Strange Brew presents:
Pangaea (Hessle Audio)
+ Caragh

Saturday 6th June
22:30 - 03:00

After a killer show last year in our back room, we had to invite back Hessle Audio frontman Pangaea to take the reigns once again.

Interested in the tension between dark and light, his sets are acrobatic voyages that reach outward to integrate Techno, House and exploratory UK styles into their rhythmic axis; an aesthetic captured on his monthly Rinse FM show, his Fabriclive CD, and at internationally-renowned clubs and festivals around the world. Expect hypnotic, hi-nrg dancefloor destroyers all night long.

Also playing on the night is local percussive bass wizz Caragh - expect UK leaning, trippy and melodic techno from the get go.

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PANGAEA
Producer, DJ and Hessle Audio co-founder, Pangaea, AKA Kevin McAuley, has maintained a magnetic output that derives its energies from a synthesis of the familiar and the futuristic, with his 2023 album on Hessle Audio, Changing Channels, only the latest example.

Changing Channels also reflects an ongoing conversation between Pangaea's productions and his DJ sets at renowned clubs and festivals like Berghain, Fabric, Dekmantel, Glastonbury, Junction 2, and Houghton. There's a feedback loop where the records he plays became a northstar for tracks he wants to make that feel compatible but still memorable and identifiable as his own. It's a process also audible in his long-running residency for Rinse FM, where an ongoing engagement with different crowds and styles creates a laboratory for testing ideas.

Pangaea's music and DJing are steeped in expansive references to UK dance music cultures while offering an explosive mutation all his own - genres combust, collide, and cohere, creating entirely new innovations in their wake. A strange, banging energy comes from his finding space between sounds and scenes, and these uncharted paths continue to hold new discoveries many years on.

CARAGH
Bristol native Caragh opts for a refined collection of distinctly UK-sounding percussive, drum-laden and melodic techno, with a deft ability for building dance floors from the ground up. 

An alumni of Saffron Records Radio Broadcasting course - her discerning ability for radio curation led her down the path of mixing, under the tutelage of Mix Nights and Soft Raw boss, Danielle, resulting in a keen ear for sound, and the ability to direct a dancefloor at her whim.

Caragh has become a regular on the Bristol circuit, often found alongside the Livity Sound crew, as well as performing at the likes of Glastonbury, Love International and more.