TRAFÓ ELECTRIFY SERIES Vol. 7. // BEN FROST (IS), VESSEL (UK)

Presented by Trafó, ELECTRIFY is a contemporary electronic music series with a focus on adventurous sound and stimulus for memorable sonic experience. Featuring established and emerging artists the diverse line-up aims to push boundaries for challenging exploration of new musical dimensions.

The seventh instalment of Trafó ELECTRIFY series presents the Island resident Ben Frost presenting his volcanic new release Aurora and UK producer Vessel making his Budapest debut with his sophomore album Punish Honey.

BEN FROST
After visiting Budapest few years ago both in solo and accompanied by Sinfonietta Cracovia, Island via Australia musician Ben Frost returns to the Hungarian capital with his robust album Aurora. His latest release has been critically acclaimed by numerous magazines charting on their 2014 favourites. Also, his collaborations with Tim Hecker, Colin Stetson (both performed on Trafó ELECTRIFY), and Brian Eno as well as contribution to the latest Swans album made his mark in the music industry but as multi-talented composer and sound artist, he scored the Palme d ́Or nominated Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh and The Enclave audiovisual art project by Richard Mosse. In his monumental music, the cinematic structures melted into massive soundscapes as well as post-classical electronic music merged with sound art, altogether result into a melodic yet powerful sonic adventure.

VESSEL
Bristol-raised UK producer Seb Gainsborough aka Vessel has received international recognition by his releases Order Of Noise in 2012 and Punish Honey in 2014 at the acclaimed underground label Tri Angle. Both albums draw a unique approach to leftfield club music and sound structures by blending experimental beats, futurist dub, noisy ambient. Vessel’s bold statement on noise has a crucial effect on his production in every aspect making his new generation music idiosyncratic and remarkable. He will perform for the very first time in Budapest.

MODEO
Dreaming of apocalyptic sci-fi dystopia, Modeo’s hypnotic vision is an abstract space journey across distorted dimensions of the asymmetric techno universe. Incorporating murky audio collages and tribal polyrhythms, his textured, cinematic sound is in pursuit of balance and contrast at the same time. His experimental musical voyage led him to collaborate with artists of various related creative fields as well as the art community Technologie und das Unheimliche. His special live show will be a one-off collaborative effort.

Sound system by Mogul Audio