SATURDAY JANUARY 10



MIGUEL MIGS/LISA SHAW

If you're down with Naked Music's brand of slick, lubricious house production, you'll want to put your life on hold for Miguel Migs' appearance here. Migs (real name: Miguel Steward; aliases: Petalpusher and Li'sha) is perhaps Naked's foremost ambassador for its laid-back, airbrushed approach to 4/4 dance music. (Naked artist Stuart Patterson's luscious, colorful, cheesecake graphics also deserve much credit for the label's high profile.) You can bet your lethargic, post-holiday ass Migs and wildly in-demand diva Lisa Shaw will bring some much-needed mellow, sunshiny Cali vibes to our city's sunless winter. With Wesley Holmes and Ken Wallace. Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 625-8000, 9 pm-2 am, 21+, $15 adv. TUESDAY JANUARY 13



ORAC RECORDS TOUR KICKOFF

To call Orac Seattle's best techno label is to damn it with faint praise. Who else is even in the game? That said, Orac's gaining traction in the global electronica network with powerful European distro via Germany's Kompakt consortium (you've truly arrived when Kompakt returns your e-mails). I've praised label honcho Randy Jones (AKA Caro) and Bruno Pronsato in this space before, but I will remind you that both are advancing with precise abandon toward world-class status among experimental dance producers. Filling out the strong bill are Portlanders Strategy (Paul Dickow) and Solenoid (David Chandler). The latter takes electro and IDM to strangely tuneful places they rarely travel while the former is one of those musicians with dozens of projects going simultaneously. I've not heard his solo stuff, but his keyboards in Nudge and Fontanelle sound wonderfully rich and inventive. With DJ Veins. Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 625-8000, 9 pm-2 am, 21+, $5