Thursday 4th July | 7pm | CANCELLED

Hive Mind Records invites you to an evening of wonky fifth-dimension exotica and aquatic swamp bass with bleeding-edge mondo pranksters from Milan, Babau.

BABAU is the duo composed of Luigi Monteanni and Matteo Pennesi, both also founders of Artetetra Records, an Italian tape label concerned with the latest developments in the concepts of digital folklore and transglobal exoticism during late globalization.

BABAU is best defined by a pastiche combining the fascination for World Music 2.0, Fourth World conceptualism and Mondo Voyeurism with the latest abstractions in computer music’s compositional techniques, which they call ‘Quinto Mondo’ music.

Over the years they have played in festivals such as Club To Club, Fusion, Saturnalia, Outernational Days, Mondo Muzak and Camp Cosmic and have collaborated with Kiosk Radio, NTS, The Wire, Sun Araw, Simon Reynolds, Senyawa and many others.

"...the duo scraping at the layers of culture encrusted onto the perimeters of the internet to create their imaginary ethnography." The Quietus

"...Italy’s Babau duo trade in a charmingly frothy 2D aspect of 4th World electronics already marked as one to watch by Kode 9 and Simon Reynolds" Boomkat

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