A Colourful Storm: Christoph de Babalon, Mark, Florence

A Colourful Storm celebrates 10 years with a showcase in Berlin.

Christoph de Babalon headlines with a rare live performance. Surfacing in the mid-nineties on Alec Empire’s Digital Hardcore Recordings, after releases on Fischkopf Hamburg and his own Cross Fade Enter Tainment (founded with Raid and later operated with Paul Snowden), his signature blend of hardcore, junglist and dark ambient motifs has earned him recognition as a longstanding and vital figure in the breakcore underground.

In 1997, de Babalon released his full-length debut, the seminal If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It, an immaculate collision of full-throttle breakbeats and glacial ambience. Twenty years later, its reissue sparked a resurgence of de Babalon's work, leading to interest from, and collaborations with, a new generation of labels and artists. A Colourful Storm has since released retrospective and new works, including Exquisite Angst, Recurring Horrors and a split EP with Berlin-based producer Mark.

Mark is a solo artist whose meticulous drum and bass abstractions elevate elements of rave, musique concrète and serial composition into dizzying heights. He first appeared on A Colourful Storm in 2017 with Here Comes A Fucking Startup Campus, which instigated a series of 12” singles released on Ostgut Ton's sublabel Unterton, initiated collaborations with Carla dal Forno, Wilted Woman and Silvia Kastel, led to a split EP with Christoph de Babalon and culminated in his album, So You Betrayed The Creative Arts For Your Own Personal Ends. He debuts a new live set.

Florence is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Berlin. Born and raised in North Yorkshire, she studied Film & Television at London College of Communication, graduating with a specialism in Directing. Her works are primarily voiced in sonic narratives, told through sound collage. Finding thematic threads through certain areas of cinema, popular culture, the mundane and family archive, she creates immersive stories told through editing and recontextualising found audio, shining a light on lost sounds by giving them a new, sincere space. Florence's NTS Radio residency Sounds on Screen (alongside her cinematic sound collages and accompanying essays for MUBI Notebook) has helped spearhead the possibilities of sonic storytelling through thematic reappraisal within sound collage. Her first independently released work, A Requiem for Prime Time TV, was released on A Colourful Storm’s Fleetway Tapes imprint in 2025. She provides the interstitial soundtrack for the night.