The Sonic Church is open, as System 23 step out to break the silence to
support their forthcoming single One More Line. It's fitting that they
have selected to play at Locked in Manchester, these boys started the
same time as Dust and have always stuck to their guns, never running
with the pack - they are well respected at Dust Towers.
Locked - Sat 25th Sept 04
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Pacou & Angela Flame (Tresor)
System 23 (Dust Science)
Jay Knight
Adam Rayner
Locked
The Park Nightclub
Grosvenor St, off Oxford Rd
Manchester
10pm -3am
http://www.locked.org.uk/main.htm
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Peaktime clubbing moments are built on anonymity. Those fragments of
time when you're blown away by music that you just know you will never,
ever, be able to identify.
System 23 make that music. Tracks that lay waste to the dancefloor
because everything is a hook. There's earcandy everywhere, but the
overall effect is still minimal, still classy. Yet it fulfils Dust
Science's aim of creating the ultimate techno knees up.
System 23 takes industrial's heritage of electronic inspiration and
squashes it into techno's blueprint. Influenced by like-minded
industrial inheritors Surgeon/Regis, and adding an overlay of Funk da
Void and Beyer, they use hard beats and savage filters to make music
that is dumb, yet smart. Lovely.
Behind System 23 is a long history in music, going back to punk and
industrial days. Their early influences include range from the Sex
Pistols to Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. System
23s music clearly stacks up the Pistol's attitude against techno's
sonic arsenal. Even better, their deep knowledge of the industrial
greats means they know just how slammingly funky they could be, as
anyone who saw the Cabs live can tell you. It's this side of industrial
that seeps through System 23's grooves.
