I wonder if the nickname Albert & Hofmann of the DJ duet Sins & Galabar – founders of the (local) music collective Wasserflashe (WF) and the (local) bar / vinyl shop Central Station (where Delphine usually goes) is a tribute to the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann… But the coincidence seems pretty big especially as in 2015, Sins was part of the Djs line-up of the event called “The Love of Acid” at the Zoo of Usine.
Albert Hofmann, the chemist, spent his life conceptualising medicines from plant poisons and venoms that he tested… on himself. Inside the Sandoz laboratory, Hofmann was contaminated with a dose of i-don’t-know-what-that-sounded-very-scientific in the 40s and he started to have powerful hallucinations, followed by disturbances of vision, temporary paralysis, etc. He had just discovered LSD, absorbed by his skin… This discovery, as we know it, will be the subject of many psychiatric and neurologic researches as well as the cause of a lot of drama…
Albert & Hofmann on the other hand spend their life behind turntables while promoting emerging Djs or coming up with new concepts such as the WFMusik (local) events to embellish techno music with the nature that surrounds our city. And again, this relationship between music and nature reminds of the chemist who in 2006 was interviewed by Le Monde during the LSD Symposium in Basel where he stated: “In our time when mankind becomes all urban, man loses contact with nature (…) He no longer feels his unity, he no longer sees the splendour of the universe, so he despairs…“. This is why he absorbed a very low dose of LSD at the age of 97 years.
At this point, you must be wondering why am I telling you this? Because Sins and Galabar will perform and will make you see life through the kaleidoscope of cosmic techno on Friday, April 14th at the Foundry of Miracles during the Electron Festival. The Festival always wanted to pay tribute to the local DJs and artists. And you will see, the Geneva night scene is full of psychedelic nuggets …
Friday, April 14th from midnight
Rue de la Truite 4bis, 1205 Geneva
Price: 20.- online or 25.- on spot
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