Eomac - Trinity

Back in 2016 producer Ian McDonnell, best known as one half of Lakker and under his solo moniker Eomac, came together with audiovisual artist Sal Stapleton with Temple of the Jaguar, an epic avant-techno experiment inspired by a visit to Teotihuacan near Mexico City. Pairing textural percussion and intricate polyrhythms with experimental movement centring around brutal physicality, the collaboration was a raw and visceral testament to the prickly energy teeming within Eomac’s productions. The duo picked up this collaboration in 2018 with during a run of live AV shows developed from Eomac’s third album, Reconnect. Doubling down on a variety of influences, including traditional Irish music, Haitian voodoo drumming, old-school jungle and frazzled IDM, the collaboration saw both artists taking the material into darker territory, matching faster, harder production with more frenetic, angular movement. This year the project comes full circle with Trinity, the head-spinning climax of the triptych which was created