Kiran Sande’s Blackest Ever Black imprint has been instrumental in the rejuvenation of the UK’s brooding fascination with nebulous industrial music and the grey-scaled end of the dance spectrum. Within two years the label has solidified its own niche, one that’s marked with post-rock revivalism but which is equally broadening the horizons of what is considered to be dance music; a perfect balance in the eyes of Karl O’Connor aka Regis, the legendary techno pioneer who has been closely affiliated to the imprint since day one.  But Sande’s project goes far beyond the resurrection of the 1980s experimental scene and has only applied its catalytic tools as a means of unearthing an ulterior perspective on the cross-pollination between industrialism, social decadency and dance culture.

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