Substrate: Andy Stott & Taylor Trostle

Substrate brings Andy Stott and Taylor Trostle to Transmission for an overnight program of techno and related electronic sounds. Stott’s work occupies the space between sound art, club music, and pop, shaped by deliberately rough, asymmetrical textures and a strong sense of atmosphere.

The event’s description traces Stott’s decade-long evolution from *Passed Me By* through *We Stay Together*, *Luxury Problems*, *Faith in Strangers*, *Too Many Voices*, and *It Should Be Us*. It also focuses on the making of *Never the Right Time*, an album developed after a period of personal upheaval and built from slow horns, sibilant textures, delayed drums, flutes, and other raw materials. With vocals by Alison Skidmore, the record moves through melancholy, desolation, defiance, and beauty, drawing inspiration from artists including Prince, Gavin Bryars, A.R. Kane, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Robert Turman, Cindy Lee, Leila, Catherine Christer Hennix, Junior Boys, László Hortobágyi, Nídia, and Prefab Sprout. Its tracks range from the lovelorn shimmer of “Away Not Gone” to the clattering pop of “The Beginning,” the angular club haze of “Answers,” and the nocturnal atmosphere of “Hard to Tell.”

When: Thursday, October 1

Showtimes: 9:00 PM to 2:00 AM

Tickets: Price not available

Lineup: Andy Stott and Taylor Trostle

Music: Techno, deep techno, dub techno, acid techno, Detroit techno, and hypnotic techno

Venue: Transmission

Address: 1353 H Street Northeast, Washington, DC 20002, USA

Organizer: Transmission

Vocals: Alison Skidmore appears on the *Never the Right Time* material described for the event.