LA’s KONTRAVOID is gracing our stage this November with his freaky darkpop. It’s darkwave, goth, industrial techno. RIYL: Boy Harsher. And he’s joined by the cinematic and just-as-dark MVTANT from San Antonio.
KONTRAVOID
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Cameron Findlay says he’s always viewed his darkpop solo project Kontravoid as “a way to write music for a split personality.” Onstage, Kontravoid vigorously controls the room with every step, shouting gender-switching distorted vocals. His disguise, just a plastic Halloween mask covered in something goopy, looks like it’s melting during the performance, and each gesture bumps along the beat and nudges people to dance.
MVTANT
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The music of MVTANT, the solo dark electronic project of Joseph Anger, carries the listener through the collage-like use of future primitive lo-fi samples, punishing basslines, washes of nauseating synthesizers, all woven together into constantly shapeshifting song structures. Drawing heavily from body horror cinema and ero guro graphic novels, MVTANT has crafted a world that is uniquely grotesque and otherworldly, that walks the line between dreamlike fantasies and waking nightmares.
