9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
AMODA Digital Showcase
138 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Party, Interactive
event::about Free for SXSW Interactive badgeholders The Austin Museum of Digital Art presents a party featuring live electronic music and visual art. Expect video projections, interactive installations, and a musical Laptop Battle. www.amoda.org
8:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Mogwee Live Official SXSW 2011 Opening Night After Party
81 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Party
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Wash Out
DJ Premier
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
RAC DJs
The Limousines
DJ Aaron Axelson
event::about
Badge+RSVP required
8:20 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Limousines
44 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
The Limousines
event::about
Ning Presents... Mogwee Live @ The Mohawk
The Official SXSWi Opening Night After Party
Doors open at 8pm. First come first serve. Arrive early!
Website http://go.ning.com/sxsw
9:30 PM
to 10:30 PM
Ning SXSWi Opening Party
329 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Party, Interactive
event::about
The SXSWi opening night after party, featuring Washed Out, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears The Limousines and DJ Premier. Also, RAC (Remix Artist Collective)and DJ Aaron Axelsen of Popscene. RSVP: http://go.ning.com/sxsw
9:30 PM
to 10:10 PM
Washed out
57 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Washed out
event::about
Ning Presents... Mogwee Live @ The Mohawk
The Official SXSWi Opening Night After Party
Doors open at 8pm. First come first serve. Arrive early!
Website http://go.ning.com/sxsw
10:30 PM
to 11:10 PM
Black Joe Lewis
80 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Black Joe Lewis
event::about
Ning Presents... Mogwee Live @ The Mohawk
The Official SXSWi Opening Night After Party
Doors open at 8pm. First come first serve. Arrive early!
Website http://go.ning.com/sxsw
11:00 PM
to 1:00 AM
RAC
27 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
RAC
event::about
Ning Presents... Mogwee Live @ The Mohawk
The Official SXSWi Opening Night After Party
Doors open at 8pm. First come first serve. Arrive early!
Website http://go.ning.com/sxsw
11:10 PM
to 12:30 AM
DJ Premier
61 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
DJ Premier
event::about
Ning Presents... Mogwee Live @ The Mohawk
The Official SXSWi Opening Night After Party
Doors open at 8pm. First come first serve. Arrive early!
Website http://go.ning.com/sxsw
1:00 AM
to 3:00 AM
DJ Aaron Axelsen
12 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
DJ Aaron Axelsen of Popscene & Live 105
event::about
Ning Presents... Mogwee Live @ The Mohawk
The Official SXSWi Opening Night After Party
Doors open at 8pm. First come first serve. Arrive early!
Website http://go.ning.com/sxsw
7:00 PM
to 2:00 AM
The Barbarian Group & StumbleUpon present: 'T.O.S. Violation!'
149 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Party, Interactive
event::about
FREE SHOW. DOORS @ 7:00pm.
The Barbarian Group & StumbleUpon invite you to void a couple EULAs with us at the T.O.S. Violation! Party, a night of rock for the punks of the Internet.
Outside Stage:
TV Torso 7:30pm
Thee Oh Sees 8:15pm
Mister Heavenly (feat. members of Islands, Man Man and Modest Mouse) 9:15pm
No Age 10:00pm
Inside Stage:
DJ TBA 9:00pm
Bare Wires 10:00pm
Ted Leo 11:00pm
DJ TBA 12:00am
After party DJ 12am-2am
So come enjoy some beverages with us at this FREE, open to the public party. NO BADGES NEEDED!
9:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
CHROMA
49 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Party, Interactive
event::about
CHROMA is the ultimate showcase of incredible digital and interactive experiences. Awaken and inspire your creative mind during at this unbelievable SXSW Spectacular.
9:00 PM
to 2:00 AM
#thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE
93 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Party
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Outside
9:30-10:15 - SOSOSOON
10:15-11 - Millionyoung DJ Set
11-12:30 - The Hood Internet
12:30-2 - Friendly Fires DJ set
Inside
10:15-11 - Evan Voytas
11-11:45 - HH
11:45-12:30 - Golden Ages
12:30 -1:15 - Loyal Divide
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
9:30 PM
to 10:15 PM
SOSOSOON
9 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
SOSOSOON
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
10:15 PM
to 11:00 PM
Evan Voytas
17 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Evan Voytas
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
10:15 PM
to 11:00 PM
Millionyoung DJ Set
28 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Millionyoung DJ Set
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
11:00 PM
to 11:45 PM
HH
3 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
HH
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
11:00 PM
to 12:30 AM
The Hood Internet
89 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
The Hood Internet
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
11:45 PM
to 12:30 AM
Golden Ages
20 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Golden Ages
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
12:30 AM
to 2:00 AM
Friendly Fires DJ set
88 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Friendly Fires DJ set
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
12:30 AM
to 1:15 AM
Loyal Divide
2 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Loyal Divide
event::about
theMIX agency presents: #thePARTY 4 #thePEOPLE @SXSW 2011 w/ Friendly Fires (DJ set), The Hood Internet, Millionyoung (DJ set) + more.
Last year, we brought Holy Ghost! and Classixx to the Speakeasy Rooftop. This year, we have something more reminiscent of a festival than a party. The Mohawk is about to explode.
Badges/wristbands welcome.
This event will reach capacity. Purchasing a pre-sale is the only way to guarantee entry.
Follow @theMIXagency for free giveaways, contests, and up to the minute info.
12:15 PM
to 6:00 PM
Austin or Bust! (Austinist, Windish Agency, Laneway Festival, Eat Your Own Ears)
233 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Party
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Outside: Foster The People (5:15pm), Royal Bangs (4:15pm), Cloud Nothings (3:15pm), Givers (2:15pm), Twin Shadow (1:15pm), Mount Kimbie (12:15pm), Huw Stephens (DJ set)
Inside: The Jezabels (5pm), Hanni El Khatib (4pm), The Holidays (3pm), Cloud Control (2pm), Jamie Woon (1pm)
1:00 PM
to 1:30 PM
Jamie Woon
51 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
event::about
The Windish Agency / Laneway Festival / Eat Your Own Ears / Austinist present AUSTIN OR BUST! Sponsored by Feiyue and Scion.
2:00 PM
to 2:30 PM
Cloud Control
50 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
event::about
The Windish Agency / Laneway Festival / Eat Your Own Ears / Austinist present AUSTIN OR BUST! Sponsored by Feiyue and Scion.
3:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
The Holidays
28 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
event::about
The Windish Agency / Laneway Festival / Eat Your Own Ears / Austinist present AUSTIN OR BUST! Sponsored by Feiyue and Scion.
4:00 PM
to 4:30 PM
Hanni El Khatib
24 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
event::about
The Windish Agency / Laneway Festival / Eat Your Own Ears / Austinist present AUSTIN OR BUST! Sponsored by Feiyue and Scion.
5:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
The Jezabels
48 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
event::about
The Windish Agency / Laneway Festival / Eat Your Own Ears / Austinist present AUSTIN OR BUST! Sponsored by Feiyue and Scion.
