Hacksaw Entertainment & Another Planet present the Outside Lands kick-off dance party at the Independent. .
Holy Fuck are a Toronto-based experimental rock quartet who play modern electronic music, except without laptops, synths or samplers. The only conventional instruments they use are a drum kit and a bass guitar, with the rest of the sounds created by toy keyboards, effects pedals and even a 35-mm film synchronizer. The resulting sound is fast-paced aggressive, fun and highly danceable, played with such energy you will leave the show in no doubt of how this band got their name.
Watch Holy Fuck play the track “Royal Gregory” at Nuemo’s in Seattle.
Tickets are $15 available from Ticketweb or in person with no fees at the Independent Box Office (628 Divisadero at Hayes).
Doors 8.30pm, show starts at 9pm.
Jack Beats. Two of the world’s greatest living DJs get together and combine rave, 80s hip-hop, dubstep, jungle and other bassline heavy genres into the future sound of electronic music.
They are DJ Plus One of the Scratch Perverts, who beat Klever to become DMC World DJ Champion in 2001 and Beni G, part of the world-renowned Mixologists DJ crew and 2-time Urban Music Award winner.
Jack Beats have just finished a remix of Blaqstarr and Diplo’s Get Off and are currently working on remixes for Fake Blood (Mars) and La Roux.
Download Jack Beats remix of Hard Times by Patrick Wolf (320kbps).
Accompanying Jack Beats is San Francisco’s own rising electro star Sticky K, recently signed to Switch’s label Dubsided and holding down a residency with Goldsweat. His one EP released, Bandari Funk is a Persian-influenced fidget-house record filled with creative synth patterns and heavy beats.
We’re opening both rooms at Paradise Lounge for this one… also playing will be:
Sleepyhead (Frite Nite) - one of the best and fastest rising stars in SF’s underground music scene… expect dubstep/2-step/bass! Tek Freaks - Cosmic Selector & Jeff Taisch (Opulent Temple) Bogl + Dials (Symbiosis) Atimatik (Opulent Temple) Influence vs Pirata (Strategik) DJ Nisus (Nexus) - Welcome back party for Nisus who’s been in Berlin! Rich DDT (Nexus/Dodocalpyse/LoveTech)
The party won’t end at 3am - we’ll be loading up a Party Bus to a Secret Underground Afterparty until the dawn! To RSVP send us an email with your name (and any guests) at: partytilldawn@rocketship.com
Nothing to do with Roosevelt, The New Deal are one of the pioneers of the live electronic music movement. So much so they even have their own term for it - livetronica. Expect to see keys, drums and bass all played live, in the style of a breakbeat/trip-hop act. It sounds like a truly organic DJ set, except you can see every beat being laid down by the drummer.
DJ Morale will be warming up the crowd from 9pm - he’s played with everyone from STS9 to MSTRKRFT, so if you know what’s what you’ll be there earlier to catch what is sure to be a superb set.
Amplify Summer Music Showcase featuring: Pase Rock LIVE (Dim Mak / NYC), Dam Funk (Stones Throw / LA), Trackademicks (Fools Gold / Oakland), DJ DRM (Bastard Jazz / NYC), J Billion (Huff / SF), B Bravo (Frite Nite / SF), DJ Morsy (Nana Chill / NYC).
Special live performance from the Loco Bloco Drummers.
Hosted by Kings of 8Bit (Rush One & Mezmetic)
FRIDAY JULY 10th 2009
CHANGE THE BEAT 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY
A night featuring the finest electronic music by legendary record boss & producer Andy Votel (UK) who reportedly has dedicated his life ‘in search of the perfect beat’. He is playing alongside his B-Music label-mate Mahssa (Tehran) , Los Angeles favorite and Low End Theory resident The Gaslamp Killer, and finally the global jazz/electronica genius Free The Robots. Not to be missed event for music lovers, record collectors, scratch enthusiasts and anyone looking for a seriously good dance party.
Change The Beat has been running for 3 years every Tuesday at Madrone Art Bar, and was founded by DJ Centipede AKA Mophono to support his CB Records label.
Just heard that the Martinez Brothers are playing Mighty this Saturday (June 13) from XLR8R:
These underage DJs have revitalized the NY house scene and lit up dancefloors around the globe. Now they’re bringing their collection of classics, many of which date back to before the boys were born, to San Francisco for a special 3.5 hour set
Amp Live at 330 Ritch on Saturday June 20th.
