Detroit DJ/producer Secrets (aka Matt Abbott) knows how to increase the libidinal pressure in a club through the acute selection of techno tracks that make you feel torn between the dance floor and the boudoir. Tough decision! Abbott's bio on the site of his label, Blank Artists, accuses him of being a sleazy druggy—but one armed with a laptop and killer wax—which bodes well for any audience attending his gigs. It goes on to note, "Secrets turns out quirky, funky techno and house jams, as well as disco reedits and the odd yacht rock & coke rock compilations." Combine all that with quality-assured techno/house cuts from local selectors Ctrl_Alt_Dlt, Ramiro, Deepvibez, and a returning-from-Japan M'Chateau, and you have yourself a Halloween-weekend party that'll stylishly melt the ghoulish makeup from your mug.

The Frenchman they call Onra is coming in all the way from Paris to play Lo-Fi's Stop Biting weekly hiphop soiree. This producer's tracks are also geared to stimulate your reproductive bits (among other body parts), albeit in a more downtempo, post-Dilla, future-funk fashion, with side trips into deep lover's dub and new jack swing. Do yourself a favor and visit www.soundcloud.com/onra, then check out "No Comment" and try not to feel the most suave you've felt in ages. Somebody—maybe even you—is gonna get laid at this show.

One of Seattle's premier ambient-music producers, Gel-Sol (aka Andrew Reichel), returns with another batch of tranquil sigh-inducers, k8ema (Psychonavigation; www.psychonavigation.com). Gel-Sol creates music under the assumption that you have a long-ass attention span, a predilection for altered states of mind, and a sometimes-perverse sense of humor. In this regard he's similar to veteran ambient-dub imps the Orb, who are—like Reichel, not incidentally—big prog-rock fans. Gel-Sol wants to space you out and make you wiggle a bit in your beanbag chair while subtly undermining your equilibrium. It's a noble endeavor.

On k8ema (which is dedicated to his niece Katelyn), Gel-Sol continues his sojourn into distant space via scrupulous tone impressionism. The 11 tracks here drift like rare, alien gases. Synths and strings form elegant fractals of melody that gently ripple and drone to the vanishing point. k8ema floats right up to the precipice of new age innocuousness, then blows a raspberry at it while ascending to a higher level of (mostly) beatless compositional rigor. There's a track here called "Halo of Stars," and that's the lasting image that'll carom around your skull after immersing yourself in k8ema.

Secrets performs with Ctrl_Alt_Dlt, Ramiro, Deepvibez, M'Chateau on Sat Oct 30, Baltic Room, 9 pm, $10, 21+; Onra performs with WD4D, Absolute Madman, Introcut, SunTzu Sound, Sho Nuph on Tues Nov 2, Lo-Fi Performance Gallery, 9:30 pm, $6, 21+.