Weapons Cache

Saturday, March 13, 2010
Doors open at 8pm
$7 ALL AGES
Garfield Artworks [4931 Penn Avenue]

Featuring live music from:

- Maruosa [Osaka, Japan]
digital grind and breakcore on Digital Vomit and Noise:tek

- Imperial China [Washington, DC]
experimental post-rock on Sockets and Ruffians

- Dev/null [Boston, MA]
lazer thrash breakcore from ex-drummer of Fate of Icarus, on Violent Turd and Cock Rock Disco

- Sun Tornado [Washington, DC and Pittsburgh]
the return of the local legends

- Xanopticon [Pittsburgh]
idm/breakcore on Hymen and Mutant Sniper

More information at:
http://www.myspace.com/maruosa10000
http://www.myspace.com/imperialchina
http://www.myspace.com/devnull
http://www.myspace.com/suntornado
http://rhinoplex.org/xanopticon

Video of Maruosa and Dev/null together live in Tokyo, Japan [2006]:

Video of Maruosa live in Shinjuku, Japan [2008]:

Backwards NE Presents a night of Doom Laden Death industrial , Dark Ambient Textures and Black Hearted Noise Musick featuring Live Sets by :

Herpes Hideaway (other wordly ancient evil / live suicide )

Moon Colony (music for dieing stars/anti reverb coalition )

Black 13 (bleak step/wierd west minstrels )

Erreur Fatale (tinnitus via rasp in ear / auto erotic decapitation)

5$ all ages

Friday February 5th

“prepare yourself for a wet and wild ride”

live deadly performances by

JUNK CULTURE [on Illegal Art (label of Girltalk)]

Cygon Systems Inc. presents: ATMOSFEAR

JOHNNY JITTERS

WIZZARD MOUNTAIN

interstitial tunes selected and played by JACOB CIOCCI [Paper
Rad/Extreme Animals]

$5 or $7 donation for performers

8pm – 11pm (approx.)

all-ages

at Helter Shelter
50th St. at Harrison St.
Lawrenceville
Pittsburgh

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JUNK CULTURE

http://illegal-art.net/shop

www.myspace.com/nojunkculture

Junk Culture is a new project by Deepak Mantena, who was recently
signed to Illegal Art. The first Junk Culture EP, ³West Coast,² was
released on October 27, 2009. On ³West Coast,² Deepak’s samples are
all run through a handheld recorder that gives his constructions a
gritty lo-fi loop-based sound, mixing fractured vocals, pop hooks, and
an overall euphoric warmth. Described by press as “sound tapestries”
somewhere between “ambient, dance mash-up, and glitchy electronica”
(Todd Olmstead), ³West Coast² is a manifesto of energetic raw sound
that transcends rigid genres.

Emulating more of a live band than an electronic act, the visceral
Junk Culture live show also involves Deepak’s younger brother, Nitin,
on drums. The performance includes the Mantena siblings jamming to a
tight string of sequences that involve sampled patterns, live
percussion, synced visuals of films from the 50’s/60’s, and Deepak’s
singing. Live, the ³West Coast² tracks have him singing on top of
sampled voices, while material already being developed for the
subsequent EP involves a more traditional vocal approach, further
bridging the gap between sample-based production and songwriting.

JC will have a new 7″ released by Illegal Art (home of Girl Talk) in
April and a new EP coming out on the same label in May. Both of these
releases and related singles/videos will be have a strong promo push
from Illegal Art and the same with all live dates around them. Junk
Culture has toured with Girl Talk in the past and definitely held
their own on the bill.

JUNK CULTURE select press:

URB
“A blast to the headphones that brings to mind the off-kilger breaks
of Flying Lotus and the unkempt energy of Prefuse 73’s early
achievements. Mantena’s chop-cut arrangements meld spliced voices,
out of place keys and plenty of close-cropped drums to form
polyrhythmic bursts of sound and action.” -Noah Levine

http://www.urb.com/2009/10/27/25452

XLR8R
“A lovely, trippy blend of stuttering vocals, live drums and classic
cut-up hip-hop break. It leaves you hanging in wonderment for a good
while, then drops you into bliss. Perfect for sunset watching. ” -Kid
Kameleon

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2009/08/illegal-art-introduces-junk-cult

New York Times
“Fragmented samples going off in your face. Almost dance-y, once in a
while. . . Tone all phasey, woozy, wicky wacky. Short tracks, brutal
edits, then looping. Sort of want to think of them as composition.”
-Ben Ratliff

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/arts/music/11play.html?_r=2

