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  Wes Baggaley

  London, United Kingdom

  “It’s a no-nonsense affair with Wes Baggaley, the DJ cult favourite of raw rhythms and pulsating electronic bass.”

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  It’s a no-nonsense affair with Wes Baggaley, the DJ cult favourite of raw rhythms and pulsating electronic bass.  The alchemy for Wes is vinyl, an obsession in collection for over 30 years. Born and raised in Wigan, he first set out with punk and grindcore records before the grip of electronic music tightened fast after discovering industrial groups like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire via his favourite band, Godflesh. The nineties club scene beckoned, and after cutting his teeth at legendary local venue The Pier he started travelling to clubs such as Manchester’s Bugged Out, Back to Basics in Leeds and Liverpool’s Voodoo where he’d regularly catch DJs such as Derrick Carter, Gemini, David Holmes and Jeff Mills; all the while continuing to attend his beloved punk gigs. Naturally what followed was DJing, a patient decades-long span of craft honing with an inimitable palette of sounds.  His sets are dark, deep and propulsive; a tight mix of rough house and brutal techno that covers the dungeon sonics of acid, EBM, industrial and new wave. That feeling from the dancefloor with Wes at the wheel is unparalleled, a sweat-drenched hysteria that encapsulates like no other. Acclaimed transmissions for Boiler Room, Mixmag’s The Lab and The Lot Radio plus a former residency on Rinse FM prove this, while regular appearances at festivals Glastonbury and Houghton plus clubs like FOLD, Berghain, Robert Johnson, Folklore in Lausanne, KALT in Strasbourg and beloved parties adonis and I Love Acid further the cause.  2025 commences his eighth year as resident of beloved queer house party Bottom Heavy alongside Dan Beaumont at Dalston Superstore. Wes will start new party Head Dirt at Lubber Fiend in Newcastle, and accompany that with his own productions and the starting of a noise-inspired project titled Operation Spanner.
  Their RA profile lists Me Me Me.

  often with Kiernan Laveaux, Henry Chow, Chill Zone, none of them here on Saturday

• Bézier

  San Francisco/Oakland, United States of America · 14 bookings since Aug 2025

  next: Kater, Fri 27 Nov

  “Bézier is a ripple.”

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  Bézier is a ripple. Bézier is a synth-organic proto-techno trip: an analog vision of club-floor futures, a journey of kinetic movement through embodied sound. You might know Robert Yang from Berlin, his home base since 2018, where you'll find him disseminating the electric catechism in places like Zur Klappe, a former subway toilet transformed into an underground nightclub. Or you might know him from his previous home, San Francisco, where he spent 14 years as a core member of the queer DJ collective Honey Soundsystem. Yang and the Honey crew threw a party every Sunday night for five years in a row—that's 260 parties, but who's counting?—and toured the globe, while running an eponymous record label that released music by Patrick Cowley, Octo Octa, Vin Sol, and beyond. Or you might know him simply as Bézier, the alias through which he's issued a dozen-plus records of livewire dance music crafted from rippled synths, crackling drums, and a songwriter's knack. Bézier's sound is the product of a lifelong obsession with electronic music. Experiments with MIDI on the family computer and DIY synth repair exposed Yang to synthesis at an early age. That led to a teenage obsession with Autechre and Björk, among others, and undergraduate courses in computer music. Finally came the accumulation of gear, vintage and modern, that powers Yang's sound design. Today, Bézier's tracks are tighter, more focused, and more dialed-in than ever. That's the result of the confidence Yang has earned as a producer and artist—the ability to pay attention to the things that matter and ignore what doesn't. These days, Bézier is back in the studio and at work on his own record label: Körperspannung, or K-SPAN for short. The phrase is German for "body tension"—a phrase Yang's partner Lennard, aka Len.Leo, would use to remind Yang to embody himself as an independent gay Asian musician, to stay strong, to be proud. That sums up the label's ethos: a celebration of creative electronic expression from within the gay community, and a home for music that steps outside the box and blurs the lines. After over 15 years in the game, that's Bézier's ethos, too. All you need to do is listen.
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  Their RA profile lists Dark Entries, HNYTRX, Honey Soundsystem, Cin Cin and 6 more.

  Recently at YSY, Paloma, Berghain · often with electroponce, BrthrMidnyt, ACID BOGEN, none of them here on Saturday