WEDNESDAY 7/22
SALVA'S MAINSTREAM UNDERGROUND
An LA producer who's been grindin' on the club circuit for five years, Salva has become prominent enough to remix tracks by Mike Will Made It and RL Grime and collaborate with artists like Young Thug and Boys Noize. The latter artist is featured on Salva's latest cut, "Choo Choo," a pounding slab of bass music that cruises somewhere between hiphop and house tempos and features cannily deployed high and low frequencies and funky electronic handclaps; it's going to drive dance floors worldwide crazy. Salva's found a way to meld G-funk, Miami bass, dubstep, juke, and house music that enables him to straddle the underground and mainstream worlds with more authority than most. With Nina Las Vegas and guests. Q Nightclub, 9 pm, $10, 21+.
THURSDAY 7/23
Over the last four years, Kid Smpl has been perhaps Seattle's ultimate chill producer. Recording for Alex Ruder's Hush Hush imprint and Ill Cosby's Car Crash Set label, Kid Smpl (aka Joey Butler) creates frosty, desolate atmospheres, charcoal-smudged bass tones, and beats that are more implied than functional (in typical electronic-music terms). He started out as the city's foremost purveyor of the night bus sound—an eerie, emotionally fragile style of mostly beatless bass music that conjures the loneliness of nocturnal public transport—but has gradually expanded into something harder to peg with the Silo Tear and Precinct EPs. The former's a strange hybrid of grimy night bus ambience and splenetic drum-and-bass beats; the latter edges toward abrasiveness and rhythmic unpredictability while retaining his dulcet, delicate melodic touch. In this paper's Up & Coming section, Kyle Fleck praises opener Lucas's "James Blake–adjacent gospel riffs, half-speed rap samples, and nebulously syncopated beats," and the man isn't wrong. With IG88. Barboza, 8 pm, $8, 21+.
TREAT YOURSELF TO TECHNO DOYEN YOUSEF
English producer/DJ Yousef is renowned for the Circus club parties he hosts in his home base of Liverpool. They serve as a magnet for some of the world's most popular yet interesting techno artists, including Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin, Maya Jane Coles, and Seth Troxler. But beyond his superb curatorial acumen (and big budget), Yousef knows how to build DJ sets that tingle your limbs and hips and stimulate your mind. For proof, check out his four-deck Boiler Room performance from September 2014 on YouTube. (Yes, dude uses CDs, but still...) He strikes a balance between hedonistic and heady that's the hallmark of the best mega-club jocks. With Eelke Kleijn and guests, Q Nightclub, 9 pm, $10, 21+. 
