System 23

Peaktime clubbing moments are built on anonymity. Those fragments of time when you’re blown away by music that you just know you will never, ever, be able to identify.

System 23 make that music. Tracks that lay waste to the dancefloor because everything is a hook. There’s earcandy everywhere, but the overall effect is still minimal, still classy. Yet it fulfils Dust Science’s aim of creating the ultimate techno knees up.

System 23 takes industrial’s heritage of electronic inspiration and squashes it into techno’s blueprint. Influenced by like-minded industrial inheritors Surgeon/Regis, and adding an overlay of Funk da Void and Beyer, they use hard beats and savage filters to make music that is dumb, yet smart. Lovely.

Behind System 23 is a long history in music, going back to punk and industrial days. His early influences include range from the Sex Pistols to KraftWerk, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. System 23s music clearly stacks up the Pistol’s attitude against techno’s sonic arsenal. Even better, their deep knowledge of the industrial greats means they know just how slammingly funky they could be, as anyone who saw the Cabs live can tell you. It’s this side of industrial that seeps through System 23’s grooves.