San Francisco, California.

all in the next 5-7 weeks

Vitalic on March 23rd.

Justus Kohncke on March 26th.

Jamie Lidell on April 12.

This is all I can think of off the top of my head aside from the various local parties etc....

It seems like the MANDY thing has been a rumor for a while. I'll believe it when I see some documentation.

Oh, and can somebody PLEASE get Ricardo or Luciano here???

Please, I beg, don't fuck with me on this one. Do you know the venue?

Also, did anyone see Audion/Ellen Allien at 1015 Fulsom? I went, and, to say the least, I was really, really disappointed. It was billed as a live performance, and instead I got to see the world's most personality-free set ever from Matthew Dear. Once he had forced half the people to go downstairs into the trance room, Ellen took the stage and got to try and work up the crowd with her set. NO live performance, and Matthew Dear fucked it all up. Dry as the Sahara as usual.

Actually, I saw him last year at the WMC in Miami, and he rocked South Beach. Love his recordings, hate his DJ sets. Snore.

But, Chantilly, details on the Justus Kohncke show? I love you for telling me about this.

Apparently Blasthaus is celebrating the opening of their new venue that week, so their bringing in some really top notch stuff. It's not a dream...

I heard the last Allien show was supposed to be at Rx, but 1015 outbid them. Shame.

Also, the Kontrol parties are also good for stuff on the minimal tip if you are interested.

"...instead I got to see the world's most personality-free set ever from Matthew Dear. Once he had forced half the people to go downstairs into the trance room, Ellen took the stage and got to try and work up the crowd with her set. NO live performance, and Matthew Dear fucked it all up. Dry as the Sahara as usual.

Actually, I saw him last year at the WMC in Miami, and he rocked South Beach. Love his recordings, hate his DJ sets. Snore."

Matthew Dear ROCKED last night's Kontrol party at the End Up...

I missed this as I was Djing in the Tenderloin.

I'm glad someone pasted what I said before about Matthew Dear. Well, it's a little abrasive the way I said it, but I still feel the same. Saturday he fucking KILLED me. He was GREAT.

Matthew Dear PA = SICK
DJ = not my thing

more awesomes:
girl talk
isis
tarentel performing soundtrack to nosferatu
autolux

noisepop coming up... kinda meh so far.. except midlake/ester drang afternoon show at both looks kinda good

did anyone go to that peter hook show at supperclub yesterday? how/what was that all about?

http://www.sfsound.org/tape/

lindstrom is doing a live pa huzzah

Hey Drew, is there a list or something to know when you're DJing? And since you asked, Cameron Octigan summed it up pretty well. Daniel Bell was pretty much impeccable - though I have to admit I bailed early because my feet were hurting from Matthew Dear.

Cameron Octigan: "Michael Mayer & Gui Boratto may be playing"

Where and when?!

http://recombinantmedia.net/events/pagano_paap/

---> It's up in the air. The club that I work for, Mezzanine, is still trying to schedule this. I've really been pushing for the event, and I want it to happen. I told them ... Kontrol and Dirtybird plus Mayer & Boratto = Great show. We're setting it up.

Lindstrom & Carl Craig? We're VERY VERY VERY excited.

ILM-ers ... please hit me up if you want list on shows.

cameron@mezzaninesf.com

Alvin Curran is playing tomorrow at Recombinant, might be ok, I'm going.

well, i'd certainly like to meet any and all of you ILMers headed to the event. how shall we do this?

My favorite parts were the "red" vocal recitation in the first section, and then those endless rolling ring-modulated waves going back and forth in the second one. We were right next to the far-left speaker in the back though, and definitely caught some way-too-loud frequencies at certain points.

hearing the piece in surround was like hearing it for the first time, I was fully gone from the very first filter sweep

SF Sound = city treasure, can hardly wait until their new season begins in March

what's the haps tonight?!

will you be at the show dominique? i could maybe swing by at some point!

i have to be at a wedding in golden gate park on saturday morning, but i'm guessing that everyone (groom & groom included) is going to be sporting an awesome margarita-related hangover. and i still have to figure out a dress to wear to the wedding, and a wedding gift: what do you get for a guy who loves leather, cartoons, and death metal?

