Emerging from Manchester’s underground, SILVERWINGKILLER (Yushang Ni and James Baca) are a high-energy electronic two-piece carving out their own uncompromising corner of the UK music scene. “Manchester is the first place I ever felt free,” says Shanghainese Yushang, a freedom that underpins the duo’s unrestrained sound. Their music is a collision of cultures and technologies: world music influences twisted through analogue arpeggiators, aggressive basslines, frenetic live breakbeats, and vocals split between English, Mandarin and Shanghainese. The result is a sonic assault—urgent, chaotic, and impossible to ignore. Inspired by human culture, science fiction and deep cut video games, the duo bring an otherworldly yet deeply human perspective to their work. The SILVERWINGKILLER live show is visceral and infectious, as witnesses to their shows with Machine Girl and Fat Dog will testify, equal parts punk ferocity and electronic experimentation, demanding the audience move, react, and confront the intensity head on. Ear-gouging synth stabs, rib-snapping breakbeats, and vocals which swerve enticingly between Mandarin, English, and Shanghainese are unleashed with a danceable vigour that is nigh-on impossible to resist… We’re dead excited!