ZYGGURAT shifts the musical focus from overt studio production to a greater emphasis on free-flowing, improvised modular synth in dialogue with the organic sound of the drums.  
  
UK drummer and sound artist Cameron Graham dances between EDM, joyous calypso colour, cellular Glassian minimalism, and hyperrealist AI on debut album Becoming a Beach Angel, evoking a SNES world of blissful vibrancy.

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Zyggurat / Cameron Graham at The White Hotel 

Zyggurat - Dream of Diving

Cameron Graham

Zyggurat

Gigs

Manchester

The White Hotel

If you look at some of the most exciting, innovative & critically acclaimed electronic music that has come out of the beautiful North of England over the past years; from the psychedelic electronic rock of ‘The Moonlandingz’, to the folkloric radiophonic avant-garde Of ‘Eccentronic Research Council ft Maxine Peake’, to the party electro of International Teachers of Pop; at the forefront of all these projects (and many more) is a man in a hat and shades called Adrian Flanagan.

Adrian has spent two decades working on the fringes of alternative music as a songwriter, wordsmith, musician, producer, remixer, DJ and cultural agitator - working with artists as diverse as Maxine Peake, Yoko Ono, The Human League’s Philip Oakey, Fat White Family, Sean Lennon and many more. Adrian returns this year with his debut album under the Acid Klaus moniker, ‘Step On My Travelator: The Imagined Career Trajectory of Superstar DJ & Dance-Pop Producer, Melvin Harris’.

“Solid, seedy, dance-pop gold”

— So Young Magazine

Support from:

Good News

Adult Entertainment

Priceless Bodies

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Acid Klaus + Good News, Adult Entertainment + more

Acid Klaus, Maria Uzor - Party Sized Away Day

Priceless Bodies

Adult Entertainment

Acid Klaus

HIDE are an electronic duo based in Chicago signed to Dais Records.The pair create dark and heavy sample-based compositions using a combination of self-sourced field recordings and various pop culture and media references. Their music is textured, minimal, and powerful, giving raw vulnerability a chance to unfurl.

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Hide

Long Way / 1:11

HIDE - Bound/Severed

Now Wave presents Vegyn (live)

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Now Wave

VEGYN (Live)

Debold

Vegyn - Nauseous / Devilish (feat. JPEGMAFIA)

Vegyn

New York City-based musician and artist Dreamcrusher self-describes their project as “nihilist queer revolt musik.” At once personal and abstract, revealing and antagonistic; performances and recordings shift between genres while subjecting the characteristic elements—melodies, beats, instrumentation—to distortion until the point of transformation.

They're joined by fellow NYC inhabitants Kill Alters, who play a raucous fusion of electro-punk, digital hardcore, and noise rock, threaded with incidental recordings taken from leader Bonnie Baxter's personal family archives.

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Dreamcrusher / Kill Alters

Cathedral of Moths

Kill Alters

Dreamcrusher

French artist Cécile Schott aka Colleen is fearless in her willingness to explore new sounds and new ways of creating music as a solo performer. Over the course of seven critically acclaimed albums released between 2003 and 2021, Cécile Schott consistently reinvented herself, first by taking acoustic instruments out of their usual context and pushing the boundaries of their playability, then through avant-pop electronic explorations.

With compositions ranging from the mysterious and contemplative to kinetic and playful, the Thrill Jockey recording artist has given more than 230 concerts across Europe, the US, Japan, Brazil and Singapore, in prestigious venues and festivals such as Moogfest, Big Ears, Mutek, Transmediale, Villette Sonique, Rewire and many more.

Colleen’s growing passion for synthesis, bolstered by her collaborations with synth manufacturer Moog, have led to her 8th album Le jour et la nuit du réel, to be released on Thrill Jockey on September 22nd, 2023. Built as a suite of songs, the artist’s first double album is also her first purely instrumental work since 2007, and aims to translate through a myriad of sound transformations the complexity of our relation to reality, and its psychological mutations through the cycles of day and night.

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Colleen / Marlene Ribeiro

Colleen - Captain of None

Colleen - Captain Of None

Colleen

Marlene Ribeiro

Loraine returns to The White Hotel in support of Gentle Confrontation, her third album for Hyperdub. On it, she lets us into a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present.

