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Review: En Masse, Loco Klub – ‘The night was the closest I had been to a 4D experience’
Taking place deep in the tunnels below Temple Meads, Loco Klub was the perfect place for En Masse’s third event in their festival running order. Billed as halfway between a club night and a live music gig with “wicked visuals”, the event did not disappoint.
The night was opened and closed by K-Means, occupying one end of one of Loco’s vaulted, smoked filled tunnels.
However, the night really began when SŌN took to the stage. Occupying the other end of the previously mentioned vaulted tunnel, the two-piece band delivered a hypnotic set of drums on top of drums. With both members playing a mix of machine and analogue kits that provided a complex yet primal sound that left us all hypnotised.
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It was then that En Masse began to deliver on the promise of “wicked” visuals. As red lights cut through the smoke, lighting up the back of the stage were some of the best projected visuals I have ever seen; morphing from images of primitive statues to paintings of an old woman’s face. They complimented the set perfectly and only deepened my trance like state.
Having already been enthralled by the A/V experience, Scalping, the evenings main event, ramped the experience up a notch as we were taken on a sonic journey. Drawn in by their blend of metal and electronic music, Scalping quickly had members of the audience headbanging.
Throughout their whole set, the visuals behind them gave a sense of motion, whether it was zooming through computer rendered valleys or melting and reforming humanoid shapes, the projections gave a sense of urgency and intensity to their industrial rhythms and at times, sleazy and smooth guitar and thus far is.
Main photo: Angus Cawood
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