FRIDAY 06 JUN | 24h~01h
LOTO RETINA
live performance
live performance
Self-described as "drum 'n' gnome," it is not so far-fetched to imagine Loto Retina as some fantastical creature who just happened to wander into this mortal realm – and their songs don't do a lot to refute this possibility. Their high-fructose music – which has been released on cult labels such as Orange Milk and Promesses – combines micro-sample chaos and gloopy bass with unpredictable percussion to create a congregation of organic and mechanical sounds. While there is a digitality to Loto Retina's sound – sometimes sounding like a pleasantly malfunctioning robot – it too holds an animistic and feral quality: this is music that growls as much as it grooves.
Live, they conjures up a a danceable semi-chaos, composed with velocity and fantasy, inhabited by struck, scraped, caressed percussions and semi-humanoid onomatopoeia, with samples jostling and jumping around like in a cartoon, performed across a multitude of ensnared sequencers, tangled MIDI-cables, well-worn samplers, and battered drum pads.
Live, they conjures up a a danceable semi-chaos, composed with velocity and fantasy, inhabited by struck, scraped, caressed percussions and semi-humanoid onomatopoeia, with samples jostling and jumping around like in a cartoon, performed across a multitude of ensnared sequencers, tangled MIDI-cables, well-worn samplers, and battered drum pads.