Beat Research w/ DJ/Rupture
Known to live and DJ in Boston in the late nineties, DJ Rupture returns as the most "agile and reckless" musician functioning in our times. Indeed, though DJ Rupture cites influences both musical and literary, a list of them would give little indication of what his tracks actually sound like. The Brooklynite's breakout mix, 2001's Gold Teeth Thief was made on what would become known in dozens of countries as his standard set-up, three turntables playing everything from acapella to ambient.
DJ/Rupture | DJ Flack | Wayne and Wax @ Enormous Room - 21+ / 9pm-1am / Free
Cloud City with MachineDrum
Travis Stewart (aka MachineDrum) has gone from making everything from "bugged-out R&B and pop you can listen to while on psychadelics" to "harsh noise and atonal soundscapes." His seventh and most recent release "Want to 1 2?" came out less than a year ago and since then Stewart has been working relentlessly on new tracks and DJ mixes to showcase his wide ranging sound. In addition to making his own tracks under the MachineDrum moniker, he's collaborated with MCs such as Yo Majesty, Mickey Factz, and most recently Theophilus London.Joining him is a DJ set from the Death Star DJs, a local DJ team that has a posse. Of stormtroopers.
MachineDrum/Dsub/Death Star DJs @ The Savant Project - 21+ / 9pm / Free
Ceremony w/ DJ Chris Ewen
Named "Best Alternative DJ in New England" more than once, Chris Ewen began his career in his home-city of Detroit, where he became a fairly well-known underground DJ in the 80s at Todd's & The Asylum. He also joined the electronic rock band Figures on a Beach, which built a strong following playing punk clubs and art galleries with a mix (rare for Detroit at the time) containing more synthesizers than guitars, and more make-up than was strictly necessary. After opening for OMD, The B-52s, ABC, Adam & the Ants, Ultravox, and Bauhaus, among others, Ewen moved with his band to Boston in 1985, signed with Sire records, recorded 2 albums and landed a video on MTV. The band broke up in the early nineties (in the midst of the Nirvana-inspired grunge takeover of the music industry), but Ewen continued to DJ and make music, landing gigs at the now legendary clubs Ground Zero and ManRay, where he saturated a scene with the experimental goth, industrial, electronic and punk tracks that it craved. He continues to record electro-pop music with his bands Future Bible Heroes (with Stephin Merritt and Claudia Gonson of The Magnetic Fields) and The Hidden Variable (with lyricists Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, & Charles de Lint, among others - and vocals by Cosey Fanni Tutti of Throbbing Gristle, Claudia Gonson & Malena) and DJs at his 80's electro night "Heroes" and his goth + industrial night Xmortis, both at T.T. The Bear's in Cambridge, across the street from ManRay's former location.
DJ Chris Ewen | DJ Mothra @ An Tua Nua - 21+ / 9pm-2am / Free
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