She says this is the record a teenage Loraine would like to have made, the album's musical tendencies reflect that time too. It's a positively languid, enjoyably disjointed set made while listening to her teenage favourites; math rock and emo-electronic such as DNTEL, Lusine and Telefon Tel Aviv which drew her back to her adolescence.

Gentle Confrontation features an ever more diverse set of peers, placing them into her unusual musical settings and drawing out sensitive and reflexive performances from them. At other times the album stretches out into a drifting ambience as if trying to find a sense of bliss in the everyday.

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Loraine James

Running Like That

Loraine James - Yes Mate!

Hey Colossus celebrate their 20th anniversary with a new tour and album that includes this co-headlining show with long-time peers and experimenters in the leftfield UK rock scene, Teeth of the Sea!

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Hey Colossus + Teeth of The Sea

The Mirror

Teeth Of The Sea

Hey Colossus

Nihiloxica is a project that harnesses the full force of the ancient Bugandan drumming tradition of Uganda and focuses it on the contemporary dance floor through a dark lens of techno sensibility.

Formed by UK musicians Spooky-J & pq and members of the Nilotika Cultural Ensemble, incubated in Kampala by acclaimed label Nyege Nyege Tapes, the cross-continental band explore the common ground between techno and tradition, a conversation between two cultures with a common aim: to make people dance.

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Nihiloxica

Nihiloxica - Endongo

The Umlauts

Boiler Suits & Combat Boots (Edit)

Mandy, Indiana at The White Hotel.

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Mandy, Indiana

Alien 3 - Daniel Avery Remix

From the high energy assault of her remix of Lady Gaga’s ‘Stupid Love’ for her Dawn of Chromatica project to the haunting, strung-out, spacious compositions of her early releases, COUCOU CHLOE’s repertoire lives at the dark heart of club music. Her chaotic live performances have seen her annihilate venues across three continents, including Berlin’s infamous Herrensauna in a special A/V capsule for Sonar Festival, supporting Dorian Electra on his UK/EU tour, and most recently an incendiary performance at Wide Awake London and BBK Live at Bilbao.

She comes to The White Hotel in support of new project FEVER DREAM. Support comes from DJ Q and Housewife 9.

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COUCOU CHLOE + DJ Q + Housewife 9

NOBODY

COUCOU CHLOE

DJ Q

Housewife 9

Forest Swords (Live)

Crow (DJ-Kicks) - Mixed

Forest Swords

Manchester-based duo Hyperdawn headline The White Hotel to celebrate the launch of their second album Steady - out via Them There Records - with special guest support from Shell Company, soundtracked by Lupini.

Each track on Steady conjures a personal story or fleeting encounter during these past few years, from close friends to total strangers, either at home or on night shift commutes. People navigating their own hardships, almost giving up but always struggling through. More broadly, it’s about multiplicity, and contradiction. These central figures displaying hope and determination within a city of development and neglect, uniformity and chaos - an unfiltered representation of a city with all its jagged edges, darkness, and shards of light. It's broken and disheveled, but never not beautiful, just like the people in it.

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Hyperdawn: Steady Launch Party

Hyperdawn - Maybe

Shell Company 

Lupini

Hyperdawn

Hilary Woods is a self-avowed outsider working across sound, song, writing and analogue filmmaking. Her fiercely DIY work ethic cultivates practices that are almost in call and response to each other. Evocative experimentalism and sonically heavy excavations give way to the intimacy and tenderness of a deeply personal and

intuitive song-writing. Her sound is embedded with a visual potency, physicality and a moving majesty that is accompanied by her own hand processed 16mm film in live performance.

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Hilary Woods

Kith

Fat Dog

Slauson Malone 1 is a performance piece created by artist and musician Jasper Marsalis. His work explores the possible intersections of popular music and performance art.

His output includes 'A Quiet Farwell 2016-2018 (Crater Speak)' in 2019 and 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak)' in 2020, which were compiled as a double vinyl release by NTS. Recently signed to Warp, a much anticipated new album is due in Autumn 2023

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Slauson Malone 1

Slauson Malone 1 - Off Me! "The Wake" Pt. 1 & 2 (see page 153) [feat. Pink Siifu]

Slauson Malone 1 - Smile #2

felicita comes to The White Hotel to present live their sophomore album Spalarkle, which came out on PC Music to critical acclaim earlier this year!

