WEDNESDAY 7/1

FAKE TRADE'S EERIE, LO-FI ABSTRACTIONS

This show is a smorgasbord of fascinating experimental music featuring three California artists and three locals. Most germane to Data Breaker's purposes is Fake Trade (aka Seattle producer Levi Berner), who also has released an interesting cassette on Eiderdown Records under the New Forest alias. His new project isn't too far in tone from New Forest's cryptic, ominous soundscapes. On Fake Trade's 2015 album, Glass Pane, he uses synthesizer, drum machine, and sequencers to generate prickly, low-fidelity tracks that elude easy categorization. The closest comparisons might be the clanking, woebegone soundtrack to Eraserhead and Actress, the British producer who seems to coat every sound in rust and moss. You don't dance to Fake Trade's output so much as you lurch and lurk to his implied, rickety beats. Two of Glass Pane's pieces, "Five" and "Seven," are among the most desolate, eerie tracks I've heard this year—and I've experienced a lot of desolate, eerie music. With Pod Blotz, Glochids, Shelter Death, Bloom Offering. Lo-Fi, 8 pm, $7, 21+.

THURSDAY 7/2

SCOTTISH TECHNO MAGUS FUNK D'VOID ELECTRIFIES STUDIO 4/4

The wise folks who run the Studio 4/4 weekly have brought back veteran Barcelona-based Scottish producer/DJ Funk D'Void (aka Lars Sandberg), who played Q only a year ago. Any dance-music jock with an alias that references Sir Nose D'Void of Funk merits your attention, and Sandberg's 20 years of experience prove that he's used his Parliament-Funkadelic fandom to properly hedonistic ends. You don't go to Funk D'Void expecting blinding innovation and weird tangents. Rather, his sets are all about electrifying your limbs and hips with a gusto that would impress George Clinton... and maybe even Hillary. Go and get your void funked. With Brian Lyons, David Lowe, and Conner Thomas. Q Nightclub, 9 pm, $12 adv, 21+.

FRIDAY 7/3

NEW WEIRD NIGHT RESEARCH LAUNCHES WITH A HEADY BILL FEATURING 1800HAIGHTSTREET

New night alert! Research is launching the day before America's birthday, and judging by the lineup, it looks like a worthy challenger to the MOTOR monthly's experimental-electronic-music throne. Vancouver duo 1800HaightStreet record darkly psychedelic, artfully abrasive techno for the Lobster Theremin label. Seattle's P L L (Brain Fruit synth savant Chris Davis) occupies a similar lane to 1800HaightStreet, but brings that brand of techno with even more relentlessness and beats per minute. Tim Held has spent the past couple of years proving that there's still juice left in the IDM (intelligent dance music) genre, with inventively jittery rhythms and kaleidoscopically bizarre textures. Cop his TypicalHaunts album on Spin Cycle Records. Tacoma's Biome (aka Louise Croff Blake) is the rare DJ who focuses on the cerebral, ultra-deep end of the techno spectrum. And that's hot. With Soffos and Hiberner. Kremwerk, 10 pm, $5 before 11 pm/$8 after, 21+. recommended