7:50 PM
to 8:50 PM
Sodapop (Between Sets)
7 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Sodapop (Between Sets)
event::about When Shaun Koplow moved to the Bay Area to study art at UC Berkeley in 2001, he had no idea he'd wind up running his favorite record label, or that he'd eventually relocate its operations to Los Angeles, the city from whence he came. Four years ago, at the age of 23, Koplow became Anticon Records' label manager the chief wheel-greaser charged with vetting new talent, developing established acts, conceiving record campaigns and handling the day-to-day. Having come up amongst a crew of West L.A. backpacker kids, Koplow was a longtime devotee of California's outsider rap scene, a movement that saw Anticon at its forefront in the late '90s. He's since made it his mission to preserve that commitment to innovation, artistic license and all-around quality while pushing the label's genre-bending tendencies yet further, helping to bring artists like Baths, Tobacco, Son Lux, Bike For Three!, and Anathallo into the fold alongside Anticon mainstays like WHY?, Themselves, Odd Nosdam and Dosh. Koplow views his role at the label as curatorial, a philosophy that can be witnessed literally when he's DJing under the handle Sodapop, or co-hosting Silver Lake's weekly Calling All Kids night with partner Matthewdavid (Dublab, Alpha Pup, Leaving Records). The pair's duties for C.A.K. are head-to-toe they're promoters, organizers, song-selectors, and even bartenders and Koplow's vinyl/Serato sets consistently display an ear for the adventurous: favoring vintage krautrock, contemporary electronic pop and Bay Area rap. C.A.K.'s history of guests is equally diverse: Nite Jewel, Dm-Funk, Lucky Dragons, Flying Lotus, and Ariel Pink, to name a few. Both Koplow and Anticon have been based in L.A. since early 2008. The former creates visual art occasionally and nurses a strong fetish for rare wax, brims and kicks. The latter refuses to be pigeonholed, eternally.
event::tags 21+
8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM
Asura and Anenon
8 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Asura and Anenon
event::about Asura is 23 year-old Ryan York, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently living in Los Angeles. Ryan has been studying music since the age of six, beginning with piano, trumpet (age 9), guitar (11), and finally double bass (14). York worked as a semi-professional jazz bassist throughout high school and college and began recording music at the age of 12 on a sony walkman, eventually teaching himself electronic production and engineering on a home PC. At the age of 18 Ryan came to Los Angeles to study double bass with jazz masters Kenny Burrell and Anthony Wilson in UCLA's Jazz Studies program but quickly realized that his artistic interests could not be completely satisfied through a formal jazz education. With an ear deeply rooted in jazz, Ryan also started turning towards the modern classical and electronic scenes of Los Angeles. The past year and half have seen him focus his energies toward creating a bridge between LA's thriving beat scene and also its world of experimental and improvisational music, mostly facilitated by his association with the Non Projects label, an imprint of Alpha Pup Records started by Brian Simon that is devoted to finding and nurturing creative talents and their music. On an international level, Ryan has done mixes for Mary Anne Hobbs and the Low End Theory podcast (among many others), been featured on websites such as XLR8R and RCRD LBL, and has shared the stage with electronic luminaries such as Daedelus and Nosaj Thing and jazz notables Dave Liebman and Ray Drummond. Ryan's eponymous debut album as Asura was released on Non Projects in January 2010. He has since remixed Shlohmo, Take, Baths, and Oscar McClure, released a split 12" with Non Projects founder Anenon, and produced and engineered Ana Caravelle's debut album Basic Climb. Ryan is currently a resident at Futura (alongside Teebs, another young beatsmith), a new monthly concert series co-presented by Flying Lotus and Daddy Kev. Upcoming projects include the Zipperlegs EP to be released on Leaving Records, a jazz/improv album with his acoustic trio in which he plays double bass, a collaborative album with Ana Caravelle, and the second Asura LP for Non Projects. Anenon is Brian Allen Simon, a 27-year old composer and multi-instrumentalist whose passions reside in the ever-changing intersection of Heart and Ability in the fields of music and sound. Beyond a strong focus on his own artistic endeavors, Simon is also engaged in encouraging the works of other talented artists as the founder and CEO of Non Projects, a creative music label based out of Los Angeles. In just one year, the label has seen widely lauded releases from himself, Asura, Ana Caravelle and a.d.l.r. With growing attention paid to his own works and the gifted and unique core of artists on Non Projects, Simon has recently been featured on the cover of the LA Times' Brand X weekly paper. A lifetime resident of Los Angeles, Brian studied Music History and Theory at UCLA with no prior formal musical training. Within a rigorous academic framework, Simon's ear quickly picked up on all things music from Gregorian chant to 12-tone writing among many other forms, though it was both the inspiring and improvisatory melodic playing of free jazz musicians such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett combined with the influence of many outer milieu current electronic composers that compelled Simon to make his own music. A saxophone and much electronic equipment were soon acquired and the guise Anenon was born. As Anenon, Simon's music envelops the listener's entire body with ethereal audio imagery. Synthesizers, sample fragments, saxophone playing and any other found sounds combine to create worlds of driving dream-like evocations in which listeners can get lost. Anenon has been featured on the Silver Trees / Damiel split EP with Asura (Non Projects) and will also be appearing on the upcoming Only Mountain: The Remixes by Take (Alpha Pup), Basic Climb Re-Imagined by Ana Caravelle (Non Projects), Brownswood Electr*c 2 on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label and ultimately his own full length debut for Non Projects.
event::tags 21+
9:20 PM
to 10:20 PM
Low Limit
8 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Low Limit
event::about LOW LIMIT BIO - Based in LA - music released on NUMBERS (Glasgow), INNOVATIVE LEISURE (LA), FAT CITY (UK), RUSH HOUR (Amsterdam), & FRIENDS OF FRIENDS (LA), ALPHA PUP (LA). - 1/2 of LAZER SWORD - shared the stage with KODE 9, HUDSON MO, ACTRESS, RUSTIE, FLYING LOTUS, DAEDELUS, LORN, MT KIMBIE, NOSAJ THING, GLK, etc - no restrictions in terms of musical influences, styles, tempos, and moods in LOW LIMIT productions and performance. think rap + rave rain + electronic meltdown + bass + time travel + sexy vibes. - loves found sounds, holograms, strong coffee, animated gifs, rap music, and marijuana. - tracks supported by FLYING LOTUS, MARY ANNE HOBBS, DADDY KEV, GILLES PETERSON, HUDSON MOHAWKE, GASLAMP KILLER, CROOKERS, TAKE, KUTMAH, and more.
event::tags 21+
10:10 PM
to 11:10 PM
Matthewdavid
7 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Matthewdavid
event::about Peel back a layer of smog from the LA sky and fold yourself into the blanket of haze. The golden half-light catches glimmers that pass by most eyes. Up here, there are treasures for those who tune in. Matthewdavid operates In this magnetic cocoon, unspooling magic radiance. His music reflects beautiful, fleeting moments and magnifies them. Matthewdavid's compositions float like crackling clouds, antenna amplifying the dreams of the city below. Matthewdavid is a man who builds with warm tones. He travels new paths gathering sounds to enhance the intricate dimensions of his creations. It was this hunt for inspired trails and blazing progress that pulled him to California. Matthewdavid made the move from southern states and was immediately embraced by the Los Angeles community. A willowy figure with wide smiles, his gentle presence and generous talents made him a welcome addition to internationally applauded LA creative circles: dublab, Poo-Bah, Low End Theory and Brainfeeder. Constant collaboration with these collectives helped inspire Matthewdavid to a build a platform of his own. His Leaving Records label has an ear to the next and an eye on the original. Through all these outlets Matthewdavid is dedicated to sharing elevated sounds and visions.
