TORAX: Luke Slater
By Kit Macdonald
Though daylight savings ensures Barcelona gets dark on its own pretty early at this time of year, TORAX at Razzmatazz, which runs from 5pm to midnight on Sunday, is intent on giving things a helping hand, darkness-wise. "TORAX takes place in a low-light environment with some darkened zones" its moodily minimalist event information states. "Take a moment to adjust to the lighting conditions when coming from the outside.
"Star guest for this night party-feeling day party is a bona fide legend of British techno and one of the scene's confirmed good guys, Luke Slater, who since the early 90s has released some of the finest albums and EPs in the genre's history under his own name and as Planetary Assault Systems, as well as seminal IDM as The 7th Plain and Magenistic. Support comes from the Portugal-based Italian Kaiser and local fixture Anika Kunst.