THURSDAY 7/9

DETROIT TECHNO STAR KENNY LARKIN'S NO JOKE

The Studio 4/4 crew brings in yet another Detroit techno legend, albeit a slightly lesser-known one, in Kenny Larkin. His profile may not be as high as the Belleville Three's or Carl Craig's, but Larkin (aka Dark Comedy, he also does stand-up) has a catalog that bursts with heady and quirky dance-floor-fillers dating back to his 1990 debut EP for Plus 8, We Shall Overcome (with MLK samples aplenty). Larkin's EPs for R&S and his Azimuth LP for Warp Records stand as some of the most texturally interesting and structurally sleek techno releases of the '90s. Even later efforts like 2008's Keys, Strings, Tambourines continue Larkin's quest to further the legacy of Detroit techno—whose '80s origins people tend to romanticize while giving short shrift to its newer expressions. Although Larkin's tracks steadfastly keep you moving, they also sound amazingly rich and fascinating on headphones or in your vehicle, while traveling at a sensible speed above the limit. With Super Flu, Sean Majors, and FooFou. Q Nightclub, 9 pm, $14, 21+.

SUNDAY 7/12

LOTUS GIVE PRAISE TO NOISE YOGA AND AVANT-GARDE COMPOSER JASON E. ANDERSON

Get up relatively early on a Sunday morning to do yoga while one of Seattle's most perverse and brainiest electronic musicians wreaks havoc on his synthesizers and computers—in a museum? You only go around once—why not? As bizarre, unique concepts go, Noise Yoga may take the biscuit. Jason E. Anderson, who also runs the excellent DRAFT label and played with Jamie Potter in the outstanding cosmic-synth duo Brother Raven, privileges unpredictability and extreme tonalities in his freewheeling compositions, which could be a pain in your asana—or a chakra to your system. Frye Art Museum, 11:15 am–noon, $15, all ages.

TUESDAY 7/14

THE STRANGE ELECTRONIC TANGENTS OF ZEEKO, BANKIE PHONES, AND ROMAN ZAWODNY

Tuesday nights are well suited for weird ambient and abstract electronic music. They're traditionally dead zones for entertainment, so attendance expectations are low, making venues keener to take a chance on adventurous music. Respect to Vermillion for hosting this bill of local left-field musicians. Zeeko—who, to my shame, has escaped my radar until now—creates an intriguing fusion of glitchy electronics and opaque post rock, like a lower-fidelity To Rococo Rot. Longtime Data Breaker favorite Bankie Phones is the guy who should be behind the decks or keyboards if you want your party to go off on wittily goofy electro/techno tangents. Check his SoundCloud for über-fun sonic bounty and the funniest track titles in the biz. DJ/producer Roman Zawodny has a black belt in squelchy, tectonic-plate-shifting techno. Let's hope Vermillion's system is up to the challenge. With Kindness. Vermillion, 8 pm, $5, 21+.