event::tags 21+
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Gold Panda
217 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Gold Panda
event::about A culmination of years of work spent refining his sui generis sound, Gold Panda’s eagerly awaited debut album is finally here. An artist at ease traversing genre boundaries in search of new auditory frontiers - whether mixing dissected Hip Hop beats or the pulsating flourishes of minimal Techno - this apropos release will cement the foundations laid by previous output and visions whilst expanding his canon to unparalleled limits. As electronic music gradually arcs into a period of unprecedented successes, Lucky Shiner pits GP firmly at the forefront of a new wave of artists unafraid to challenge preconceptions of what music can be. Mixed by Simian Mobile Disco’s sonic veteran James Shaw and recorded in two session spent in the shady retreat of the English countryside - at his Aunt and Uncle’s Essex home - after, as GP explains “they went away over Christmas for two weeks and asked me to look after their dog. I’d walk Daisy in the morning and then make tunes till she pestered me to take her out again, I’d bounce down what I’d done, stick my headphones on and walk her; get ideas and repeat the process.” The end result is an album as influenced by family as it is by the quickly flashing topography that stretches out of train windows. GP’s mesmerising attention to sound and detail means each beat resonates as past, reflects the present and looks forwards to the potential futures of the individual; listener and artist alike. Originally hailing from Chelmsford, Essex, and having spent the early part of his career as remixer du jour for the likes of Bloc Party, Health, Telepathe, Little Boots and Simian Mobile Disco, Gold Panda’s ascent to the forefront of contemporary electronic music has been steadily meteoric. Nominated as one of the BBC’s sound of 2010 nominees, shows around the world with Caribou, Health, SMD and more to come on his own in the UK and the US with Autolux, a cover star in Japan, three sold out E.P’s and a raft of praise and hyperbole from the mouths that matter (Pitchfork, NME, The Guardian amongst them) only tells half the story however. Lucky Shiner's the piece that completes the picture. Originating in crystal clear vision, the nuance and frenetic cadence of life and the mind’s constant disequilibrium means its final realisation stands as a product that’ll provoke thought as much as enjoyment; pathos as much as praise. “Lots of factors affected the way it came together.“ Gold Panda explains, “touring, mixing, moving house and splitting with a girlfriend. Family, friends and lovers related, places I‘ve never been”. Decamping to an idyllic retreat also means the album bears trademarks of a pastorally hued Englishness, whist’s also coloured by GP’s two years spent studying Japanese culture, language and history at the School of Oriental and Asian studies in Japan. ‘You’, ‘Parents’ (featuring a field recording of GP helping his grandma push a wheelbarrow in the garden ), ‘Marriage’. Lucky Shiner overflows with life. Disengaging with the need for vocal, GP intimates, makes intimate idea’s immeasurably expressive and does so whilst always retaining an unfettered ear for melody. “I didn’t want to write ‘beats’” he says about the album, “I didn’t want bangers. I wanted songs with structure.” With, as he say’s, “two tracks made from a broken Yamaha organ bought for 99p off Ebay. A lot of the drum sounds just vinyl crackle turned really loud”, and one featuring almost solely guitar, “I don’t play guitar”, the album’s a concrete introduction to an artist willing to slip mercury like through constraints of genre, form and concept. And the title’s origins? “Lucky Shiner is my grandmothers name. Sometimes I think she knows exactly how I feel without me even mentioning anything to her.” Deeply personal then, Gold Panda‘s at odds to express that unequivocally on the album. Instead, he say‘s it “would be nice if people could hear the tracks and attach their own significance to them”. Over forty tracks eventually extricated into eleven, cohesion found through the unified fragments that “went together. I wanted a beginning, middle and end” - feelings eventually became sounds, visions graduated into awareness. Do what the artist wants and attach your own significance, if meaning is in nature indeterminate, personal experience can do ought but help.
event::tags 21+
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
Beans
34 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
event::about Beans Bio: Accomplished abstract poet. Early architect of electronic-infused beatscapes. Founding member of legendary left-field rap act Anti-Pop Consortium. Childhood Kiss fan. So reads the résumé of the estimable Beans, a New York native raised in the suburb of White Plains. Born in '71, Beans came of age alongside hip-hop. As for siblings, he had one of each. His mother was a dietician, and though his father succumbed to cancer when Beans was 10, he passed on a library of books and records that his son subsequently devoured. Rap's echoes came through the radio courtesy of DJ Red Alert. Beans' mother forbade trips to the city to catch Marley Marl in action, but the action eventually came to the 'burbs, as his Bronx-based cousins brought wax with them when they came out to trim the hedges. Holed up in the seat of Westchester County, young Beans was privy to what his neighbors in Yonkers and New Rochelle were up to. In school, DMX freestyle tapes and Brand Nubian mixes were traded like baseball cards. He'd taken a shine to DJing at 17, but switched to rhyming as it required no equipment. He'd long been into comic books and drawing, so Beans eventually went to college for fine art. While there, he discovered the burgeoning slam poetry scene, and made a name for himself at the Rap Meets Poetry series in SoHo. That's where the future members of Anti-Pop first witnessed him in action. As an emcee, Beans has very few peers outside his circle. Within the Consortium, his rapid staccato and distinct lyrical bent - a mix of classic rap braggadocio and fractured new school narrative - helped vault that group into cult and critical favor circa '99 alongside artists from Anticon and Def Jux. Beans also honed his own beat-making style in the group, citing seminal No-Wavers Suicide as his main influence (with nods to Sun Ra, Mantronix, Sonic Youth, Public Enemy and Autechre). Together with High Priest, M.Sayyid and Earl Blaize, Anti-Pop made four albums for labels as acclaimed as Warp Records and Big Dada, opened for Radiohead on the band's Amnesiac tour, and broke up in 2002. Over the course of three solo albums, Beans mastered his craft. Tomorrow Right Now, 2003, found him laying arty verbal swagger over skronky minimal tracks. Two years later, on Shock City Maverick, he'd doubled down on both counts, sounding more confident, fuller. And on 2008's Thorns, Beans exorcised some spiritual demons, delivering his most personal work to date. Tours and festivals came, EPs and singles too, and eventually, so did the Anti-Pop reunion. At the same time Beans was working with his old partners on their praised comeback LP, Flourescent Black (2009), he was carefully assembling the bits and pieces that would become his 2011 Anticon debut, End It All.
event::tags 21+
1:00 AM
to 2:00 AM
Baths
169 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Baths
event::about For mercurial L.A. music-maker Will Wiesenfeld, Baths has been a long time coming. The 21-year-old has spent the better part of his days living amidst “pleasant” and “unremarkable” in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, so perhaps it’s due to a general lack of local inspiration that Wiesenfeld’s own work has never fit into a prefab box of its own. Over the last six years, under the handle of [Post-Foetus], Wiesenfeld has gainfully explored the intersections and outer reaches of both electronic and acoustic music. With Baths, his eclecticism finds its greatest focus yet, in a hail of lush melodies, ghostly choirs, playful instrumentation and stuttering beats. Wiesenfeld’s trip began at age 4, when he willed his parents into enrolling him in piano lessons. (The family upright, purchased that same year, sits in his bedroom today.) By 13, he’d begun recording his own music using Digital Performer and a MIDI keyboard – a brief, ill-advised foray into Eurobeat that was set right when Wiesenfeld heard Björk for the first time. Mind blown, he quickly boned up on viola, contrabass, and guitar and took the name [Post-Foetus], stringing together countless live configurations to execute his increasingly inimitable compositions. [Post-Foetus]’ fourth album – a Dntel-ish, song-based mélange dubbed The Fabric – was released on Mü-Nest in January. Though Baths represents the next evolution in Wiesenfeld’s oeuvre – which also includes the excellent ambient project Geotic – it came together under nigh-opposite circumstances. Last September, [Post-Foetus] was invited by L.A. electronicist Daedelus to share a bill with a handful of local Beat Music luminaries. Witnessing a burgeoning movement firsthand sparked something in Wiesenfeld that the ’burbs never could. In a fit of inspiration, Baths was born, though not into a preexisting scene. As is to be expected, this music goes its own way: fueled by spontaneity, tempered by Wiesenfeld’s background in classic songwriting. Those two influences collide in glorious ways on Cerulean, Baths’ stunning debut.
