Dreaming in Stereo Presents:
Jargon ? A night of improvised laptop trickery fused with live
instrumentation
MONDAY MAY 10th
Strategy- PDX (Kranky, OMCO, Orac)
Aron B (Jargon)
DJ Nordic Soul (Jargon/Decibel)
w/ rotating cast of resident musicians
*Live visuals by FOC:EYE
Music starts @ 9pm
$5
The Mirabeau Room
529 Queen Anne Ave N.
Seattle, WA
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Every Monday Jargon will pair up resident laptop gurus with some of Seattle
most talented and forward thinking musicians. In addition Jargon will
showcase out of town and local headlining acts each week (check monthly
schedule for details).
Strategy Article in this weeks Stranger...check it:
BEATSEEKING MISSIVES
Strategy
Dave Segal
Portland's Paul Dickow is a multi-tasking maniac. Besides running the
Archigramophone label, he plays keyboards for funkadelic post-rockers
Fontanelle and many instruments for brainy IDM trio Nudge. But it's his solo
project Strategy that may thrust Dickow into discerning ears worldwide. His
new Strategy album, Drumsolo's Delight (Kranky), will make you wonder how
this former punk drummer with Emergency morphed into a highly evolved
purveyor of soul-kissing dub and blissful ambience.
Delight fits snugly with Kranky's studious expansion into electronica with
releases by Pan American and Loscil. All three artists create a subaquatic
immersiveness that makes you yearn for the womb--or that flotation tank Bill
Hurt used in Altered States. Now more than ever, this kind of music serves a
crucial function. Oddly, Dickow expresses surprise that the renowned Chicago
label deigned to release Delight.
"I've been a [Kranky] fan since their first release," he replies via e-mail,
"but I thought my music [inhabited] some weird corner of IDM or dance music
or electronica. It makes sense to me now; I think they see me as
performatively having some classic sorts of elements like '70s [Kraut-rock
legends] Cluster or Conrad Schnitzler (classic as in a guy with a table full
of synthesizers and boxes), but then all modern-sounding like Pole or
something."
Does Strategy want his music to make people feel deep emotions or to provoke
smiles and move body parts? Both? Neither?
"Both. I find it harder and harder to distinguish between the 'dance' vs.
'ambient' dichotomy as my various songs take on characteristics of both. I
think my dance music has a lot of textural motion that appeals to
non-dancing people. On the other hand, the 'ambient' material is constructed
with a strong dance-type pulse at the core, so even if it's obscured, I like
to think that people might feel that rhythm at some less obvious, more
subconscious level. Provoking smiles is really crucial."
Does Drumsolo's Delight portend Strategy's future musical direction?
"I am trying to make a music that is neither all-body nor all-head, but
perfectly in between. The next Strategy release is a 12-inch for Orac that
is some kind of heavy 4/4 dub disco. The next Strategy CD is called Future
Rock. I wanted to have an 'ambient' music that had the propulsion of rockin'
dance tracks, soul, dub, rap, etc., so it's kind of like this washy cloud
music where buried in the core is various fast rhythm music--some kind of
guitar riff, or an electro break, or some other foreign element, and a
strong dubbed-out soul component throughout. (Eventually I'd like to stop
using a computer for music and do an all synth/hardware/sampler-based record
like Strut, but based on what I've learned through working with the
computer. Computers are awful for music.)
"But for now the texture and approach of Drumsolo's is my M.O. I really want
to see how much of a fire I can light under that style before it ceases to
have ambient characteristics. Drumsolo's is a bit elegiac and moody, as I
was sad when I wrote it. Future Rock embodies a little more of the bustle of
the urban neighborhood I moved to this winter. This is like some dirty
street-ambient shit--like hearing the Wild Style soundtrack through pillows
and a fuzzy lens!"
Strategy plays with Nordic Soul and Aaron B on Mon May 10 at the Mirabeau
Room, 529 Queen Anne Ave N, 217-0654, 9 pm-2 am, 21+, $5.
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