Bio
An irrepressible figure on the post-punk new wave scene that has broken the monopoly of delicate electro in recent years, Parrish Smith delights in messing with the senses and breaking the rules. His resolutely 90s-inflected sound features saturated, mechanical textures and grinding vocoder vocals, in addition to rave synths that hint at a more disconcerting and industrial acid sound. One half of Volition Immanent, and signed to L.I.E.S., Knekelhuis and later to Nina Kraviz’s label ТРИП, the Dutch producer makes the soundsystem come alive in an entirely new dancefloor experience: dark, cavernous, frenetic. Mindblowing.
Underpinned by LoFi melodies, Parrish Smith’s sets call to mind the broken rhythms of Gesloten Cirkel, Randomer and Broken English Club. Fans of EBM, noise and de-structured atmospheres need look no further.
