5 must see acts from Eastern Electrics

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With Britain's leading underground festival on the horizon, we thought we'd pick out a quintet of must see acts from across the weekend, and just for the record we could have picked five from each stage, so we thought we'd help you out and pick a mix of main stagers and a few from left of field to broaden your festival horizons come August 2nd at Hatfield House. 

Pinch and Mumdance

First up we couldn't look beyond Pinch and Mumdance, though separate on the line up, we thought we'd activate the loophole after their sensational Pinch b2b Mumdance mix released on Tectonic Recordings in June, and just so you believe us we've added the full thing below. 

Despite their brilliant collaborative masterclass, they arrive from slightly different backyards, Tectonic boss Pinch is a major purveyor of dubstep in comparison to Mumdance who's well inclined to lay down some stripped back beats resonating somewhere between techno and grime.

Judging by their recent work we can't quite pinpoint were either are going to go next, their unpredictable presence and latest goings on may just be the start of something special, so it'll definitely be worth giving them a watch. 

tINI

This time we thought we'd go for someone that we're pretty affectionate for - Desolat mainstay tINI, who'll be spinning some straight up tech flavoured house in her own inimitable fashion. After catching the eye of Loco Dice, the Germans career has rapidly taken off, first gaining a residency at Ibiza's Ushuaia right through to supporting Marco Carola's worlwide tour, and ravers can't seem to get enough of her and neither can we.

Her album Tessa draws on her experiences of Ibiza, the album plays out some eclectic groove ridden house which is all well and good until the German hits the main stage and blares out some deep seated techno,as you can see below, which quite frankly we're all about.

Daniel Avery 

Someone else firmly on our radar is Daniel Avery, most notably for his recent Drone Logic LP (below), which can only be described as the goings on in the head of a psychopath or one big hallucinogenic trip. If you transfer that thought into a gig at Eastern Electrics then things are going to get stupidly crazy. 

Dense and Pika

Edging us back towards the techno fore are Hotflush's very own Dense & Pika, the London based pairing are cropping up all over the place at the minute and it's hard to leave them out, after their Colt imprint and sensational remix of Paul Woolford's 'Erotic Discourse' (below), it's easy to see why. 

Kerri Chandler 

We return to the old guard for our pick of the main stage this year with deep house godfather Kerri Chandler. We found it hard to ignore the presence of the funk and soul house fusionist amongst the hotbed of talent this festival has to offer.

The MadTech boss is a longstanding pioneer of the house scene, continually developing his sound to remain current, as demonstrated in his latest production on Apollonia above. For anyone heading on over to see Kerri Chandler then expect a striving onslaught of deep house classics both old and new, a blend that can't quite be ignored by house lovers. 

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