DROID Interface 29: 7 Year Anniversary Party (Review in RA)

Click here to find my review of Droid Interface in Los Angeles on Resident Advisor.

BWOMP! presents: ATTACK OF THE BASS w/Antiserum, Saint VII, Mask & Puppy Kicker (11/14)

I have been doing hella event postings lately because there is just a ridiculous amount of delicious bass music and awesome shows going down these days in LA! I moved here ten months ago for the music and have not been disappointed yet!

This Saturday night November 14 my good friends of BWOMP (Bass With Out Musical Preference) present: Attack of the Bass with a lineup that is diverse in styles yet united in the search for the cell-shuddering bass: glitch hop, dubstep, crunk and all of their miscreant children. The venue is tight as hell, covered in killer graffiti art with plenty of space both to chill and to dance, and the sound support is by none other than PURE FILTH. Besides the whomp you will find live artists doing 8-bit art as well as live graffiti and airbrushing, and don’t forget the video games.

ON THE LINEUP:

• ANTISERUM
• MASK
• SAINT VII
• PUPPY KICKER (you are in for a treat from my friend from SD!)

And the BWOMP crew:

• JVIZ
• Ev-1
• Frenetic
• DJ 007
• DemonOne
• Sati
• TenBucc2
• DJ Eye Q
• Myndz~iii

Attack of the Bass is 18+, $10 before 11PM and $15 after. Doors at 8PM, venue TBA. Click here for the Facebook event page, and see you on the dance floor!

The Do Lab presents: Bluetech, Mimosa & Electric Dandelion @ King King

You probably have noticed that The Do Lab has been taking over King King in Hollywood about once a month these days, spreading the Burner vibe along with freaky art and fatty beats, and for that, LA is grateful. November’s show features fan fav Bluetech, Space Island’s Electric Dandelion, and MY favorite and recent transplant to La La Land (and we welcome you with open arms): MIMOSA.

Click here to read my review of Mimosa’s latest album Flux for Life on Glitch.FM.

Click here for the Facebook event page and click here for tickets- buy them early because the last Do Lab show sold out and people were crying at the door. Or something like that.

WE THE PEOPLE will get down

“We, the people of the city of Los Angeles in order to form a more funky dancefloor, establish music, insure outdoor views of downtown, provide food and drink vendors, promote 30 artists, and secure the blessing of the beats to ourselves and our people, do ordain and establish this festival WE THE PEOPLE for the United States of Freakadelphia.”

…or something like that. The We The People Music, Arts & Cultural Festival boasts two outdoor stages in a new venue, Los Angeles Center Studios, with art installations, conscious speakers, booze and food and over 30 live artists. Buy tickets here.

LINEUP!

• GLITCH MOB
• BAD RELIGION
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Pepper
• Mad Villains
• Flobots!
• Will.i.am (DJ set)
• Anti-Pop Consortium
• LA Riots
• Daedelus
• Blu & Exile
• 6Blocc
• Jogger
• WHOLE LINEUP HERE

I AM A LASER: Downtown LA’s New Monthly for Fresh Beats, Live Art & Urban Freaks

Nov. 12 featuring Take, R/D & LC

***SOULEYE JUST ADDED TO LINEUP***

Online magazine I AM A LASER along with Los Angeles events team The Service Company (Destroy LA, We The People Festival) has created a new night of cutting-edge cultural expression. Hitting Los Angeles on the second Thursday of every month, I AM A LASER aims to connect seekers from different scenes with a love of visual arts, beat purity, festival ethos and urban gypsies.

Coinciding with the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk and picking up where the evening hours end, I AM A LASER is a showcase of fresh electronic beats, live artwork and an eclectic mix of wanderers from the LA area, yourself included. A perfect nightcap to the city’s Art Walk, I AM A LASER brings people together under an umbrella of gritty beats in a Blade-Runneresque environment, a slick and swanky setting for the fine future sound whose many miscreant children run amok in our fair city, beats flung out to the far reaches of mindspace and beyond.

Club Nokia Mezzanine Bar

Held at the upstairs Mezzanine Bar of Club Nokia, the first installment of I AM A LASER takes place Thursday, November 12 and features the beat mastery music of Take (AKA Sweatson Klank), R/D and LC. At the forefront of this new and innovative era in experimental beat music, Los Angeles’ own Take fuses instrumental hip hop and outer space to create intricate melodies that are wrapped in bass and infused with a laid-back, psychedelic flavor.

Take

R/D is a favorite of the festival crowd who brings a unique perspective to West Coast lean: danceable downtempo tracks that are bright and funky yet still laid back- just like LA.

R/D

Finally LC comes from the Cannibal Flower & Think Space Gallery and will bring some of the city’s finest painters to create live artwork, further uniting this new night of music with the city’s larger arts culture.

LC

Entrance to I AM A LASER is free before 10PM, $10 after and is 21+. Club Nokia is located in downtown Los Angeles at 800 W. Olympic Street; enter on Figueroa Street across from the Holiday Inn, and click here for parking information.

