all live pa, laptop and turntablist doom!
be sure to go to Forans the night before and see knifehandchop/baseck and Kero and others tear it up...if that's not enough (it won't be) come back the following night to thee loft in eastern market to get more.
1353 Division St., 1E - detroit. [MAP] (eastern market) 11pm till really really really late. come anytime, as long as you come! (pssst! free drinks!)
as always, FREE DRINKS while they last, for only a measly little $5 donation so we can send them home and not strand 'em in our fair city. ;) this is the same venue as the Larvae/Needle Sharing show erlier in the year.
ALSO DEBUTING OTTO VON SCHIRACH'S NEW RECORD! (we should have advance copies in hand this week.)
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knifehandchop
:: Billy Pollard, extreme boy mentalist supreme from Canada is back to mash
up the party. For those of us slow off the blocks this delightfully unhinged
cd makes available again long term seven inch favourites 'Dancemix 2000'
and 'Bounty Killer Killer' and the gone in a shot 'Sunjammer...' and 'Tutti
Fruity Booty', whilst rejigging 'Last Night A Deejay Saved My Life' over
blinging sub-Timbaland, redefining proto-gabba and hardcore still further
within an inch of their aberrant lives. Interestingly Billy shows signs
of, dare we say it, growing up - fear not the helium voices and 180 bpms
are still firmly entrenched, but there are definite signs on 'Taking the
soul out of music' and 'Music to lose your fanbase over' of the 'Chops vision
finding even truer, electronic enhancements. Despite the handful of cuts
already available, this is still an impressive salvo from the boy wonder,
sacrificing none of his penchant for shredding carnage, whilst still clearly
moving far beyond the 8 bit obsessions of 'Fighting Pig'. For all fans of
the Planet mu and related party wreckers, this is definitely the cd to take
on your holidays.__
Japanese Man: Oh heavens, what is that?
Police Officer: I do not know... but don't you really wanna dance like fuck right now? And have a blunt while we're at it?
Japanese Man: Yes. Hell Yes.
Ladies and gentleman, Knifehandchop has awoken. Spewing raga and atomic gabber madness from the Canadian wilderness and sending the hot jams straight down the back of your throat, Knifehandchop has quietly been building towards world domination. This kid actually gave Bounty Killer cred, by mixing some of the guy's wack-ass rhymes from the Blade soundtrack into his Dhyana Records debut, "Bounty Killer Killer," a track so hot it'd make your grandmother throw down on the dancefloor. And it was Knifehandchop's copyright-burning, radio smashing "Dancemix 2000"-- a song that makes Eminem the target of a teen-princess gangbang, with samples of Pink, Destiny's Child and the sad little boy from Detroit thrown all over fuzzed-out four/four breaks and the Vengaboys-- that got recycled by Kid606 into his latest album...
-Mark Martelli, September 12th, 2002
[ more here ]
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baseck-
Derrick Estrada (born august 14th 1981) has been a turntablist since most
pre-teen boys were trying to sneak a cigarrette out of their mother's purse
to impress the kids in middle school. At the age of thirteen he sold his
Nintendo games and stashed away his lunch money to save up for a Panasonic
turntable at the local thrift store and a Pyramid mixer he found at the
San Fernando swap meet. Growing up in the early 1990's in Lancaster, California
he didn't have to look far for his first influences living just an hour
away from the hip-hop and techno saturated city of Los Angeles. His first
impressions were from watching Ice T DJing on the show Breakin and classic
vinyl like Afrika Bambaata, Herby Hancock, and the UTFO. He practiced his
DJ and scratching skills for about a year and played out for the first time
at a jungle and hardcore party that he and his brother helped set up out
in the deserts of Lancaster. He then was asked to play by Greg Ginn of Black
Flag at the Idea Room in Long Beach and soon became a regular in the Southern
California electronic music scene. His record selection grew fast and varied
in styles. Early on he began to dissasemble tracks and recompose them to
create his own fusions through turntable trickery. Baseck's current style
is made up of breakcore, broken beats, idm, droning atmospheres, and noise
to create a beautifully slaughtered collage of sound in the turntablist
style. In his live acts his goal is to "expose people to a more visual
act" with experimental electronic music. His audience seems to levitate
forward to watch his hands although he believes that playing out doesn't
have to be limited to the space between his equipment, himself, and the
crowd as in most public "zombie e-mail coffee shop laptop sessions"
as he puts it. In the last two years Baseck has toured four times in the U.S. and three times in Europe and the U.K. with Milwaukee's Doormouse and Miami's Otto Von Schirach. Collaborations include tracks with Hecate on Zhark Records in Switzerland and he's currently working on projects for both Schematic Records in Miami, FL and Addict Records from Milwaukee, WI. Releases include a remix for Otto Von Schirach on Schematic records and tracks on compilations released on Addict records as well as several self released mixes. Baseck has shared the stage with artists such as; Richard Devine, Venetian Snares, Kid 606, Soft Pink Truth, Daedelus, Phoenicia, The Berzerker, Dabrye, Busdriver, Awol One, and many more.
