San Francisco’s Eprom delivers punishing beats, sadistic bass pressure, and the sort of eight-bit onomatopoeia that gives Nintendo-generation kids nostalgia boners. But his music is not all whoomps, booms, and bleeps; he has a keen ear for weird textures and deft sound design that will hold your interest long after your bruises heal. Another L.A. producer building on the rich legacy of J. Dilla’s sampledelic tapestries, Take creates lavishly stellar atmospheres that swirl above intricate, loamy rhythms. (Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 324-8005, 9 pm, $10 adv/$12 DOS, 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
I forget what those hats are called.
there are no Nintendo-generation “kids” anymore.