How will you impress your friends on Monday? What will you tell them you did? How will they know, as I do, that you are a culturally enlightened being who knows what’s what and who’s who in the San Diego art community? Going to any (or all) of these three events this weekend is a good start.
1. Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair | Hilton Bayfront | September 2–5
2. APASD Presents: Plastic Fantastic | Subtext Gallery in Little Italy | September 3, 6–10pm
3. Current: An Exhibition of Hand Crafted Design Presented by Set & Drift | The Bakery in Barrio Logan | September 2–5
Get all the juicy details after the jump!
Friday, September 3rd | 6pm–10pm
Subtext Gallery | 2479 Kettner Blvd.
Performance by Pocket at 9pm
This Friday, a ONE NIGHT ONLY exhibition as APASD showcases the crème de la crème of their Plastic Fantastic Call For Entries at Subtext Gallery in Little Italy. Featuring 30 photos to be exact, taken by a wide range of San Diego artists with one common thread – all captured with the use of only plastic film cameras. The photos are raw, notably undigital-ified, sometimes blurry, and abounding in awesome. Sounds pretty f-ing fantastic to me!
More info and photos after the jump!
TheMixster.com, on the behalf of TheMusicNinja.com, will be venturing out this Labor Day Weekend, to the world unknown to this SoCal native: New York City.
The adventure will be as equally exciting and terrifying as I will be navigating the twists and turns of one of the world’s biggest metropolitan cities, for the first time in over a decade — all in the name of one thing, and one thing only: Electronic Dance Music, baby.
Electric Zoo Festival may be young in its years, but after its inaugural year in 2009, where it saw over 26,000 attendees pass through the gates, it has already established itself as New York’s premier electronic music festival. Bringing together an incredible line-up of top names in electronic music, with New York’s renowned abundance for fine culinary cuisine and the area’s most renowned artists in an interactive art showcase, Electric Zoo’s eclectic experience offers attendees a unique event, unlike any other.
Born Tommy Bisdee, Kissy Sell Out is considered one of London’s staples of the electro scene. As one of BBC Radio 1’s biggest names still dropping below-the-radar tracks and quirky live remixes on the radio waves, Kissy Sell Out has also become an essential member of the world wide electro scene as well.
Known for his rapid remixing style and his equally speedy speaking rate, it’s hard to keep up with this guy at first listen. But be patient, because as little as ten-minutes into his ADD sets, you will be exposed to the newest drops in the EDM world and you’ll too, find yourself mesmerized and moving to his “jump up, rock, and rave” style.
Free downloads, guest list, and more after the jump!
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As much as we find them annoying, we are friends with at least one… or ten! I am talking about the music elitist. More than just the hipster who claims to have known the hot shit before it hit Hypem, music elitists span across every genre and every decade. Some people are stuck on 70s rock and other people think Sufjan Stevens is the greatest thing sliced bread. Whatever your thoughts are on the music elitist, you wouldn’t be listening to the tunes you have on your iPod if it weren’t for them (unless you purely listen to Top 40 or soft rock elevator music). Hell – you might even be a music elitist yourself (in which case you should buy the ridiculous shirt pictured, just sayin’).
When Music Elitists Are Most Useful:
1.) When you are sick of your own music and in need of some good tuneage.
2.) When you want to feel enlightened.
3.) When you want to feel bad about yourself and your lack in taste.
4.) When you need a cool, hip song for your ringtone and ringback.
5.) To have on your good side when you decide to go forward with your musical career.
6.) You’re a bedroom producer and need a song that isn’t overly remixed to remix yourself.
7.) And my personal favorite, when you need a song to convey your emotions for a chick you’re making a mixtape for.
BY: Eileen
LED Presents another wild Ravehouse that simply kicked the sand right off the ground and into the sky as a massive flurry of electro lovers danced furiously from early afternoon to nightfall to the insane line-up that was presented before us this past Sunday, August 29th.
LA Riots lit the first headline fire early in the afternoon, setting the decks a blaze with a rage-worthy assortment of sonic goodies to totally twist the heads in the crowds.
And, O dear God, I think I may have gone a “little” overboard with all the videos from Wolfgang Gartner’s absolutely fucking amazing set — but man, it was so ridiculous. I know I have talked A LOT about Wolfgang this past week, especially following our exclusive interview with this man about the world-wide electro town at the very moment. And all the momentous other Wolfgang announcements released this week, including confirmation on his world-wide contract with Ultra Music & the unofficial release of his new track collabo with Deadmau5, “Animal Rights” - dropping JUST the night before he took the decks in sunny San Diego. Yes we have indeed talked about Wolfgang Gartner quite a bit this week — but when a man of his caliber, who ALSO happens to be topping the charts and electronic music news releases, makes a grand appearance in humble San Diego AT THE VERY SAME PEAKING MOMENT OF “STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES” HYSTERIA?!?!?!?!?!? — it’s impossible not to hype the guy. Simple as that.
See the HUGE video arsenal with both LA Riots‘ and Wolfgang’s massive sets after the jump! Weeeee!!!
O my goodness gracious. Treasure Fingers absolutely tore down the house this past Saturday night at Voyeur Nightclub. I have to say, I’ve seen Treasure Fingers spin live on more occasions I can even begin to count, HOWEVER, I have to say, I believe this was the BEST I have ever seen the man spin. It was one of those DJs sets that, when the lights went on at last call and the room was lit was that embarrassing, “Go home now” glow, you still felt enamored and completely fully engaged in the set — as if it didn’t matter how drunkenly torn up you looked as long. As long as that man kept spinning, the crowd packed into the dance floor didn’t even seem to miss a beat. Magical.
