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"Marco Shuttle makes techno so cavernous and psychedelic you can almost hear the fractal patterns growing on it in the dark. Capable of hypnotising ardent techno heads into fevered, altered states, he’s the logical next step in The Probe’s ongoing exercises in dub-indebted club atmospherics. Total rapture FFO: Donato Dozzy, Deepchord, Sandwell District, Vril, Dino Sabatini."
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A clubnight held at Strange Brew on Friday 19th September. The event starts at 22:30.
The Probe returns with another offering of tunnelling dancefloor exploration: deep techno shaman Marco Shuttle will take controls of Strange Brew’s back room for a journey to the farther reaches of tryptamine techno and back again.
London’s Ario brings an eclectic bag of twisty, galvanised techno and electro whilst local conjurer Rizla will open proceedings with crates of loping, gaseous rhythms and beautiful ambient selection.
We hope you can join us!
Marco Shuttle — A Cinematic Voyager in Techno’s Outer Realms
From the misted alleys of Treviso to the sonic laboratories of Berlin, Marco Shuttle has spent the better part of two decades tracing a singular path through electronic music — one shaped less by convention than by deep aesthetic instinct. A trained fashion designer with an MA from Central Saint Martins, Shuttle's music bears the same deliberate, sculptural quality one might expect from someone fluent in texture, tone, and spatial awareness. Yet it's his ability to draw from disparate sound worlds — Detroit machine soul, spiritual jazz, industrial ambience, musique concrète, and minimalist composition — that truly defines his voice.
Emerging from London’s underground as both a promoter and selector, Shuttle’s early releases like The Vox Attitude (Vidd, 2011) quickly became cult staples — tracks that didn't demand attention so much as haunt it, weaving their way into the boxes of the world's most adventurous DJs. Soon after, he launched his own label, Eerie, followed by a string of releases on forward-thinking imprints including Clone, The Bunker NY, Time to Express, and Semantica.
His full-length works — Visione (2014), Systhema (2017), and the striking Cobalt Desert Oasis (2021) on Incienso — map an evolution from hypnotic dancefloor pressure to immersive sonic storytelling. The latter, described by Boomkat as operating in a “liminal shadow world of hazed hues,” shows Shuttle at his most unbound: a composer in orbit, eschewing straight lines for drifting, tactile atmospheres.
As a DJ, he is no less daring. A revered vinyl alchemist, Shuttle’s sets are long-form journeys known for their mesmerizing narrative arcs — equal parts intensity and introspection. Regularly gracing temples of underground culture like Berghain, De School, Bassiani, and Labyrinth Japan, he has built a global reputation not only as a technician, but as a deep listener and sonic storyteller.
Now landing in Bristol for The Probe, Marco Shuttle promises a rare opportunity to enter the rich, cinematic continuum of one of techno’s most visionary minds. This is music for the senses, the subconscious, and somewhere far beyond the club’s four walls.
Ario - Astral Industries
https://on.soundcloud.com/jNLyJzasyMODoZjO2t
Rizla - The Probe
https://on.soundcloud.com/d2xGYuQkiTY99orWFZ
Entry requirements: 18+
London’s Ario brings an eclectic bag of twisty, galvanised techno and electro whilst local conjurer Rizla will open proceedings with crates of loping, gaseous rhythms and beautiful ambient selection.
We hope you can join us!
Marco Shuttle — A Cinematic Voyager in Techno’s Outer Realms
From the misted alleys of Treviso to the sonic laboratories of Berlin, Marco Shuttle has spent the better part of two decades tracing a singular path through electronic music — one shaped less by convention than by deep aesthetic instinct. A trained fashion designer with an MA from Central Saint Martins, Shuttle's music bears the same deliberate, sculptural quality one might expect from someone fluent in texture, tone, and spatial awareness. Yet it's his ability to draw from disparate sound worlds — Detroit machine soul, spiritual jazz, industrial ambience, musique concrète, and minimalist composition — that truly defines his voice.
Emerging from London’s underground as both a promoter and selector, Shuttle’s early releases like The Vox Attitude (Vidd, 2011) quickly became cult staples — tracks that didn't demand attention so much as haunt it, weaving their way into the boxes of the world's most adventurous DJs. Soon after, he launched his own label, Eerie, followed by a string of releases on forward-thinking imprints including Clone, The Bunker NY, Time to Express, and Semantica.
His full-length works — Visione (2014), Systhema (2017), and the striking Cobalt Desert Oasis (2021) on Incienso — map an evolution from hypnotic dancefloor pressure to immersive sonic storytelling. The latter, described by Boomkat as operating in a “liminal shadow world of hazed hues,” shows Shuttle at his most unbound: a composer in orbit, eschewing straight lines for drifting, tactile atmospheres.
As a DJ, he is no less daring. A revered vinyl alchemist, Shuttle’s sets are long-form journeys known for their mesmerizing narrative arcs — equal parts intensity and introspection. Regularly gracing temples of underground culture like Berghain, De School, Bassiani, and Labyrinth Japan, he has built a global reputation not only as a technician, but as a deep listener and sonic storyteller.
Now landing in Bristol for The Probe, Marco Shuttle promises a rare opportunity to enter the rich, cinematic continuum of one of techno’s most visionary minds. This is music for the senses, the subconscious, and somewhere far beyond the club’s four walls.
Ario - Astral Industries
https://on.soundcloud.com/jNLyJzasyMODoZjO2t
Rizla - The Probe
https://on.soundcloud.com/d2xGYuQkiTY99orWFZ
Entry requirements: 18+
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