INDUSTRIAL-DOOM PURVEYOR AUTHOR & PUNISHER BRINGS HELL TO YOUR DOME
Like a combination of Godflesh and the Bug, Author & Punisher (San Diego's Tristan Shone) makes an infernal din that rages against the feel-good 'tude of his sun-kissed home base. On 2013's Women & Children, A&P grinds out glowering, chthonic electronic music with beats that thud like wrecking balls hitting buildings and vocals that sound like gargled lava. It's the industrialization of doom, and it feels damned appropriate for a country dealing with rampant, unpunished police brutality and imminent ecological disaster. With Crypts, Lightning Kills Eagle, and the Family Curse. Highline, 9 pm, $10 adv/$12 DOS, 21+.
TECHNO PRODUCER BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY RAZORS THE ROOF
The 19th edition of MOTOR is going to be a corker. Portland-based headliner Best Available Technology (aka Kevin Palmer) is celebrating the release of his new EP, Neon Razor Chain, which should be a fixture on best-of-2014 lists. It's a sterling example of eerie atmospheres and in-the-red, filthy distortion merging with foreboding techno beats. Besides his ingenious noisy-techno-oriented exploits, B.A.T. excels at the sort of uneasy-yet-calming ambient music Brian Eno perfected on records like The Shutov Assembly and Neroli. Seattle's Mood Organ (Timm Mason, who also plays in psych-rock ensembles Midday Veil and Master Musicians of Bukkake) has been applying his highbrow, abstract synth machinations toward more dance-floor-geared workouts, gaining the kind of hedonistic sweat equity heard in his gigs with Airport under the TJ Max handle. Better known as one of the city's best psych-rock and ambient-music DJs, Explorateur is making her MOTOR debut tonight. With Simic. Kremwerk, 9 pm, $5, 21+.
MATRIXXMAN'S TECHNO WILL SWAY YOU TO TAKE THE BLUE PILL
For this final version of the Casual Encounters monthly, promoter Cody Morrison and his High & Tight clique have brought in San Francisco's Matrixxman, a new star on the Spectral Sound imprint. He's another young producer finding clever ways to commingle elements of techno and house, some 30 years after these genres were birthed. Matrixxman creates tracks that please both those into the science of sound design and the folks who just want to move their bodies with carefree glee. Dig the subtle melodic variations and inventive percussion accents on Matrixxman's excellent 2014 EP, Amulet, and on cuts like "808 State of Mind." Casual Encounters is going out with class—just how it came in. With Nark and High & Tight DJs. Kremwerk, 9 pm, $15, 21+. 
