Actress
Described by Fact Magazine as "One of the UK's most fascinating musical figures", Actress is Darren J Cunningham, the mastermind behind one of 2010's most celebrated electronic music releases: "Splazsh!"
Released by Honest Jon's, this work appears to sit in the post-dubstep realm, yet reaches beyond it, with slow motion beats, waves of ambient sound, slow synths and highly processed samples from the pop world also touching techno and experimental music. Actress himself describes this music as "R&B concrète." As Pitchfork wrote: "that helps illuminate the way he works from both inside and outside a track. He has an ear for building up a song from the bottom (like a pop producer) and then abstracting it from the top (like a musique concrète technician), so that he makes some incredibly strange sounds surprisingly palatable."
Cunningham is also the founder and manager of Werk Discs, releasing music from the likes of Zomby, Lone, Lukid, not to mention himself. His Unsound 2010 appearance marks Actress's first live show in Poland.
