SPIKE HELLIS / Void Vision / The Ire / DJ Baby Berlin - At The Dolphin

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DJ BABY BERLIN & OVER POP PRESENTS: 4.23.23 Doors: 8pm Show: 9pm $13 Advance $18 Day Of 21+

SPIKE HELIS (LOS ANGELES) VOID VISION (PHILADELPHIA) THE IRE (PHILADELPHIA) DJ BABY BERLIN (PHILADELPHIA)

SPIKE HELLIS: Los Angeles based electronic duo Spike Hellis comprises of Cortland Gibson and Lainey, who got their start on Halloween of 2019. They self-released their first full-length, self-titled album in April 2022, under their imprint Over-Pop.

The album chaotically shifts pace back and forth; the songs running into one another with no time in-between. The record opens with "Control (Rage)", a layered, firm-handshake body-music track designed to hijack the amygdala. The kick drum resembles the steady flash of a panic button. You press it, but nothing happens—no relief. The irregular placement of snare matches Chang’s cries of dysregulation, spiraling red-eyed after having lost command asking, “Will I regain control?” While presented as a song of despair, optimism and determination…