FAT-BOTTOMED BEATS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND
London duo Mount Kimbie (Dominic Maker and Kai Campos) dropped a definitive post-dubstep recording with last year's Crooks & Lovers on Hotflush. The album abounds with strange but addictive melodies, cleverly tweaked vocals, artful frequency manipulating, and fluxy, funky rhythms that'll force you to invent new dance moves. Ghostly International recording artist Shigeto (aka Brooklyn's Zach Saginaw) is yet another producer following in the blunted slipstream of J Dilla, Madlib, Flying Lotus, et al. The tracks on Shigeto's debut full-length, Full Circle, are funky spinal crackers augmented by all sorts of exotic percussion touches and shweet melodic frippery. It's a lot like what some forward-thinking geeks in the '90s thought hiphop would sound like a decade into the 21st century. Probably. With Nordic Soul. Baltic Room, 9 pm, $12, 21+.
CORNUCOPIA OF WORLDLY BEAT FUSIONS
Oakland trio Beats Antique are one of those ragamuffin units that promiscuously pick and choose from the global sonic banquet and create bass-heavy fusion dishes to which you can dance melodramatically in a field or large indoor venue. On any given track, you may hear elements of Middle Eastern, Central European, African, East Asian, or Londonian musics deftly woven into club-friendly contexts. Beats Antique have worked with Blues Traveler's John Popper, but try not to hold that against them. With Eskmo and the Tailor. Showbox at the Market, 8 pm, $18–$20, all ages.
SUGARPILL AT BOOM BLAP!
Los Angeles producer/DJ Sugarpill makes his Seattle debut for Bass Drop's Boom Blap! monthly tonight. Sugarpill dispenses some of that blubbery, sluggish West Coast dubstep that's making the kids vigorously pump their fist these days. No low end will go unshredded. With Chris Null and Northstar. Contour, 9 pm, $10 for two tickets/$10 DOS, 21+.
GUTTER TRUNK TOUR WITH BROKEN FIGURES AND BIZZART
Broken Figures—San Francisco duo Keith Tadashi Kubota and Matthew Holt—bring that grim, grimy underground instrumental hiphop shit for people mourning the defunct Definitive Jux label and celebrating the return of Anti-Pop Consortium. Broken Figures are more subdued than those cliques, though, with more of a nocturnal DJ Shadow aura haloing their tracks. It's solid cinematic funk for late-night brooding. LA's Bizzart make menacing, scrappy rap that, uh, makes you want to scrap—verbally, at least. With A.Madman, Introcut and Dead Noise, AC Lewis, and BronzeFM. Lo-Fi Performance Gallery, 10 pm, $5, 21+.
