96 Back’s music can be delicate and precise one minute, and like it's clawing its way out of the speakers the next. Full of juxtapositions and complicated beauty as well as an increasingly screamo burn.
Sheffield through and through, he first appeared on local label CPU while still in his teens. His debut LP, Excitable, Girl, followed soon after, and showcased his restless range. He's been exploring the liminal spaces in electronic music ever since.
Releases for Hypercolour, Local Action and his own imprints have moved through IDM, grime, ambient, pop and chest-bursting club music. The run of 9696 Dream, Flex Time, and Love Letters, Nine Through Six showed just how wide that world could become: intricate drum programming that burst into tears on the dancefloor, or hands-in-the-air melodies that are still rattling through your brain long after your ears stop ringing.
Evan has grown up alongside No Bounds, holding down a Hope Works residency and playing every festival in recent years. Its our annual pleasure to see how he’s progressed , yet again, growing and refining his artistry which we feel has limitless potential. This year, he returns with a major new live show, complete with a live drummer. This is a rare chance to catch one of Sheffield’s most singular producers, an artist building on Sheffield’s prolific electronic pedigree (Warp) in his own unique way. See him as he metamorphosises yet again. It's gonna get wild this time. Be prepared!
