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Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 9:00 PM - Friday, November 13, 2009 at 2:00 AM (PT)
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2009
Auralism & Vessel present
a very special night of music featuring
BRUNO PRONSATO (Hello?Repeat, Perlon, thesongsays)
Seattle producer Bruno Pronsato (aka Steven Ford) took several giant steps in 2005
toward the peak of the experimental techno mountain. Both on vinyl and onstage,
Pronsato kept up a hectic pace of production and performance, catalyzing listeners
and crowds in Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Mexico, throughout the United
States, and a triumphant set at Montreal’s Mutek festival. Last year his solo album
“Why Can’t We Be Like Us” received both widespread support from fans and
critics alike. In addition, his twelve-inches on esteemed labels like Orac, Perlon,
Hello? Repeat, Musique Risquée, Milnor Modern, Philpot, and Telegraph further
elevated his stature and built his international profile.
A sound scientist whose work is equally playful and rigorous, Pronsato deploys a
canny use of space and idiosyncratically fashioned rhythms to disorient and build
suspense—like some 21st-century Miles Davis or Eric Dolphy of the laptop.
Despite being a minimal-techno artist, Pronsato offers a palette that’s as full of
unexpected patterns and meticulously rendered textures as a Wassily Kandinsky
painting.
Pronsato’s compositions unsettle in original ways, yet they also slyly tickle funny
bones. Often both humorous and erotic, his cuts are the wild cards that
adventurous DJs pull out when they want to take the dance floor to strange new
levels of motion. Therefore, Pronsato’s releases have become elite selectors’ secret
weapons of beguilingly baffling quirkiness that still move asses.
[A]PENDICS.SHUFFLE (adjunct, Mo's Ferry)
Kenneth James Gibson is a man of many personas. Keeping up with him can be a time consuming,
yet rewarding venture into sound. As soon as you think you know him and can grasp what’s going
on, he puts on yet another mask and becomes something else. Always a surprise and never a let
down, he gives us what we want but don’t expect. A rare stone in today’s musical climate, Ken is
rolling and collects no moss.
Kens first recordings were as the guitarist, singer, part time keyboardist and producer of the 90s
indie rock band Furry Things. He slowly grew tired of being in a band and started producing a slew
of electronic mish mash on his own as Eight Frozen Modules. Starting out with a guitar, half broken
sampler (given to him by King Coffee of the legendary Texas band The Butthole Surfers), a drum
machine, borrowed synths and a four track, Ken laid down an off kilter mix of electro, abstract hip
hop, dub and techno.
In 1997, Ken moved from Austin Texas to the big city of Los Angeles, California. After releasing a
few records as Eight Frozen Modules on various labels such as Trance Syndicate and City Slang, he
gave up the 4 tracks and guitar for a desktop computer and software. While taking a few years off
from releasing music, he learned how to create a new world in the land of computers. After 3 years
of not leaving his padded studio cell, he resurfaced with the 2001 Eight Frozen Modules CD
Random Activities and Broken Sunsets, a mix of glitched out electro, techno, and idm for the LA
label, Phthalo. Since then, he has also released music under the names [a]pendics.shuffle, The
Premature Wig, dubLoner, Electronic Music Composer, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Hiss and Buzz
(with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto), Kenneth James G., KJ Gibbs, Whoa Buck, Cascabel
Gentz (with Argentine Dilo), Men In Slippers (with Mikael Stavostrand) for labels such as Mo's Ferry
Productions, Adjunct, We Are, Lick My Deck, Revolver, Leftroom, Resopal, Floppy Funk,
Underl_ne, Orac, Mille Plateaux, Planet-Mu, Proptronix, Titbit, Force Tracks, Disco Inc., and Sunset
Diskos....just to name a few.
When Kenneth isn't in the studio reeking havoc on his neighbors, he is touring the world playing his
music for the crazy kids late at night. Ken lives in Los Angeles, California and co-runs the label
Adjunct, part of the Kompakt family. Adjunct is a forward thinking techno and house label releasing
such artists as Mikael Stavostrand, Dilo and Gurtz, Mathias Schaffhauser, Sutekh, Franco Cinelli, Kit
Clayton, Peter F. Spiess and many more.
Kenneth just finished up a big remix / live project with Crostown Rebels main man Damian Lazarus,
which you can hear in Damian's latest live sets. Some of this material will also be making it to vinyl
in the near future. Kenneth has also finished up his full length Reverse Commuter LP and EP's for DJ
Three’s label Hallucination Limited, which will be out very soon, along with some excellent
remixes. The Reverse Commuter live set at WMC 2009 was listed as Mr. C's (Superfreq) favorite set
of the conference. Also in the works is a Kenneth James G. house influenced EP and LP for new LA
label Culprit, a label run by the Droog folks. Another venture is the latest project Cascabel Gentz.
This is a duo consisting of Kenneth and Dilo from Argentina. The 2 latest Cascabel EP's have been
getting rave reviews from play from such DJ's as Luciano, Tim Xavier, Shonky, Brothers Vibe and
many more.
JASON SHORT (Auralism, Nightlight)
HAC LE (Auralism, listed, playcomusic.com)
Open Svedka Vodka Bar 9:30-10:30
Hosted by Dolce Presents, Antonio Sierra, & Ali Meykadeh
85 Campton Place | SF | 9:30p-2a | reservations@vesselsf.com
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 9:00 PM
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Friday, November 13, 2009 at 2:00 AM (PT)
Add to my calendarLaunched in 2007 by longtime friends, producers and DJs, Jason Short, Marc Smith, Tim Kelleher and Hac Le, San Francisco-based Auralism Records brings the minimal machinations of Berlin to the Bay Area's famously funky dance floors. Auralism's roots trace back to 2005, when Smith and Short, producing together as the duo Coalition of the Killing, realized they'd need an outlet to handle their formidable stockpile of unreleased tracks. After top-flight DJs began blowing up parties worldwide with their white labels, they knew what needed to be done: the only way to give the music the forum it deserved was to release it themselves. Thus began the vision for a driven, analog-centric label that will finally get Bay Area techno noticed by its European counterparts.
From its original conception as a conduit for COTK's output, the imprint has since matured into a diversified, international roster of artists both seasoned and newly arrived, including Elon (Made to Play), Alland Byallo (Kontrol SF), Miguel Colmenares (Subtropical), and Limaçon (Poker Flat). Auralism is very much a cooperative, encouraging its artists to experiment within its twisted, propulsive blueprint while pushing them to the outer limits of impeccable sound design. The label has also hit the ground running with some of the dirtiest throwdowns that San Francisco has seen in years, importing talents like Pier Bucci, Lee Curtiss, Billy Dalessandro, Appendics Shuffle, Exercise One, and Pan-Pot to go head-to-head with the label's residents. With a release schedule jam-packed with new material, plus remixes commissioned from scene stalwarts such as Argenis Brito, Justin Maxwell, and Franklin De Costa, Auralism has firmly entrenched itself as a label to watch in 2007.
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