Xan Coppinger : previously very antisocial producer of electronic & ambient music, who has been coaxed out of the drainpipe of solitude into performing live with the love and support of MESS. I am a queer trans autistic damaged gender bender who likes to use music to break into / break down the normative. 

Community radio presenter since 2016, podcast-producer since 2020, and ultimately have just been obsessed with sound and social justice for a long time. Music is resistance, music is struggle, and the revolution needs a beat. 

Producer of long-form ambient meditations (lost tapes from the lilac island in space, 2022, Best Effort) and glitchy ambient-techno (In-Tran-Situ, 2024, Public Possession). My music has been called everything from witch-house, industrial, goth, famously too-ambient, techno, and house – but ultimately it’s just how I process pleasure and pain and share it with others. I may not have words for the emotions, but I have instrume