― geeta, Friday, July 22, 2011 7:32 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

hey geeta, pete here -- we met at an ILX wedding in 2k6 in DC iirc. are u friends w f@rhad? i just had lunch w that guy in oakland, and it sounds like youre both going to the same wedding.

dom, where'd you dj? mex restaurant is like 2 blocks from my place, but i'll be in LA for a few days

69 - ha, that's great! i'm old friends with f@rhad--i've known him since he was 18. i used to book his various bands for shows in cambridge in the '90s, back when i booked shows. i still remember his misfits cover band's cover of 'last caress'--the lead singer (who will be at the wedding as well) did the most incredible glenn danzig impression

dominique what is noise pancakes? i am sending you my phone number now

cool, noise pancakes is a semi-weekly noise show held noon-2 on sundays where people come and literally eat pancakes and sprawl out on the floor of the Lab to watch 4-5 short sets of noise/ambient/drone music. it's run by grux from caroliner, and is something of an institution for bay area experimental music community. really chill, and the music goes suprisingly well with hangovers and pleasant SF afternoons. i'll send u the invite

jaxon, maybe not *next* door, but was DJing a benefit show at the Beatbox, which used to be fat city, 11th @ folsom. u should check it out, because it has great sound, lights, and they're looking for stuff to book later in year

xp aww he's wearing his herzog/danzig shirt today. shot in the dark here -- do you know eliss@ r0bbins too? promise im done playing this game after that, but shes a good friend.

69 - don't know her, i don't think!

anyone with any clues on things happening next week, let me know--i have ten more days in SF before i disappear

hmmm can I bring my kid to this noise pancakes thing or would that really irritate people

how noise is your kid?

my 11-year-old nephew is totally noise, 100%

she's 3 1/2, she's pretty noise

also Tinker babysits her sometimes

winding down my time here, tell me what's good

if people are up for drinks tonight, let's rock this

i feel like stravinsky les noces in berkeley is good ;) (but only on saturday, fri is sold out)

it was nice meeting you geeta!

Some folks here would probably be interested in this:

Saturday August 6th
4pm-???
$5 from 4-8pm, $10 after
Bay Area 51
1667 Jerrold St, S.F.

Live:

MAXMILLION DUNBAR (beautiful swimmers, future times, d.c.)
http://soundcloud.com/maxm​illiondunbar

MAGIC TOUCH (100% silk, RECORD RELEASE PARTY!)
http://listentosilk.blogsp​ot.com/

WAV DWGS (eats tapes, party efx, bobby browser)
http://soundcloud.com/wav-​dwgs

ROCHE (s.f.)
http://soundcloud.com/roch​esolos

TOTAL OVERCOMERS ANONYMOUS (spaceburn, triangle, RECORD RELEASE!!)
http://soundcloud.com/bria​n_tester/blood-orange-new

MR.SATURDAY (hmb)
http://soundcloud.com/mrsa​turday

Disc Jockeys:

LANCE DE SARDI (bang the box)
http://soundcloud.com/bang​theboxsf

2 MEN WILLMOVE YOU DJS (primo & jordan)
http://2menwillmoveyou.tum​blr.com/

C.L.A.W.S. (discaire, bar 25)
http://soundcloud.com/claw​s

KEITH SLOGAN (bronze)
http://www.facebook.com/pa​ges/Bronze/221163617907693

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ gonna be big

also:
MIKE HUCKABY/LOVEFINGERS/BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS DJ sets tonight at PUBLIC WORKS TONIGHT!
$10 before 10pm, I think $15 afterwards.

Beautiful Swimmers have a rad mix they did for PS1 up on FADER:
http://www.thefader.com/2011/06/30/fadermoma-ps1-warm-up-mix-beautiful-swimmers/

dj magic touch & bookworms tonight at this ping pong party

What: AMERICAN TRIPPS - Berlin-Style Ping Pong Night
When: Friday, August 5 · 7 pm - 11 pm
Where: The Secret Alley (180 Capp)

http://sfist.com/2011/08/04/mission_mission_presents_berlin-sty.php

ha ha, 'Berlin-style ping pong'? are they serious? if so, sad I'm missing it! the Germans are crazy about the 'Tischtennis', and when I lived in Berlin there was this great bar that had hexagonal ping pong--you play inside a giant hexagon--which blew my mind

im in SF next weekend wat shall i do ?

San Francisco and what to do in it

thx!

Last night with Optimo was brilliant. Now I understand what all the hype is about.

love them and wish i'd been there. i've seen them DJ 20 times in the last ten years, probably. i miss them.

going to try to see them tonight, in NYC. they're flying in straight from SF to the gig and setting up at 1 AM, from what i heard!

That sounds like a grueling trip for them. I'd love to find one of their recent sets. The older ones I've heard weren't quite the same as what I heard last night. Dare I say...magical?

details details!! what'd they play?