Pitchfork
“The record’s title track is an appealingly textured amalgam of looped
beats, grainy synth stabs, and cut up vocals, and would seem to be
pretty heavily indebted to the Filed., Of course, in this line of
work, having such clear influences isn’t a bad thing.” -Forkcast

http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13381-west-coast/

Blurt
“Mines the detritus of decades of pop culture, stitching together a
laundry list of song samples and random bits of noise. . . a
head-spinning batch of tracks that make for a brilliant sountrack to
the quick clicking, constantly updating always plugged in species that
we are devolving into.” -Robert Ham

http://www.blurt-online.com/reviews/view/1596/

The Stranger
“The nine tracks here are spasmodically rhythmic ad awash in digitally
altered tones, vaguely alluding to Jason Forrest’s hectic, prog-disco
bombast, Caribou’s sublime psychedelic funk, and Prefuse 73’s clipped
glitch hop.” -Dave Segal

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/data-breaker/Content?oid=2243601

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more info on the supporting acts:

http://www.myspace.com/johnnyjitters

http://www.myspace.com/strangewizzardmagic

http://www.tomandrexy.com/

http://www.paperrad.org/

http://www.myspace.com/extremeanimals

Rather than hear what I have to say about the one & only

KING CANNIBAL (Ninja Tune, UK),

I will let people far more important than me do the talking:

Too dark, love this tune”- Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC Radio 1) on King Cannibal’s “Aragami Style”

“..a great tune…put together like a dj’s wet dream.”- Amon Tobin writing about Aragami Style for Urb

“seriously heavy tunes”- The Bug

“If last year’s dystopian dubstep document was The Bug’s London Zoo, then this is the big-budget Hollywood sequel.”- The Quietus / Music Week on Let The Night Roar

“If music could do you violence, this is what it would sound like. Brutal and brilliant”- The Sunday Times on Aragami Style

“…stunning”- CMU

“…the modern master of satanic sub frequencies”- DJ Magazine

“…amazing!”- Jagz Kooner

“This sonically incredible Ninja Tune signing has inspired me to start a new section of The Remix show, called The Darkside”- Eddy TM for DJ Magazine

“this is soundclash in hell, devilish dancehall electronic bass murder. Call it what you want, but ignore it at your peril”- Clash on Aragami Style

“…mind blowing…” Dubstep Single Of The Month DJ Magazine on So… Embrace The Minimim / Dirt

“Creepy, dark, moody and absolutely intoxicating”- Music Like Dirt on Flower Of Flesh & Blood

It completely blew me away’ – Erol Alkan on ‘One Foot in the Fire, One Fist in the Air’

A phenomenal mix by UK up-and-comers Buddy Peace & ZILLA… Besting even some of the most accomplished feats of creative cutting-and-pasting, the Watch And Repeat Play mix is a rarity that you have to get your paws on – Scissorkick.com on ‘Watch And Repeat Play’

“quite simply….fucking amazing”- ireallylovemusic.co.uk

“Fucking ace. Music to piss your parents of with! Love it”- Rocky (X-press2)

“Zilla remix is absolutely brilliant – I will playlist on the radio and play the hell out of it on the dancefloor!”- Laurent Garnier on Test-Icicles – ‘Biggest Mistake (Zilla remix)’

“Heavy as fuck!”- Parasite (Deathsucker Records)

“Heavy as fuck tech step dancehall!!”- Bong Ra

“Fucking great….I love it!”- Knifehandchop on Grinted Teeth & Brawlsville

Other reactions for Grinted Teeth… Album of the Week- Boomkat, Warpmart and Banquet Records “..the mix album of the year”- Fact Magazine “stunning …”- Sounds Of The Universe

With all these accolades of the great King Cannibal, we wanted to surround the icon with an eclectic array of producers/DJs. In addition to King Cannibal, the show will also feature performances by:

XANOPTICON (Hymen records/Rhinoplex/Pittsburgh)
BEAUTIFUL BELLS (Articulated Works/New Orleans)
8CYLINDER (Rhinoplex/Pittsburgh)
LOCAL [live set] (Hijack/Pittsburgh)
MINDTIGER (Pittsburgh)
JOHNNY JITTERS (Pittsburgh)
.rar KELLY & NATTY BOH PEEP (Subdivision/Pittsburgh)

featuring Visuals by METAKIDS

AVA
126 S. Highland Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
9PM – 2AM
$6 / 21+

A night of electro, chiptunes, and the Apocalypse
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Starts promptly at 8pm
$5 ALL AGES
Most Wanted Gallery [5015 Penn Ave]

Featuring live music from:

- WET MANGO [Los Angeles, CA]
electro chiptunes with Gameboys from 1/2 of Sonic Death Rabbit

- ANDY THE DOORBUM [West Side, NC]
apocalyptic singer/songwriter

- THE EX-MONKEYS [Raleigh, NC]
chill electro turntablists

- JONBRO [Pittsburgh]
chiptune dance marathon. broader than Brodsky.

