Sensory Effect presents
OSCILLATE--
Tuesdays at The Baltic Room--1207 pine st. Seattle WA
9p
$6
21+
with residents ELECTROSECT and GREG SKIDMORE
live visuals by SCOTT JAMES (of The Now Device)
tuesday May 16 we welcome special guests
SOLENOID (live-orac records-PDX)
m50 (dj set-toast and jam records-CHICAGO)
SENOR FRIO (live-toast and jam records-PDX)
SciFiSol (live-PDXl
here's a little about our guests...
SOLENOID
Solenoid is a Portland (Oregon-USA) based electronic music composer who
has explored a variety of genres. Informed by electro, new wave, jazz,
disco, noise, metal, classical, and avant garde music, his releases do
have common elements when seen as a whole. Tracks usually feature
playful and funky percussion and melodic progressions with some signature
warbly synthesizer sounds. Solenoids music develops a kind of baroque
maximalism (where most electro/techno/house/disco defaults toward
minimalism) much in the vein of early Detroit techno.
Titles make references to film, sci-fi, technology, literature,
synthesizers and musicology. 90s releases lean toward shuffling, skittering
funk with 80s influences, occasionally exploring non-4/4 rhythms. The
first 3 albums contain work compiled from a period several years earlier
and are often identified with the first generation of US IDM artists,
though the spirit of experimentation is more akin to free jazz and
prog-rock ideas of time signature and melodic structure rather than sonic
experimentation. An early issue of Grooves called Solenoid the American
answer to Mouse On Mars.
As part of a free-improv duo, Office Products, and as Mr. Pharmacist,
his experimentation of purely sonic ideas is explored under other
project names. Post-2002 releases do reintroduce some difficult
noise/experimental elements while simultaneously going for more straightforward
house/techno sounds. Much of the percussion programming of Solenoids
music contains detailed accents that suggests a live drummmer. Solenoid is
known to use a drum pad when playing live or DJing.
m50
m50 apprenticed for Noomenon & MC Peter Lee and under David Siska while
at WNUR radio in Chicago. He hosts a techno radio show at the station
as well as an active touring schedule. His DJ sets explore bass heavy
territory with an affinity for rolling bass lines and clean arpeggiated
synth textures. This is dance music and makes no apologies for that.
Electro was meant to move people and our man carries on in that fine
tradition.
SENOR FRIO
Señor Frio is one half of Portland's dynamic electro-duo, Ainu,
producing electro and techno tracks for nearly 4 years now. Playing live,
armed with a laptop and two drum machines, Frio brings a continuous mix of
beats, bass and electrofunk blippiness. Frio's solo style still holds
its roots in electro, yet incorporates the elements of downtempo, house,
idm and techno. Having played solo gigs at Holocene, KPSU, Noir, Smart
Bar in Chicago, and The Chapel in Seattle, Frio has honed his skills at
engaging the listener with his own brand of techno-eroticism while
gaining supreme knowledge in rocking the dance floor, performing with the
Spandecks Syndicate and along side techno virtuoso Lets Go Outside.
Señor Frio's first release will be coming soon on the Terminal 2 12" on
Narita. Some may think the machine music is cold but Señor Frio es muy
caliente!
SciFiSol
SciFiSol, AKA Christina Broussard, got her start 9 years ago in the New
Orleans area, playing keyboards and singing in the live electronic p.a.
"Sound," as well as many other live electronic collaborations
throughout the years. In 1998, she was captivated by the rave scene, and from
then on became obsessed with electronic music and it's production. Fusing
her love of the obscure with the desire to create innovative and
experimental music, she is currently producing her own unique brand of
electronic music, fueled by techno and idm rhythms and floating on ambient,
emotional overtones with her vocals hauntingly interlaced throughout
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