The basement of Debonair Social Club on August 29th will get downright dirty with some hot, sweaty action from Detroit’s bad boy of techno, Lee Curtiss. The producer who once famously described his approach to making music as “fuck trends, fuck dance music and fuck me, ” promises yet another night of “face-melting mayhem” as he pushes his way through a DJ set filled with new tracks from a recent tour of Europe, and tantalizes with the prospect of hearing some of his yet-to-be released tracks from his forthcoming albums on Canada’s Dumb Unit label. Then of course there is his nice haircut, ways with the ladies and his “sexy, primal,” little-bit-backwoods kind of beats, all which add up to a party not to be missed.

His previous releases for Dumb Unit and other notable labels such as Rhumba Musik, Tigersushi and Kalimari have garnered him international acclaim and coveted performance slots at London’s Fabric Nightclub, Berlin’s Watergate, Montreal’s Mutek festival and of course Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival.

Friday, August 29th. 9pm - 2am
Lee Curtiss and Liz Revision Presented by Ramp Chicago
Debonair Social Club 1575 N. Milwaukee Ave. (Downstairs)
Free before 11, $10 after, $7 after 11pm with RSVP to Going.com [http://going.com/leecurtiss]

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Here are a few articles I’ve written so far for Create Digital Music for Movement 2008 and Mutek in Montreal:

Interview: Rechenzentrum, A/V Duo at Mutek
Rechenzentrum, which means “data processing center” in German, is a Berlin-based duo who create live audio-visual performances by combining austere film visuals with their own brand of minimal techno, fusing elements of jazz, dub, and early industrial. Marc Wieser handles the music half while Lillevan navigates the visual landscape. Their 2003 DVD release Director’s Cut, originally out on Mille Plateaux, went on to win the Ars Electronica prize. Marc and Lillevan sat down with us after their sound check for A/Visions 2 at Mutek 2008.

M-Audio UC-33 and Ableton Live Combo Everywhere at Movement 2008

Liz notes the spooky near-ubiquity of UC-33e controllers running Ableton Live at Movement.

Mutek 2008 Panel 2: “The Ecology of Festivals: Beyond Filling Venues”

A collection of international curators and festival programmers discuss the balance of a festival’s guiding principles.

Mutek 2008: Barem at Experience 2

Barem, aka Mauricio Barembuem took the stage at the slightly foggy, humid SAT in Montreal on Friday and laid down thick, groovy, harmonic minimal tracks to an appreciative audience. Since 2003 he’s been DJing and performing live both in his home country Argentina and abroad and in 2005 met Richie Hawtin who encouraged him to submit a demo to Minus and his career promptly took off.

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