The solo project of producer/drummer Adam Betts (Squarepusher’s Shobaleader One, Goldie, Three Trapped Tigers), Colossal Squid has been exploring what the point of live electronica is. The music offers an answer by disrupting mechanical precision with warm heart and sweat-soaked chaos. Renowned for ecstatic, complex and face-melting drumming, Adam Betts’s compositions lean in and enhance this core to create a wild, shared euphoria. Especially while the world is burning, collective joyful abandon is ever more important, and Colossal Squid has created this in recent stunning sets at End Of The Road festival, ArcTangent festival, Smugglers Festival, Wanderfal, Positive Futures and Strange Forms festivals, with return sets confirmed at End Of The Road, ArcTangent and Smugglers.

The forthcoming album Closing Memory  is exploring an imaginary point where Lightning Bolt and Lorenzo Senni cross, with trance synths triggered by breakcore and dnb infused punk drumming.