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We Saw Hudson Mohawke Perform in London with a Live Band (and Action Bronson)

Music from the future in one of London's oldest venues.

Red Bull's #FutureUnderground series of events rolled into London and the three night affair — the acts playing tonight and tomorrow are being kept tightly under wraps — kicked off with a doozy. One of our favorite acts, Hudson Mohawke, rocked up to Collins' Music Hall in Islington for a night of top tier live band electronic entertainment.

We were all there, in one of the most gorgeous venues in London, Collins Music Hall, to see the Lantern man in full flow, joined by LuckyMe cohort Eclair Fifi, the London Sinfonietta and Munchies man Action Bronson. The Sinfonietta members treated us to a series of Steve Reich and Philip Glass tunes, which kept the streetwear clad audience pleasingly engaged — which, if we're honest, seemed, on paper at least, a pretty hard task. Hypebeasts and marimbas don't often mix, after all.

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Them up came Hudmo, manning an MPC and a mixer, onstage with a live drummer and a synth-wizard on keyboards, he tore through a kind of greatest hits set. His maximal approach to music making — every single inch of space is filled — sounded incredible. It was like a breakcore, trap, EDM, hip hop set. The crowd's polite applause was replaced by pandemonium.

After HudMo left us sweat soaked and dazzled, New York rapper Action Bronson thundered onstage, treating us to one of his usual larger than life performances. There were broken microphones and singalongs, long walks through the selfie-demanding hordes and crowd-clambering. It was as much fun as you could ever want on a Wednesday night.

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