Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Mixx Make | A Pre-Halloween Craftacular












All Hallows Eve Advance...Attencione





Mixx Make | A Pre-Halloween Craftacular

October 15th, 2009 (Austin, TX) – On Saturday, October 24th Electric Promotions and TwoGroove are joining forces to create a spooky smorgasbord of fun. With awesome crafts, great music, delicious treats, amazing giveaways, and much more.
Taking visual cues from the Day of the Dead, this celebration will be nothing short of a creative blast with plenty of crafty goodness, skulls, and ghoulish treats. Watch a special screening of Army of Darkness while grooving to the sweet sounds of Focus GroupPanjoma, and the fabulous Team Fabrication DJs. Create DIY Halloween masks with The WonderCraft including special decorative treats from Sublime Stitching. Participate in a gummy bat/worm eating contest with the winner taking home VIP passes to one of the coolest Halloween events this year: Flip Scene’s Halloween Bash 2009! presented by Cherrypeel.com. Nibble on edible eyeballs and tasty coffin cake from Blue Note Bakery and quench your devilish thirst with red rum compliments of Treaty Oak. To top all that off, there will also be a guitar giveaway. That's right one lucky person will go home with a brand new guitar!
Costumes are “encouraged and possibly rewarded”...but optional, either way be sure to jump in the photo-booth by Trevor Ray Thompson.  Cool giveaways and great prizes are in store! Like gift certificates to Bird’s Barbershop, passes to see Evil Dead the Musical at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, and more...
Entry is $6 (if you RSVP at www.mixxmake.com) or $8 at the door. The first 50 people through the door get a special treat including something from those thoughtful guys at Yelp.

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Monday, October 19, 2009

PANJOMA








OK - these people are a trip. I have to be in Coeur d'Alene Idaho - some acuPunKture event - so I can't be at the show. So you go and tell me about it. They were playing with Arc Attack - missed that....I gotta know.  Now.


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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Mixx and Make @ Club MIXX
612 E 6th St Austin, TX, Austin, TX 78701 (United States) - 
Map

Set: 8:00 PM
21+

Tickets: $6
 

Also Playing: Focus Group, Team Fabrication

Other Info:Pre-Halloween Craftacular presented by ELECTRIC Promotions and TWOGROOVE. Music by Panjoma, Team Fabrication and Focus Group.

MAGWA by nomadbeatz

MAGWA  by  nomadbeatz

Sunday, October 18, 2009

nomadbeatz





 MAGWA  by  nomadbeatz

Nomadbeatz is tearing up tracks with innovative sounds. LA mix artist Josh McHugh has a cutting edge electronic vibe that is smooth funky and grooving...

 

MNML Glitch is slightly reminiscent of Warp record artists such as Plaid and Autechre. But only slightly ...he slips into a hint of acid jazz motif but dominates the glitch. Glitch hop it is. Dub step too...

smokin brew

"ELECTRI-CITY"






I am at "ELECTRI-CITY" An Audio/Visual ELectronic/ Rock Experience. Pretty cool. Austin has an electronic music scene. I have been into electronic music since before my college days in the mid 1970s listening to early Tangerine Dream – maybe you know – Phaedra. But before that in highschool it was Syrinx, King Crimson and Emerson Lake and Palmer. I love synthesis and electronics and this is cool. Midi Tesla coils – who woulda thunk? I can’t wait.


I slipped out, it is a little slow and the DJs are rollin’. Got down to the wine bar at Osteria. Man is this part of the east side bad assed. I looked to see – maybe I can move to this neighborhood from my northeast conservative child raising neighborhood on the Mountain. Nope. My wife would kill me. Our 9yo daughter is on one of the better school districts in the country. So much for a resurgence of my Peter Pan complex.


I am liking the cheaper South American wine over the more expensive Cali...figures. More earth, minerals and tannins. Solid.


I went out early this afternoon to scope the scene. Kenny Dorland’s backyard ...hmmm...Oh – there it is in a fenced yard. That’s for sure. I don’t see a house though.


Arc Attack – NOW. The Tesla coils are like lightening on the ground. They branch out in fractals  - blowing my mind. The Tesla coils also provide a sizzling synth sound that sits nicely over the bands grooves. They just got back from the mid east where they were doing seven shows a day seven days a week. Amazing – and they are still inspired! Arc Attack is the name,. They are crazy wild scientists – they provide the schematics on their back of the room sales T-shirts.


Awseom a nice fat bass line – leading into a head banging kinda groove after some punk motif – got it goin on. Luck I found a chair to sit down and write in. I really like their miner lights on their foreheads, I wonder if it helps them to see? Red little miner lights on their forheads. Maybe I f I did that I could be more cool in my electronic band, I doubt it,


Uh oh – now audience participants are going to sit in the cage between the Tesla coils and become purified. I would go do it, but I am afraid it might obliterate aenvery piece of data on this computer. They are saying “be cool donlt freak out.” Yikes there is someone sitting in the cage and the column is going up – so are the lightening rods coming off the Tesla coils The main dude in the cage seems to be OK – his head is nodding in headbanger styles along with the music.,


Awesome. The drum beats come on – math metal groove arrives these guys got it going on with some trumpet like riff coming off the Tesal coil.....daaaaa.


The Arc asks for those who would bear witness to the cleansing – that between the Tesla coils. True joy on the count of three. He appears to be safe, or maybe its sage. Oh man there is a fire dancer behind me. How did Austin get to be so...that.


East Austin – where the cutting edge of gentrification is just behind the oh so hip. I lived in Venice California in the late 70s and early 80s just ahead of the gentry curve – it was nowhere and happening as this. But maybe I explicate to heavily. No! Not true this is the f-ing bomb.


OK two beat with pseudo classical harmonies rolling out to the Tesla fractaling lightening shapes. Dude I am tripping.


The robotic drummer by Craig Newswanger. K – now my mind is uber blown. They got robotics pplaying what I thought were drum loops. The drums are live friggin’ robots and they are pounding down a groove that doesn’t quit.