Ossia
Brussels-based artist Ossia creates a sonic world which results in heavy-weather, beyond-good-and-evil soundsystem poetics, blending raw and rootical techno with isolationist abstraction, and dub at its most turbulent, raw-nerved, and space-time-warping.
As a key figure in Bristol’s Young Echo Sound and the driving force behind several record labels, Ossia has cultivated a deep and wide-ranging understanding of music. This knowledge shapes his unique, futuristic, and dread-soaked aesthetic, as well as his unconventional approach to soundsystem and club music.
Following a series of 12" releases on Berceuse Heroique, Blackest Ever Black, and his own labels, Ossia's latest album, 'Devils Dance,' marks his return to Blackest Ever Black. The album channels tail-thrashing dancehall pressure with art-of-darkness ambience and introspection.
Ossia embodies Bristol's underground music scene and has become notorious for bending the rules of genre and club convention. His live performances and DJ sets draw from a contemporary and eclectic mix of influences: grime, techno, jazz, steppers, dub, post-punk, industrial abrasion, and concrète minimalism, and so on. Rattling between moments of suspense and high-powered dancefloor mania, with constant twists and turns.
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