Salome

Tbilisi's impact on the techno underground owes much to artists like Salome. Though now based in Berlin, her sound is very much a product of the Georgian scene: heavy, breakbeat-rich techno with big trance-infused melodies and dramatic atmospheres alongside plenty of electro. It has come out on Lobster Theremin and Standard Deviation, and she has remixed Jensen Interceptor. In her sets Salome Gvetadze folds in influences from hard house to industrial to cook up soundtracks of pure dystopia: brutally distorted low ends and earth-shattering warehouse sounds brought to life by bright synths, shards of glassy melody and twisted metal textures. Though physical and unrelenting, it is richly layered, with always a freaky voice to follow or a melodic thread to pull at.