Hungry for bass? McCormick & Schmick's, baby.
Hungry for bass with the long-A sound? Cast your line no further than the Czar Bar at 10 p.m. tonight for the debut of a dub-shakin', earth-quakin' new aural experience called Hyperlink. It's brought to you by DJs Brent Tactic and FSTZ and promises, according to Brent, "bass heavy music from all different walks of life...dubstep, bassline house, electro, funky, glitch, dancehall, etc. FSTZ and I have been looking for an outlet to play these types o
Every since the Tragic Snake Bite Kit Mishap of '98, we here at The Pitch have been reluctant test new products. And that's why we've enlisted professional help to test this little gadget, the Tonium Pacemaker "pocket-sized DJ system."
Collapsing turntables, mixer, record crates into one smaller-than-a-Gameboy handheld device, the Pacemaker claims to possess all you need to DJ anytime, anywhere. Earlier this week, after seeing an ad for it in XLR8R, enterprising staffer Nadia Pflaum wrot
via Synthtopia.comThere are a lot of great things about this job. The newest, I recently learned: High-tech companies can be convinced to lend out high-tech gadgets for review. I read about the Tonium Pacemaker in the August issue of XLR8R. It's a Swedish-designed, portable, self-contained DJ kit, with two stereo channels, a mixer and a host of digital effects, all crammed into a hand-held gadget the size of a PSP. It markets itself as the perfect on-the-go DJ companion, with the capacity to
Thanks to our friends at umove.net, we're giving away two pairs of tickets to see Dragonette this Wednesday at Czar Bar.
The much-hyped Canadian electro-pop band is sure to heat up the dance party. Local beat mechanics Brent Tactic, Norrit and DJ Boyfriend will be on hand to see the ride through.
Fans of new wave pop rock a la Metric will also want to be there, as will fans of magnificent cheekbones and vandalism. At least, those two things feature prominently in the sexy vid for the c
Disco dance act Hercules and Love Affair are set to perform a DJ set at the Record Bar on February 5.
Their 2008 self-titled release on DFA was a critical success, with the Village Voice calling it "a triumphant bit of Brooklyn neo-disco," as well as it earning a 9.1 from Pitchfork and charting on KJHK.
The show will have an opening set by Brent Tactic & Bill Pile. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, January 9 at 10:00 a.m. Tickets will be on sale through Wantickets and Ticketmaster. As
