Same deal as last time, gentlemen: you find me in the heaving crowd, I’ll do you up an Octobee, on the house. (clue: my hair is mintyblonde, and I will be dressed as a biplane-hijacking escapee from Mad Max’s personal bellydancing troupe)
This is Bong-Ra’s first US tour, and he’s augmented by a lineup of excellence including Pneumatic Detach, and Enduser, craftsman of one of my and Qais’ all-time favorite albums, Bollywood Breaks.
Ectofriend DJ Intoner, who put the show together, will be spinning between sets.
In case you, my treasured readership, are not yet familiar with Bong-Ra, allow me to advance the notion that he is fucking insane:
As for the rest of the cast, just click your dainty pointers below to be bathed in the relevant phat beats.
Xanopticon’s music is often strange and alienating, with a speed and complexity matching most IDM but it’s sentiment being closer to dark drum+bass. It has been described as “waves of breaks: almost calming ambient music built out of intense rhythm structures.” Due to this heaviness, he is often compared to Venetian Snares, who has an equal ability for manipulating small snippets of sound.
Gentlemen.
This vibrant flyer represents the work of one of my most dutiful digital students, DJ Intoner, who was graciously allowed to remix this macro photograph of my very green eye for his noisy purposes: an electronic music recital.
Mention Ectoplasmosis at the door and get absolutely no discount. But find me in the seething morass, inquire about the rumpus, and I will sketch an Octobee just for you. This offer is unique! It boils with worth and charm, just like my rumpus!
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
