Lorenzo Senni + Theo Burt

The Italian producer Lorenzo Senni has remained loyal to the sound and rave culture of the 90’s. On his latest album, Persona, his highly acclaimed debut on Warp Records, he presents a hyper lucid reminder of a time before trance and makina were diluted down into progressive house. Persona deconstructs dance music’s mechanisms and working parts, it dances along the blade of his Roland JP8000 Supersaws, pruning minimalist gestures and hooks into effortless pirouettes and abrupt jump-cuts that subvert upward linearity in favour of a deferred sense of gratification learnt from straight edge subculture. The idea of 'buildup' found in euphoric dance music is taken as a starting point to make a non-uplifting, more introspective piece that implicitly preserves its emotional tension and drama.

Support act: Theo Burt
Having lived many lives and failed to settle in any, Theo Burt's work is the bastard offspring of the mainstream, the academic, the underground and the outsider.  In 2015 he released the album “Gloss” under his own name on Lorenzo Senni's Presto!? Exploring a very different area from his remix work, this fragmented collection of looped music replayed over huge ranges of speed was created over five years using a Casio and a Roland synthesiser. Fact magazine featured it in their top 50 albums of 2015, claiming “Few have ever found a way to show so much heart with such abstract forms... It’s simultaneously one of the most alien releases of the year and the most human.” The Burt’s live sets drift between brutal chaos and intense abstract euphoria.

Before and after the shows Oceanic will play his favourite music