The Bug

Soopa fulfilled a long-term wish by bringing The Bug (a.k.a. Kevin Martin, a legendary traveller down the road of noise-industrial-dub-jazz with bands such as God and Techno Animal) to Porto (and Portugal, for that matter) for the first time.

In the posh sci-plastic scenario of Casa da Música, The Bug opened his set with the wail of sirens, just to let people know what was coming. He then proceeded to serve an hour of glass-shaking, staff-terrorising, audience-transfiguring bass pressure, complemented by subsonic beat bombardments and infinite hall-of-mirrors delays.

A memorable night of masochistic tinnitus pleasure, rendered even more memorable by the long conversations with Kevin about bass science, the Master Musicians of Jajouka and JG Ballard.