Live Art

To find out more on this event, please visit IAMALASER.COM/LIVE where you will also find more information on West Coast sound, vision and style: get free exclusive mixes and tracks, check out videos and artist interviews, and read fashion and art editorials!

I AM A LASER!

Are you?

Shilo’s November Events

Samhain, November 1, always indicates new cycles and fresh beginnings in my life, and this year seems to be no different. Here’s to autumn in LA!

As always, I keep this post updated and added to throughout the month and you can find it by looking in the right-hand column on my main page under “Shilo’s Event Calendar.”

• 3: Wisp, Naha, Schlage & more @ Technique @ Zanzibar
• 3: Jogger, Daedelus, Buraka Som Sistema, Jokers of the Scene & more @ Cinespace in Hollyweird. Free vodka 10-11PM.
• 4: Low End Theory Special Ableton Event w/Thavius Beck, Sweatson Klank, MatthewDavid
• 6: Kraddy
• 7: Other People’s Money w/Vibesquad, Datsik, Subvert, Excision, Propa Tingz & more @ Nucleus Events Center

• 8: Brainfeeder Sessions @ Downtown Independent w/Daedelus, Jogger, Gaslamp Killer, Dr. Strangeloop, Jeremy Ellis, Teebs & Kutmah
• 10: Random Rab, Imagika & Electric Dandelion @ Zanzibar
• 11: Low End Theory: Artists TBA
• 11: Deru, Blockhead, AmpLive & Yppah @ The Echo
• 12: The Do Lab presents Bluetech, Mimosa & Electric Dandelion @ King King
• 12: I AM A LASER with Take, R/D, LC & Souleye at Club Nokia upstairs
• 14: BWOMP presents: Attack of the BASS w/Anitserum, Puppykicker, Ev-1, J-Viz & more @ TBA

• 18: Low End Theory w/Ghislain Poirier
• 18: Scion House Party w/Plastician, Mary Anne Hobbs, SCUBA & 12th Planet, FREE w/RSVP
• 20: Fat Freddy’s Drop @ The Roxy
• 20: RUSKO, 12th Planet, Mr. White @ Avalon
• 21: WE THE PEOPLE w/Bad Religion, Glitch Mob, Flobots, LA Riots, Jogger & much more @ Los Angeles Center Studios, downtown

• 26: HAPPY THANKSGIVING = drinky drinky!
• 27: Compression 4-Year Anniversary w/Claude Von Stroke & SF Dirtybird Crew
• 28: Dysfunctional Family w/[a]pendics shuffle, Death by Acid, Alex Villalobos & more @ TBA
• 28: Pure Filth presents BASSFACE with: JOKER & NOSAJ THING, The Professionals, Novocaine9, Heru!, Kemst, Nomad @ Lot 613

Photo by Tap Tap Productions.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Track of the Day: Robot Koch “Hard to Find”

Turn it up! This is the freakin’ song of the day:

From the album Death Star Droid due out November 9 from Robot Koch, the radical sound constructor and beat brain behind Jahcoozi, whose tunes you know even if you don’t know you don’t know. Now you know.

“Hard to Find” is the final track on an-ten-nae’s just released Acid Crunk Vol. 2 and is a brilliant end to an absolutely fantastic album. It is the cherry on top, the pièce de résistance, the fanny pack on the Halloween costume. You should seriously buy it here.

Robots don’t sleep.

Oren Gerlitz, Sasha Perera & Robot Koch of Jahcoozi.

Check out the sweet art on Jahcoozi’s Myspace profile.

10 DJS I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS WEEK

DJs, Producers, Live Mad Scientists, MCs, Trailblazers, you know…

In no order, and I am going to update this once a week-ish:

1. Robot Koch
2. OOah
3. Mimosa
4. R/D
5. Noah D
6. Claw
7. Marty Party
8. an-ten-nae
9. Datsik
10. Ana Sia times infinity!

Ana Sia @ The Do Lab Stage @ Coachella

OPM: Other People’s Money w/Vibesquad, Excision, Subvert, Datsik & Propa Tingz

First of all, look at this sweet ass flyer by Andrew Jones:

Now, look at this stupid lineup:

• VIBESQUAD
• SUBVERT
• EXCISION
• DATSIK
• PROPA TINGZ (Breakbeat Buddha)
• 12th Planet
• Oscure
• Patricio
• Eva
• Braden
• The Professionals
• DJ 007
• Bass Mechanic
• Remo
• RudElgin
• Magi
• J-Viz
• Kemst

Finally, make plans to party with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY (the best kind) on NOVEMBER 7 at the Nucleus Events Center, a Gangster Theme party with 1920’s attire strongly encouraged (ladies get out those flapper dresses!). In addition to two stages and a lineup that is so sick it is practically dying, you will enjoy live dance performances, outdoor art displays, fire spinning and a little mania thrown in on the side.

STOKED about this one! See you there!