The cutting-edge electronic music festival was awarded Music Event of the Year at FBi Radio’s SMAC Awards last year.
The one-day event featured radical performance art, large-scale light installations, one-off collaborations and experimental music in an unforgettable day of sinister abstraction.
Colombi’s set was in the afternoon, in the smaller Hopper Gallery.
Shrouded in smoke and the occasional arc of fluorescent light, she rose to the occasion and delivered a set that was throbbing, visceral and ominous.
The crowd, suitably enthralled, danced with industrial dedication.
Tom Grant, presenter and DJ at Fbi Radio, praised the set as “fantastic”.
“She brought a rawness and energy to a room that was still warming up for the day ahead,” he said.
“She definitely got people moving”.
Born and raised in the Italian city of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Colombi began her career as a promoter in Milan, before relocating to London in 2008, where she made a name for herself as a mainstay of the capital’s club underground at nights hosted by Rye Wax, The Waiting Room and the sorely missed Dance Tunnel.
Her vision of the perfect clubbing experience was immortalised by her later “Abattoir” party series, which proved popular for its dedication to “abandoning inhibitions through electronic audio adventures”.
Colombi then gained notoriety as a respected DJ and radio host on NTS, a progressive live radio and music platform.
Her sets have been championed as “keeping Mondays weird”.
She plays a diverse range of up-and-at-'em records: from techno to post-punk, through EBM, industrial and –wave.
Throughout the course of 2018, Colombi has moved from strength to strength, playing at De School Amsterdam, Dekmantel Sao Paolo and CTM’s Caustic/Cohesion show in Berghain, Berlin.
Her next gig is at the Red Bull Music Festival in Paris.