"...Baseck is an amazing DJ. I got nothing but respect for what he does. One of the very best to apply creative battle turntablism to fucked up experimental beats & textures..." - dj/RUPTURE
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ADJUST
- ADJUST, once known to have delayed the historic 'the key to time' project
for over nine months due to artwork incompetence, and several vinyl releases
even longer. the ep 'your bad luck' (014) is named after middle school tribulations
of jumping off a fence and landing on your head. its a true story, really.
a member of the equinauts, also known as THEEQ (pron: the-eq, sort of).
coincidentally and previously, a member and producer of tracks on the electro
record label VMAX in detroit as well. over 10 years of djing and previous
appearances on the lollapalooza and URB magazine tours, rumor has it the
LOW RES label was started with funds garnered from spinning house music
opening a gig for little louie vega and tony humphries. not a lot has changed. ADJUST still has a bunch of house records in the crate (and the ocassional hey-soul DEVO classic) at a dj residency in detroit and he still delays the game. this guy is late for everything, dont invite him anywhere. end of story.
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Kero
- from detroit/windsor area is born another groundbreaking artist unwilling
to settle for the sounds of mediocrity and cliche so common in todays electronic
universe. KERO aka sohail azad was brought up on the underground sounds
of detroit/windsor throughout the better part of the 90s. inspired by unusual
sonic landscapes and complex sequencing techniques, KERO developed a taste
for the more experimental side of electronic music bringing the sounds of
AUTECHRE, APHEX TWIN and RICHARD DEVINE to the virgin ears of many young
detroiters. armed with a talent for raw digital mayhem, KERO immersed himself
in a constant production frenzy developing his unique signature sound blending
complex and experimental programming tactics with the more harsh and dark
sonic sculpture of harder loop tek. along side his audio production, KEROs
digital multimedia sensor activated video installations and cutting edge
print artwork has drawn attention from many and made him one of the key
multimedia designers in the detroit/windsor underground and we do mean deep...
you can find KEROs releases on german labels BPITCH CONTROL, SHITKATAPULT and SENDER REC. as well as detroit labels LOW RES, LIVEWIRE, GHOSTLY and FEED THE MACHINE. KERO also remixed for METAMATICS on the english label HYDROGEN DUKEBOX.
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the cult of divine audio/god and his bitches
- we should write something here.
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Gr3yman/MAD_ILL
- Detroit-based producer Gr3yman has been part of a plethora of groundbreaking
music and sound design, including the award-winning Submethod project.
His work with NineteenPointFiveCollective, as well as his solo productions
have been heard accompanying the design and animation of WeWorkForThem
and other visionary artists.
A cellist and pianist since age 5, and a guitarist since age 13, Gr3yman
has been producing and recording his own work and that of other artists
since the mid-1980s. The Message/ Anymore 12" EP on Rematter/ Low
Res marks the beginning of Gr3yman's collaboration with diva Valerye Boybender.
With this project, Gr3yman's production atmospherics are brought sharply
into trackstyle focus by Miss Boybender's shining vocals and devil-may-care
lyrics. The title track is remixed for the 12" by Not Robo Boy of
NYC/Tokyo trip-video duo Himawari (Rematter/Low Res), as well as Kero
(Low Res, Bpitch Control, Shitkatapult, Sender).
What
would you like to explore that you didn't find the time to, yet? Any other
interests and passions besides music?
I need to travel more, get out of this damn chair. I've been playing a
lot of kickball lately.
No "wrecking a hotel room in a foreign country" rockstar
stories?
NPFC have played in Toronto, CA and in Barcelona, Spain, but the only
thing that got wrecked there was our livers. Actually there was an incident
at a hotel in Ohio.
Detroit
Underground presents a
very special engagement featuring Tigerbeat 6 recording artist...fresh
off a split CD w/ Kid 606KNIFEHANDCHOP (tigerbeat 6)
wsg. BASECK (Schematic, Addict Records)
DIREKT JIVE (Det.Und.)
KERO (Det.Und., Bpitch, Ghostly International, Shitkatapult)
Doors open at 9pm
Admission for this event is a mere $5
Forans is located @ 612 Woodward, in Detroit,MI