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2220 Arts + Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Doors open: 8:00 pm

One-night only, two inspired icons of synthwave and futurist pop, one from Hamburg, one from Los Angeles, meet mid-December in a club in HiFi LA.

Felix Kubin lives and works against gravitation. A lovechild of the home recording era (he started to compose electronic 4-track music at the age of 12), his activities span futurist pop, electroacoustic and chamber orchestra music, radio art, lecture performances, and writing. In 1998, he founded his own record label, Gagarin Records. Over the last two decades, he has released numerous albums of different conceptual formats and played at well over hundred international contemporary music festivals. The French film artist Marie Losier ("The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye") has shot an award-winning docu-phantasma about him that premiered at Locarno film festival in 2019 and has been shown on ARTE TV and film festivals worldwide. Felix Kubin likes to move between high and low culture, clubs and concert halls, as his main concern is the shifting of contexts and expectations.

Tania Ordoñez, known professionally as Soltera, released her EP Sin Compromiso in December of last year. She’s a DJ and hosts the monthly Dublab show called Todo o Nada. She also teamed up with fellow artists Aarum Alatorre and Pedro Verdin, of the duo Pacoima Techno, to form the label Casa/Teca. Musically, Ordoñez melds styles like darkwave and minimal synth with doses of techno and house and the energy of punk. Ordoñez grew up in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley listening to punk, hardcore and power violence and later gravitated towards dance music. “I started realizing the similarities,” she says of those seemingly disparate influences. Ordoñez cites Donna Summer, alongside Spanish post-punk band Alaska y Los Pegamoides, Hi-NRG outfit Lime and electronic experimentalists Psychic TV as some of her favorite artists. –Audiofemme