You really want spoilers? They might play a similar set tonight, maybe not. Highlights include 12" remix of Running Up That Hill, Joy Division Atmosphere, Arthur Russell edit (can't remember exactly, I think I shook my brain loose last night), some Depeche Mode which I could do without, lots of acid/old school house (eg Move Your Body), and quite a bit of newer stuff. I was having trouble placing it all what with all the excitement. Definitely Oni Ayhun, Blawan - Getting Me Down. Etc. Seemed like they were doing quite a bit of editing on the fly too, maybe I was mistaken.

Arthur Russell edit (can't remember exactly, I think I shook my brain loose last night

probably the insane edit of 'is it all over my face?' by the mole?

do you have the 'optimogeddon' mixes? get 'em, they're great

http://www.feelmybicep.com/2010/04/29/optimogeddon/

Awesome awesome awesome, thanks so much! And yes it probably was the Is It All Over My Face edit.

Btw is that your blog? I'm afraid I may have made some less than courteous comments there in the past; if it's yours you have my humblest apologies.

no, that's not my blog--my blog is here: http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com

heading out to see optimo in a few! will report back!

How was it?

I like that article about Conrad Schnitzler you wrote. Honestly I'd never heard of him before but fascinating that he seemed to influence so many other artists, including Thomas Fehlmann among others. I couldn't figure out a way to comment on the blog in a way that allowed me to use a recognizable name, but I was just going to say it was an interesting article, so no biggie.

thanks, glad you liked it!

The Optimo gig in NYC was tough. They had played in SF the night before--a four-hour set, they told me--and they'd only slept for an hour. Then they flew cross-country to NYC, and ended up spending the entire day in transit because their flight from SF was delayed. They flew into Newark, apparently, landed at about 2 AM, cabbed it up to the venue in Brooklyn at top speed and made it there a bit before 3 AM. Back on the decks, right after a six hour flight and no sleep! The venue (Littlefield) closed at 4 AM. The NYC gig was good, even against the odds, but I wish I'd been at the SF gig.

one of the many great moments in their set was when they suddenly dropped in this old northern soul tune

and wow, what a tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS-ZOTVYu6U

oh yeah, and seeing all the horse meat disco guys up front lose their heads to 'menergy'

that was a moment, right there

The SF gig was indeed spectacular, but I have a feeling they play a lot more often in NYC. Apparently this was their first time playing together in SF. I wish they would have played a little more of the classic 90's house that the SF crowd seems to love. Overall just a really nice night though.

now thats a tune.

Looks like fun. Been meaning to check out this venue. How is the sound system ?

DJ Harvey (Locussolus / Sarcastic Disco)

Eug (Face / Public Release)

Mike Simonetti (Italians Do It Better)
Odd Job
Workshop

Face and Public Works Present: DJ Harvey & Mike Simonetti

-DJ Harvey (Locussolus / Sarcastic Disco)

-Mike Simonetti (Italians Do It Better)

-Eug (Face / Public Release)

21+

$10 presale and $10 from 9:30-10:30 (click attending on facebook for this discount), then $15 after.

$3 coronas and $3 Face slammers from 9:30-10:30.

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=265958563446604

Erase Errata is playing there tomorrow night; T.I.T.S. record release show!

fuuuuck i wish i could go to harvey

Kimo's is rumored to be closing.

I saw the first bay area appearances of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Andrew WK, Lightning Bolt (the Power of Salad & Milkshakes footage shows me standing on a table here)... lots of good memories.

what I heard is that it's being sold, and the new owners don't plan to have live shows anymore.

how was harvey ? could not make it :( i have a strange masochist tendency in hearing the details about an awesome set i should have checked out.

good weekend: Ewan Pearson on Friday, Alvin Lucier on Saturday

not sure if I can make the first one, definitely going to the second.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/events/flyer/2012/5/us-0525-370475-front.jpg

sick flyer

wow, how has it been five months since that event.

hey bay area, my friends and I are doing a new wave/synth oddity/techno Halloween party at a nice art space in Berkeley. all local DJs, a few rooms, most likely a non-Burner crowd. cheap tix. come one, come all.

http://www.facebook.com/events/1115379675268447/

http://imageshack.us/a/img846/3625/finalposterlayeredadjus.png

four months, five months, math sux

haha i just got a facebook ad for this show!

I'm moving from Dublin to Berkeley so I'm gonna start paying attention to this thread.

A friend of mine has started up a very informative substack showcasing San Francisco/Bay Area musicians and artists, record labels and events/releases. Lots of focus on new/underground up and coming artists but also looking back to some legends of old too. Not limited by genre or scene, though some of the early posts focus on a few labels and genres, everything is on the table if it's worth sharing. Latest post covers Oakland's Lower Grand Radio, Xyla, Lunchbox, and Santana among others.

Linky: https://whitecrate.substack.com/