Metropolis presents SBTRKT! Tickets now on sale.

Multi faceted electronic musician SBTRKT comes to Leeds' Hi-Fi on October 7th with Metropolis.

SBTRKT aka Aaron Jerome is a man of many faces. Most of them wooden, tribal, and adorned with straw beards. But aside from his trade mark tribal masks, his music is just as multi faceted, with debut album drawing influences from dubstep, Chicago house, R&B amongst other genres.

With tastes as diverse as his mask collection, SBTRKT has got fans, critics, spellchecks and musical peers in a tizzy with his ‘unbridled energy and killer pop sensibility’; already drawing a huge following with his eclectic electronic music that’s made for dancefloors.

And one dancefloor in particular is looking forward to a visit from the man in the mask, when Metropolis brings SBTRKT to Leeds’ Hi-Fi club for a mindblowing live show.

Although his debut album was only releaed this summer, SBTRKT is no stranger to writing, recording and releasing music. To date he's had multiple releases on Brainmath, Numbers, Ramp, Monkeytown and now home label Young Turks. Add to that reworkings of Radiohead and Goldie, and remixes of Modeselektor...

Like most of the most exciting music around today, the story starts from the sound system of Plastic People,an east London club both underground in location and in the music it specialises in. It was here that SBTRKT met Tic (a&r for Young Turks Records) and was schooled by the sounds that came pulsing from the clubs now infamous speakers. It was through Tic that he met Sampha one of the key collaborators on the album and one half of the SBTRKT live show. Alongside Sampha, Roses Gabor and Jessie Ware, the album track 'Wildfire' features Little Dragon and the imitable voice of Yukimi Nagano. "I'm a big fan of their musical
ethos so to collaborate with them has been an ambition for a while. It has been really interesting seeing how our two worlds could co-exist.

Through the years, and his development as an artist and producer in his own right, SBTRKT has worked with collaborators both sonic and visual to emphasise his ideas and vision. The performance and visual style has also become an essential part of this setup. Performing in his trademark tribal mask, watching SBTRKT translate his sound live is opposed to what one would expect from the traditional producer / DJ. "The live show is an expansion of what has been created in the studio and the tools I've used to make them. Just because a song has been created with a laptop, it doesn't mean that is the best way to perform it live, but for me, neither is bringing in a 5 piece band to re-interpret your songs. I see live shows in a very different light to producing in a studio as it's about translating into a medium for performance. The basic setup is myself on
an acoustic drum kit with extra electronic triggers, and Sampha on 2 keyboards and vocals.... although it's constantly developing whilst we learn new ways to perform songs and experiment with new ways to route our live audio."

SBTRKT brings his live show to Leeds’ Hi-Fi Club on Friday 7th October. Tickets are available through Skiddle below but we’re expecting these to sell fast, so don’t wait around!

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