“Invisible moving air that you can literally feel is fascinating.
Those subtones have a physicality that other frequencies don’t
provide.” So reason Seattle producers Andrew Luck (aka
Woo!) and Dosadi (aka Adam Houghton) about their
preference for productions that treat the sound spectrum’s low end like
a dominatrix does a submissive’s ass.
Together, Luck and Dosadi work in that exciting basscentric zone
where genres mutate and blur. Stylistic boundaries are still being
mapped here, with things in a rapid state of flux. Luck describes their
music as a combination of “skweee, glitch-hop, whomp, or midtempo
breaks.” The BPMs may be low compared to those in drum ‘n’ bass and
techno, but Luck and Dosadi’s rhythms and bass frequencies slug and
surge with a thrilling high impact.
Their music springs out of jungle, hiphop, and dub, but it’s 21st
century in its predominately digital processing. They use Ableton Live,
square waves and filters, and a keyboard MIDI controller to generate
their tracks, although “Little Man” benefits from the fiery guitar
ejaculations by local musician Purrrmaculture (Mariah
Reed). Reed also lends resonant, Tibetan-monk-style chants and
didgeridoo to the phenomenal global-funk-drone cut “Shakti Bump.” But
every sound seems to be massaged extensively and genetically tweaked to
maximize grimy bling-osity, coating the tracks in high-gloss soot.
Luck and Dosadi claim that they “both have really short attention
spans and are keeping it fresh by trying different approaches.” Such an
attitude proved conducive for the pair’s remix of Sleepy Eyes of
Death’s “Pierce the Air,” which dirties and fattens up the low end
of the original’s Goblin-esque, panoramic throb. Look for it this year
on an EP of SEOD remixes to be issued by Mass Mvmnt.
“We took it on a week before the deadline, and it was more
challenging that way,” Dosadi says. “We had just finished the crunky
booty track ‘Pumping Quarterz,’ and Andrew was like, ‘Yo, I gots these
samples, let’s see if we can piss the band off.’ Lately we’ve tried to
alternate our serious versus less-serious tunes—we’re not totally
clown town.”
Regarding their future, Luck and Dosadi say they’re “working on
turning our live set into a CD. We keep getting laid off from the cube
farms, so we’re putting all we have into what we love—making
music and rocking shows.” 
Andrew Luck vs. Dosadi, S.P.E.C.T.R.E., Grym perform Fri May 22,
Re-bar, 10 pm, $10, 21+.
More recommended shows this week: dependable funky-house and
-breaks jock DJ Icey and drum ‘n’ bass
dominator AK1200 (Thurs May 21, Trinity, 9 pm,
free, 21+); Swedish dubstep duo L-Wiz, with DJ
Irk, Kid Hops, Be People (Sat May 23, Nectar, 9 pm, $13 adv/$15 DOS,
21+); Oscillate, with Portland disco-rockers Atole and Copy, Seattle
acid-techno wiz Computer Controlled, and Claude Balzac (Wed May
27, Chop Suey, 9 pm, $7, 21+.)
