Ouputmessage and I spun at our friends’ weekly happy hour, Beyond, in Dupont Circle, last week. It’s mostly downtempo stuff that gets played there. Outputmessage decided to take a few tracks from his set and make a little mix as a part of his OutputRadio mix series on his blog. Here’s the track listing:

OutputRadio - May 23, 2008

01 Aeroc - Blue Eyed Bitter
02 Madlib - Piano Garden
03 J Dilla - Intro (Instrumental)
04 Tadd Mullinix - Fascinated
05 Herbert - Birds of a Feather
06 Steve Spacek - The Hills
07 Portishead - The Rip
08 Daedelus - Admit Defeat

 

 OuptutRadio May 23, 2008 [26:58m]: Play Now | Download (2102)

Dalek is coming to town, and this Saturday, you can come check out his new series of work at Irvine Contemporary. The opening reception is on Saturday May 17th from 6-8, but startin today you can can witness an on-site piece in progress that Dalek is working on with DC artist Tim Conlon. If you are familiar with Dalek’s work, you will be quite impressed with the new batch.

He now goes far beyond Murakami’s “superflat” to a kaleidoscopic play of space and color that embodies the competing and conflicting forces in today’s world.

The tensions are clear, and the bold color patterns pull you in in a thoroughly engaging way. Dalek’s work seems to provide a particularly intriguing comment on a pop culture that struggles to make any clear distinction on the high and the low.

If you are lucky, you were on a short list to a VIP advanced opening tomorrow night, and featuring Outputmessage behind the decks. The show is up through June 21th, but don’t wait because you will forget and kick yourself for putting it off until it’s too late. I know you.

Tomorrow night at DC9, Time Machine will be descending upon our fair city to rock Transatlantic. We’re gonna be talking to them before the show for All Our Noise, and hopefully we’ll get that footage cut and up pretty quick.

Check out the video for “The Groove That Just Wont Stop”, the lead single off of their new album, Life is Expensive. Enjoy.

This month, we are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Marquis, on the last Thursday of the month, May 29!

We’ve got the Marquis DJs AKA Dmerit (Outputmessage + Micah Vellian) and the boys from Swedish Columbia representing, Triobelisk + DJ Hawkin (Division of Laura Lee)! Additionally, we’ll be celebrating the launch of our new music blog, All Our Noise, which is coming really soon. You should be able to see it starting that very morning.

As usual, Marquis takes place at:
Napoleon
1847 Columbia Rd., NW
21+ | FREE
1/2 Price Champagne Cocktails until Midnight!

New tune for you all, Dmerit (Outputmessage + Micah Vellian) have remixed “Electric Bloom” by Foals! They have entered the last.fm Foals remix competition. So, make sure you download this track and listen with your last.fm scrobbler activated to help Dmerit win.

Keep posted here for details on the Marquis 1 year anniversary party coming later this month. We’ve got a great party planned that you won’t want to miss.

 

 Foals: "Electric Bloom" (Dmerit Remix) [3:52m]: Play Now | Download (4809)

The new Time Machine album, “Life is Expensive” is dropping this month. And in support of the record, the crew kicked off their east coast tour last night in Ohio and are hopefully stopping through a town near you. These days, with a bit more bounce injected into their beats, you’ll want to give yourself a little bit of dancing room. Saturday’s DC show will be a homecoming of sorts for these kids, and we’re predicting a packed and sweaty DC9 no doubt. Check out the schedule below and push your way up to the front row. In the meanwhile, peep them on myspace and hype yrself up in anticipation of your local show.

May 4: The Get Up! (at B Side Liquor Lounge) w/ DJ Mike Filly - Cleveland Heights, OH
May 8: Banger (at The Middle East) w/ InnerPartySystem and XO Skeletons - Cambridge, MA
May 9: Colt 45 Party (at The Barbary) w/ Thunderheist, The Black Ghosts and DJ Dave P - Philadelphia, PA
May 10: Transatlantic (at DC9) with Distort, DJ People’s Champion and DJ Stereo Faith - Washington, Washington DC
May 11: Joe Squared (w/ Distort and more) - Baltimore, MD
May 14: High Voltage (at The Annex) - LES, New York
May 16: Highline Ballroom (w/ Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Yo! Majesty) - New York, NY
May 17: Southpaw (w/ Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Yo! Majesty) - Brooklyn, New York
May 19: Knitting Factory (with Dandi Wind) - New York, NY

It’s almost hard to imagine a New York that’s cheap to live in today, considering how much flash and cash is tossed around. But in the mid to late 1970s, after barely avoiding bankruptcy, New York City was exactly that—a run down town with plenty of cheap space for artists to work on tight shit. Hip-hop and punk rock have gotten their fair share of coverage from would be cultural historians and academics alike. But notably left out is no wave, which interwove music, visual & performance art and film in an explosive and chaotic burst to become a very influential movement. Our good friend (and member of Portions Toll) Marc Masters has recently had published, possibly the most thorough document on the subject to date. No Wave, a beautiful book filled with the history, interviews, and rare photos—certainly essential reading. Other Music calls it…

…an essential document of a time and place which, while seeming somewhat unimportant at the time, has proven its influence (for better or worse) and has gone on to outlive and outlast that true grit, grime, and terror of what Downtown New York once was — a wasteland of creative opportunity and a nihilist’s paradise. Think about that, and of these artists, the next time you pass by the new Bowery Hotel on your way to Whole Foods on Houston Street.

Tomorrow night, come out and join Marc for a night of No Wave. First, a reading and signing at CROOKED BEAT RECORDS in Adams Morgan. Then later that night, Marc will be DJing some No Wave tunes at Marx Cafe. Details below!

NO WAVE NIGHT
Friday May 2nd
CROOKED BEAT RECORDS in Adams Morgan
2318 18th St NW, Washington DC
Starts at 7pm

Marc Masters DJing at “We Fought The Big One”
MARX CAFÉ in Mt. Pleasant
3203 Mount Pleasant St. NW, Washington DC
From 10pm to 3am