UF is a collaborative live project between a German experimental techno act OAKE and a British producer & live performer Samuel Kerridge known for his distinctive post-punk approach to techno. Self-described as the "power metal techno" duo, UF is an experimental blend of techno and metal influences.

Born at the Berlin Atonal in 2014, the debut of UF was nothing short of explosive as aptly noted by Obskur Magazine, "UF… took over the audience right off the bat with a powerful and aggressive show that set their performance apart." Their music resonated deeply, forging an immediate connection with the audience, setting them on a distinctive trajectory. UF returned to Atonal in 2016 for the main stage with a new live set with the visual/light artist MFO’s concept of circular arranged strobe lights and custom visuals to be beamed onto the 300sqm video wall.

By 2019 the pair had taken their sound to Tasmania for the Darko Mofo Festival where “their stark and brutalist hard techno” took the crowd by storm. Their performance was a visceral experience, an unbridled fusion of metal, drone, and relentless percussion that defied conventions. As Mark Jenkins (RBMA / FACT) put it, "UF was tribal as fuck, pushing the limits with their sonic warfare and leaving the whole crowd with smiles from ear to ear."

“This was just two artists on stage with their desks, a microphone and a canopy of poles with strobe lights. Their music was bombastic, dark and almost industrial influenced…Unhinged, yet completely embracing. Amazing in its frenzied tone and so unrestricted in its palette-splashings of metal, drone and nasty percussion. One half of the duo mounted the desk and was screaming like a metal madman into a microphone, then diving off onto the stage.”

In 2023, after nearly a decade of sonic exploration, UF decided it was time to give their tracks a final shape-up and release them as a double EP. The decision was made following an intimate live show in March 2023 at Ohm Berlin during Samuel Kerridge's Kick to Kill night. It was here, in the midst of pulsating energy and a rapturous crowd, that UF realised their shared ambition: to embark on a future tour, once their tracks had been released.

“Visualise a gigantic Victorian-era steam engine blasting out of the industrial epoch to crush our shiny, torpid future—hulking rotors, churning gears, rusted steel, all delivered with a live visceral energy that set their performance apart from some of their more reserved contemporaries.”

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photo credit : 1st at the top by Sven Harambašić, the rest by Camille Blake, Hilde Mundt for Berlin Atonal