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Leipzig’s Institut fuer Zukunft were forced to move their Balance Club/Culture Festival, which they describe as “an interface between club culture and social critique,” into an online space last year, hosting a web edition of the festival with the theme ‘Tender Squads’, considering the question: “which constellations and alliances can be imagined for the emancipatory potential of a different world to unfold?” Bringing together a wide variety of artists, including Lotic, Moesha13, Kelman Duran, Kablam, TSVI, Animistic Beliefs, Tadleeh, ABOGAR, Ana Bogner & Karam Saad, Avbvrn, Lamb Kebab and Doll Face, the festival marked the occasion by putting together a compilation featuring contributions from all of the above. Lotic’s contribution, ‘Flourish’, sees the JANUS co-founder spinning together a barrage of misfiring percussion and ear-scraping sound design into a frazzled club stomper, a sound she describes as “the symbiosis of force and softness; the beat behind the drill of a parade honouring a strong
