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Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Printworks, London
LONDON’S electronic music festival set in brutalist buildings around the capital got off to a grand start on its launch in 2019.
Finally returning after a two-year pandemic-influenced delay, the festival has been pared back somewhat to just three events, but its vision to showcase some of the most unique experimental electronic artists out there is still very much intact.
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