OOKAY’S LOW-END HIGH JINKS
Damn Son’s Substance weekly enlists Ookay to see if he can do some structural damage to Foundation’s foundation. Hailing from Jupiter, USA (so it says on his Soundcloud page; can’t find it on this confounded map), Ookay makes that extroverted, pumped-up bass music that toggles between sinister and silly. He’s part of dubstep’s migration to outsize, arena-filling sounds, but the way this young producer works the high and low frequencies is more than Ookay. With Tony Goods, Jameson Just, and Kozmo. Foundation, 9 pm, free before 10:30 pm/$10 after, 21+.
GROUNDISLAVA’S SIGH-HEAVY HIPHOP
Remember PM Dawn? Groundislava probably does. The Los Angeles beatmaker (aka Jasper Patterson) creates tracks that have a similar pacific vibe as those ’90s hiphop bohos did. (By the way, you should read The Stranger‘s special feature on PM Dawn from 2011 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of their game-changing debut album, a work whose import rivals that of Nirvana‘s Nevermind.) Where were we? Right, Groundislava. His productions evoke a pastel wonderland of mellow, glossy synth pads and gentle, head-nodding beats. Try ’em on for sighs. With Beat Connection DJs. Barboza, 9 pm, $12, 21+.
AVANT-ELECTRONIC NIGHT MOTOR RIDES AT PONY
Oh, these guys again? I’m not complaining. The absurdly active Airport is once more playing Motor, the every-other-monthly event thrown by Debacle Records/Fest’s Sam Melancon, now in its sixth edition and first at gay-bar mecca Pony. Airport—Midday Veil bassist Jayson Kochan—is one of our region’s most compelling disco producers, as his darkly, starkly ecstatic 12-inch for Debacle, Sweat/Pleasure, proves. I just don’t know what more I can say about him. Get down to “Business” (on the Soundcloud) and go see for yourself; live a little. Motor regular Patternmaster (Brain Fruit’s Jonathan Carr) also returns, with his brainy, brutal, off-the-grid techno mantras. When he gets his analog synths buzzing and gurgling and pummeling in militaristic 4/4 time, you can’t help punching the air with a vengeance. Jumping on the bill late is Carr’s cosmically minded Brain Fruit mate Chris Davis, another master manipulator of the synthesizer whose setup will give you rig envy. With DJ Fistfight. Pony, 9 pm, free, 21+.