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felicita

felicita - a new family

Spalarkle (Alys)

RVG’s highly-anticipated third album is named Brain Worms for the hyper-recognisable experience of, each day, baring witness to a world of private obsessions being aired out in the infinite. This may not be wholly new territory for the Melbourne post-punk band and its lyricist/frontwoman Romy Vager, but this time around, there’s a newfound radical acceptance glistening overtop everything.

All throughout Brain Worms, it’s apparent that this is a band in very fine form. Album opener ‘Common Ground’ sets the tone for what’s to come; a shiny, thrilling, punch of an album, with all the beloved RVG hallmarks. Vager’s voice is unfiltered and commanding as ever when delivering her clever, not-quite-ironic lyrics. Here, though, those lyrics feel so much less resigned to yearning, and so much more defiant and joyous.

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FORM Presents

RVG 

Capture - RVG

RVG - It's Not Easy

BDRMM

Gush

Bdrmm - Question Mark

Bdrmm

Mong Tong is a Taiwanese psychedelic music band formed by brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi. The name "Mong Tong" is derived from the brothers' childhood nickname, which can mean something totally different in different languages from Burmese, Cantonese to Chinese.

Mong Tong's music is heavily influenced by Southeast Asian culture, including its mythology and folklore, as well as 60s and 70s psychedelic music. Their sound is characterized by hypnotic rhythms, dreamy melodies, and otherworldly atmospheres.

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Mong Tong and maya ongaku

Mong Tong - A History of Brightness

Mong Tong

maya ongaku

Johnny Jewel

Tell Me (Feat. Saoirse Ronan)

IKLECTIK TOUR 2023 - WHITE HOTEL, MANCHESTER

Friday 17 November 2023 | Doors: 7:30pm

Tickets: Early Bird £12 / Advance £15 / Otd £18

Our 2023 tour will be the first time we have branched out across multiple venues in England and Scotland for a series of live events.

We’re stopping at Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester where we hope to forge new collaborative relationships between creatives spaces and artists, whilst curating lineups that represent and define both local and international talent.

Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.

**Lineup:**

John-Robin Bold

Pietro Bardini

Dale Cornish

Blood of Aza

Full tour info: https://www.iklectik.org/tour

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Blood of Aza, Dale Cornish, Pietro Bardini + more

John-Robin Bold

Pietro Bardini

Dale Cornish

Blood of Aza

Formally known as SCALPING

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SCALER

SCALER - Chamber

Los Angeles based Spike Hellis has been hammering out hard dance music since Halloween of 2019. Since self-releasing both their debut EP and LP, their relentless touring has submitted the duo as mainstays in contemporary body music—combining elements of industrial, freestyle, acid electro, and new beat.

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Spike Hellis

Spike Hellis - Feed

Producer/vocalist Grove contorts dancehall, bass and hip-hop into a brand new beast, spurred by sensual liberation and political defiance. Inspired by the DIY nature and ethos of punk, the catharsis of dance music & the power of Jamaican soundsystem culture, Grove feeds you food for thought at the dance and enough energy to turn thought into action.

Emerging from community studios where their sound was carved within an enriching fringe group of young creatives, Grove moves from firmly rooted DIY circles with a powerful drive towards lyrical realness and collective wellness alongside their music collaborator EJ:AKIN.

As a sharp new voice, Grove released their debut EP ‘Queer + Black’ in February 2021; an exploration of identity, both personal (‘Black/Sticky’) and political (‘Fuck Ur Landlord’), and a deft combination of punchy hooks and splintering beats beamed in from a club in 3021 AD. To date, their sound has been publicly championed by Mary Anne Hobbs, Steve Lamacq, Jamz Supernova and Jack Saunders.

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Grove

Ur Boyfriend's Wack

Grove - Ur Boyfriend's Wack

Muncie Girls final ever Manchester show.

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Muncie Girls (Farewell Tour)

Jeremy

Muncie Girls - Jeremy

Muncie Girls

Portrayal of Guilt eschew predictability. While the Austin, Texan outfit have released material at a rapid clip since their formation only six years ago, it has been near-impossible to predict what each ensuing release might sound like. The only window into what to expect has been those releases’ titles, wallowing in themes of affliction, isolation, and just plain underworld allusion. Naturally, this leads to…Devil Music.

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