An absolutely massive and terrific feature arriving to shake our edifice to its core: electronic mastermind Tin Man has played what is arguably the most important role in the global resurgence of Acid music, augmenting his solid techno-taught technicality with a cerebrally-overwhelming vibration that is pretty much hallucinatory in its impact.

Bringing us a LIVE set that will involve both analog and digital instrumentation, this is a performance that will explode, cascade and subsume the room with originality and electric vitality.

Party continues into the morning with Obs’ very own resident acid man MadderModes on the 1s and 2s. 

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¬ TIN MAN live (Acid Test / The Bunker New York)
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♫ soundcloud.com/tinman

Producing music for more than a decade, Vienna’s Tin Man continues to evolve and invigorate with each and every release. Tin Man is an artist in the truest sense of the word. Over the last decade Johannes Auvinen has explored an ever evolving sound palette that touches on house, techno and ambient. 

Most recently the California born producer and live act has been responsible for reinvigorating the acid scene with his unique and cerebral manipulations of Roland 303s. His tracks are laced with slow and subtly shifting pads and infused with a very real machine soul to exude captivating warmth. 

Taking influences from “Chicago and radio pop rock as well as melancholic UK electronics and Sahkö” Tin Man’s extensive discography also explores less sublime and seductive sounds on labels like Keys of Life and Acid Acid. He is also part of The Acid Symphony Orchestra (a live super group that features artists playing on ten 303, 707 and 808) and has turned out a standalone neo-classical and ambient work, Vienna Blue, which proves he does so much more than pure dance music. 

The modern acid master plays live on 303s, TR-8s and plenty more bits of hardware, always creating textured soundtracks on the fly using a range of FX and skills built up over the last decade. 
In recent years Tin Man has also attracted attention through collaborations with Cassegrain, John Tejada, Donato Dozzy, Josef K and Winter Son, AAAA, Jordan as Rolling Ones, and Gunnar Haslam as Romans. 

¬ MadderModes (Voodoo Down Records)
♫ https://soundcloud.com/maddermodes

From Manchester to Ho Chi Minh City, Nic Ford's journey never ceased to take-off. Boss of Shift Coordinate Points label with production partner Andy Harper, with whom they also share MadderModes project, the hyperactive artist became, without a doubt, one of The Observatory's earliest resident.

His seven years in Viet Nam has contributed to the evolution of his skills behind the decks, and the development of his techno sets : dark, atmospheric, and always destructive. As illustrated in his productions for labels such as Night Drive Music or Voodoo Down Records and more recently for MODELMAKER.

We highly recommend you to check out his sets.