Somewhere deep in the maze of streets behind Inman Square, a scene came out to welcome back one of its creators. Boston house progenitor SHANNON SHALAKO was back last weekend; deep in a basement, amid the wood-paneling and the fake-flickering candlelight light bulbs, a full-on dance club was jammed into a broom closet, replete with floor lighting, booming bass and . . . pole dancing? Yup. Shalako, one-time resident of the Loft, Boston’s long-gone after-hours dance club, was happy to be back. With a pirates-and-booty theme percolating, he held court in one corner beneath a flight of rickety stairs, with DAN PALUSKA and HEEMINLYANG from the UNLOCKED GROOVE crew bending his ear. Other Boston luminaries making an appearance were KC HALLETT, RODNEY MARABLE, JON SCHMIDT, BRYNMORE and CRAIG KAPILOW, who manned the decks for a solid set of chunky house tunes. “CHANDLER (DELINKS) and I were just talking about how inspiring the music scene is here,” Shalako says. “I don’t want to say it’s competitive, but people are always pushing good taste here. It’s hard to find such a concentration of good music.” Shalako ended up in San Francisco, where he’s DJ’d a few times around town but has yet to settle into a groove. “It’s very fragmented by genre there. I dig events when all music is out and representing, but I’ve only been there a year and a half.” A full 20 mixes of from Shalako can still be found at www.redlightmusic.com. . . . Sunday sees two hip-hop promoters from last week’s column with local shows. CHAOS bring his live flow to Sauce in Davis Square, and “Beyond the Beat II,” at Hoffa’s in Harvard Square, features the skills of TERMANOLOGY, SLAINE, and bubbling-under über-talent LETIA LAROK.
David Day spins Fridays at Enormous Room and hosts Free the DJ Wednesdays at ZuZu
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On the Web:
Big Digits: http://www.bigdigits.com
Compound 440R: http://www.compound440r.com/
Shannon Shalako: http://www.redlightmusic.com
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