This Body Time Combobulation

Timeinbody & This Combobulation Association team up to
present This Body Time Combobulation in Dublin's most punkest venue Mono's Bar in Dalymount.

featuring
Zkellies (Live) (APT Records)
Maeve O Neill
Richard B. (Industrial Lies)

Zkellies
Zkellies perform live techno played by hand & foot.
It is music for dancing.
The Zkellies show is an attempt to perform techno music according to Steve Reich’s principle of “no hidden structrual devices”. To this end, Zkellies utilise no backing tracks. No sequencers. No click track.

Longtime Irish underground music stalwart Andy Connolly (Naive Ted,
Unscene) has enlisted the renowned pair of Dan Walsh (Fixity) & Killian Barton (Bill Karnation) to create a series of short musical phrases designed to be played by two drummers, moving between these phrases in the same way as a DJ builds a set, performing a perceived “faithful” version of loop-based, dancefloor focussed, techno music.

This particular strand of techno is traditionally created with sequencers
controlling synthesizers & samplers. Zkellies is an attempt to take the sequencer out of the equation.

Though the music is semi-improvised & experimental in nature, there is no wish to subvert the norms of the techno space, only a desire to perform the music respectfully & in a different way.
It is music for dancing.

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Member Bios
Andy Connolly has been DJing, composing & performing in the Irish
underground for over 20 years. Initially coming to prominence as hip-hop DJ/turntablist & as a founder member of the worldwide Community Skratch
collective, Connolly has moved through many aliases & spaces while remaining firmly on the fringes. His best known output is as Naive Ted, whose dancefloor focused turntable workouts led to his description as a “national treasure” in The Wire magazine.

Dan Walsh is a drummer & multi-instrumentalist famed in experimental music circles for his work as FIXITY and as a member of seminal Irish bands including Junior Brother, The Bonk, Senior Infants, Elaine Howley, Council for the Dark Arts Orchestra & many more. He is founder & director of Cork Improvised Music Club.

Kerryman Killian Barton first emerged as hip-hop beatmaker for shirt-lived but influential Irish rap group The Lung Doners. His subsequent Bill Karnation alias has evolved from early far-out synthesizer experiments to more recent dancefloor focussed excursions, earning him an enviable reputation as a live performer across the west coast of Ireland.

Maeve O'Neill

Maeve O'Neill is a renowned Irish electronic music DJ known for sets packed with relentless energy, hypnotic rhythms, and expert use of acid lines that keep dance floors moving. Over the years, Maeve O'Neill has shared lineups with influential artists such as Eliza, Lolz, Gesloten Cirkel, and ELLLL and is a regulkar feature on line ups across Ireland and beyond

Richard B
Richard B has been involved with electronic music for 30 years. He worked as a music journalist from 1996 to 2020, writing for Irish and international outlets including Hot Press, Juno Plus, Resident Advisor and most notably at DJ Mag - where he was techno editor for over 20 years. He has interviewed artists such as Drexciya, Jeff Mills, Underworld, Robert Hood, Depeche Mode, Dave Clarke, Juan Atkins, Surgeon, Silent Servant, Regis, Carl Craig etc.
Richard was a resident DJ at Test, the night that brought acts like Sleeparchive, Redshape, Sandwell District and Dopplereffekt to Dublin. In 2016, he set up First Cut, a vinyl label dedicated to showcasing emerging techno, house and electro talent from Ireland, with releases from Giles Armstrong, Defekt, Tr-One, Lerosa and Reflection Port Assembly.
In 2024, he established Industrial Lies. Named after the B-side of Cybotron’s ‘Clear’, the label platforms Chicago house, ebm, industrial and new beat-inspired music. Releases to date have come from Der Strom, Poseidon84 and Ingo Hammer.
A lifelong record collector, Richard’s vinyl sets are across the board, from new wave and Italo Disco to jacking acid tracks and raw Hague bangers.

Minimum age: 18+