Could Kraftwerk have ever predicted the mind-bending audio-visual spectacle that is Anyma?
Even in their futurist heyday, it’s hard to think of an electronic act that could have possibly imagined this level of sensory overload. How did we get from Jeff Mills in an abandoned Detroit warehouse to this?
So, here we are, in a world where immersive experiences push the boundaries of reality—proof that the future is now. Sure, we’re still waiting on hoverboards to live up to Back to the Future standards, but when it comes to live performance, we’re leagues ahead of sci-fi.
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If you’ve seen clips of The Sphere in Las Vegas—the absurdly giant, LED-covered concert venue that makes TeamLab installations look like Instagram pop-ups—you’re most of the way there. Anything feels possible. While Anyma didn’t bring a literal sphere to town, he did bring something almost as over-the-top: the biggest screen in the southern hemisphere.
It’s a massive visual canvas, and you need equally massive music to match. Forget the subtle; this is a blockbuster approach to electronic music. Think Apocalypse Now levels of spectacle, just with fewer helicopters and more lasers.
Anyma, one half of Tale of Us, takes melodic techno and pushes it firmly into the EDM arena. If Tale of Us bridged the gap between the Belleville Three’s techno roots and a more mainstream audience, Anyma has widened that bridge into a four-lane highway.
His shows are as cinematic as they are dramatic, blending soaring melodies with a Motley Crüe outfit and the visual focus of an Alice Cooper concert. The days of faceless DJs in all-black twiddling knobs are gone—this is techno reimagined for the arena, a shiny, glam, and unabashedly theatrical evolution of the genre.
Sure, the purists might grumble, but why shouldn’t ‘techno’ embrace spectacle? Anyma delivers on the promise that live performance should be as thrilling to watch as it is to hear. Leave your snobbery at home and enjoy the ride—this is the new electronic mainstream, like it or not, and honestly? It’s a hell of a lot of fun.
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