Left to right: Eli Goldstein, Sergio Santos and Charles Levine

With Sun Season upon us, sounds get a little brighter, parties a little sweatier, and asses a little looser. To capitalize, promotion and production team SOULCLAP is throwing a dance party. Not unusual — until we tell you it takes place on the Charles River. “It’s at the [American Legion] Marsh Post Gerrys Landing,” explained Eli Goldstein (a/k/a E-HEAVY) when we visited the Allston-based Soulclap headquarters, packed to the rafters with dusty records and production equipment. “Initially, in 2004, we were trying to do a fund-raiser for John Kerry, and we found this place [near the Eliot Bridge in Cambridge], and we finally figured out how to use it.” The event features seven DJs in all, an outdoor patio for summertime groovin’, and a taco truck courtesy of José’s Mexican Restaurant.

Goldstein: “We’re gonna have KC HALLETT do the sunset session, which seems kind of appropriate. Then RANDY DESHAIES is playing, then the BALD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (a/k/a TANNER ROSS and MATT DIAMOND), and then SOULCLAP (E-Heavy and CHAZ SHABAZ) and SERGIO SANTOS will split the last two hours. We had five hours, and we’re really about working with as many people as possible.”

The two main guys at Soulclap (actually, the only two guys at Soulclap) have also recently launched an informative and exciting blog at Soulclap.us which features high-quality mp3s, podcast mixes, and event info. “The most important thing is we have a place to share these old records,” says Goldstein. “To have a way to get the tunes shared. Plus we have to rip them anyway,” he says with a laugh.

We caught Goldstein prepping the newest posts, which were in part inspired by the recent Phoenix interview with Armand Van Helden. Upcoming to the blog are more podcasts, plus “interviews with classic, old-school dudes,” says Goldstein, name-checking K-Alexi and Hollis P. Monroe. The duo know their stuff and plan the blog around the parties they book, one the most recent featuring dark-techno luminary CARL CRAIG. “There’s only so long that each sub-movement lasts,” Goldstein says. “Minimal had its two or three years of prominence, and that slides right into techno. And all those New York dudes — Boris from Crobar, Junior Vazquez, even Danny Tenaglia’s playing so much techno now. Those dudes who played that tribal, dark New York sound now just play dark techno. The electronic sound is really what it’s all about — as electronic, as mental, as synthesized as possible.” Expect a ton of it to drop this Saturday on the Charles River.

“I think most things in life move in cycles,” e-mails ERIC MCLAUGHLIN (a/k/a DJ ERIC DARK), a resident DJ at the newly-revived Wednesdays at the Phoenix Landing. “It’s techno’s turn, again.” For a long time, techno resided at Central Square’s coolest Irish pub in the form of Redlight Productions’ Wednesdays. It’s back. “I moved to Boston and checked out Redlight’s night that first week and was an avid fan for years to come,” McLaughlin says. “For me, Wednesday nights fueled my desire to perform.”

McLaughlin is a resident DJ alongside Mr. Techno, PAT FONTES, and the golden boy, Sergio Santos. “We have collective experience of 20-plus years, offer different styles, sounds, and people, which will help build a well rounded scene,” says McLaughlin, who also helped organize the underground 808 parties along with Wednesday’s lead representative EDDIE ODABACHIAN of Zero G Sounds. “We’re also strong in our opinions so we’ll be forced to make well-balanced decisions for the benefit of the night and its fans. Pat and Sergio are both excellent DJs and I have a feeling we’re going to get competitive (if we haven’t already).”

Wednesdays at the Phoenix Landing replaces Tension, which repped Boston Breaks to the fullest. Now, it seems, techno is primed to return. “Techno’s gone through many changes since it’s last heyday in the late ’90s. It’s slower, less aggressive, and more melodic. This has made it more digestible, interesting, and most importantly, danceable.” The next big guest for the team is Seattle’s finest techno export, BRUNO PRONSATO on July 4. You can catch DJ sets from Eric Dark and E-Heavy at this column on-line.

Up All Day is encouraged to stick with dance music but the June 8 bill at the Paradise Lounge (ABERDEEN CITY, BON SAVANTS, HOORAY FOR EARTH, and BOY IN STATIC) cannot be stopped. Up All Day fave Boy In Static (a/k/a ALEX CHEN) let us in on a secret: “We found common ground as Boston bands who have slowly been getting noticed outside of Boston, so we are arranging a special compilation CD of one song from each band.” The fun part is each Boston band covers a Boston band — the Cars, ’Til Tuesday, Juliana Hatfield, and Chen’s contribution, Sebadoh’s “Skull.” The four-song CD is available only at the June 8 show and proceeds go to charity. Meanwhile, Boy In Static’s new album, Violet, which dropped last week, has been called “a dream-pop epic” by esteemed UK shop Boomkat. And they are right.