Inherited Trance & Sacred Rhythms

Key artists: Dixon · Viken Arman · Acid Pauli · Matanza · Nicola Cruz · Stimming

The Polygon Portal Essay Series is a programme of curated immersive listening sessions, pairing themed playlists with companion essays that set the music in its cultural, technological, political and historical context. The sessions are built on the notion that knowing the world behind a record changes what you feel when you hear it. Each essay is presented in 360 spatial audio designed to put audiences inside the music, and experience art in new ways.

Long before the club, there was the ceremony.
Sufi whirling, West African Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé – cultures across the world have used rhythm and repetition to lose the self and find something larger.
The modern dancefloor is the latest version of that same instinct.

At Polygon Portal, a curated programme of music that carries that inheritance – Nicola Cruz, Viken Arman, Dixon, Acid Pauli, Stimming – is reimagined on one of the world’s best spatial audio systems.

Electronic music as inherited practice, played the way it was meant to be felt.