Booking Info

Territory: Europe
Agent: John
Links: official site / Blackest Ever Black

Biography

Raime are an enigmatic London-based duo seeking to re-establish electronic composition as a physical and emotionally inquisitive force. Having released two phenomenally well-received EPs on sharp new London label Blackest Ever Black, Raime are now bringing their vast waves of sound – both beautifully intricate and artfully industrial, all woven around gut-shaking rhythm cycles – into the live rooms of Europe.
Raime draw explicit inspiration from the marginal mavericks of early European goth, minimal dance and synth wave – artists largely omitted from the current master narrative of post-punk history, who strove to make music at once cerebral and visceral, futuristic and atavistic. Tying this to sonics and textures worthy of future music field leaders from Shackleton to Sandwell District (whose Regis remixed “This Foundry” from the debut EP),  they prove themselves well-versed in the language of club music, while rejecting its typically rigid sequencing and arrangements. By stepping between the  cracks in the dancefloor Raime have struck black gold.

Press Quotes

“London duo Raime made the most creative use of the space … the music hovered … on the threshold between alien beauty and human brutality” - The Wire

“Raime’s charcoal-rubbed vibe draws upon the quieter, more ambiguous moments of forgotten merchants of gloom like Rema Rema or Crispy Ambulance, updating it with everything we’ve learned from digital instruments … This is not dance music, at least not as conventionally rendered: there’s no 4/4 kick, no handclap; it creeps instead of bouncing. But it still feels like techno, just sliced open and turned inside out; it’s ambient with pulse, with teeth” - Resident Advisor

Tour Dates

No shows booked at the moment.

Audio

http://soundcloud.com/blackest-ever-black/raime-this-foundry-mastered