Fact Mix 804: HDMIRROR (Strobe Warning)

STROBE WARNING ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Dysfunctional dance music” is how HDMIRROR describes their singular style of hard club music. A blend of razor-sharp gabber, trance and rave that wears its ’90s influences proudly, HDMIRROR’s music nevertheless fits into the hyper-modern bracket occupied by producers such as Errorsmith, EVOL, SOPHIE and Lorenzo Senni. Originally from South Africa but now based in Berlin, HDMIRROR has released several projects on Bandcamp over the past few years, but it’s in a live setting that their music fully comes to life. As you can hear from the spontaneous energy generated on live recordings from CTM Festival and Unsound, HDMIRROR makes music for the club first. HDMIRROR frequently creates intense visuals to accompany these live sets, all of which come with strobe warnings. These disorienting collages make use of lysergic textures, neon colo