Lady Starlight live / Amotik / Nymph / Courtesy / Meilgaarden / Giovannii

Lady Starlight returns to headline BASEMENT with a live set. An avowed hardware enthusiast for well over a decade, Lady Starlight’s live sets are thrilling, masterful rides that harness the full power of her machines. Her work has found release on some of the most esteemed imprints in techno today: Stroboscopic Artefacts, Figure, Tresor, and A-Ton, the Ostgut Ton sublabel, and her collaborators include Surgeon and Luke Slater. And yet, with all these bonafides, Starlight still stands apart, working in her own lane. “I don’t really know what techno is sometimes,” she once commented. “You have to not look around, just focus on what you want to do and your own sound. And make up your own game that only you can win.” Amotik, one of the modern maestros of penetrating, immersive techno, joins. The UK-born, Berlin-based based has dialed his sound to a perfectly focused iteration of the timeless, sci-fi informed sound pioneered in Detroit. Synths bleep like radar across vast chasms of emptiness, wide-open pads suggest a receding horizon, and carefully tuned drum machines push the mix deeper and deeper past the night. In his releases as well as as his label curation on his eponymous label, Amotik articulates a form of techno that is simultaneously precision tooled and primordial. Nymph makes her debut. Part of a new crop of NY artists who are defining the next era of NY techno, Nymph weaves between elastic grooves, haunting atmospheres and thick, miasmic low end.

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