Amplive, one half of Zion-I, has his own electro-hip hop side project, and it’s incredible. He signed to the brand new label Child’s Play (also home to Bassnectar) and has released official remixes for MGMT, Tokyo Police Club & Tapes ‘n Tapes. E Da Boss will be opening. Entry is $5 with RSVP to upgradeyosaturday@gmail.com or $10 at the door.
— Free AmpLive download - Radiohead remix album. Radiohead tried to stop the release of this remix series, featuring Chali 2na, Too $hort, and Zumbi of Zion-I, but an internet movement backed by Sterogum, Pitchfork and a few other blogs helped Amp release the album for free. Get it here.
Another Planet & Mezzanine are throwing quite an event on Saturday. DFA’s The Juan Maclean AND Kompakt’s The Field…
After releasing the much- anticipated ‘The Future Will Come’ (out 4/21 on DFA Records), Juan MacLean and Nancy Whang take The Juan MacLean on the road this spring. Juan, Nancy and band will be playing tracks live from ‘The Future Will Come’, which Filter magazine described as “perfectly orchestrated and directed to achieve maximum mood and dance- ability.” If the weather doesn’t make you sweat, your dance moves will.
Stockholm’s Axel Willner, aka The Field (Kompakt). After breaking out of the “boy and his laptop” mold following a tour with !!!, Willner teamed up with friends - percussionist/ bass player Dan Enqvist and multi- instrumentalist Andreas Soderstrom to see what they could accomplish playing together, which has brought a completely new depth and voracity to the music of The Field’s live performances.
Opening up the evening will be The Dirty Rotten (Shane King & Morale).
Philly’s Low B, co-founder of Hollertronix and tour DJ for M.I.A., returns to 330 Ritch for this month’s installment of Upgrade. Honor Roll’s Bay Area legend-in-the-making Trackademicks hosts the night. Residents Shane King and Swayzee do their damn thing.
Hacksaw Entertainment & Another Planet present Pretty Lights, the Colorado based beats producer, playing at The Independent on May 30th accompanied by a live drummer.
Listen to Pretty Lights - Hot Like Sauce here.
Pretty Lights give away all their music free. You can find them for download at prettylightsmusic.com. We particularly love the album ‘Filling Up The City Skies’. Check out the stand out tracks ‘Who Loves You’, ‘More Important Than Micheal Jordan’, ‘Hot Like Sauce’ and ‘Summer’s Gone’. Pretty Lights new album Passing By Behind Your Eyes will be released as a free download May 12 ** UPDATE It is not released yet - it should be this month - I will update this as soon as it is available!
Tickets are available for $15 in advance at Ticketweb or the Independent Box Office (628 Divisadero) OR $17 on the door if it isn’t sold out in advance.
DubSpot, New York City’s electronic music production and DJ institute is coming to San Francisco to teach a weekend course on making music with Ableton Live 8 and it’s first dedicated controller, the highly anticipated Akai APC40. Dubspot is a certified Ableton training center.
There will be 2 day courses from 12pm-6pm:
Saturday May 9th at Mighty (119 Utah St.) & Sunday May 10th at Project One Gallery (251 Rhode Island St.)
Saturday covers producing music on Ableton with lectures on remixing, producing your own tracks, polishing and final mixing and finally distribution and monetizing tracks.
Sunday focuses on performing live with Ableton, including lectures on using controllers, and manipulating live instruments on the stage.
Hacksaw Entertainment, CB Records and Frite Nite are bringing the future sound of electro to Paradise Lounge on Friday May 8th.
Featuring… Lazer Sword (live)
Lazer Sword describe their music as Future Blap - Blap is a word coined by rapper E-40 for a ‘banging track’. Fresh off a couple months touring in Europe, expect to hear top notch production, seriously heavy bass, sick beats and a healthy dose of rap lyrics to keep the room dancing. Check out the Lazer SwordXLR8R podcast - it’s what we listen to at home before we go out to get psyched up for a big night.
Mophono (live)
Mophono is a Bay Area producer and DJ who has played alongside the likes of Flying Lotus, Amon Tobin and Gaslamp Killer. He has 3 killer releases out on CB Records which you can hear right here, check them out and pick up the Skip on Beat records which keep the beat going wherever you drop the needle!
Here’s Mophono playing to a sold out crowd at the Independent…
Our good friend Beryl Fine, one of San Francisco’s most talented young photographers, is releasing her long awaited photo book entitled ‘San Francisco Bicycle Messenger’. After the huge success of a messenger calender she released last year, Fine has composed a 75 page limited release hardcover book of portraits, with a cover by Mike Giant. The opening will feature photos contained in the book, as well as music from DJ Centipede, LL Cool DJ, and Citizen Ten. Don’t miss this one…
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