Sensory Effect presents
OSCILLATE
-TUESDAYS at The Baltic Room--1207 pine st. Seattle, WA
with residents ELECTROSECT and GREG SKIDMORE
live visuals by SHANNON PALMER
8:30p
$5
21+
this week's (Tue. Nov.22) special guests....
THOMAS JIRKU (force inc.-VAN)--live
JERRY ABSTRACT (fixelplix, shitkatapult-SEA)--dj set
.......and a special exclusive listening party for
Richie Hawtin's new mic CD
"DE9: Transitions"
at 8:30p sharp...get there ealy to hear an exlusive playing of
Richie's new release........
a little about the performers....
THOMAS JIRKU
Germans have ruled minimal electronic music for nearly a decade,
but in recent years Canadian producers have made huge strides to
challenge the krafty Krauts. Toiling below the mainstream's radar,
these Canuck
artists have created some of the most challenging techno, microhouse,
IDM, and ambient music of this young century.
Czech Republic expat Tomas Jirku ranks among Canada's elite cadre of
minimalist musicians. His luminous melodies whirl amid dubby techno and
IDMbience, making for a stimulating tactile headphone experience or,
when pitched up by a resourceful DJ, enticing warm-up ammo for a deep
tech-house club set.
Most dance music aspires to arouse euphoria, to make the crowd feel
like one throbbing organism ever on the brink of orgasm; Jirku's
productions inspire a restrained, fizzy sense of well-being that's just
as
therapeutic as the effects induced by his more outlandish peers. His
records trigger a party in your head more than in your hips. Many
producers
are flashier and more demonstrative, but Jirku's oracular introversion
possesses a sly charm, too. His contribution to the epochal Clicks &
Cuts 2 comp, "Pohdka," sounds like a celebratory tech-house fist-pumper
crafted by a cautious optimist. It's indicative of Jirku's lean,
incisive style. There's a sober propriety about Jirku's cheese-free
music,
even on a cut titled "Booty" (off the Met@music compilation), which
bustles and fizzes with a joy tempered with the knowledge that the
higher you
get, the harder you fall, so let's not get carried away, eh?
But don't think Jirku can't get down and flirty. Sequins (Force Inc.,
2000) is his most DJ-friendly work, affectionately retrofitting disco
and house for a more streamlined, less coked-up decade. Ravers and club
queens won't thrill to its subtle manipulations of familiar dance-floor
tropes, but the album stands as a vibrant subversion of and homage to
much-maligned genres.
Never content to stay in one place for long, Jirku deviates into
aquatic dub with Entropy (intr_version, 2002). Here, his laptop seems
to be
immersed in Pacific depths, emitting beatific waves that stir you at a
molecular level. This one's strictly for the head(phone)s. Jirku's 2003
collaboration with Robin Judge, Plusism, fuses Basic Channel's dubwise
sonic fragmentation and illusion-mongering to an array of glitchy tonal
holographs, then nudges them on their way with supple, gliding 4/4
beats. It's uncertain what style(s) Jirku will unleash at his Seattle
gig,
but wherever he goes, you should attentively follow.
Jirku told Discorder's tobias c. van Veen, "I don't connect myself to
philosophies or politics. I prefer to think of my music as an
exhibition of my aesthetic ideals, and to attach myself to something
would only
constrain me. And while minimalism is a pleasant aesthetic, it appears
to have saturated our culture to the point where it has lost all
context and meaning." Hmm--I think our culture could do with more
minimalism,
especially the well-ordered, beautifully expressed sort conjured by
Jirku himself. DAVE SEGAL
JERRY ABSTRACT
Jerry was born and educated in Detroit, Michigan; where he began his
explorations in electronic music and DJing. In Detroit he has performed
at such influential nightspots as Submerge, The Motor Lounge, The
Shelter, 13 below, and The Velvet Lounge. In 2003, Jerry also performed
at
the Movement (DEMF) Festival in Detroit. Residing now in Seattle, Jerry
has held a residency at Groovetech and performed at such luminous clubs
like Aero.Space, I-Spy, and Chop Suey. This last year his label
Shitkatupult, invited him to Berlin where he had the opportunity to
play the
famous Tresor Club. Jerry is also the artistic director of the annual
Decibel Festival in Seattle, making him an intigral part of our local
electronic music community
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