PANIC presents KRIS BAHA, KONTRAVOID

313 East Mills Avenue,El Paso TX 79901

27 October, 2022

Description

Once the Melbourne club scene patriarch behind the EBM-Industrial/ dark mecca weekly club night Power Station, Kris Baha now resides in Berlin crafting the output of the label and telling tales from the lost party along. Much time has passed since Kris Baha swapped the parched red earth and searing midday sun of the Australian outback for the brutalist buildings, communist-era apartment blocks and slate-grey skies of East Berlin. Now firmly embedded in his adopted city, Baha bas become known for a trademark DJ and production style inspired by sun-baked hallucinatory visions and the clandestine, concrete-clad industrial hum of the metropolis after dark. Where once he was resident behind the decks at Power Station, a weekly EBM and industrial night in Melbourne, Baha is now a regular fixture at celebrated Berlin institutions CockTail D’Amore and Sameheads. There, and during guest spots elsewhere across the World, he dives deep into the void, returning to deliver extended sets of obscure, otherworldly machine music driven by emotion and mood, be it energy, joy, lust or sadness. The same rules apply to his hardware-driven, performance-based live shows, which were initially inspired by his love for the pioneering gigs of the first industrial era. Kontravoid is the alias of Canadian-born musician, drummer, and producer Cameron Findlay originally from Toronto now currently living in Berlin. Cameron, who was a live drummer of Crystal Castles, as well as a co-founder and a drummer of synthpop band Parallels, released his debut album in 2012 and the song Native State was released on Minimal Wave Records sister label Cititrax as a 7" single later that year