Lotic Flourish

Leipzigs Institut fuer Zukunft were forced to move their Balance Club, Culture Festival, which they describe as an interface between club culture and social critique, into an online space last year, hosting a web edition of the festival with the theme Tender Squads, considering the question: which constellations and alliances can be imagined for the emancipatory potential of a different world to unfold Bringing together a wide variety of artists, including Lotic, Moesha13, Kelman Duran, Kablam, TSVI, Animistic Beliefs, Tadleeh, ABOGAR, Ana Bogner Karam Saad, Avbvrn, Lamb Kebab and Doll Face, the festival marked the occasion by putting together a compilation featuring contributions from all of the above. Lotics contribution, Flourish, sees the JANUS cofounder spinning together a barrage of misfiring percussion and earscraping sound design into a frazzled club stomper, a sound she describes as the symbiosis of force and softness; the beat behind the drill of a parade honouring a strong