event::tags 21+
7:30 PM
to 8:30 PM
Differing Opinions of Good (D.O.O.G)
1 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
8:15 PM
to 9:15 PM
JM Airis
2 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists JM Airis
event::about Originally from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Airis's recordings have remained rooted in a four-track forever ethos, both in composition and sound as he's migrated East for the past decade. Dedicating himself to experimenting with available recording gear, he continued focusing on mastering analog tape machines when others had gone digital, giving his catalogue a distinct ancestral flavor unwaveringly devoted to his own sculpted sense of Americana. Upon his arrival in New York City, Airis began building a recording studio in an industrial era textile factory in Brooklyn. Indian Summer tastefully explores song layers in the variety of the warehouse's sound rooms, lending an unusual honesty to his work and highlighting location as more player than muse. From the outset the record is overtly a man alone in his music, surrounded by millions in one of the largest modern cities.
event::tags 21+
9:15 PM
to 10:15 PM
Albert
2 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
event::about An innovator of advent-elliptical jim wav music and luke dragon's weed, Elmore counts PE noise artist and BM musician Seth Vanhorn of Disthroned Agony, SND of Raster Noton, V/VM and Pan Sonic as key influences. Releasing music exclusively via the BBPWC web server since 2004, Elmore is the founder of Bootlegs by People Who Care and the Center for Experimentally Advanced Recordings and Research, as well as a board member of the Minneapolis Coalition for the Continuing Consideration of the Arts. He's also done collaborative work with Seth Vanhorn and solo work under various aliases including Jon Jacob 3, Never Say DJ Fred Equipment and James St. Murder Laden Mitten Wonder.
event::tags 21+
10:15 PM
to 11:15 PM
Marijuana Deathsquads
20 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
11:15 PM
to 12:15 AM
Har Mar Superstar
75 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Har Mar Superstar
event::about Like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, Har Mar Superstar returns this fall with Dark Touches, his first album since 2004’s critically acclaimed The Handler. The new Har Mar retains his defiant sexiness and uncanny knack for irresistible R&B hooks, but fans his colorful wings in the spirit of inclusion. “Har Mar has always represented the most out-there and outrageous and in your face aspects of me,” says Sean Tillmann, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and producer behind the Har Mar Superstar moniker. “I’ve gone through phases where there’s been angry Har Mar and different versions of this guy, but lately it’s all been this vibe that everyone’s included and everyone’s part of this thing, and you feel like you added something to it just by being there. It’s about me going out and getting as sweaty as possible, moving around as much as I can, and in a sense glamour-ing everybody for the night and making them feel better about themselves.” Tillmann spent the past several years playing music with his other projects – Sean Na Na and Neon Neon, whose album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize. But he also found time to launch a new career as an actor and screenwriter, earning roles in the upcoming feature films Whip It (directed by Drew Barrymore, and starring Juno’s Ellen Page and Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat) and Lovely, Still. He’s developing his own movie scripts and sitcom pilots, building on the success of his “Crappy Holidays” videos; in each of the comedic shorts – directed by Ryan Rickett and written with John Ringhoff – Tillmann suffers a different cruel twist of fate for each holiday. “I kind of got sick of the Har Mar persona for a little while,” says Tillmann. “I thought it was time to go away for a little bit, so hung up the Har Mar jacket and went back in my shell and made a new Sean Na Na album and had fun doing that and toured a lot with Neon Neon, and started these film projects with my friends out here.” But Tillmann kept writing tunes throughout those years, and after awhile he found himself feeling much the same way he had when he started Har Mar Superstar ten years ago. “I just got sick of playing guitar music again,” he says. “I realized that I really missed Har Mar.” For Dark Touches, Tillmann recorded with friends like Greg Kurstin of Los Angeles band the Bird and the Bee, rapper P.O.S. of the Rhymesayers collective, singer-songwriter Adam Green, the Faint beatmakers Clark Baechle and Jacob Thiele, and The Handler producer John Fields, whose credits include Andrew W.K., Rooney and the Jonas Brothers. The results soundtrack a retro-futuristic dance party, an exuberant pastiche of late Eighties R&B grooves, crisp synth samples, Tillmann’s soulful falsetto – part Usher, part Todd Rundgren – and cheeky lyrics describing the courtship practices of the lothario known as Har Mar Superstar. “I Got Next,” for instance, was inspired by Tillmann’s habit of asking a cute girl to sign a contract agreeing that, if she should break up with her current beau, Har Mar’s got next. “It’s like, ‘sign this contract, and I’ll come back and make out with you next time,” explains Tillmann, who co-wrote the track with his Neon Neon band mate, Bryan “Boom Bip” Hollon and Bird And The Bee singer Inara George. “I have a lot of contracts signed, on napkins and things. It’s a fun, flirtatious thing to do that feels naughty when you’re on tour.” Tillmann started writing Dark Touches a few years ago, but it took him a minute to realize that the initial ideas worked perfectly as Har Mar Superstar songs. “Tall Boy” (written with Kurstin) and “Girls Only” (written with Fields), for instance, were conceived as tunes for Britney Spears and the Cheetah Girls, respectively, but have twice the spice coming from Har Mar’s perspective. “I realized a song like ‘Girls Only’ is so much more amazing if I sing it,” he says. “I wrote that one for the Cheetah Girls a while ago, and I feel like Disney freaked out a bit after doing a Google search and seeing pictures of me performing in my underwear. I understand why they would pass on that. But it’s one of those things where I was stepping outside of myself and writing totally uninhibited for somebody else. Then, when you come back at the end of the day, you realize you wrote a Har Mar song, and there’s a light bulb that goes off and you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s ME.’” Har Mar Superstar was born ten years ago, when Tillmann was living in Minneapolis, playing guitar-based indie rock. The Har Mar idea, he says, was “a reaction to boring indie rock and how people were taking themselves way too seriously, and any aspect of playing and touring was no fun after a while, and I realized if I go to a dance party and sing an R. Kelly song on a couch, the girls are going to go fucking crazy. So I started transferring that to the stage and doing more R&B-oriented songs, and it really was a no-brainer after I’d done it a few times. Like, ‘why don’t I just make this gross, why don’t I just start writing songs like that?” And as soon as I did, it was obvious, it was like a light bulb went off and I went on my way and got more and more aggressive, and the shows became this weird exercise in sexual tension, and I really learned how to play with that fire and make it work for me.” By the time Tillmann had accumulated eight or nine new tunes last year, he started to embrace the idea of making the album that would become Dark Touches. “I just kept going with it,” he says, “and this record was born.” Embracing the various threads of his personality – the humorous, the self-deprecating, the potty-mouthed, the lusty – Tillmann came up with booty-shakers even more irresistible than The Handler’s hit tune “D.U.I.” “Dope, Man,” – a sunny funk tune about the agony and ecstasy of being a weed dealer – and “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” – co-written with his buddies Josiah Steinbrick from the band Heavens and Matthew “Cornbread” Compton of Cursive and Engine Down — are the epitome of what Tillmann calls “fun party jams with a deeper subtext or double- or triple-entendre going on in the lyrics.” Elsewhere, he’s more direct: “Gangsters Want to Cuddle Me,” with its lo-fi electro beat and a slinky Sly Stone-style horn loop, tells the story of a how a hoodie covered in puffy neon dinosaurs made Tillmann into the most huggable dude walking down Sunset Boulevard. And “Game Night” –featuring a beat supplied by Minneapolis rapper P.O.S. and a whisper verse by Adam Green — narrates the singer’s habit of inviting friends together in LA for board games and trivia. (He even hosts a popular Sunday night pub quiz at Silverlake Mexican restaurant Malo.) “Har Mar is as much ‘Crappy Holidays’ as it is an album,” says Tillmann. “The place that I’m coming from isn’t going to change, and it all really is an extension of myself. There’s not too much of a division between Har Mar and Sean at this point. I guess it sort of fulfilled the prophecy: I’ve just become my own guy, and that’s what Har Mar records present to people.” -Jenny Eliscu
event::tags 21+
12:15 AM
to 1:15 AM
Spyder Baybie Raw Dog & 2% Muck
3 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
1:15 AM
to 2:15 AM
Slapping Purses
7 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Slapping Purses
event::about Dance party eccrine and experimental noise abrasion may seem like distinct corners of the musical universe, but those with their nose in the Twin Cities underground know the explosive potential when the 'tween do meet. Like a methed-out Afrikaa Bambaataa scratching your itch for brain scrambling distortion, Slapping Purses is this nexus. Kick drum whumps, bass boom throbbing, garbled bombardments of sharp noise, and the most sinister command of breaks, breaks, breaks, since Marley Marl and Co. reinvented James Brown-Jason Power (AKA Slapping Purses) is a one-man self-sampling electronic noise-dance party to go. Bamboozling brains and bouncing booties with classic old school Roland electronic drums sounds, vocals pushed through a homemade jewel encrusted Microphone/kill box and a madman's grab bag of voltage controlled oscillators and amplitude modulators, Slapping Purses packs diamond tight the harshest boom shakalaka you ever slashed a rug to.
