This week @ KILLSWITCH: KILLSWITCH X2!
EXTENDED HOURS TIL 2AM!
Notorious for getting your weekend started early with their weekly happy hour, tonight Killswitch is taking things into overdrive by extending happy hour into the wee hours. Double the hours means double the talent, and tonight Killswitch brings in Auralism producer Limacon, Bang the Box's Lance De Sardi, Paxahau's Rich Korach, and Nightlight producer Kenneth Scott. Throw in Killswitch residents dCOY and Javaight and you've got a double dosage of killer beats.
Limacon DJ-ing @ Liquid Loft, Tokyo, Japan
About Limacon:
In the winter of 1997, Christopher T. Lee fell in love with his first synthesizer which would later turn into an orgy of knobs and faders. As the equipment started to dwarf him in his small home in Santa Cruz (California), live shows became less of a priority. The studio started to dwarf him and the mix-downs had begun. Surprisingly, the turntables came late in the game with the first piece of the collection appropriately being The U.S. Tournament in 2003.
While first inspired by Steve Bugs mixes on Paxahau, Chris' intrigue continues to grow through the techy fringes of house music. With his debut (Catch) on Pokerflat Recordings, the world saw instantly that Limaçon has what it takes to push the dancefloor, yet maintain a "listening" quality which lacks so often in dance music. His follow-up on Resopal Schallware (IMP), let him flex his tech-funk muscle while his tracks on Intrinsic Design (Muster Funk) took on a deeper late-night vibe. Most recent is a 3-tracker on Force Inc which is blowing up techy floors around the globe. Currently, he is pushing towards a sound which ranges from techy & pumping to dubby & funky while always leaving something for your body to groove to. Artists such as Martinez, Trentemøller, Rob Acid, and Misc. have played a very important role in his evolution and with multiple releases in the works, Limaçon shows no signs of slowing down.
About Lance De Sardi:
Not willing to claim any one genre as his “style”, Lance De Sardi's musical output always teeters somewhere between house and techno, and is always highly electronic. At 28 years old, living in San Francisco, his music embraces all of his influences to the fullest, creating a unique juxtaposition of styles, deep to jacking and back again. These days, with the party in full swing in SF, Lance has his grubby fingers in almost every aspect of music. He’s just started a label and coinciding club night called Bang the Box, turned his alter ego Land Shark into a full live band, and is even working on a live performance for his solo material.
“Whatever you do”, he says, “don’t pigeon hole me. Aren’t those things rats with wings?” In his hometown of Dallas, Texas he got into music at an early age; and not the sounds of the honky tonk you might expect. At twelve a friend introduced him to industrial and dance music, listening to bands like Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, LFO, and 808 State. As he dug deeper, the raw energy in music from Detroit and Chicago started to pique his interest. He couldn’t get enough. Next thing he knew, he was at the local record store every Wednesday, waiting for the twelve inches to come in. Once he grasped the DJ thing, he started to mess around with samplers and keyboards, trying to emulate the records he liked.
Knowing that production was a means to help get DJ gigs, the combination became an obsession. Hearing his records played to a crowd brought him a whole different feeling than mixing other peoples music, and he couldn’t live without either of them. Not long after getting his first few songs on wax, he uprooted and moved to California. Having had enough of the dry plains of Texas, he wanted to put the “small fish in a big pond” theory to the test. It proved to work in his favor, and he quickly became a mainstay in the house music community, releasing records on labels like Classic, Naked Music, Coco Machete, Seasons, and PIAS, to name a few. With his 2003 underground hit “Tie Me Up”, under the moniker Land Shark, or his huge remix of Zap Mama’s “Rafiki”, he solidified his place in dance music lore. Now you know some pertinent musical information on Lance’s life. But if you’re ever in San Francisco and want to see what he’s really like, look him up, maybe ya’ll can get in to some trouble...
Rich Korach rockin the Real Detroit stage at Movement 08
About Rich Korach:
Rich Korach discovered underground electronic music in 1994, finally encountering the sound for which he had been searching. A native to the Detroit area, Rich witnessed sets from some of the early pioneers of techno. Namely, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, John Acquaviva and Stacey Pullen. Drawing influence from Detroit’s elite, Rich became an active DJ in 1997. His sets are characterized by seamless transitions between elements of House and Techno, creating new subgenres with every mix.
In 2004 Rich became one of a few select Paxahau resident DJs while conjointly leading the merchandise divisions for Paxahau, DEMF and D Records. Being a resident Paxahau DJ gave Rich greater opportunity to display his unique capacity for DJ’ing, earning opening sets for such luminaries as: Josh Wink, Michael Mayer, Mathew Jonson and Richie Hawtin. Rich consistently evolves his sets, incorporating the latest effects components to create buildups, rearrange sounds, and make his performances that much more unique. His precision, timing, and technical aptitude have acquired both national and international attention resulting in spots at: the Detroit Electronic Music Festival(2005 and 2008), Ibiza, Berlin, and all across the U.S.
About Kenneth Scott :
Kenneth Scott makes small-scale techno with large sonic concerns. Recording under his Eutactic moniker with Auralism label head Jason Short and under his own name for friend Alland Byallo's Nightlight Music, Scott takes cues from early Warp records, Matthew Dear's acid experimentation as Audion, and minimal-minded composers like Philip Glass and Arvo Part. The results eye the "minimal" label with suspicion, combining techy snares, reptilian synths, and subtle layers of melody into something melodic, funky, and emotional -- uncategorizable and catchy as hell, just how Scott likes it. "I think that trance really ruined melodies and arpeggios for everyone," he says, "and only now are people a bit more open to it."
Raised in a small, rural Iowa town where he nursed an obsession with dance music, Kenneth learned a bit of every instrument he could get his hands on, while DJing his first house parties with his father's old turntable, a portable CD player, and a Radio Shack mixer. Scott's been honing his craft in the years since, running San Francisco's successful Binary party, DJing alongside artists such as Pan Pot, Lee Curtiss, and Argenis Brito, and creating music alongside collaborators Jason Short, Alland Byallo, and Emilio Orlandi. Now he's ready to open the floodgates. "I want to create dance-floor friendly, funky, jacking, sonically dexterous, soulful music," he says. "I want to make a crowd tear up, as well as pump their fists."
