Weapons Cache

Sunday, October 23 at 9PM
21+ $5
Brillobox [4104 Penn Avenue]

Live electronic music performances from:

- Xanopticon [San Francisco, Peace Off, Hymen Records]
Pittsburgh native in town for the night while on tour with Zola Jesus

- Disheveled [Pittsburgh]
industrial solo project of Greg Vaneck from local duo Prometheus Burning

- Mind Tiger [Pittsburgh]
aka Dream Weapon, aka Syne Lapse Variate

- Rolling Ruler [Pittsburgh]
collaboration of Vasculator [Void Tactical Media] and Luke Owens [Technoir]

- Relative Q [dj set, Pittsburgh, Young Robots, ultrawizardsword]
the driving force behind the ultrawizardsword podcast

More information:

http://rhinoplex.org/xanopticon

http://www.myspace.com/mindtiger

http://rhinoplex.org/vasculator

http://technoiraudio.com/

http://relativeq.youngrobots.com/

Sunday April 10 at 8:30 PM
21 and over, $5
Belvedere’s [4016 Butler Street]

Performances by:

- Yatagarasu [Austin, Texas]
8-bit electronic hardcore

- Bubblegum Octopus [Verona, New Jersey]
synth pop/picothrash/digigrind

- Bit Mummy [Pittsburgh]
8-bit electrochip

- Ag Ag Lady [Pittsburgh]
synth pop/experimental electronics

- 8cylinder [Pittsburgh]
abstract lo-fi hardcore

More information:

http://www.myspace.com/yatagarasu

http://www.myspace.com/bubblegumoctopus

http://www.myspace.com/8bitmummy

http://www.brokewhorerecords.com

http://rhinoplex.org/8cylinder

thursday april 14th

destroy your inhibitions with

CAPTAIN AHAB
…deathbombarc / dualplover / los angeles
genre defying fun – anything goes and probably will

plus live sets from pgh ragers

SYPHILIS SAUNA
total trashtronica behind backwards NE and overground studios

COMIC STRIPS
young, hungry, electro bangers, with releases on crux, rot10 and more

and sliced and mixed up tunes from CUTUPS

8PM Door / All Ages / $6

at The Shop
4314 Main Street
Bloomfield, Pittsburgh

links

http://www.captain-ahab.com/

http://soundcloud.com/comic-strips

http://soundcloud.com/syphilis-sauna

more info, about their latest album “The End of Irony”:
For far too long we have loved things in the name of “guilty pleasures.” What is, and what is not cool can be so fickle. To protect ourselves, we have reinvented irony to serve as a silly suit of armor that says: “I’m just kidding around, so don’t get all judgy-pants on me.” Of course, this type of behavior just made accusations of hipster-ness fly off the handle. When it really comes down to it though, we all know that having fun shouldn’t be a crime. That is why Captain Ahab has declared The End of Irony. In fact, that’s what their fucking new album is called! It’s called The End of Irony.

Do you love Powermetal even though it is just for thirtysomething LARPers? Well, good for you! Shout it to the sky! Do you like shaking your ass to some Electro-Clash even though your neighbor scoffs because you forgot it’s called Nu-Rave now. Well fuck names! Do you want to cuddle in the morning sunlight to some 70’s Soft Rock, but your sweetie-pie thinks you’re making fun of him/her? Dude, making love is awesome, and sometimes being sappy isn’t a bad thing! Captain Ahab knows how you feel. They love all these criminalized sounds and many more, and they combine them in a way that irony would never permit. There is serious commitment going on here. Commitment to making epic songs that defy expectation, trends, and any sort of cool-factor. But we’re not talking about some lazy mash-up album, here. They have composed these songs from scratch. The album creates a meticulous and sweeping cosmology that would satisfy even the headiest of 70’s prog heshers. Captain Ahab is fucking committed to freeing your soul! No short cuts on this album. Is that a live guitar player? Yeah, duh! Every band has one of those. So what do you think of this live orchestra then? How about this master sitar player flown out from India to play in a room next to a guy with a modular synthesizer the size of the WOPR. These songs are the real deal, passionate and unafraid. They’re the result of Captain Ahab’s dedication to their audience. If you are ready to be set free, then your lucky day has come. All you need to do is LISTEN!

