolyn Cooper's keynote speech, there will be a club night at YAAM with artists who are devoted to the bass and dub archive. Mark Ernestus & Tikiman, Ikonika & Scratcha DVA, Jay Glass Dubs, Sarah Farina, Orson & Hops, KEMAΛ, Sasha Perera and Uta will show that between 50, 120, 140 and 160 beats per minute lie entire musical worlds, from trap, house, drum 'n' bass, (roots) reggae, (post-) dubstep, future bass, 2 step, UK garage, ghetto tech and rags to wonky and grime. On the Lion's Den sound system, they will make sure the visitors will be swimming in bass.

The festival will be rounded off, in autumn, by the first European showcase of the legendary Wackies label. Performances by Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes, Claudette Brown from the Love Joys, Wayne Jarrett and Milton Henry. In cooperation with Terraforma Festival in Italy.

Participants The Bug feat. Miss Red & Flowdan | Equiknoxx live (Gavsborg & Time Cow) | Nik Nowak | Mark Ernestus w/ Tikiman | Jay Glass Dubs | Ikonika b2b Scratcha DVA | Bullwackie | Wayne Jarrett | KEMAL | DJ Pete | Mr. Mitch | Grandmixxer | Sarah Farina | OSSIA | Orson | Hops | Perera Elsewhere | Le1f | Milton Henry | Claudette Brown | Arthur | Uta | Clara | Infinite Livez | Awa Khiwe | SHE’S DRUNK | Ché & ALI.Keys | Ashley Temba | Richie M.I.K. | Julian Henriques | Diedrich Diederichsen | Ellen Köhlings | Pete Lilly | Lisa Blanning | Carolyn Cooper | Klaus Walter | Hanna Bächer

Zuri Maria Daiß & Pascal Jurt
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