Starting March 24, Medical Records boss Dr. Troy Wadsworth will run a monthly DJ night at Pony called Rx that focuses on the niche genres Italo disco and synth pop, with the occasional detour into other "leftfield dance" styles. (There's some overlap with the False Prophet and Aesthetic Mess events at Kremwerk and Chop Suey Den, respectively.) The plan is to hold Rx every fourth Thursday at the Capitol Hill gay bar, with Dr. Troy and DJ Sh1-tr (aka Jason Taylor) serving as residents and guest selectors expected to join them every month. Both have extensive Italo- and synth-oriented vinyl collections, and Troy says that "up-and-comer DJ sh1-tr has a knowledge base in Italo that has no rival in Seattle." Dr. Troy previously organized the similarly themed Pop Surgery events at Rendezvous and Electric Tea Garden (RIP).

In other Medical Records news, the first release for its sub-label Transfusions, MRT-001 Featuring Alexander Robotnick & Ludus Pinsky, is coming out March 6. On that same day, Medical's reissuing two LPs by British post-punk mavericks Pram: The Stars Are So Big... the Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are and Helium. (Full disclosure: I wrote liner notes for the Pram releases.)