Captain Ahab is Jonathan Snipes and Jim Merson from Los Angeles, CA. Jonathan writes, records, performs and produces the music, while Jim physicalizes the songs in live performance with aggressive “take off your pants” dancing action. They have appeared alongside No Age, HEALTH, Mika Miko, High Places and many others in the films ‘Live at the Smell’ & ‘40 Bands in 80 Minutes’ as well as shared stages with the likes of Kid606, Cylob, DAT Politics, Glass Candy, mc chris, John Frusciante, Richard Devine, and 3OH!3. In 2011 Captain Ahab will tour Australia and New Zealand for tours, as well as their eighth tour of the USA.

Also some videos:

Captain Ahab – I Don’t Have a Dick LIVE @ the Smell from Captain Ahab on Vimeo.

CAPTAIN AHAB “The End Of Irony” from Deathbomb Arc on Vimeo.

Highly recommended event in Detroit this Dec 31st. – cutups

http://www.voidtacticalmedia.org/x24d/

After x24 at extent, we bounce it back to core for a solid New Year’s Eve party in Detroit. RMS, stalwart contributor to Katabatik Soundsystem, will be joining up with us as Additiv, Vasculator, Xanopticon, and Split Horizon all flow through as well. Local support from Killx8 and Redrot rounds out the night for the dawning of our next year. Full scale with solid sound, x24 continues our tradition of community grounded, cutting edge events. Come check out where we are headed, it’s looking awesome…

Full Lineup:
RMS – SFBay
Additiv – SFBay / Berlin
Vasculator – Pittsburgh
KillX8 (who IS this??)
Split Horizon – Detroit
Xanopticon – Pittsburgh
Redrot – Detroit

This event is 21+, BYOB. Location is Eastern Market Detroit.
$10, or $8 with rsvp to x24@voidtacticalmedia.org
Void Tactical Media : http://www.voidtacticalmedia.org
Sister Event in SFBay : http://www.voidtacticalmedia.org/x24

Capslock is Joris Vijfhuizen, a live act and producer from the Netherlands. He’s been making tunes since the gabber days of the 90s, but since the mid-2000′s, he’s crafted a more nuanced and finely honed style of dark, broken beaks influenced by breakcore, electro and industrial.

I’ve been really impressed with some of his work that he’s been releasing for free or as a pay-what-you want download over the past few years, through Ketacore and UEH Records. His 2009 release on UEH “Amniocentesis” was solidly one of the top hard and broken records of the year.

His latest effort is entitled “Combustion”, is 14 tracks of chunky left-field broken hardcore and industrial acid, solidly for fans of Sounds Never Seen and Somatic Responses. You can stream or download it from his bandcamp site linked below.

saturday dec 11th

a wrecked smasher with special guests

EUSTACHIAN
Splatter Breakcore, Art Metal, DSP grind,
Power Violence, Neo Horror Scores, and Spooky Dance-tronic
from San Francisco on Murder Channel, Ad Noiseam, Death$ucker, Fathme

CHEEZFACE
slime blasted electronic punk

http://www.myspace.com/cheezfacemusic

plus locals

DISHEVELED
doom beats from proburn’s vaneck

XANOPTICON
eviscerated rhythms

The Shop, 4314 Main St in Bloomfield
$5 cover / All Ages / 8PM – Midnight

friday november 5th 2010
wrecked-distro.com presents

BROKEN NOTE
AdNoiseam Records / South London UK
smashing dark dubstep, d&b and breakcore

plus

DEADLINES
fromthegut / detroit
dark techno, dubstep, hard broken beat

and locals

BIT MUMMY
live 8-bit influenced hardcore dance

ROBBIE ROCKSO
1337 drum and bass, halftime and dubstep

at Belvederes 4016 Butler Street, Pittsburgh PA
$8 cover / 10-2AM / 21+

here’s a recent mix full of mostly originals…

‘Equinox’ Mix featuring tons of Broken Note unreleased material.

