Weekend!

God dammit, weekend, how I love you. Your soul, your spirit, your unique ability to reinvigorate the hearts and minds of men and women. I would continue, but it would be borderline appropriate. Having said that, there is TOO much good stuff going on these next few nights.

Tonight at the Avalon, veteran British DJs Lee Burridge and Danny Howells will be at the controls. I find it a bit odd that these guys are doing Control Fridays instead of Avaland Saturdays, but nonetheless, it’s a great opportunity to see a few bonafide professionals do their thing.

Tomorrow night is a doozy, a three-pronged, multi-genre night of electronic music at multiple Los Angeles venues. The one I’ll be attending (and I recommend that you do so as well) is Four Tet and Nathan Fake at the Echoplex. If you haven’t heard of Four Tet before, grab your headphones and start listening, because he’s consistently been putting out some of the best beats for more than a decade, including his most recent effort “There Is Love In You”, which is pretty much universally regarded as one of the best albums of its kind in recent years. His style has evolved alot over the span of his career, and has settled somewhere in the ballpark of melodic, ethereal, introspective, beat-oriented techno (enough adjectives for you?). It’s not exactly club music, so expect his live laptop set to be more of a head-bobbing. UK experimental techno honcho Nathan Fake rounds out the bill. Unfortunately, the show is sold out, but you might be able to snag a ticket at the door if you show up early enough.

On the other side of the 101, the Avalon will surely have the disco ball up and running for the night. Self-proclaimed “creator of disco” Calvin Harris will be the main event, bringing his popular brand of disco-infused house in a DJ set that will surely feature some new cuts off his forthcoming album. Supporting him will be tech house funkers Damian Lazarus, Jamie Jones and Seth Troxler (as “Rebel Rave”), whose groovy brand of minimal tech will certainly complement Harris’ style very well. Lastly, a couple blocks away at Circus, Irish trancer John O’Callaghan will be on tap for the night.

Lastly, I wanted to give a shoutout to one of my UCLA homies. DJ/producer 2C-G (aka Geoff Bowen) recently just finished a very quality remix of Jason Sundstrom’s track ‘Perplexed’. It’s a heavy techno stormer of the peak-hour persuasion; definitely not for the weak of heart! He also runs the Tek LA blog (definitely worth bookmarking) where you can find his most recent minimal tech mix, which I highly recommend. Geoff is only 19, and is somebody you’ll want to keep an eye on over the coming years as he develops his sound, so be sure to keep tuning into his blog for original tracks, mixes, and info about parties he throws in the LA area!

Have a good weekend, people!

Danny Howells – September (Future Beat Alliance remix)
Four Tet – Angel Echoes
Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink
Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
Jamie Jones – Summertime
Tiefschwarz feat. Seth Troxler – Trust
Damian Lazarus – Spinning (Sasha remix)

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