- 8CYLINDER [Pittsburgh]
solid-state sludge

For more information:
http://www.myspace.com/thisiswetmango
http://www.myspace.com/andythedoorbum
http://www.myspace.com/theexmonkeys
http://jonbro.tk
http://rhinoplex.org/8cylinder

Xrin Arms(realicide youth/ Snake Pillage) myspace.com/xrinarmsmotherfucker

Syphilis Sauna (Backwards Records -trashtronica) myspace.com/syphilissauna8

Black 13 (Backwards Records-death electro ) myspace.com/black13krew

Johnny Jitters (section 27-JDM) myspace.com/johnnyjitters

December 18th at the Nerve . 7pm 5$ (cash) no guns ok ? more info to follow . repost at will

here’s a recent mix i recorded with a crossection of new artists and a few older gems.   enjoy – cutups

CUTUPS – ASTRAL FLASH

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recorded october 2009
synth drenched industrial rhythms, technoid dubstep, and blackened break gore

tracklisting
godflesh – like rats
cloaks – against
broken note – let em hang
sully – voidsucka
split horizon – trees
pluge – duty to work (cyp remake)
imminent – teskede
cyp – follow me
monster x – get up to kill
j-stat – twisted diaphram
gizmode – since the crackstep
nero – go back
synthamesk – 4_11 am
stendeck – lullabies from the cliff by the sea
somatic responses – ucircumflex
valav – svetpara
minion – diminution
noisia – stigma
dimentia – diseased language
silent killer – the great machine
diverge & proton kid – heretic
gancher – lekto
rogue element – reality is over rated
current value & limewax – tempest
eprom – evil shit
le jad – a princess on my horse
bit shifter – edit friends
nasenbluten – cut her to bits
overcast – only way in (remix @ 3PM)
ebola – house of flying emo
kraddy – android porn
speedy j – vopak

Should be beyond epic.

First, the “pre-party” on friday…

Then the main event on saturday…

The brothers John and Paul Healy, collectively known throughout the world as Somatic Responses, are still native residents of a small industrial mining community snugly located in the southwest region of Wales. Somatic Responses are into complex dislocated & broken beats, distorted intelligent constructions, fascinating sonic structures, force and sweetness intertwined.

If their early productions were of the hardcore and techno kind, and while they later moved on to breakcore territories, Somatic Responses have now embraced more up-to-date and modern sounds and tackled the current dubstep sound that has taken their native UK by storm, and are ready to out-bass pretty much everybody else.

Mercury is definitely an important release for SR as it displays their progression further into dubstep & it’s ever mutating siblings. A shape of things to come AND some of their best material for some time.

http://www.acroplane.co.uk/music/ACP053_Somatic_Responses_-_Mercury.zip

this is a new monthly night that keeb$ is hosting
with various guest djs each month. should be good
and different.

from keeb$:

new monthly night, 2nd thursdays at z-lounge.

Dubstep, idm, downtempo, techno, electro, drum n bass,
maybe even some breakcore and ambient will be the
soundtrack aimed more for the headbobbing lounge type
atmosphere than the mosh pit.

This month’s guests (April 9th)
Flozilla Mirefox (aka 8Cylinder) – I’ve asked Dave to come
play a set for the first brainstorm because his music
knowledge is only surpassed by his D&D knowledge. I
don’t even have a clue what he’s going to play, but you
can guarantee it’ll include some things you never even
knew existed. Plus his new “Flozilla Mirefox” handle is
amazing.

Relative Q – Keeping a fairly low profile but working on
music for years now in Pittsburgh, Paul’s background in
techno and electronic dance music along with his interest
in new and undiscovered styles in general makes him a
great guest for the first Brainstorm. He said he’s looking
forward to being able to play some of the more “unusual
stuff” he’s gotten recently, and I’m looking forward to
hearing it.

No cover, great drinks, friendly bartenders, at a soothing
environment are all things that make Thursdays at
Z-Lounge a nice night out. Come hang out at a Southside
bar that’s not generic, dirty or full of frat boys.

Z-Lounge is 2108 East Carson Street.