Jan 31 Dreaming in Stereo presents:
CONVERGENCE - Benefit event for ?Decibel? (1st annual Northwest Electronic
Music Festival)
**Visit www.dbfestival.com for more info and future events**
Main Room:
San Francisco based techno phenom:
-Sutekh- Force Inc/Mille Plateaux, Minus, Context, Source, Plug Reserch,
Orthlog, Musork, Cytrax
-CNS Engineering- OMCO, Classic, Bella Records, Portland (Live PA)
-Spencer- Itiswhatitis Records, Victoria B.C. (DJ set)
-Bruno Pronsanto- Orac Records, Seattle (Live PA)
-Michael Manahan- Oracle Gatherings, Seattle (DJ set)
-Nordic Soul- Dreaming in Stereo, Thermal Records, Seattle (Live PA)
-Lara- www.mysillyrabbit.com , Seattle (DJ set)
-Former Selv- Robotrash/Fixelplix.com, Seattle (Live PA)
Chill Room:
-Lusine- Ghostly International, Hymen Records, Seattle (Live PA)
-Sutekh- S.F. (DJ Set)
-Kris Moon- Robotrash, Seattle (DJ Set)
-Aron Schoppert- Danceritual.org (DJ Set)
-Terso- Thermal Records, Seattle (Live Set)
-Misha- Seattle (DJ Set)
-Paul Edwards- Seattle (DJ Set)
-Eddie- Seattle (DJ Set)
*Interactive visuals by:
-Randy Jones- Cycling 74?s ?Jitter? and Orac Records, Seattle
-Tracer- Seattle
*Decor, structures, art, lighting and interactive visuals (chill room,
merchadise area)
-Microbe (PDX)
**THIS IS AN ALL AGES EVENT**
City: Seattle
Date: Saturday January 31st
Location: The Washington Hall - 153 14th Ave (Corner of 14th and Fir near
Capitol Hill)
Ticket info: $12 (plus service fee) Presale tickets are available Platinum
Records in Seattle, Boomtown Records in Vancouver and online at Brown Paper
Tickets
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/216 Tix are $15 at the
door.
**Sutekh info
Since 1997, San Francisco-based Sutekh has released consistently
inconsistent electronic music on labels such as Force Inc./Mille Plateaux,
Source, Minus, Orthlorng Musork, Cytrax, and his own Context. Manipulating
and abusing computers, samplers, synthesizers, and found sounds, he has
created everything from deep, minimal house and techno to dense, dissonant
noise collage. Sutekh established Context Free Media and its associated
record label in 1999 which has gone on to release a slew of Bay Area minimal
techno talent and collaborators. Sutekh?s technical skill for crafting sound
is only surpassed by his ability to rock the dance floor with his own unique
blend of funky techno, electro and IDM. Not to miss!!!!
SUTEKH: ?INCEST LIVE? (review by Pitchfork media) Incest Live was
constructed using the techniques Sutekh uses for his live sets, drastic
real-time manipulation of existing tracks from all of his records. I can't
say how any of these bits and pieces might differ from their counterparts on
Fell or his many twelve-inches, but I do know that whatever elements remain
from periods.make.sense are transformed so radically (and improved in the
process) as to make them effectively new pieces. In any case, Incest most
obviously mimics a live album in the way it segues seamlessly from one
segment to the next. It sounds like it could be an excellent DJ mix-- it has
a real arc and story to it, but the tracks are all Sutekh. With fifteen
distinct tracks spread out over about 44 minutes, Incest Live has a lot of
variety. Though beats dominate, Sutekh approaches his "set" here like
someone who wants to squeeze a maximum number of ideas into his allotted
time. Odd ringing sounds will appear for the first time 2/3 of the way
through one track and then form the hook of the next. The age-old mixer
trick of dropping the track out repeatedly on the beat is thrown in. Fifteen
seconds of a piano sonata will surface from nowhere only to disappear again
into the static fog. There's a lot of sound to digest, but Sutekh makes it
easy. Above all, Incest Live is danceable. Some of the beats veer toward
house, others are classic techno, and then in more cluttered passages they
take on an almost tribal, neo-industrial flavor, but the important thing is
that you want to keep moving. The way the tracks maintain such a sense of
funky propulsion while managing to incorporate about 58,782 different
squiggly computer noises is amazing, and it makes me wonder if this is what
Autechre might have sounded like had they gone in a dance direction instead
of disappearing up their own assholes (it should be said that they still do
some interesting things up there occasionally). As demonstrated here on
Track 7 (no song titles), Sutekh has a real skill in taking a seemingly
random assemblage of glitches, clicks, taps, and banging noises and wrapping
them around a killer bassline, allowing them to come together as something
soulful and, dare I say it, catchy.-Mark Richardson
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