Weapons Cache

Thursday January 20 at 8PM
All ages, $5
Overground Studios (3481 Denny Street)

Live chiptunes and 8-bit breakcore from:

- Nullsleep (8bitpeoples, New York City)
- Syphilis Sauna (Backwards Records, Pittsburgh)
- Mind Tiger (Pittsburgh)

with a DJ set from:
- Xanopticon (Hymen, Pittsburgh)

More information:
http://nullsleep.com/
http://soundcloud.com/syphilis-sauna
http://mt23.bandcamp.com/
http://rhinoplex.org/xanopticon

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

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

Saturday July 24th
Prometheus Burning presents:

DISPLACED AND DISORDERLY
a night of displaced electronic music and disorderly art

Live performances by:

I, PARASITE – Industrial Rock – NYC
Featuring band members of Android Lust

PROMETHEUS BURNING – Electro-Industrial – PGH
Celebrating the release of their new album Displacement Disorder

SURACHAI – Industrial Grindcore – CHI
Will annihilate your soul

Art exhibitions by:

MOROSE & MACABRE — HOUSE OF ODDITIES
BIILZEBUB — THE BONE COLLECTOR
SHAWN COLLINS — LEFTHANDSK8K STUDIO
CHERYL ADAMSON — SPECHTACULAR GRAPHICS

DJ sets by:

DJ HIEM
DJ TFS

Sound provided by:

IMPACT AUDIO

Belvedere’s
4016 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201
21+ event – Doors at 9:00pm

$10 in advance / $12 at door
Tix @ Eides and Slacker or via email
prometheus.burning@gmail.com

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]:

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