event::tags 21+
12:00 PM
to 1:00 PM
Small Sins
46 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
12:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
AV Club's March Into Softness 2011
368 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Party
Artists Baths, Chikita Violenta, Ted Leo, Low, Maritime, No Joy, Sharon Van Etten, Small Sins, Wye Oak, An Horse, Tristen, Gentleman Jesse and His Men
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
OUTSIDE
Baths (5 p.m.)
Sharon Van Etten (4 p.m.)
Wye Oak (3 p.m.)
Ted Leo (solo) (2 p.m.)
Gentlemen Jesse And His Men (1 p.m.)
Small Sins (12 p.m.)
INSIDE
Low (5:15 p.m.)
Chikita Violenta (4:15 p.m.)
Maritime (3:15 p.m.)
An Horse (2:15 p.m.)
Tristen (1:15 p.m.)
No Joy (12:15 p.m.)
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
event::tags Music
12:15 PM
to 1:15 PM
No Joy
152 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
1:00 PM
to 2:00 PM
Gentlemen Jesse And His Men
48 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
1:15 PM
to 2:15 PM
Tristen
48 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
Ted Leo
295 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
2:15 PM
to 3:15 PM
An Horse
97 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
3:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
Wye Oak
283 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
3:15 PM
to 4:15 PM
Maritime
84 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
4:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
Sharon Van Etten
254 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
4:15 PM
to 5:15 PM
Chikita Violenta
60 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Baths
199 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
5:15 PM
to 6:15 PM
Low
214 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Music
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
event::about
March Into Softness 2011, The A.V. Club's free SXSW day party, slated for Friday, March 18 at the Mohawk.
Plentiful (and hopefully free) libations and other party favors will be on hand as well. March Into Softness 2011: It’s free, it’s fun, and, more than likely, it won’t involve anyone getting smashed in the face with a can of Pepsi Max.
7:45 PM
to 8:45 PM
Viper Creek Club
7 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Viper Creek Club
event::about Viper Creek Club (VCC) is the joint effort of Seattleites Mat Wisner and Brandon Jensen. The duo evolved from the Spokane-based band Ambulance for Angeles when Mat and Brandon connected after moving to Seattle. After turnover and change in that previous project, they sought a way to bring their various aspirations together into a new venture. Along the way, their changing ambitions and personal struggles became musical discovery and growth. Originally an idea in one of Mat’s demo songs for Ambulance for Angeles, VCC is now their alliance, formed by their sometimes diverging fascinations. The unlikely combination of styles and ideas that emerge from this duo makes for a refreshing brand of electro-pop music. VCC is inherently influenced by Mat and Brandon’s separate undertakings and their own ideas about sound, composition methods, and genre are continually expanding through them. Outside of VCC, Brandon records, mixes, and masters local bands and acoustic musicians. Mat produces, engineers, and mixes for local hip hop artists and is currently producing a buzzed about remix album. The Stranger’s Charles Mudede calls Viper Creek Club’s hip hop project “the first solid, artistic connection between local indie rock and indie hip hop… In Viper Creek Club’s remixes, we hear a connection that’s convincing and alive with an energy that’s genuinely new.” Their debut album Letters was released in August 2010, receiving very positive reviews as well as regular plays on KEXP in Seattle (Top 10 on the North West music chart). Mastered by Grammy award nominated engineer, Evren Goknar, and recorded by acclaimed Seattle engineer, Frank Mazzeo (in his own Push/Pull studio as well as Seattle’s famous London Bridge), the album combines smart production techniques with organic percussion and piano, making it both deliberate and natural at the same time. VCC’s beats are carefully constructed and synth-focused, never failing to get a party going. The sound is heavily influenced by euro pop music but also genres such as hip hop. Wisner provides vocals, keys, beats, and loops, while Jensen plays guitar. Songs are influenced by everything from murder mysteries to lust gone wrong, creating a consistently catchy album that will make you want to move from start to finish. Viper Creek Club has been featured in The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, online in URB Magazine, ShortAndSweetNYC, and popular Seattle blogs like Seattle Show Gal and Another Rainy Saturday. “We could very well be staring the next big thing directly in the face,” wrote Nikki Benson of Seattle Show Gal, “the vocal tones flow perfectly with the energy and emotion of the song, and the production is top notch.” Mat and Brandon put all of their passion and experience to good use with VCC, making this club one that you will want to be a part of. As Mudede put it, “there’s a new sound in town, and it’s being made by Viper Creek Club.”
event::tags 21+
8:15 PM
to 9:15 PM
Sepalcure
12 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Sepalcure
event::about Having produced for years individually as Machinedrum (LuckyMe) and Praveen (of Praveen & Benoît), their new collaboration breathes a new life of its own, reflected in its distinctive, lush sonic warmth and a refreshing style of composition that is as equally fitting on the dancefloor as it is in the comfort of one’s home. Sepalcure’s depth of field, weaves distant chords, soulful vocals, and organic rhythms into vibrant, immersive soundscapes, with echoes of house, techno, and dubstep within. Their live performances have been gaining steam over the last year, beginning with appearances at Unsound Festival, Dub War NYC, and The Bunker, followed by a live showcase at Portland’s Decibel Festival in September, they are set to embark on their first European tour with other Hotflush artists this December. They have also composed an original track in Darren Aronofsky’s new film Black Swan, in theatres starting December 2010.
event::tags 21+
8:45 PM
to 9:45 PM
TOKiMONSTA
31 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
9:15 PM
to 10:15 PM
Egyptrixx
48 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Egyptrixx
event::about With the tons of hyped up dance music that comes out these days, it's pretty hard to stand apart from the herd; not the case with Toronto's Egyptrixx. In just over one year, his distinct sonic aesthetic has become an acclaimed presence in underground music, garnering praise from heavyweight DJ's, including Sinden, Mary Ann Hobbs and Drop the Lime, and influential publications such as Fader, Xlr8r and The Wire magazine. All of his recent records have also seen regular radio play on BBC Radio 1 and Kiss FM among others. His unique and energetic live sets are in-demand, with headlining gigs banked all over Europe and North America and a busy touring schedule in upcoming months. He makes celestial club music; jeep music for a Saturn desert. There is an exhilarating right-but-wrong tension that all of Egyptrixx' tracks share - a shifting balance between melodic and dissonant, rapturous and antisocial. His releases continue to challenge the status quo and impress with a unique style informed by elements of techno, house, dubstep and pop music. With critically acclaimed releases already out on Night Slugs and Ramp Recordings, and his forthcoming debut LP slated for an early 2011 release, the future looks bright for Egyptrixx.
event::tags 21+
9:45 PM
to 10:45 PM
SBTRKT
39 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists SBTRKT
event::about Design is at the heart of this project: first the instruments, then the songs and finally the masks. Whilst massively prolific, a minimalist ethos runs through the work and style of SBTRKT, not just in the name but in the precision of the sonics and arrangements. After dropping audacious white-label re-rubs of Goldie & Radiohead in 2009, SBTRKT has announced himself in 2010 with releases on dubstep stalwarts Ramp + Brainmath & eclectic indie label, Young Turks. Remixes for M.I.A., Modeselektor & Basement Jaxx have left the clubs wanting more and the masked man has obliged in the form of recent collaborative bangers w/ Sinden & Sampha. Whilst record heads and shop salesmen argue over whether SBTRKTs sound is more “techno”,“neo-garage” or “dubstep”, the forthcoming album plus releases on Tempa, Young Turks and Monkeytown place him comfortably in any category he wishes to occupy...
event::tags 21+
10:15 PM
to 11:15 PM
Two Fresh
14 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Two Fresh
event::about Two fresh consists of an inseparable pair of twin producers, Sherwyn and Kendrick Nichols, who have been making beats and playing music together since they were fifteen years old. Now only twenty-one, the twins have released their first album entitled “The Baker’s Dozen”. This release contains a unique style of music combining elements of hip hop, jazz, soul, standout synth lines, creative sample chops, and heavy bass sections. The thirteen track album will be available for free download. It only takes one listen to tell that these two have something special. Following their first release, Two Fresh will be hitting the road with dozens of dates already scheduled in the forthcoming months. For more information check out www.twofreshbeats.com
event::tags 21+
10:45 PM
to 11:45 PM
AC and DELL
9 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists AC and DELL
event::about "He's the producer, I'm the vocalist" is probably the best way to describe AC & Dell, a duo from Brooklyn and Atlanta respectively. AC also known as AC Slater, a globe-trotting dance music producer and DJ - whose music is supported by superstar DJs like Moby, Diplo, Crookers and Boyz Noize - is the man behind the controls. Dell "o8o" Harris is the charismatic front man. A multitalented rapper fusing indie dance music and hip hop, Dell has made a home in the underground, rocking parties week after week. Brought together by a chance remix and brief meeting at a party in Atlanta, the two talked about future collaboration, which came to existence on the UK's BBC Radio 1 when Toddla T asked AC & Dell to put together a remix for a segment on his show. The results were exciting and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. The two decided to continue in the studio with the goal of a mixtape. This goal turned into an album of all original material. On the "Right Now" album AC & Dell invite the listener into their world of late night underground parties, girl troubles, and jet setter antics. Combining the sounds of hip hop, electronic, and indie rock, the record caught the attention of world renowned streetwear label Mishka, who took the independent project and produced a limited run of physical CDs to distribute. For more information please contact Deadly People phil@deadlypeople.net
event::tags 21+
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
AraabMUZIK
16 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists AraabMUZIK
event::about ARAABMUZIK If you were to Google the name AraabMuzik, you would discover a lot video’s showing this music producer hammering on an MPC as if he was Travis Barker on the drums. With his fast rhythmic touches on the machine - while donning a New Era fitted, some might call it poetry in motion, others might say it’s suicide on an MPC, but for the this producer it’s just another day on the job. Born Abraham Orellana in Providence, RI, the middle child of two other siblings, he grew up with an affection to music starting at a very young age. “I’ve been drumming since the age of 3. When I was around 10, I started getting into keyboard and producing my own music.” Half Dominican and Guatemalan, he confesses that his Hispanic heritage has influenced his music to a degree. With his mom being a one-time professional singer he’s been around melodies and beats his entire life, however; growing up in Providence… it’s natural to assume Hip-Hop not having much of an influence in the city, considering that’s it sprawled so far away in New England. “There’s definitely a lot of Hip-Hop here. You’ll find a lot of local rap groups, solo artists out here that are trying make it, it’s just the fact that we’re not on the map like that just yet.” Having found much success working with Dipset members Cam’Ron, Duke Da God, Hell Rell and others, he’s also shopped beats to Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Cassidy, Gucci Man, Young Dro and Fabolous. With his rapid beat making techniques, it’s easy to understand why it’s getting him on shows from state to state because it’s amazing to see. “I’ve been getting booked buy clubs lately to do shows performing on my MPC live. It’s something different and unique, and it puts me in a position to be a trendsetter, but on the other hand - it’s allowing other producers in the crowd to hear my sound and see what I’m doing but I don’t think you can really duplicate what I’m doing.” Putting a name on how to define his music and style is a daunting task, but under the fabric of his beats still lies a blueprint from the influences of Dr. Dre, Swizz Beats, Alchemist, Just Blaze, Scram Jones, Pete Rock, 9th Wonder, Hi-Tek, DJ Khalil and Heatmakers. These famous producers vicariously helped in perfecting his craft to the point now that it’s a full time job. “When I first started making beats, I went from the keyboard to a software program and to an MPC. My motivation at that time was just for the fact that I wanted to hear and make my own music. All my old beats on the keyboard where like a good 3-4 minutes long and as I got better, so did the beats.” Not really needing much for motivation when making a new beat is natural. “I’m not the type that needs to smoke a blunt or have a drink to be creative. “I just sit down and think of what I’m going to do or how I’m going to do it. It doesn’t take long… no more than ten minutes for me to complete a beat. It’s always like 10-15 minutes the most and then I’m done.” As his talents continue to move him forward, don’t ever think leaving his hometown is in the plans. “Growing up in Providence, I was blessed because I didn’t have to go through a lot of the things that other people that I know in places like Boston and New York had to go through. I was raised by both my mom and my pops and their still together this day. Besides, it doesn’t matter where I’m from just so long as the people keep liking my beats - that’s all that matters.”
event::tags 21+
11:30 PM
to 12:30 AM
DJ Nu-Mark
45 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists DJ Nu-Mark
event::about His innovative DJ routines and creative stage show have made him a favorite of crowds all over the world, sharing the stage with the likes of Mos Def, The Roots, RUN DMC, Green Day, and Outkast. Nu-Mark is the first to incorporate children's music toys in his explosive DJ sets. Recognized for his pioneering work with Jurassic 5, DJ Nu-Mark is best known for his production on the anthem "Whats Golden". Nu is putting the finishing touches on his debut solo release Broken Sunlight to be released in Spring of 2011.
event::tags 21+
12:15 AM
to 1:15 AM
Treasure Fingers
64 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Treasure Fingers
event::about Hailing from Atlanta, transplanted to NYC, and ready to take over the world: Treasure Fingers Treasure Fingers is Audio Viagra (NY Post) For the past four years, the DJ and producer born Ashley Jones has been making it rain in the disco with innovative remixes and original tracks. Jones is far from a new jack, having racked up over a decade of international club experience and studio chops as part of the legendary drum & bass group, Evol Intent. Yet as Treasure Fingers, he’s found a way to merge his diverse influences and deep history into a signature sound, packed with intricate basslines, chopped-up, gritty synth melodies, and party-ready drum breaks. It’s already captured the ears of everyone from Eric Prydz and Miike Snow to house legends Romanthony and Roy Davis JR (all of whom personally requested the Treasure Fingers remix treatment). His amazing new twist on Disco attracted the attention of such labels as Fools Gold, Defected and MOS to name a few. Treasure Fingers “Cross The Dancefloor: "I dj now, and right now this is my favorite song to play. It's a rare underground song" (Will.I.AM’s Favorite Party Starter Track, People Magazine) “Cross The Dancefloor” was Treasure Fingers’ debut, an inescapably catchy, vocoder-laced dance gem that two-steps over genre boundaries. The instant classic received support from A-List DJs around the world such as Erick Morillo, Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Sinden and Kissy Sell Out. Treasure Fingers has kept the momentum going with heavy touring and official remixes for numerous artists including Little Boots (I Am Sound), Chromeo (Vice/Atlantic), Estelle (Atlantic), Empire of the Sun (EMI), Kid Sister (Downtown), Kid Cudi (G.O.O.D/Sony), N.A.S.A (Epitaph), and James Curd (Om) (remix went to #1 on the Beatport Club Chart). A constant favorite on Hype Machine, he has also received amazing support from such blogs as Disco Dust, Boom Boom Chik, Indy Shuffle, Big Stereo and Discobelle to name a few. A new batch of equally funky Treasure Fingers originals & a mix CD are on their way along with tours in North America, Europe, UK, Asia, Australia and South America. These coming after successful tours and gigs with artists Roy Davis Jr, Fake Blood, A-Trak, Chromeo, Laidback Luke, Fred Falke, Felix da Housecat & Benny Benassi, to name a few. Treasure Fingers perfectly captures the sounds that young kids want to hear, while keeping the musicality of songs that the old school cats need. His version of Back Off Move Away is a disco groove that is full of modern synth sounds over such a funky bass line it's nearly impossible not to dance to. One of my favorite remixers at the moment and one of my favorite mixes of my own music to date. (James Curd [Greenskeepers]) What else would you expect from the A-Town original with the Midas touch, who continues to receive accolades and Radio 1 support from heavy hitters Pete Tong, Annie Mac (with a mini mix under his belt), Kissy Sellout, Jaymo & Andy George, all helping Treasure Fingers launch up, up and away into the future with people worldwide shakin’ it cross the dancefloor. "Treasure Fingers is one of America's best Nu Disco outfits. His high end production values, fresh ideas & all round good vibes has ensured we've been fans for sometime!" (Jaymo & Andy George, BBC Radio 1 In New DJs We Trust)
event::tags 21+
1:00 AM
to 2:00 AM
Daedelus
76 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Daedelus
event::about Alfred Darlington isn't a paint-by-numbers musician. From how he looks (early Victorian Dandyism), to how he makes music, or how he expresses himself and views the world, his is a very individual 'bespoke' outlook. Alfred was born in Santa Monica in 1977 to an artist mother and psychologist father. Musical from very early on, as a child he was classically and jazz-trained in a number of instruments, but his interests were broad and varied less a prodigy than a renaissance boy whose obsessions ranged from Greek legend to the mountains of Wales. As a 15 year old he finally persuaded his parents to take him to the Principality. Whilst in a YMCA in London he flipped the radio dial, found a pirate radio station and taped some UK rave and hardcore. 'It was my first 'Eureka!' moment in music', he says. Back in the US he joined local rock bands, jazz bands and ska bands, which he enjoyed but felt limited by, too. At home he was listening to Warp, Ninja and your harder electronic stuff. He started DJing out the more leftfield side of drum & bass and making his own rudimentary productions. They were meant to fit the d&b but they kept turning out different and from his outsider's experiments his own style was born. He chose the name Daedelus as he had a childhood obsession with invention, and what was he doing, after all, if not tinkering and fiddling and experimenting like the 'gentleman inventors' of old? In 1999 he started DJing on Dublab.com for his 'Entropy Sessions' and began dropping in his own early demo productions. Carlos Nino (of ammoncontact) had the show after him and usually pushed Alfred out the studio as quickly as possible as he was not so enamoured with Alfred's confrontational DJ style, but when he heard a tranquil Daedelus production, in typical Nino style, he took Daedelus under his considerable wing and introduced him to the LA scene. Nino placed Daedelus tracks on two influential compilations and then persuaded Plug Research to release his debut album, 'Invention', in 2002. Remixers included Madlib, who later took Daedelus' accordion parts and used them on 2004's Madvillain record. In 2003, he was booked to play a show in San Diego by Brian Crabtree and Peter Siegerstrong and the pair asked him to test out an early prototype of the Monome. "It's a non-traditional electronic instrument,' Daedelus explains. 'Basically it allows for massive improvisation." Since then Daedelus has continued to use this revolutionary controller, bringing much genuine liveness to the sometimes static world of performed electronic/dance music. In 2003 he did 'The Weather' album with Busdriver and Radioinactive, and the remix album 'Rethinking the Weather' on Mush records. 2004 saw the release of 'Of Snowdonia' on Plug Research, the album with which Daedelus says he first "felt true artistic confidence, finding a true voice. I was finally in the right zone.' There was certainly no let up in his creativity. Also in 2004 he released the concept album 'A Gent Agent' on micro-label Laboratory Instinct. The 2005 album 'Exquisite Corpse' on Mush featured the likes of TTC, Mike Ladd and MF DOOM. Ninja signed Daedelus for UK/Europe (a relationship which reached its full expression on 2008's 'Love To Make Music To', his first album for the label worldwide and put together with the help of their team). In 2006 'Denies the Days Demise' came out, a record showcasing his love of Brazilian music. Last year he released his first live album, 'Live At the Low End Theory' and 'The Fairweather Friends EP'. Later that year came the release of his collaboration with his wife, Laura Darling, as the pastoral 'Long Lost'. Since his last album 'Love To Make Music To' for Ninja there has been no let up in Daedelus' productivity. He has remixed or been remixed by and produced with all of his LA scene peers including Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing, The Gaslamp Killer, Baths, and countless others from further afield. In addition, singles and EPs under his own name have come out with Brainfeeder, All City, Magical Properties (the Daedelus home-imprint), Alpha Pup, Warp and Stones Throw. And all the while his reputation has grown internationally, his place in the LA scene has also solidified as a musician that many of the hottest names in the city turn to for everything from bass clarinet licks to advice on obscure electronics; all the while with a continuous string of tour dates across North America, Asia, Europe, the UK, and beyond. 2011 starts not only with his new album but the meticulous planning of a huge tour featuring guest vocalists from his 'Bespoke' LP and with a spectacular visual show curated in part by Emmanuel Baird (of Manchester's Warehouse Project and Hoya Hoya nights) which will feature a top secret new invention codenamed ARCHIMEDES promising to yet again re-invent live electronic performance.
