Thursday really is the night for techno in basstown. From the MAKE IT NEW night at Middlesex Lounge, where this writer can be seen spinning wax, to the newly launched psytrance mania at the Western Front brought to you by CIRCLE/GNOMEFATTY to the table service at UNDERBAR, there’s something for everyone. Now AVALON is entering the ring, and oh man are the folks there ready to throw down. Tonight (December 7) they’ve got Mr. UK Remix himself, PETE HELLER, spinning for four hours (“Big Love,” “Sputnik,” U2, Janet Jackson, etc.). December 14 they’re bringing JIMMY VAN M, who recently blew our little minds with his epic three-disc contribution to EQ’s Balance series, where he crosses multiple strata of electronic sound with one gaping stride. The down-tempo disc includes Circuits favorites Nathan Fake and the Egg, the mid-tempo mix has guys like Rub-N-Tug and Apparat, and the up-tempo mix goes for broke: Booka Shade, Tom Pooks, Gui Boratto, and freakin’ Trentemøller. His four-hour set at Avalon’s exclusive backroom fiesta is not one to sleep on.
And we might as well bring up DJ C again just because he’s the bomb. We got wind this week that our beat strategist has signed onto WIMM RECORDINGS to release Sonic Weapons sometime next March. Wimm is a new imprint started up by the music heads at the Warzawa shop in Tokyo. How they heard of Jake Trussell is hardly a secret . . . we’re going to wager it had something to do with the electronic information network the kids are all talking about. The infraweb or somming?
On the Web
Paul Dailey: http://www.pauldailey.com/
DJ Die Young: http://jamie.stormboxes.com
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- Techno or yes, part II
Bit of a frustrating week here at Circuits as the Hub continues to change. Paul Dailey live in Louisville (mp3) Slaine, "Rich Man Poor Man" (YouTube)
- Party pros
Weekend Warriors, or WKND WRYRZ, is the Sunday-night lounge party at ZuZu in Central Square.
- Playlist: June 22, 2007
Motor, Swayzak, Dubble D, and more.
- The men machine
Electronic music always seems to get a bad rap for being inhuman.
- Home sweet home
Front row means you can reach out and kick the performer without even standing.
- Playlist: May 25, 2007
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991, Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Songwriters on Songwriting, and more.
- KTL
Titled Kindertotenlieder (“Songs on the Death of Children”), the piece premiered this past March, but the musical project took on a life of its own.
- Not about heroes
Guns and cocoa butter are the subjects of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 Arms and the Man , the first of the great Irish contrarian’s “Plays Pleasant.”
- In Search of Mozart
Phil Grabsky had Amadeus squarely in his sights when he set out to make this documentary celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
- Hit or myth
From Shakespeare to Shaw, statues have come to life on stage.
- Worst in breed: Media
Who are the unsexiest media men of 2007?
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