GET SOME FREE OUTDOOR ELECTRO VIBES WITH LUSINE, NATASHA KMETO, AND VOX MOD

Decibel is hosting this free, lovely evening of über-classy electronic music for humans of all ages. Seattle's Vox Mod (Scot Porter), along with his two adroit bongo and conga players, impressed at Capitol Hill Block Party, busting out dubby, spacey tracks that showed a facility for vivid techno and electro moves. Touchstones include Meat Beat Manifesto and Plaid, which are stones that deserve touching. Portland's Natasha Kmeto is the rare electronic-music maker who can also sing with emotional potency and nuance—or is she the rare skilled diva who can create interesting electronic music? Whatever the case, her new album, Crisis, is a sophisticated collection of torch songs to which you can dance and bonk. Lusine (Jeff McIlwain) is the Mr. Reliable of Seattle's electronic scene. Over the last 14 years, he's just kept refining his understatedly beautiful, IDM-accented house music, culminating in this year's The Waiting Room, his most accessible work to date. And get a load of the perfectly poised cover of Electronic's "Get the Message." Mural Amphitheater, 5:30 pm, free, all ages.

SLICK STONES THROW(DOWN): DÂM-FUNK, THE STEPKIDS, AND MYRON & E

The Stepkids follow in the hallowed tradition of young musicians playing smooth jazz-funk with soulful vocals. (Wait—hardly any young musicians have done this since Ford was in office.) They record for hiphop/funk bastion Stones Throw, but one can imagine the Stepkids going back in time 40 years to cut sides for CTI Records. I'll bet your fez that they can replicate the entire Steely Dan catalog in the studio, too. The exotic, strutting "Sweet Salvation" is the Stepkids jam. Myron & E sing warm, low-lit soul ballads and sweet, midtempo R&B day-brighteners that will appeal to fans of Daptone Records and Mayer Hawthorne. Analog-synth evangelist/vocoder wizard Dâm-Funk is the consensus master (re)builder of '80s boogie, a super-slick, potently funky strain of dance music that is geared to wipe out sadness. Glide! Crocodile, 8 pm, $15, 21+.

PRESSURE SUIT

Jimi Jaxon's 7 Deadly label returns to the fray with a new self-titled EP by Pressure Suit (aka Greg Campbell). It makes a deep impression with its diverse, crazy- angled, hard-slugging beats and crystalline synth washes. The four tracks trigger paradoxical constructions like "rugged fantasia" and "sparkling filth." There's some inventive future-bass exploration happening here. I'm eager to see what Pressure Suit can do with this material live. With Jimi Jaxon and Tremel. Vermillion, 9 pm, free, 21+.