ジャンルではなく感覚を指針に、心と身体の両方に響く音を探求するアーティスト、Brian Leeds。
カンザスでパンクやメタルを演奏していた青春期を経て、より官能的で触感的なダンスミュージックの世界へ。
Huerco S 名義では、ローファイで再構築的な手法と独特のユーモアを携え、デビュー作 Colonial Patterns でダンスフロアと曖昧な境界空間を行き来するサウンドを提示。
その後、Huerco S や Pendant 名義でクラブを離れたアンビエント作品へと展開し、瞑想的かつ抽象的なリズムと音景を創り出す。
自身のレーベル West Mineral Ltd. では、ビートレスから高速テンポまで、既存のダンスミュージックの枠に収まらない作品を発表。
常に“泥を掘り起こし、再構築し、文脈をずらす”姿勢で、感覚と感情の地平を切り拓き続けている。
FFKTではHuerco S.によるライブセットとLoidisによるDJセットの異なる2つの世界観を体験できる貴重な機会となる。

Fueled by an ethos less bound by genre and more bound by feeling, Brian Leeds makes music for the mind and for the floor, finding lost artifacts and carving out sounds that speak to an altered state of home, or place.
Coming out from playing punk and metal bands as a teenager in Kansas, Brian picked up dance music as “ ​it was the opposite of what I’d been involved with for so long. I wanted something more tangible, less abrasive and more sensual ”​ .
The hazy and insistent fug of samples and synths on his debut album ​Colonial Patterns ​blurred the lines between the dance floor and liminal space, with tracks as likely to clang about your head like prolonged accusations as much as they would dissolve into steam.
His later ambient works, both as Huerco S and as Pendant, marked a shift away from the club and into a smeared landscape with no clear horizon, channelling an uncertain, but welcoming feeling: neither dread nor relaxation, but somewhere in between, abstracting and arranging rhythm into oblivion.
​For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) ​expanded on the meditative qualities of his work through beatless excursions into the inner depths of the mind, while ​Make Me Know You Sweet ​was described by Boomkat as channelling “a latent, esoteric vein of American spirituality [that] is only divined by those who remain open minded to its effect”.
These feelings have been further developed on his label, West Mineral Ltd., whose stated aim is “to release everything except for commonly accepted, traditional forms of late 20th / early 21st century dance music”. The releases sometimes stay in this same beatless space, and other times reaching blistering tempos, riding waves of emotion and descending into calming spaces that sound frenetic and neurotic, but allow the mind to wander while in the dance. Esoteric excursions for esoteric times, fueled by a production method and ethos based on “​always digging through the mud, re-assembling, & re-contextualizing​”.
FFKT will be a rare opportunity to experience two different worlds: a live set by Huerco S. and a DJ set by Loidis.