Abyss X (Live) x Ziúr @OIL - 深圳

ROARINGWILD

ROARINGWILD 成立于2010年，注重细节的深度构思，以可塑性极强的设计手 法打造丰富的产品体系，对产品进行多维度的表达，是一个以 URBAN STREET 风格为主的街头服饰品牌。同时也是一个关注生活、艺术、音乐等领域，致力于创 造与传播本土青年文化的平台。品牌更像是先行者，秉持着街头文化的生活理念， 通过“ROAR”咆哮的态度鼓励青年人表达自我。用辩证的视角看待社会议题，将 服装作为载体进行表达传述，创造属于新世代的生活态度。

Established in 2010, ROARINGWILD focuses on the in-depth conception of details, cre- - mensions. It is a streetwear brand based on URBAN STREET style. At the same time, it is also a platform dedicated to the creation and dissemination of local youth culture in the - phy of street culture, and encouraging young people to express their own opinions through the attitude of ‘ROAR’. We consider the social issues from dialectical perspectives. The clothing is regarded as a carrier to create the life attitude belongs to the new generation.

Ziúr is one of the most exciting producers to come out of the fringes of Berlin club music in the last few years. A new generation is breaking out of the techno mould and creating in a spirit of freedom and experimentation, taking seemingly incompatible influences and balancing them into a new and exciting sound. Ziúr is also the founder and resident DJ of ‘Boo-Hoo’, a night championing diverse lineups, reflecting it’s creative audience, bringing through the cream of the experimental dance underground. Planet Mu are proud to release Ziúr’s debut album ‘U Feel Anything?’ in collaboration with Objects Limited, a label run by Lara Rix-Martin which releases music by women and non-binary people.

For someone who has previously released just two EPs, the vision of Ziúr’s music is advanced and precise. It’s music which beckons you into an alternate world; wonderfully alien pop music that eschews conventions. She creates eldrich atmospheres that balance gentle melody and warm pop, in which strange elfin voices sing from other worlds and spiralling rhythms feel like entire structures moving. In the latter half of the record these harden into a pounding, martial symphony of steel, and introduce the kind of rough electronic riffs and guitar samples that betray her background in punk. 

‘U Feel Anything?’ was written as a way to think about music as a tool of enlightenment, a de-conditioning force and the kind of yin and yang that can be summed up in the title of one of the songs ‘Laughing and Crying are The Same Things’, a track which features Swedish pop singer Zhala, whose vocals straddle twisting beats, space and staccato strings. The album also features a collaboration with Aïsha Devi on the epic ‘Body of Light’, in which Aïsha’s vocals are pitched up and down, manipulated and distorted into wispy angelic tones, setting the tone for the first half of the album. There’s a process to Ziúr’s music that’s informed by this wish to get beyond the small things. She says “Putting a relation on what’s big and small and certainly meaningless behind our existence; how nothing is everything at the same time etc… it’s something that I try to explore again and again by putting myself into a thought process, rather than having everything already formulated.”

It’s a record of powerful, emotional twists and turns and mind-flipping contrasts that resonate with depth. As Ziúr says “I believe you can only tell that something is harsh when you have a soft side to compare it to. If everything is amazing then nothing is, right?”

Abyss X is the Cretan-born siren known for her signature music creations that exemplify a defiantly hyper-modern, searingly raw and uncensored approach to electronics. In her fearless sonic endeavours, the artist extraordinaire never holds back. The uncanny hymns of her motherland collide with tortured club aesthetics and her sound palette spans the worlds of jazz, folk, techno and noise; illustrating perfectly her maximalist nature. 

In less than three years since launching her project she has found a home within the internationally acclaimed, forward-thinking labels Halcyon Veil, Danse Noire and Infinite Machine. On stage, she embodies her background in dance and theatre to the maximum while her mystifying live appearances give birth to a spectacle that transcends the limits of confined live electronic music performance by embracing diverse aspects of opera, choreography and dramaturgy. 

Abyss X holds an impressive tour résumé, stacking countless DJ sets and live appearances at art & music festivals, and venues within Europe, USA, Asia, Russia and Mexico. She also runs the genre-bending music label SHXME; a not-for-profit initiative aiming to support campaigns with a focus on social change.

With a background in classical composition and 90s rave culture, Hong Kong's experimentalist Nerve explores the extreme sound experience by mixing electroacoustic, beat, bass, fx and rave samples into a new form of free improvisation performance. His high-speed finger triggering and knob twisting style generates a harsh yet danceable noise that can't be categorized and moves beyond our imaginations. Nerve is active in the local and international underground scene, performing and djing at 15 Grams, Buffneck Rizness, Kill the Silence, XXX, CTM Vorspiel (Berlin), LUFF (Lausanne), as well as numerous DIY outdoor parties. He has been warming up for DVA, Goth-Trad, Kode9, Pinch, Visionist and many others.

After winning the bronze (open category, 2001) and distinguish award (youth category, 1997) of the Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards, domting graduated from California Institute of the Arts in 2001. Since then he’s been working in different positions within the media industry and occasionally makes videos for Re-Records/Lona Records related artists, plus music videos and live visual design (notably Anthony Wong黃耀明/Tat Ming Pair達明一派/Rubberband/ Tsoi Sai-Ho to name a few) and creates sonic manipulation material under the alias Shelf-Index. Besides participating in different experimental events, he is also a member of the DJ crew “Are Friends Electric?” and founded “SYNC SING SIN” alongside Alok, Jamline and AWI.

A science guy but loves design, graduated from department of mechanical engineering and is engaged in the clothing industry. He used to perform on theater stages while in university and is a former actor at Hong Kong Zuni and Edward Lam Theatre Company. Mugi has been listening to British rock and electric music since junior high. His first contact with electronic music party culture was in Guangzhou in 2006. 

In 2015, he aroused interest in studying the relations between visual art and electronic beats. In his leisure time, he started to write with laptops and collaborate with computer image, VJ and visual artists. With the rhythm, Mugi can always converts layers of overlapping materials to fantasy visions, just like like unreal dreams, leading party animals to a wonderful space.