event::tags 21+
12:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
MOG at the Mohawk
373 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Unofficial Party
event::about
Main Stage:
4:40-5:40p - Big Boi
3:10-4:10p – TV on the Radio
2:00-2:40p – Okkervil River
1:00-1:40p - Wild Flag
12-12:40p - Smith Westerns
Inside Stage:
4:10 – 4:50 – Yuck
2:40 - 3:20 – Twin Shadow
1:40 –2:20 – Theophilus London
12:40 – 1:20 – Tune-Yards
8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM
Paul Cary
7 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Paul Cary
event::about Chicago's Paul Cary knows a thing or two about grit. In his Iowa days, Cary was the front man for the seminal In The Red Records’ band, The Horrors (not the UK band, the gritty garage rockers from the depths of Iowa). During that time, Paul Cary drove taxis, hopped trains from Iowa City to San Diego, worked the door at local dive bars and toured Europe with The Horrors. While on In the Red Records, The Horrors released two albums: 2000’s self-titled The Horrors recorded by Mike McHugh at the Distillery and 2004’s Vent, recorded by both Mike at the Distillery and by Doug Easley and Greg Cartwright at Easley McCain Studios. In 2005, Cary woke up, wised up, and moved all of his worldly belongings to Chicago. Once there, he buckled down, apprenticed with a carpenter, and continued to work on songs. With no band to support him, he enlisted the help of percussionist and engineer Johnathan Crawford (Head of Femur, William Elliott Whitmore, Grey Ghost, Tim Wehrle), and together they began to work out arrangements of Paul Cary’s new material. In late 2007, Paul and Johnathan set out to record Cary’s first solo album, Ghost of a Man, with Mike Lust at Phantom Manor Studio, and Toby Summerfield joined on bass. Ghost of a Man was later self-recorded and completed at Clown Town Studios in Chicago – basically a small room with some old mics and a tape deck, just the sound they were after. In total, the album took two years to record. Upon completion, Portland's Stank House Records offered to release the album on vinyl, Chicago's free music label Candy Dinner released it as a download. Stank House Records recently released a split 7" with Paul Cary and San Francisco's Thee Oh Sees, and it quickly sold out. Paul Cary and the Small Scaries is the current incarnation of Cary’s band. Contributing players include a list of Chicago jazz heavies, such as Dave Rempis, Fred Longberg Holm, and Jason Stein – as well as the addition of Farfisa organs and other hellish noise makers. Though the record is available now, Paul Cary is finally getting around to a celebration for this impressive collection of songs, Wednesday, September 15th at Lincoln Hall in Chicago with a little help from his friends, Thee Oh Sees who will headline the show.
event::tags 21+
8:50 PM
to 9:50 PM
Anamanaguchi
58 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Anamanaguchi
event::about Anamanaguchi is a four-piece melodic, 8-bit rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Combining raw guitars and thrashing drums with a glitchy digital soundscape, they create a powerful, energetic sound that rests somewhere between organic and robotic. The band, started in 2003 by then 15-year-old Peter Berkman, released their debut POWER SUPPLY EP on the New York DIY label 8bitpeoples in 2006. In 2009 the lineup solidified with bassist James DeVito, Ary Warnaar on guitar & gameboy, and Luke Silas on drums and they released their second EP, DAWN METROPOLIS. Anamanaguchi embodies the triumph over youthful suburban boredom through house shows, pizza parties, and late night video game sessions with friends in the same way the Beach Boys did through cars, babes, and surfing. They provided a brand new 24-song soundtrack to the SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD video game (accompanying the NBC/Universal film) that was released on August 10th, 2010 by Ubisoft Montreal for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Abkco Music & Records digitally released the official soundtrack on August 24th, 2010 debuting at No. 3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart (aka New Artist in SoundScan). Last summer, they released a series of singles for free download from their website, each complete with original frenetic, seizure-inducing animated cover art and an accompanying b-side. They are hyped and ready to party.
event::tags 21+
9:40 PM
to 10:40 PM
Prince Rama
72 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Prince Rama
event::about Spawned from the vernal heat of the Florida swamps amidst swirling patterns of pine orchards and pre-Columbian artifacts, Prince Rama was whispered into the ears of Taraka Larson, Nimai Larson, and Michael Collins in the summer of 2007 by the clanging of prayer bells and goat-skin drums. They left the Hare Krishna farm where they were staying to go to art school and form a creative nucleus in Boston. There, their engaging and often unpredictable ritualistic live shows attracted a rapid cult following, replete with collective chants, werewolf summonings, Sanskrit invocations, and the distribution of various handmade percussion to members of the audience. In spring 2009 the group departed from Boston and went on a series of extensive tours across the US and Europe, culminating in a tragic car robbery in which all their equipment got stolen. Thanks to an overwhelming outpouring from friends, family, and fans, the group was catapulted to rebuild and reinvent themselves from the ground up to make a unique new sound surcharged with a renewed sense of awe, gratitude, and urgency. The trio moved to Brooklyn, and with their new instruments wrote and recorded Shadow Temple, produced with the help of Rusty Santos and Dave (Avey Tare) and Josh (Deakin) of Animal Collective for release on Paw Tracks in September 2010.
event::tags 21+
10:30 PM
to 11:30 PM
Fergus & Geronimo
37 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Fergus & Geronimo
event::about Things that come from Texas are often odd and grand, and this is no exception for Denton's Fergus & Geronimo. Named after the rival child gang leaders from the 1994 movie War Of The Buttons, their music is at times both focused and loose, and comes from a wide range of unexpected influences. At the core of the group is Jason Kelly and Andrew Savage, who met while Kelly was recording and mixing a record for Teenage Cool Kids, a band started by Savage. During that four month process of recording, Kelly and Savage bonded over music, the creative process of recording, and the possibility of having a band that draws from a variety of sources. Black and Chicano doo-wop, the energy and atmosphere of classic soul, the precise control of Frank Zappa, psychedelia, and a thought to nearly everything in between. "Sparks is a pretty big influence not just musically, but the way that band operates," Savage adds. "It is two guys making weird music with no other agenda than being creative and surprising, and that's what I want this band to be. That band is a great example of a group that makes no compromises for creativity." Unlearn is the group's first full-length after releasing a handful of singles on various labels over the past two years. Kelly admits to being "very excited and proud" that the record will be released on Hardly Art. Unlearn is an 11-track history lesson on the world of popular music with lush R&B harmonies, authentic rock and roll energy, and a fair share of experimentation. "On this record especially we got into a lot of backmasking and pitch control. But no real rules, it's kind of anything goes," Savage notes. Both members share writing duties and play and sing everything on the record, with the exception of Elyse Schrock's vocals on the title track, and Casey Carpenter and Monet Robbins on flute and sax, respectively. "We went out of our way to treat every song as its own and to give each song different tones and atmosphere," says Kelly. This concept pays off like a jackpot, with each song as a unique piece of a patchwork quilt that fits all of the sounds and styles together like a brilliant puzzle. Unlearn at times sounds old and at times new, but always authentic and informed. So can you unlearn what you know, as the title track suggests? In a world where information waits in line to enter your brain, how does one decide what path of influence is best to take? "I think that a band like Fergus & Geronimo is more naturally spawned in a place less exposed or less saturated with culture. We got into the music we are into because we somehow wandered into it, and just because we both have a natural inclination for being odd," Savage remarks. Unlearn is a dynamic of raw passion and indifference that has a really good chance of sulking it's way into the mind of the listener. The less you look, the more you find indeed.
event::tags 21+
11:30 PM
to 12:30 AM
Turbo Fruits
89 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
eventtype Music
Artists Turbo Fruits
event::about Who: Turbo Fruits (Jonas Stein: vocals, guitar; Dave McCowen: bass, vocals; Matt Hearn: drums; Kingsley Brock: guitar, vocals) What: Garage rock Where: Nashville, Tennessee History: From 2004‐2008, Jonas was the guitarist in the late, great Be Your Own Pet. The first Turbo Fruits album came out as a side project in August 2007 on Ecstatic Peace Records. "Volcano," a song inspired by an electric bong of the same name, was a minor sensation on the evening shows on BBC Radio 1. "Tenacious, canines-clamped-to-the-calves-style garage-punk clatter, "Volcano" especially, a standout murder-blues pranker, summoning the image of Nick Cave steering a dragster over the Bailey's aisle of Thresher's to get the good stuff. It's callous, but seemingly, the less they care the better it gets." - NME
event::tags 21+
12:30 AM
to 1:30 AM
The Woggles
34 schedule::attendees
Location
Mohawk
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