Data Breaker

As one electronic-music night ends, another begins. Sayonara,
Bonkers!; greetings, J4CK17 (aka JACKIT). Thus the
balance of Seattle’s underground electronic scene is maintained.

Bonkers!—led by promoter/musician Ian Scot
Price—has championed adventurous producers and DJs for the
last two-plus years, most of it IDM, but also electro, techno, ambient,
experimental, and other styles. The legendary monthly is going out
large Friday, with a finale called In Search of the Bass
Crystal. Past Data Breaker stars PotatoFinger, Ya No
Mas, and Splatinum should bring the hyperkinetic,
post-jungle madness; eccentric electro; and foundation-threatening,
grimey bounce, respectively. Jacob London member Hanssen has been doing some very interesting things in the narrow but
fascinating space where techno and house conjugate.
Future-bass-music impresario Ill Cosby—who runs the
Car Crash Set label and hosts a badass show on glitch.fm—has been toasting speaker cones
with his own ominous UK funky/dubstep-inflected productions. Expect
them to enter influential BBC disc jockey Mary Anne Hobbs’s rotation
any week now.

Price says that he and his crew will focus their energy on their
Pleasure Boat label, make music alone and together, and throw
shows whenever they feel like it. They’re not finished dunking Seattle
in awesome sounds just yet.

J4CK17 is the latest caper by local DJs/promoters Knightriders
Inc., who specialize in powerful techno for headstrong
extroverts. KR’s honchos describe J4CK17’s concept: “This series
was influenced by the early days of underground music in Detroit, where
you would hear Chicago house, Detroit techno, industrial, hiphop, ’80s
rock, disco, electro, etc.” This new venture’s debut spotlights KR
fixtures Goner and Trench, plus recent Seattle-via-Russia
transplant Hi Octane (aka Ilya Makedon). Judging by his mixes,
Hi Octane displays the brainy yet banging aesthetic that makes
Knightriders events sweatfests, but he’s into subtler, more soulful
styles, too.

Last but most, Audion (Ghostly/Spectral Sound guru Matthew
Dear) will take over the swanky Triple Door Monday with what
promises to be an overwhelming audio-visual spectacle that Dear
has dubbed the Hecatomb Tour (see www.audion.me for eye/ear dazzle). With a
set consisting of stroboscopic op-art spirals pulsating on three
screens, Audion surfeits eyes as much as he does ears. Essentially,
Audion creates some of the raunchiest and most machinelike dance music
ever—the soundtrack to scorching-hot mechanical sex… on
potent hallucinogens. When not in full-on thrusting mode, though,
Audion’s music tilts toward the ominous side, as epitomized by the epic
creeper “I Am the Car.” Regardless of style, Audion will likely bring
the most intense, senses-saturating experience the Triple Door has
ever hosted.

PotatoFinger, Ill Cosby, Splatinum, Hanssen, Norse Rarebit
perform Fri Nov 13, Re-bar, 10 pm, $5 before 11, 21+; Hi Octane, Goner,
Trench perform Sat Nov 14, Re-bar, 10 pm, $8, 21+; Audion, Pezzner,
James Grindle, Travis Baron perform Mon Nov 16, Triple Door, 10 pm, $15
adv/$18 DOS, 21+.