Decibel Festival director Sean Horton (aka the superb DJ Nordic Soul, who’ll help usher in 2010 tonight) again flaunts his impeccable electronic-music curatorship with this NYE bash. Seattle techno/IDM producer Lusine appears reenergized with his most accessible release, the refulgent A Certain Distance; Apparat is another master of dulcet, song-based electronica; and Nosaj Thing has emerged as one of the fecund L.A. underground’s most skilled creators of abstract hiphop that’s melodically rich and rhythmically vital. Heady good times. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, 709-9442. 9 pm, $20, 21+.)
Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when... More by Dave Segal
Sounded great until I saw the ticket price.
Lusine – you are the fucking greatest. Wish to god I were in Seattle for this.
still can’t quite figure out why Cake is that expensive? Open bar or what?