Soft Centre: Gabber Eleganza, Violent Magic Orchestra
Vivid Sydney, Soft Centre and CRH Presents
- Contemporary Music
- CRH Presents
Booking fees:
A booking fee of $8.50 per transaction applies
A booking fee of $8.50 per transaction applies
Soft Centre returns to Vivid Sydney with a full-scale rewiring of City Recital Hall, tracing the ritualised excess of 90s hardcore raves to its contemporary mutations.
Gabber Eleganza presents The Hakke Show — a live reactivation of gabber’s sheer physicality. Originating as an archival project tracing the aesthetics and social codes of 90s hardcore, Gabber Eleganza has evolved into a platform connecting past and future states of the culture. Tracksuit-clad dancers will perform the iconic Hakke dance style to a Hardcore megamix, echoing the mass synchrony and intensity of Thunderdome-era dancefloors.
From Osaka, Violent Magic Orchestra extends the continuum into extremity, folding black metal, J-core and noise in a blistering A/V show. VMO is a juggernaut exercise in stomach-turning sub bass, pneumatic blast beats and stroboscopic overload.
Locally, Winged Mantis Emerald Dream Machine open proceedings with an exploration of deconstructed offshoots; metal influences coalesce with bouncy harsh sound design and chthonic rumbles. Slavic Hardbass and Donk aficionados fareevader channel hardcore’s maximalist absurdity in a Clowncore cabaret.
This event is presented in partnership with Vivid Sydney.
This is an 18+ event. Please note all tickets are general admission standing.
City Recital Hall is a three-level venue. Once Level 1 fills up, guests will be directed to higher levels subject to capacity limits.
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Violent Magic Orchestra
An Ultimate extreme supreme visual art music project in which techno, black metal, industrial, and noise are harmoniously integrated and presented to the public like a luminous, blinding light. VMO is a juggernaut exercise in stomach-turning sub bass assaults, pneumatic blast beats and violent black metal barrages. Like black metal meets Kraftwerk or Blackened Aphex Twin. Currently the unit that consumes the greatest quantities of electricity at live houses and clubs - the total power consumption of VMO is 5000W (equivalent to 56 amplifiers).Gabber Eleganza Hakke Show
In 2017, Alberto Guerrini created Gabber Eleganza as a digital archive to document his love of the gabber subculture. A youth movement that originated in the Netherlands in the early 90s before reaching the mainstream, gabber combined intense, high-bpm hardcore music with a unique aesthetic that drew from punk, futurism, and street style. Now a multidisciplinary platform encompassing art, fashion, and music, Gabber Eleganza (and the associated Never Sleep label), is where Guerrini joins the dots - both sonically and aesthetically - between hardcore, post-rave movements, and contemporary culture. ‘The Hakke Show’ is maybe his defining artistic statement to date: a gabber set featuring a group of hakke dancers who bring the classic high energy gabber dance style to life on stage. It combines the immediacy and physical intensity of a rave with the structure and dramaturgy of a live dance piece.fareevader
These hardbass fiends have been bringing squat and free shots to the dance floor since 2019. After touring England playing festivals: Boomtown, Bang Face and Balter - fareevader have just turned Sydney and Melbourne on their heads by bringing the SLAV RAVE back to Australia with their event HARDBASS ADIBASS. You might expect an everyday dj set and you would be totally wrong — fareevader bring interactive chaos, non-stop rave and costume quick changes that would put a magician to shame. fareevader shocks even when the people have been warned.Winged Mantis Emerald Dream
WMEDM is the collaborative project of friends and artists Obelisk and Index, who together play frenetic, high impact experimental music. Individually, Obelisk is a producer making heavy experimental electronic music with an edge of emotional grandeur and Index is a DJ and curator at Soft Centre, whose sets oscillate between high-intensity rave music & sonic niches that she has sourced from the depths of the internet. Index and Obelisk are late night presenters whose shows are back 2 back every Thursday on FBi Radio - post-genre 'internet music' show Deep Web and noise and experimental show Mithril respectively.
