Bristol avant-club agitators Realist Alive join forces to resurrect London club night PETRICHOR, bringing to Exchange's main room a line-up of electronic mavericks both long-tenured and burgeoning. Nairobi's unmissable Slikback descends for a solo live debut after shattering Loco Klub last year alongside Aïsha Devi. SVBKVLT's Hyph11e brings back to Bristol her bass-driven style of industrial dance. Paris' prey coded debuts in the UK as one of contemporary electronic music's more alarming, admirable and inscrutable newcomers.

Slikback [live] - Slikback is an experimental electronic producer from Nairobi, Kenya. Racking up a decade now of genreless, inimitable releases, characterised by the absorption of anything and everything from Gqom, hardcore techno, trap and dubstep, entwining Pan-African instrumentation with some of the fiercest low-end punishment worldwide, he is a titan of club music equal parts radically deconstructed and fearlessly personal.

Slikback arrives to Bristol for a live, solo debut, off the back of 2025's Attrition on Planet Mu, a record that melded sensitive moments of orchestral ambience, exploratory soundscapes and Slikback's bass music iconoclasm. Few records in recent memory have been more immediate proofs of an artist's singularity, as Attrition's generic dexterity and visual flair combine with each track generating a world uniquely its own. Smoke-laden sci-fi speedcore, blends of baile funk and gabber seemingly voiced from the wreckage of a spacecraft, ludic dreamscapes. Having played at festivals such as Unsound, Draiaimolen and Outlook, and a staple of international bills, Slikback is an artist whom words cannot contain. A live appearance in Bristol certainly falls under any definition of 'must-see'.

Hyph11e - Affiliate of Shanghai-born, UK-based label SVBKVLT, Hyph11e has long practiced an original mode of bass music, integrating industrial atmospherics with the hyperactive patterns of drum and bass and footwork. An international act, she has played from Dekmantel to Rewire, regularly showcasing her unique style across Asia and Europe. Having shelled for Bristol landmarks Accidental Meetings and Psychotherapy Sessions in 2024, she returns to the city alongside erstwhile collaborator Slikback to demonstrate once more her iridescent, apocalyptic imaginary of bass music.

prey coded [UK debut] - There are few more ascendant talents in deconstructed club as of now than prey coded. And none who deserve it more. When her late 2025 album glossolalia arrived, it declared the arrival of unique talent with a singular musical idiolect. Encompassing industrial, sound art and ambient, it was an album of dance music, but dance music reduced and rewritten in squalls of feedback and stuttering, anarchic salvos of low-end. Little in deconstructed club had ever sounded so simultaneously inarticulable and personal, breaking apart notions of hardcore and bass music as a means of charting self-discovery and the difficult ambiguities of identity. Her 2026 has seen a number of international fixes follow, as well as the co-sign of KAVARI for an upcoming Paris show. Merely another step in the burgeoning trajectory of a major talent, May 29 sees her play in the UK for the first time.

KTR - A quiet constant of the new generation of London deconstructed club, KTR was the figurehead of the city's brief but momentous club night PETRICHOR. Entwining post-club, trance and a wide-ranging affinity for dubstep, footwork and hardcore, PETRICHOR showcased some of the contemporary field's most bracing talents, as well as platforming the city's up-and-coming generation of maverick club-destructors. A subtly flexible producer and DJ, KTR distinguished himself both via this independent devotion to his avant-club colleagues and a musical style incorporating not merely theatrical abrasion but the underworld moodpieces of UK dubstep and myriad emotionality found in IDM and trance. May 29 sees the Bristol debut of a DJ steadily supportive of some of Europe's most recently radical music, in his own right an artist whose versatility and ear for deep intensity should not be underestimated.

qwerty-uiop b2b tskali - Bristol's own deconstructed club fledgling qwerty-uiop has steadily peppered the scene with darkly spacious, folkloric tracks combining the sonic violence of the Glaswegian style with a personal, sylvan sound. With an array of mixes and tracks pending for 2026, May 29 sees her go b2b with Realist architect tskali. These two RA mainstays join forces for a set promising equal parts subterranean pressure and subversive selection.

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