http://hauntedshit.com/music/mixes/Broken Note – Equinox Mix.mp3

Tracklisting:
Pan Volf – Poison [Broken Note Redit]
Broken Note – Flood
Broken Note – Crux
Broken Note – War In The Making
Broken Note – Let Em Hang
Broken Note – Zealot
DMinds – t-10 [Chasing Shadows Remix]
Broken Note – Zound
Broken Note Vs Machine Code – Knuckle Dust
Broken Note – Bad Acid
Broken Note – Meltdown
Dj Hidden & Cooh – Sleepwalkers
Broken Note – Channel Zero

BROKEN NOTE BIO

Raised on a diet of pure filth, Broken Note have dragged their own unique sound kicking and screaming into the electronic music scene. Combining lean, considered production skills with an appreciation of diverse rough beats, Broken Note have quickly established themselves as a sonic force to be reckoned with.

Broken Note have quickly racked up several critically-acclaimed releases over the past two years on such established and well-praised labels as Ad Noiseam, Ruff (Peace Off’s slow and nasty sister), Damage, Prspct & Sustained. Fall 2009 saw the release the retrospective Terminal Static on Ad Noiseam, with remixes by notable producers such as Hecq and I Am The Sun (Enduser and Casey Beagle). They are regularly featured in DJ sets and radio shows worldwide, counting tastemakers like Mary-Anne Hobbes and Rob Booth as supporters and fans. Along with a busy production schedule, Broken Note were featured prominently at festival gigs throughout 2009, with a headline sets on the Overkill stage at world-leading Glade Electronic Music Festival, Maschinenfest Industrial Festival, and various tours throughout Europe, North America, Scandinavia & Japan.

Their slower-tempo sound can loosely be described as Dubstep, but has little in common with much of the scene’s output. Instead they draw from the Sino-Rastafarian sound and heavy bass, combined with more of the kind of dark and aggressive beats that can be found in Breakcore and Jungle. Their Drum’n'Bass output is similarly disturbingly brutal, with undulating beats and bass that are unashamed to draw from the darker, edgier fringes of Gabber and Techno. Dancefloors worldwide have been set alight by the astonishing heaviness, inducing hallucinations of a dark and tech-saturated future.

Broken Note’s live sets use Ableton Live at the core alongside various midi controllers and FX sculpted by on-the-fly warping, cueing and live key work, intermingling many of their own tunes with edits of music created by the artists they draw inspiration from. Expect a mash-up of everything from dark Dubstep and Hardtekno, to the most evil D’n'B and Hardcore for a sonic experience that’s diverse and engaging.

You best believe Broken Note is that dark spreading tide set to further corrupt ears around the world. Get ready for it.

www.myspace.com/brokennoteuk

friday july 11th

AG AG LADY
FUCK GROOVES PITTSBURGH PIXEL DUB CD RELEASE BASH!
broke whore records

DENTAL WORK
DETROIT PSYCHEDELIC 8-BIT BREAKCORE!
placenta recordings

SYPHILIS SAUNA
PITTSBURGH BELLIGERENT TRASHTRONICA!
backwards records NE

CHROME SPARKS (formerly Professor Purple)
PITTSBURGH 100% LIVE LOOPED ELECTRONICS
hood gang

MOST WANTED FINE ART
5015 PENN AVE, GARFIELD
FRIDAY JUNE 11 8PM ALL AGES
$5

Friday, April 9, 2010 at 7pm
$5 ALL AGES
Garfield Artworks [4931 Penn Ave]

- Replogen [Decisive Sound Records, New York]
industrial rhythmic noise

- Bit Mummy [Pittsburgh]
chiptune chaos

- Syphilis Sauna [Backwards Records, Pittsburgh]
trashtronica and noisecore

- 8cylinder [Pittsburgh]
abstract hardcore

More information:

http://www.myspace.com/replogen

http://www.myspace.com/8bitmummy

http://www.myspace.com/syphilissauna8

http://rhinoplex.org/8cylinder

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]: