■Latency Recordings Takeover
Founded by Sidney Gerard and Souleymane Said in Paris in 2013, Latency adroitly condenses both a cutting-edge and daring sense of sound-making with a fascinating work on semi-abstract visual figures. Folded in sleek, ever tastefully arranged black-&-white designs deriving from collaborations with photographers, designers and videographers, the label’s sophisticated sound aesthetic covers a broad span of typologies, ranging from immersive dub techno to widescreen ambient scapes onto further audacious electronic try-outs. Gazing intensely towards unexplored horizons, Latency is a work in motion that has collated contributions from a multi-hued arc of producers including Burnt Friedman, Andrea Belfi, Kane Ikin, ENA, Madteo, Joey Anderson, Even Tuell to name just a few. For their part DJ and musicians themselves (Sidney also makes for one half of French duo Mura Oka) the pair has paced the scenes of some of the most respected venues like Contact, Berghain-Panorama Bar, Robert Johnson, Atonal, Freerotation and more. Following Latency’s Asia tour in 2016, Sidney will represent the pair again at Dommune with a two hour set of obscure techno motifs and experimental electronics. |