Riccardo Balli / SBRANG GABBA GANG. GABBER RECONSTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE

“Sbrang Gabba Gang” is an intellectual entertainment – penned by one who knows viscerally whereof he speaks… who’s sweated and stomped in the four-to-floor forge ’till the crack of dawn, and beyond… been battered by drop-hammer bassdrum and blasted by hoover-noise… soaked up the sensations and survived to make sense of the senselessness” Simon Reynolds.
“This one, all for its theoretical pretence, is about gabber’s derangement as a folk culture; a lovingly celebration of 30 years of “4X4 BASS-DRUM AT 180 BPM, AS A 24/7 NOURISHMENT” Joe Muggs (The Wire #443).
Movements that dig velocity. Movements that worship war. Movements that have been accused of being fascist. Sbrang gabba gang is the sound of two cultural movements violently crashing into each other at breakneck speed. What happens when the Italian futurist avant-garde clashes with gabber, a belligerent strain of hardcore techno and the Netherland’s first proper youth culture? Sbrang Gabba Gang will introduce you to the strange custom of forming human pyramids at gabber raves, futurist after-shave cocktails and Pietro Cannata, the man who took a hammer to the toes of Michelangelo’s David