When seasoned Australian musicians Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel teamed up as CS + Kreme, the result felt natural and revelatory. Anchoring Standish's bass guitar in heavy dub processing, sweeping post-punk, and chamber music soundscapes, the duo crafts what they describe as slow and meditative “horizontal-music,” which is just as inquisitive as it is consoling. With its meditative and seducing qualities, CS + Kreme’s 2020 album Snoopy functioned for many as a comforting weighted blanket during the early pandemic moment. Follow-up album Orange (2022) takes their signature sound to the next level with unmistakably original, skittering drum programming, startlingly fresh instrumental interjections, creepily invocatory voices, and dubwise treatments. During Rewire 2023, CS + Kreme will perform their alluring music in the Netherlands for the very first time.

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