Treasure Fingers‘ disco-happy house fun lovin’ set, sent smiles across the faces of the entire crowd. Each and every track was even more infectious and body shakin’ than the last!.
More videos after the jump!
This JUST dropped today. YES, I know, THIS IS REALLY FUCKING BIG!!!!
GET READY FOR THE REAL THING TO SPIT COMMERCIAL FIRE SEPTEMBER 6TH!!!!
AHHH!!
For now here’s a tasty snippet for y’all to munch in the meantime.
g’night mixsters,
BY; TD
Damian Lazarus creates underground dance music for those with an open mind, an ear for appreciation, and the right bones in their body to move to the masterfully-constructed and groove-worthy sounds.
I have to admit, I’m about 50/50 as to whether San Diego is ready for this highly-progressive form of electronic music — but I sure as hell know tonight is NOT a night to miss for those who truly care about the electronic genre as whole, or those who simply have a way of always smiling and having a good time — because you are certainly in for an excellent evening, I can whole-heartedly assure you of that.
Years ago, and to be precise, merely three years ago, San Diego club goers rejected the sound that is now, ubiquitous throughout San Diego’s most astounding shining LED-lighted stars, the upscale nightclubs, we pack ourselves tight into, night after night; a sound that true nightlife connoisseurs fiendishly follow with ever-increasing personal interest, here and now today: HOUSE music. House, and ever-increasingly, electro, and its crowd of followers, even as much as a year ago, were no where NEAR to what that exponentially-growing crowd looks like today, here in our beloved urbanized-ish beach city of San Diego. The level of appreciation, interest, and personal taste in music locally, has drastically changed on a massive scale, from what it was years ago — same time, same place — but now, a completely evolved club scene.
And the evolution, kids, has only just begun.
Fast forward, back to the present. Today, actually TONIGHT, we have a seriously phenomenal opportunity to look and listen into the future of what our club scene will be like, hopefully a year from now — if it were only up to us — but likely a little bit longer down the line — given a particular breed of San Diegans and their adversity to change. Nonetheless, I’ve still got my fingers tightly crossed.
Damian Lazarus, is the future of San Diego’s upscale nightclub sound. And for individuals, like you, reading this right now, it will be a highly intoxicating aural experience for those who enjoy the finer things in life.
**Haunting soundscapes; deep, reverberating vocals, impeccably mastered techno-minded nuances, and a heavy, pulsating percussion in a continuous stream of spookily enchanting rhythms and vibrations: Damian Lazarus’ tech house is no doubt a sensory experience for club goers – well-versed individuals and virgins to the sound alike.**
Check out Lazarus’ recent release below off of Get Physical (Booka Shade & M.A.N.D.Y.’s Label) if you’d like a more sonically concrete idea of the magic you are in for this evening at Voyeur nightclub. The deep, almost chant-like vocals layered with the mesmerizing aural constructs Damian Lazarus masterfully and progressively builds on the continuous back-drop of alluring electronic percussion throughout the track, will translate absolutely stunningly onto Voyeur’s massive sound system tonight.
Damian Lazarus - Never-ending (Club Version)
As of recent, Damian Lazarus has finally been given the right of electronic approval to create his own sonic masterpiece within the increasingly-recognized and blossoming Fabric series. On already its 54th edition within the series itself, among former honorary recipients of this prestigious opportunity including the renowned production masterminds of Steve Bug, John Digweed, Claude VonStroke, Mark Farina, John Tejada, and M.A.N.D.Y. it’s proof that Damian Lazarus, too, is of equal caliber as those proceeding him as Fabric all-stars, within the electronic music world.
Damian Lazarus’ 21-track contribution to the Fabric series has a creepy, almost psychedelic undercurrent slinking throughout the entire score. But his impeccable implementation of capricious, sonically-interesting, tech-nuances — that are layered, or, at times, even thoughtfully scattered about the composition — attribute a certain “aurally-digestible” factor to the work as a whole; a characteristic necessary for any track to be socially approachable within any nightclub atmosphere.
Although Lazarus’ own edition to the Fabric series won’t be released until October 16th, he’s a sonic-sneak-peek of the goodness below:
Bottom Line: If it don’t make you dance, it don’t belong in the club!!
Fortunately, Damian Lazarus’ sound has transcended the usual weirdo experimental/installation music spectrum, by using his technical sensibilities, and transforming those technologically advanced/ingenious sonic demonstrations into a more dance-friendly extension of that eccentric, “mad scientist-y” realm.
Catch Damian Lazarus tonight at Voyeur, as it is a rare opportunity to have such tech-masterminds gracing our favorite clubs, and so close to home. Seriously, this not a night to miss out on.
Opening up the evening, will be close friend to TheMixster.com, and also a fellow, extremely active and passionate advocate of the tech-house genre, Jon Dadon: Founder of the DJ collective, Starry Eyed Music.
Dadon, who takes his massive arsenal and his passion for the sound to Las Vegas with him nearly every weekend, in order to share his wealth of sonic goodness with the open-minded audiences and appreciative ears in the Sin City underground, will be here at home (FINALLY!) showcasing, his own personal take on the world of progressive tech-house. Get to Voyeur early to immerse yourself in San Diego’s very own rendition and approach to this rapidly evolving stream of sound — and to avoid cover as well.
RSVP for guest here, or simply send your list of names to Guestlist [at] StarryEyedMusic [dot] com.
By: TD
