One of the UK’s most singular electronic musicians, Darren Cunningham, aka Actress, has been sculpting his distinctive sound since 2004, when he released the eccentric No Tricks on his own Werk Discs imprint. In time, his hybridization of galaxy-brain Detroit techno, British bass music and noisy dub extended in widescreen across a series of acclaimed full-lengths, such as 2010’s woozy Splazsh and its darker, conceptually-driven follow-up R.I.P. His latest album Statik, released on the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound, is his most ethereal to date, a reflecting pool of liquified beats and buoyant Drexciyan synths.

Actress b2b Skee Mask, co-curated with reworks at Unsound 2024.