Chance Meeting: Dhangsha + Kop-Z

Chance Meeting return in 2026 for experimental electronics at the Peer Hat.

“Dhangsha” (Bengali for ‘destruction’) is the project and alias of electronic artist Aniruddha Das.

Dhangsha operates at the intersection of bass culture and experimental noise, exploring minimalism, repetition and fragmentation. Not using any conventional back-beat, he programmes kicks to syncopate like traditional hand drums and hi-hats to mimic mutated clavé patterns. Deep bass modulations underpin alien call and response motifs. The entire mix is brutalised through “speaker damage simulation" with the resultant sound described as “Industrial Dancehall” or “Harsh Bass.”

Aside from releasing a clutch of albums, including “Live at Spirit of Gravity” and “Aberrant” on Hard Return, Dhangsha has contributed to compilations by Avon Terror Corps, The Wire and Industrial Coast. He is featured on the double vinyl “Disruptive Frequencies,” on Nonclassical. His last album “Broadcast Signal Intrusion,” achieved 11th position in The Wire’s Top 50 Albums of 2024. His current releases, “Insurrection Manual” for Brachliegen Tapes and “Occidental Death” for Tunisian label Corrupt Territories, are robust examples of confrontational de-colonial Bass/Noise.

Known for his visceral live sets, Dhangsha has performed throughout the UK and Europe, including Iklectik and Cafe Oto in London, Industrial Coast in Middlesbrough and Cave12 in Geneva. Festivals he has performed at include “Electric Spring,” “Supernormal" and “Bone-Iklectik,” Barcelona.

Raised in Salford and based in the gooch of Moss Side/Rusholme, Kop-Z makes mesmerising music that draws on his Kenyan heritage as much as Manchester’s modernity, splicing his daily practice of observant field recording with mind and body-bending rhythms to give his music a playfully heavy sense of psychogeography and ravishing rhythmic psychedelia. Hyperlocal yet omnivorous in outlook, Kop-Z deploys a rushing flux of flavour and pressure that speaks directly to the madness of the mid 2020s from his unique perspective.

Doors: 19:30

Kop-Z: 20:00

DHANGSHA: 21:00