It’s Bristol’s dance music that has earnt Bristol’s music scene international recognition, but the city’s playful experimentation between musicianship, electronics and sound art that is starting to gain the most traction. It's with a sigh of relief that we bid farewell to loop-pedal-powered hippies of the past and embrace the patch bays, compressors and modular synths of the future. All Bristol’s experimental music events are listed on this page.
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“Other influences included “contemporary productions like Foodman’s ‘Yasuragi Land’, a Japanese experimental manic scatter sample electronica artist who blows my mind. Kate NV: I love her bass sounds and twisted melodic rhythms. Also, I was listening to Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s ‘Keyboard Fantasies’,” he continues. “His voice just wraps around me, transporting me entirely to other places, and I only know one other person who can do that and that’s Anna B Savage.””
From: Mike Lindsay presents supershapes w Anna B Savage
“Following the release of his critically acclaimed and expansive album Music For Animals in September 2022, Nils made his return to the live stage for the first time since 2019 with his current global tour, Music For. Since then, he is back touring all over the world, presenting brand-new music moving between the worlds of experimental, ambient and electronica.”
From: Music For Bristol
“Crafted as ‘jukebox worthy singles’, their songs fuse Radio Wolf’s soulful electric guitar, soaring synths, atmospheric experimental SFX, pulsating electro-dance beats and of course the haunting vocals of NINA.”
From: Hotline Bristol Part Deux
“Boasting an intense work ethic and a wildly experimental outlook that reaches from synth prog to folk-rock, the stats on Australian psychedelic collective King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s colourful career are stacking up fast, with 25 albums thus far – 13 of which charted in Australia’s Top 20.”
From: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard