I’m DJing a show for Kinetic.

Kinetic is proud to present a live performance and record release party for Chicago’s own, Hymen recording artist Millipede. Come celebrate the release of his new album “All My Best Intentions.” This event will also showcase the release of two awesome albums from excellent locally-based label Tympanik Audio: Access to Arasaka’s “Oppidian” and Displacer’s “X Was Never Like This.” There will be giveaways galore and DJ Misterentropy will provide the beats in between.

the first ENTITY was on May 28 and things were pretty shaky turnout wise.  there was some lag in the middle (about the time of the haujobb triple play) and I had to wrap things up early, but such is life.  I’ll give it another shot sooner rather than later with a more sustained promotional effort.  many thanks to the peeps who made it out.  here’s the damage.

ENTITY 05/28/09

s:cage — Treatments
Mlada Fronta — Untitled (Dither rmx)
m² — The Far Rim of Consciousness
Flint Glass — At Takwi
Lustmord vs Metal Beast — Open Towers Emerge (version)
Wilt — The Mystery of Iniquity
Mnemonic — Political Absurdity (Xabec rmx)
Talvekoidik — Such a Perfect Day
Empusae — Ritual Evil
Benestrophe — Pig Butcher
Hocico — Starving Children
Mortal Constraint — Growing Faces
Suicide Commando — Sheer Terror
Din Fiv — Time of Death
Stendeck — Safari In The Blue Tails Cockatoo’s Garden
Broken Fabiola — Slave
Detritus — Desolate
Pandora’s Black Box — Threshold
Coil — Slur
Various — Soho
Clock DVA — The Reign
C17H19NO3 — A Spell For Breaking An Opening Into The Sky
Decoded Feedback — Monument
Gridlock — Burn
Numb — Revenant
Mentallo & the Fixer — Sacrilege
Architect — Keks
Haujobb — Yearning
Haujobb — Nezzwerk
Haujobb — Penetration (Forma Tadre rmx)
Solitary Experiments — Bleak Prospects (Sick Society Mix By Second Disease)
GenCab — Il transMuter
Marching Dynamics — Bizango Datura
Distance — My Demons
Subheim — Take Me Back
Integral — Distal
Suicide Inside — Kill the Guilt
Prometheus Burning — Plague Called HuManity

original photograph by Rosemary Bannon Tyksinski

I’ve been toying around with the idea of a club night that wasn’t such a slave to the dance floor. entity isn’t going to be all about experimental, ambient noise, or noodly idm tracks; but then again, it won’t be out of the question to hear such things during the course of the night. and there will be dance songs, just not of the oontz, oontz, stomp, stomp variety. as for the entity name and concept, it’s the coming of age tale of something that lives and grows in the bowels of the city and has strange people playing it odd music and teaching it about the world. this thursday is the trial run.

last month was a bit of a grind.  we were burning the candle at both ends at kinetic with events every weekend and a near disaster in scheduling for the last night that lead to an emergency venue change for the kinetic flagship night.  there  was some fallout that may prove to have some lasting effects on how things progress from now on.  I’ll have thoughts later, as it’s been awhile.  for now, here are the last couple of sets I did for nexus6 and kinetic.  the kinetic set is a little watered down style-wise since it was held at neo, where we do nexus6,  and the dissonance and general oddness of the beats had to be reined in.

kinetic 3/28/09 @ neo

SET 1

Marching Dynamics — Bizango Datura
Displacer — Fueled
Architect — Belgian Connection
L’Ombre — Worthless (Displacer remix)
Subheim — Take Me Back
Mlada Fronta — Mn 54.94
Oil 10 — Solar Tides
¥π¥ — Strings of Infiinity
Mara’s Torment — Invitations and Seductions
Headscan — Ascend
Evils Toy — Illusion
Cryo — My Wall
Johannes Heil — Step Into the Light
Ginger5naps — Feel the Rhythm
Haujobb — Penetration (Floor Mix)
Kloq — I Never Said
Tristesse de la Lune — Time is Moving (Panze AG remix)
Atomizer — Underdog

nexus6  3/20/09 @ neo

SET 2

*Tactical Sekt — Waiting for the World to End
Converter — Domination (Lm)
W.A.S.T.E. — Eternal
Feindflug — Gulag
S.K.E.T. — No Limits for Heroes
Solitary Experiments — Seele Bricht
DavaNtage — Playgrounds of Nature
Straftanz — Praise the Panic
Prometheus Burning — Some Things Are Meant to Stay Broken
Synapscape — Bigger Space
Mlada Fronta — XB-EE
¥π¥ — Blue Voice

SET 1
Norm — Brand Im Cafe Vaterland
Mlada Fronta — Uuo 118
Empusae — The Hatred of Trees
Mentallo & the Fixer — Sacrilege
Disharmony — Gone in Silence
Klangstabil — Math & Emotion – The Square Root Of One
Diskonnekted — Prayer (Kneel Down)
Prometheus Burning — The Box (Whispers from Within)
Animassacre — The Great Collapse
Painbastard — Kein Vergeben
ESA — Belief Conversion
Straftanz — Burn Down Heaven
Solitary Experiments — Pale Candle Light (X-Fusion remix)

SET 2
Prometheus Burning — Plague Called HuMANity
Re:Legion — Cancer Decay
*Grendel — End of Ages (Artz+Psfuch Japscat remix_
Noisuf-X — My Time (Dioxyde remix)
Prometheus Burning — Genovese Syndrome
Synth-Etik — Requiem
Endif — Between Two Worlds
Destroid — Friend or Foe (The Betrayal)
DavaNtage — Unholy (In Necropolis A.D” Remix by Siva Sixx)
Accessory — More Than Machinery

there seems to be too much on my plate lately.  I’ll get back to the hard work of ordering all of this turmoil but for now:

this appeals to me, it’s dilapidated, romantic, and reconstructed and entwined in a narrative.  the best part is how it dwells in my imagination, because I won’t be hitting nyc anytime soon.

new acquisitions from Hands Productions to rough up the club a bit.  also good for the summer haze.

v/a Forms of Hands 08

Maschinenkrieger KR52 v.s Disraptor Audio-Phobe

Last Days of S.E.X. First S.E.X.ual Experience

I’ve been divorced from my murky headspace for awhile.  the summer has taken on a milder turn for the last week or so and the nights have been cool with a hint of autumn in their intent.   it’s been lazy days and lake breezes and light-hearted nights with weisbier, scotch and romance.  I’ve also found myself on a boat for some reason.  the summer’s on it’s last legs however.  fighter jets were buzzing chicago all weekend for the annual air & water show and jaded as I am, the cacophony and hardware still conjure waves of nostalgia for me and my early years on ft. bragg; and the atavistic sabre rattling and cold war nonsense being perpetuated in georgia illustrates my love/hate relationship with nostalgia, memory and longing.  treasure the past, but it keep it buried if well marked I suppose.  build beautiful monuments, leave flowers and remember the songs from the days of old, but watch out for the hazy times when those gnarled hands coming reaching up from out of the ground to pull you back into it’s embrace.

but soon, it’s back to the serious business of september thoughts and actions and obligations.  the heat well lessen and everyone will at least make an attempt at thinking clearly and getting shit done.  in the spirit of moving forward with very little in the way of backwards glances and obliterating the lingering traces of cold war hysteria and other institutionalized horrors that have outlived their usefulness — motivational music:

punch inc. fight club

there were rumblings of apocalypse last night.  a sudden storm had it’s way with chicago and there was talk of tornadoes and the sirens wailed and the awe and hysteria was mocked via twitter.  in the end it was just the usual; flooding, toppled trees and thousands without power.  I regretted not having a decent view of things and relied on my girlfriend to offer vicarious thrills based on her observations from her lofty southeast facing perch.  luckily my power stayed on, as it gave me the opportunity to supply a soundtrack to the dangerous spectacle of nature.  I’ve been making my way through a pile of music and a great deal of it has come from the Tympanik Audio label, a terribly young and rapidly growing giant in the north american industrial scene.  It’s been in existence for a little less than a year but has an impressive roster of talent and a level of consistent quality that is pretty damn remarkable.  one of the newest releases is Carbon by Endif.

this album, out of all the releases on Tympanik, is the most suited for the ever voracious dancefloor.  there are a number of tracks, (between two worlds and naked bloody and hungry in particular) that should fit in seamlessly at even the most future pop and hellektro saturated events clubland has to offer.  the beauty of Carbon however, lies in it’s adhearance to it’s own rules of sonic engagement.  Endif has a way of building songs that eschew simple formulas and genre conventions that embrace complexity and involve layers of seemingly disparate elements that nevertheless come off as being relatively straightforward (as in the forementioned tracks) or dense mood pieces that stalk and wander, pausing here and there, losing shards of themselves, rolling back and picking them up again before releasing a ferocious assault of it all back at the listener.  Endif also has a strong grasp of tension and how it can be used in concert with silences and slower tempos to make the hard crushing beats harder and more intense; surgery of the soul is a masterful example of this, it’s my favorite kind of dance song even though I enjoy a good 4/4 stomper as much as the next guy.  it’s good storm music, most definitely.