-.:pax / e.l.m. conceptions :.-
Stunned by election results and
utterly bewildered by exit polls,
we are temporarily coming out of
retirement to help ease the pain.
What better way to welcome 4
more years of the same shit than
with a night of fresh smells!
Scratch and Sniff this line up!!!
Jega PlanetMu (live)
Manchester, England¹s Jega moves from fidgety electro beatitudes to moody
atmospheric introspection. With increased mastery of his equipment. Jega is
just one man, Dylan Nathan, an architecture-school classmate of Richard
James (Aphex Twin) and Mike Paradinas (U-ZIQ). He shares with them many of
the same musical concerns, but didn¹t get around to releasing his work
commercially as quickly as they did. He released his first EP in 1996 on
Skam (original home to Boards of Canada), and in 1998 released Spectrum on
Paradinas¹s Planet ? label (and, later, Matador). Spectrum was a jarring
view across the landscape of electronic music, more rollercoaster than
Sunday drive, resulting in the cloying label ³drill n bass.² In contrast,
Geometry flows smoothly and more melodically from vista to vista, merging
staccato 808 rhythmic workouts, digital swing, analog atmospherics, jittery
electro-hop, and myriad other sounds into a dark and rather melancholy work.
Dylan is also a licensed pilot, BMX fanatic, computer hacker, and a
professional animator.
Phoenecia- Schematic / Warp (live)
Appropriating their name from (probably) the first culture of the Old World
to explore the New, Phoenecia, aka Joshua Kay and Romulo Del Castillo, was
inaugurated in Miami, Florida, USA in 1997. Phoenecia's recordings echo the
phenomena in the slow contemplative way the music evolves, experimental
techno rhythms emerging from strangely glutinous sounding electronic
textures. Initially overtly influenced by Warp Records' duo of wayward
electronica trailblazers Autechre and the Aphex Twin, Phoenecia received
early acclaim for Randa Roomet, a superb 12-inch double pack for the same
then Sheffield, England-based label. On their subsequent self-released
album, Kay and Del Castillo's inspirations were more heavily submerged and
less readily identifiable. The duo themselves asserted dub - or at least
dub's studio methodology - as their main creative precursor. Certainly, Kay
and Del Castillo draw from dub's impulse to experiment with noise.
The pair previously recorded under the Soul Oddity moniker, releasing an
album and a series of 12-inch singles for the US major label Astralwerks.
Kay and Del Castillo's subsequent own avant electronic label Schematic was
reportedly initiated after Astralwerks staff "used the word 'no' too often"
in conversations with the duo. Their Miami-based label has issued tracks by
artists such as Otto Von Schirach and Delarosa And Asora as well as
Phoenecia remixes by electronic music illuminati such as Richard Devine,
Autechre, Ectomorph, and Push Button Objects. Kay and Del Castillo also
notably record independently of each other under the respective alter-egos
of Jeswa and Takeshi Muto.
Otto Von Schirach- Schematic (live)
Currently on tour with Skinny Puppy, deafening audiences and defying
protocol, Otto Von Schirach returns in ¹04 with a freshly-lubed full-length
to give electronica another ghetto suppository. The follow up to 2002¹s
Chopped Zombie Fungus (Schematic), Global Speaker Fisting is from the
underground¹s underground: it's the twenty-eyed electrified monstrosity
living in the darkest, deepest sewers of the hardcore avant-garde. Moving
from death metal send-ups to plagues and biotech disasters, Von Schirach¹s
fourth album is easily his finest and most accomplished record to date.
Eight Frozen Modules- Force Inc / Planet Mu (live)
Eight FM explores the boundaries of sonic bliss, scaling and shaping sounds,
creating an erratically cohesive stream of audio data No sound subjected to
his fondling fingertips is left unchanged, and rhythms are sculpted to the
point where time signatures are indistinguishable and irrelevant. His
dedication to the re-engineering of sound results in him seldom venturing
far from his studio, but he uses this self-imposed cabin fever to his
advantage, by creating a hybrid of sound that can bounce from giggling mania
to panicked oblivion, while never losing the listeners interest.
RD x Trichome e.l.m. conceptions (2x2 DJ Set)
For the curators of e.l.m., time exists only as a measure of one¹s
creativity. Their concepts aren't about size, profit, or notoriety. They
create because they love it, they promote because they believe in it and the
only rule by which they govern their own artistic success is to remain
infinitely challenged. With the help of p a x, and the kindness of many
close and dedicated friends, the experimental liquor museum continues to
give hope for a musical future in a world wrought with epic trance anthems
and hollow glitz hop.
][Special admission price for those attending the Skinny Puppy concert!!
][Listen for the rallying call of Skinny Puppy opener Otto Von Shirach to
][decipher the moral code of Soundwave ethics!
][Tell your Soccer Mom and NASCAR Dad you'll be home late!
Saturday November 27th
located @ Blue Bongo Bar
901 1st St @ Vignes
In the Downtown Los Angeles Art District
9-3am
10$
5$ w/ Skinny Puppy Ticket Stub
www.elmconceptions.com/pax
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