Raze is going to raze the Safe Room
Billed as Bangkok’s heaviest sound art and electronic music event, Raze will have its inaugural edition at Safe Room on Silom Soi 8 on July 6.
From 9pm until late, the air will be filled with industrial techno and hard techno music, dark and experimental music and another genre cheerfully referred to simply as “noise”.
The main man on the decks will be Ansome, a wild techno and EBM producer from London who’s wielded his heavyweight percussion and synths at the 18/7001 Festival in Rotterdam and the Rave Indoor Bunker in New York.
Raze is chiefly the name of a Bangkok-based collective whose members love hammering beats, rave culture and that “noise” thing. They’ve assembled a posse of DJs to play for a solid five hours, including Koichi Shimizu (So: On Dry Flower), Marmosets (Tempo, Zoo Studio), Psrwp (Duck Unit) and WINKIEB.
Shimizu is a Japanese living in Bangkok. He studied sound engineering in New York, then landed here in 1993 and came back to stay in 2003. His record label and party series, So: On Dry Flower, gets the local music out there and brings in foreign guests.
Ten years into his career, Shimizu finally released his own debut album, “Otolary”, in 2015, and continues to perform around Southeast Asia and in Japan and South Korea. In 2016 he toured Europe with Berlin-based artist Inner8, a member of the techno duo Dadub, and contributed a track to a compilation album of Korean underground collective Constant Value.
Marmosets, which blends experimental house, techno and hardware synthesiser, is an offshoot project for Kingkong, the FJ-producer who won the Heineken DJ Spin competition in 2006. He’s released tunes on Beatport, Traxsource and iTunes but has his own label, Zoo Studio, and cofounded TempoBkk.com.
Psrwp is an experimental project of Bangkok-based motion and visual graphic designer Peerawas Chooraksa, and Winkieb is editor-in-chief of TempoBkk.com who’s been in the city’s electronic music and underground music scenes for years.
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