Kode9 is a London-based Scotsman, philosophy professor,
dubstep/grime producer, and owner of Hyperdub, one of the most
innovative record labels in the world. From this label we get the hero
of our time, Burial (or Saint Burial), and the madman of our time, the
Spaceape—both were discovered by Kode9, the father of
hauntology, a kind of thinking and feeling that emerged after the
optimism of the ’90s crashed against the wall of Bush’s ’00s. Kode9’s
beats soundtrack a world that is dead but haunted by the living.
(Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 324-8000. 9 pm, $12, 21+.)

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...