Dutch techno pioneer Speedy J headlines the Optronica club night at London's ICA with visual collaborator Scott Pagano. The duo, also behind the DVD project Umfeld screening at the BFI Southbank, get down and dirty with a kick-ass live DJ:VJ set.
   
Rotterdam-based producer, DJ and musician Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) has been behind some of the most remarkable electronic music of the last 15 years.  He was there during the earliest days of techno, and ever since has played his high impact sets at most major music festivals and multimedia events globally.  Paap has established his very own sound, situated between the industrial heritage of his current label Novamute/Mute and the synthetic modernism that's always been important to him.  Today, Paap's multi-layered, meticulously precise music is in a league of its own.

At Optronica, he collaborates with Scott Pagano, one of the world's most cutting edge digital artists, known for taking the "music video" into new, unimagined territories.  Pagano creates moving images utilizing shards of architecture, dysfunction and futurism. With influences from cinema to minimal painting, his work offers a re-envisioned perspective to the graphic stratas that saturate our visual perception. As filmmaker, motion designer and VJ he has worked with a wide range of notable musicians including Funkstorung, Kid606, the Kronos Quartet and Richard Devine.

Their Umfeld DVD project will screen at the BFI Southbank on Saturday 17th.