Maria Jose + Moenia

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Mexican synth-pop is one of the great under-documented scenes of the last thirty years, and Moenia are the reason a whole cohort of people in this city associate analog pads and reverb with their own adolescence rather than with Berlin. Pair them with Maria Jose, who came out of a pop group and rebuilt herself into the person Mexican audiences go to for the big emotional ones, and you get a bill that is half dance floor and half karaoke. The crossover is the interesting part: the Moenia crowd and the synth-and-city-pop crowd in Los Angeles are closer than either group realises, and a night like this is where they discover it. A Thursday is the right night for this - it is a going-out record rather than a sit-down one. Moenia have been at this since the early nineties and still perform with hardware rather than laptops, which is audible in how loose the sequencing gets. Performance at eight on the 29th of October.