Cold Waves presents

Who they are

• Orphx

  3 bookings since Sep 2023

  often with GLOBUS, Sven von Thülen, Sonic Groove, 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
  SoundCloud ↗Bandcamp ↗Discography ↗
  Their RA profile lists Electric Deluxe, Downwards, EarToGround, Hospital Productions and 6 more.

  often with Gorgonn (SVBKVLT/JP/D), Scion, Ghost Dubs, none of them here that night

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  Sierra

  Jena, Germany · 4 bookings since Sep 2023

  “SIERRA IS A GROUNDED GUY WHO’S WORKING EVERYDAY LIFE’S THINGS OUT COOLLY.”

  their own biography

  the whole biography

  SIERRA IS A GROUNDED GUY WHO’S WORKING EVERYDAY LIFE’S THINGS OUT COOLLY. HE MADE HIS FIRST FOOTSTEPS AS A DJ AT THE CLUB “MUNA”, WHICH HAS BECOME LEGENDARY IN THE MEANTIME. SINCE QUITE A FEW YEARS HE’S RESIDENT OVER THERE AND MIGHT EVEN BE A FIXTURE OF IT. DURING THAT PERIOD HE GAINED A LOT OF EXPERIENCE AND MET SEVERAL INSPIRING ARTISTS AND DJS. HE ALSO TRAVELLED A LOT AND SO HE CAN SHOW A LOT OF CLUBS AND FESTIVALS AS REFERENCES NOW. THE BIG INTEREST IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC MADE HIS WISH OF PUNKIN’ OUT IN MUSIC BUSINESS AND CREATIN’ HIS OWN WORKS OF MIND KEEP GROWIN’ ON AND ON. THAT’S HOW THE FIRST OWN PRODUCTIONS CAME TO EXISTENCE, EVEN IF HE FIRSTLY PLAYED THEM IN HIS SETS ONLY. FINALLY HE FOUND A NEW HOME BASE AT ANNY JACK WHERE HE RELEASED HIS DEBUT SINGLE “THE END OF THE BEGINNING”.
  Their RA profile lists Anny Jack Recordings and SIERRRA.

  often with 2CFM, Denzel Washington, Gustavo Ibarra, none of them here that night

• Lana del Rabies

  Industrial on 17, Noise on 16, Experimental on 16 and Power Electronics on 5. styles on their catalogued releases

  Released on BLEAKHOUSE. (1), Feral Crone Recordings (1) and Phage Tapes (1). labels on their catalogued releases

• Front Line Assembly

  2 bookings since Sep 2023

  often with Clock DVA, Lead Into Gold, none of them here that night

• Ash Code

• Xris Smack

  8 bookings since Sep 2023

  often with Zvetschka, Jamie K, Joe Hart, none of them here that night