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About 75% of them return year on year, with 45% flying in from abroad, drawn not just to its joyously unfashionable embrace of breakcore, gabba, acid house but also its very specific personality and sense of humour.

And a late-night metal and “breakcore” session.

At one of Scemanenco’s brutal, late-night breakcore sessions, a woman, her hair twirling and feet skipping, whirled around the dance floor, red wine in one hand.

Take, for example, Canadian breakcore artist Venetian Snares, who placed small microphones inside his girlfriend, industrial vocalist Hecate, during sex.

Illuminated solely by the warm glow of numerous laptop screens and a thousand flashing LEDs, a 12-hour, genre-hopping celebration of electronic music gets underway this afternoon, with a sonic showcase of local artists and producers alongside internationally acclaimed talent such as the Teknoist, French breakcore star Rotator, Michael Forshaw and Sheffield's dapper digitalist the Squire Of Gothos.