Caught in the provocative tension between futurism and tradition, Mani Festo is a champion for the transportive, perception-altering power of club music. Already, his towering catalogue of rough and ready sonics counts labels like WNCL, Rupture and Hooversound as regular stop offs, while his presence in the Club Glow collective alongside Borai, Denham Audio and LMajor presents a vital unified front at the vanguard of contemporary rave. As an accomplished visual artist, Mani Festo designs the Club Glow aesthetic as well as collaborating with notable brands such as the EQ50 collective and seminal London party Rupture (where he’s also a regular guest on the decks). The Mani Festo muse is front and centre in his music – a darkly seductive atmosphere drawing heavily on the relationship between hardcore-rooted music and vintage sci-fi. At one extreme he embraces synthesis as a vessel for evocative, mind-melting moments between the blink of the strobe, while at the other his dynamic sound is anchored by a fierce commitment to heavyweight rhythm craft. From the dedicated ethic of breakbeat science to the punchy machine funk of electro, there’s no single overbearing method to Mani Festo’s madness, just a commitment to shock and awe under the influence of the soundsystem.