The Bug presents

Who they are

• Tikiman

  8 bookings since Aug 2025

  Recently at Tresor / Globus, Lark, Kraftwerk Berlin / OHM · often with Richard Akingbehin, Laura BCR, GLOBUS, none of them here that night

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  JK Flesh

  West + Wales, United Kingdom

  “Justin K. Broadrick’s output is an intimidating one.”

  their own biography

  the whole biography

  Justin K. Broadrick’s output is an intimidating one. Not because it is so incredibly raucous and dirty-sounding, for the most part. It’s just that there is so much of it. His earliest venture began, aged 15, with the recording of his first—and last—record with Napalm Death. From there he formed pioneering industrial metal group Godflesh, who released a slew of seminal albums on Earache throughout the ’90s. In the meantime he’d met Kevin Martin, AKA The Bug, and began experimenting with everything from dub and techno to hip-hop, breakbeat and rowdy ambience as Techno Animal. Together they produced four albums under the moniker, plus a collaboration with Porter Ricks, ultimately bowing out on the monolithic ‘The Brotherhood Of The Bomb’ for Matador in 2001. In 1999 Broadrick founded Avalanche Recordings, which would serve as an outlet for some of his more expansive millennial work, namely as Final, Jesu and JK Flesh. Jesu was born from the ashes of Godflesh, a deeply genuine and emotional project that channeled all the raw anguish of his former band into more contemplative post-industrial and shoe-gazing song-structures. Final, a minimal ambient-guitar project—which actually pre-dates Godflesh—was recently picked up by Downwards, who put out the seven-track double vinyl ‘Black Dollars’ at the start of 2016. They backed ‘Nothing Is Free’ next, complete with Surgeon remix, credited this time to Broadrick’s JK Flesh guise. There’s also the somber and ethereal Pale Sketcher alias, which grew out of a remix album of Jesu material on Ghostly International. JK Flesh debuted proper in 2012 with the album ‘Posthuman’ on 3BY3, but it’s lineage can be traced right back to Kevin“K-Mart” Martin and the pair’s psychedelic industrial techno project, The Sidewinder, which was picked up by Mille Plateaux in 1996. The studio pet-name would later become his surly alter-ego, as Broadrick explained to Resident Advisor in a 2012 interview: “Any remix I would do which had beats that were hard and involved any form of noise or sense of foreboding or threat, I would use the JK Flesh moniker. JK Flesh is the angry, hateful, disenchanted side of what I do with electronic beat-driven, bass-driven music. It’s got a lot more to boot.” And it does. There’s been the stinging ‘Worship Is The Cleansing Of The Imagination’ since, a split with Dominick Fernow as Prurient, and this year’s ‘Suicide Estate’ EP on Fernow’s own Hospital Productions. Now Electric Deluxe has the honour of bringing the next unrelenting JK Flesh album kicking and screaming into the world. Batten down the hatches and prepare for a perilous ride. Bio by Holly Dicker
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  Their RA profile lists Electric Deluxe, Downwards, EarToGround, Hospital Productions and 6 more.

  often with Lana del Rabies, Ash Code, Front Line Assembly, none of them here that night

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  The Bug

  London, United Kingdom · 4 bookings since Nov 2025

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  Their RA profile lists Ninja Tune, Hyperdub, Rephlex, Swamp 81 and 3 more.

  Last at Gretchen in Mar · often with Warrior Queen, Indiana (Sacred Bones/UK/FR), Mandy, none of them here that night

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  Dis Fig

  New Jersey, United States of America · 7 bookings since Aug 2025

  “As a producer, performer, vocalist, and DJ, Felicia Chen (Dis Fig) has long resisted simple categorization.”

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  As a producer, performer, vocalist, and DJ, Felicia Chen (Dis Fig) has long resisted simple categorization. She cut her teeth in New York City's scrappy DIY noise scene before finding her footing in Berlin's experimental electronic underground, where her distinctive artistic sensibility began to crystallize. Chen's work is defined by dense, immersive sonic worlds where crushing heaviness meets startling vulnerability, anchored by a voice whose instinctive connectiveness cuts through even the densest sonic landscapes. Known for her intensely physical live performances, Chen dissolves boundaries between audience and performer, using her acrobatic voice and full body to transmit emotional complexity that's deeper than language. Whether through overwhelming walls of sound or barely audible whispers, her work invites shared vulnerability and collective catharsis. Dis Fig has become one of the defining voices reshaping what heavy music can be. On her acclaimed debut album 'PURGE' (PTP), she established a singular artistic language, distilling noise, industrial, electronic music, and melodic songcraft into a sound that moves effortlessly between tenderness and brutality. Since then, she has continued to expand that language through collaborations with The Bug on 'In Blue' (Hyperdub), The Body on 'Orchards of a Futile Heaven' (Thrill Jockey), and with Asian Dope Boys, contributing performance and score to Tianzhuo Chen's immersive, ritualistic durational works. No matter the context, Dis Fig brings an unmistakable sense of cohesion and emotional intention, making even her most extreme sonic explorations feel deeply human. Internationally acclaimed, her work has been recognized by The Guardian, The Wire, The Quietus, and NPR. She has toured extensively and performed at leading festivals including CTM, Unsound, Rewire, Roadburn, Le Guess Who?, Dark Mofo, MIRA, and Nyege Nyege. Seven years after 'PURGE', Chen returns with her long-awaited second solo album, 'What To Make Of These Mortal Hands', released by Thrill Jockey on October 23. An ambitious widening of her sonic and artistic scope, the record expands both the scale and subtlety of her practice, carefully carving intricate detail from its sonic extremes. Spanning 63 minutes, her most emotionally expansive work to date unfolds like a film, exploring humanity's capacity for both beauty and devastation.
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  Their RA profile lists Hyperdub, Thrill Jockey and Purple Tape Pedigree.

  Recently at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, OHM, Kwia · often with Mobilegirl, Spixe, Ragana, none of them here that night

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  Ghost Dubs

  London, United Kingdom

  “GHOST DUBS - "DAMAGED" out now via Pressure Recordings Bandcamp / 2xVinyl / Streaming […] “"If David Lynch had ever been driven to dub, it might well have sounded like this....an early contender for best of the year" – Steve Barker / The Wire Magazine […] “Most of the action is happening on the edge of what the ear can hear […] air-compressing, room-shaking bassline bliss.”

  their own biography

  the whole biography

  GHOST DUBS - "DAMAGED" out now via Pressure Recordings Bandcamp / 2xVinyl / Streaming […] “"If David Lynch had ever been driven to dub, it might well have sounded like this....an early contender for best of the year" – Steve Barker / The Wire Magazine […] “Most of the action is happening on the edge of what the ear can hear […] air-compressing, room-shaking bassline bliss. Your neighbours won’t thank you, but your consciousness will.” – Electronic Sound Mag […] “Damaged is an absolute immersive triumph, a furnace-reduced, machine-tooled groove of hypnotic, ever evolving high-density inner ear-bliss.” – Mojo Mag […] “distills ambient dub into a wispy, wraithlike form. … Where Ghost Dubs stands out is in the intensity of his productions. Lots of people have tried their hand at this tradition, but few have achieved the heaviness, or the strangeness, of Ghost Dubs’ best work." – Pitchfork […] "Damaged is comfortable yet eerie, and it goes back and forth between dream and reality... Listening to the album gives the feeling of a near-death experience." - Yuta Umegaya […] “Record of the Week” - "As you might expect from a record released on The Bug’s Pressure label, this thing is weighty. It’s almost as if it has its own gravitational pull." – The Quietus […] "I have to admit that “Damaged” is something like the essence of Dub embodied. The distillation of 50 years of bass music." – DubBlog.de
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  Their RA profile lists Pressure.

  often with Ayanna Heaven, Yu Su, K Wata, none of them here that night

• Scion

• Gorgonn (SVBKVLT/JP/D)