Decibel Festival 2009: Shilo’s Showcase Suggestions

Due to popular demand I am writing up my showcase suggestions for the 2009 Decibel Festival which begins TOMORROW!

I have been pimping for this festival for a while; I believe strongly in the smart curation of the party. These lineups are not just thrown together, but rather placed with precision into intelligent mixes of eclectic talent. In case you haven’t figured it out by now, I write for Decibel, and am honored to be a part of Seattle’s EDM festival.

I have bolded my top pick for each day, and added links in orange to the showcase descriptions that I wrote up.

Happy Decibel everybody!

THURSDAY 9/24:

• Dub Echoes film screening at the Seattle Art Museum followed by Q&A with Mad Professor
• Ghostly International: Decibel Opening Gala (Lusine, Tycho, The Sight Below, Michna)
• dB in duB Part 1: Past, Present & Future of Dub (Mad Professor & Benga)
• Sweatbox Showcase (Ctrl_Alt_Del, Derek Plasaiko)

FRIDAY 9/25:

• dB DJ Lounge w/Produkt DJs (Goner, PrEssHa, Andrew Luck)
• dB in duB Part 2: Dubstep Massive (Caspa, N-Type, Juakali, Boxcutter, much more)
• Dirty Dancing International (Noah Pred, Rob Hood, Alex Under, The Wighnomy Brothers)
• dB in duB Afterhours: Dub Mutants (DJ G, Pinch, Moldy, KJ Sawka, Dopelabs)
• Innerflight Red Eye Afterhours (novaTRON, Nerd Revolt, Phil Western)

SATURDAY 9/26

• Future Funk H20 – Boat Party (Pezzner, J-Sun, Packy, Ramiro, Jeromy Nail)
• Bass Lovers Unite (Mala, Mary Anne Hobbs, Megasoid, Nosaj Thing, Daedelus)
• Disko Cassé (Hookerz N Blow, CLP, Truckasaurus, Brodinski, Recess, MC Anton Bomb)
• dB Afterhours: The Deep End Part 2 (Voodeux, Move D, Martyn)
• Starborne Dirty Velvet Afterhours (Nalepa, Mimosa, Mike Slott, 3WS, Eprom, Skoi Sirius, Take, Kotchy)

SUNDAY 9/27

• dB in the Park: Don’t Feed the Animals (Gaslamp Killer, Sub Swara, Juakali, KiloWatts)
• Decibel Festival Finale (Derek Michael, Jerry Abstract, Tim Exile, Alter Ego)
• Muti Music Showcase (Dov, Heyoka, Mimosa, an-ten-nae)
• Renegade Bridge Party @ secret location

Shilo Loves Decibel Festival!

Ctrl_Alt_Dlt: Seattle Techno *NEW MIX*

I LOVE techno, just so you know. I use the word ‘love’ loosely and for many things like blimps, porch swings and melted cheese but with techno, it is more like an addiction. A delicious, seductive addiction from which I have no desire to unchain myself from. Ever.

Ctrl_Alt_Dlt is my favorite techno DJ in Seattle and plays the smoothest minimal techno sets ever, animals with glowing eyes that creep up behind you in the night and bite your sweaty neck- and you LOVE it.

Chris handed me this mix, which was simply labeled “Seattle Techno” at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. It quickly became the soundtrack of my weekend, providing bumping accompaniment in the rental car as I bounced from party to club to bar to hotel room in the realm of the afterhour. 

Download Seattle Techno here.

Tracklist:

1. You Got My – [a]pendics shuffle
2. Fir – Jeff Samuel
3. Usui – So Inagawa
4. Ticket – Channel X
5. Mullet is in Da House – Luci
6. Die a Little – Mikael Stavostrand
7. Sweep the Leg – Tony Rohr
8. Sometimes – Ulysse
9. Inside Ways feat. Dop – Varoslav
10. The Wasps From Tunisia and The Silver Piggy – Mark August
11. Mas Lines feat. Lisa Fabian – [a]pendics shuffle
12. On and On – Monoroom Remix – Chelonis R. Jones, El Carlitto
13. What You Want – Barem Remix – Miskate
14. Minimum 23 – Josh Wink
15. Fox in a Box Original Mix 2008 Re-Edit – UND

10 DJs I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS WEEK

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

In no order; and I am going to update this once a week. 

1. Ctrl_Alt_Del
2. Noisemaker
3. Nordic Soul
4. novaTRON
5. PrEssHa
6. Kadeejah Streets!
7. MC Anton Bomb
8. Goner
9. Recess
10. Lovevirus