NorthwestTekno - **Sat. 4/23** Substudios Presents: Loscil, Strategy, Nudge, Paul Edwards [SEA]

Saturday April 23

CHAC Lower Level 1621 12th Ave. Seattle click here for map

Static Factory, Substudios, and Kranky Records present:

Kranky recording artists Strategy, Loscil, and Nudge!

with special guest Sir Paul Edwards

doors 9pm // show 10pm-2am // $7 // 21+
(arrive before 10:30pm to be entered into a drawing to win Kranky CDs, mugs, posters, bumper stickers, etc!)

check out what The Stranger had to say! www.thestranger.com/current/up_coming.html

Strategy

Portland dj, producer, and musician Paul Dickow is the man behind Strategy. He has played drums in the art punk outfit Emergency, keyboards in Fontanelle, and multiple instruments in Nudge. He has been performing and DJing as Strategy at dance clubs, rock clubs, dance parties and galleries up and down the west coast. Strategy wires together Dickow's programming and performing experience via a hodgepodge of table top electronics, computers and realtime musicianship. Combining a granular ambient aesthetic with an abstract, percolating rhythmic sensibility, he unites small parts into complete melodies motivated by complex pulsations. He has releases out on his own label Archigramophone, Outward Music Company, Tigerbeat6, ORAC, Audraglint, Audio Dregs, Shockout, and Kranky. His latest full-length release on Kranky, "Drumsolo's Delight", earned him rave reviews and an invitation to perform at the SONAR festival last year in Barcelona, Spain. He is currently at work on the third full-length Strategy release, provisionally entitled Future Rock, due out later this year on Kranky.

Loscil

Vancouver, BC artist Scott Morgan is the man behind Loscil. He creates sound-effects for video games by day and makes music by night. As a student at Simon Fraser University he studied composition, electronic-acoustic music production, and also played drums in various bands. He has toured in Europe and played shows all over the Pacific Northwest, integrating sound and visuals. On Locsil's latest full-length release, "First Narrows" (out on Kranky), Morgan combined acoustic and electric-acoustic instruments including guitar, Rhodes electric piano, and cello, with computer generated sequences created from sound sources that ranged from sampled instruments to miscellaneous lo-fi mini-cassette recordings, all using his own custom programming, sequencing, and processing which he designed so that no two performances of the patches would be exactly the same. Loscil will be performing with Jason Zumpano on Fender Rhodes electric piano.

Nudge

Portland band Nudge has been a working group for five years, centered around main members Brian Foote (who runs the Outward Music and Audraglint labels) and Paul Dickow (also a solo artist who works under the name Strategy). Nudge works through marathon improvisations and edits that cohese into perfectly formed future music. Merging live instrumentation and singing with programmed material, they play what most artists working in electronic music sequence, perhaps accounting for the remarkable warmth at the center of Nudge's complex technologies. Nudge's debut album "sounds like a sugared-up Tortoise splashing vivid colors on to cool jazz's charcoal-hued canvas", wrote Dave Segal in the Portland Mercury. With releases out on Tigerbeat 6 and Outward Music Company, Nudge's third full-length album, "Cached", is due out on Kranky in May 2005. While creating the new album, Foote and Dickow were joined in the studio by Honey Owens, a member of Jackie-O Motherfucker and programmer at the Dunes Club in Portland. Together they built a framework of acoustic and electric instrumentation and the trio also edited and arranged the recordings themselves. Their upcoming performance in Seattle will be among the first live appearances on their North American tour as they set out to support the new album.

Sir Paul Edwards

Recently knighted by Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Paul Edwards McCallick (aka DJ Paul Edwards) has been rocking shows in Seattle since 2001 with his tradmark micro/glitch house and dub/experimental sets, both dj and live. Paul has also become one of the city's most active promoters, bringing some of the best shows to our fair city, including such artists as Murcof, Proem, and Geoff White. Besides DJing and performing live, promoting, and recording in his studio, Paul is also Decibel Festival's technology director. Recently he has been wowing crowds with his amazing live PA/DJ set hybrid performances, creating quite a stir. "If somebody were to make a film about intelligent dance music, Paul Edwards would merit a starring role...his impeccable musical taste and skills as a DJ, plus his own excellent productions, add to his stature", wrote Dave Segal in The Stranger. "I really have no idea actually why he was knighted, I've never even heard of him. Who the hell is he anyway?", Sir Elton John recently remarked when asked about Paul Edwards, "I think Her Majesty the Queen, in her old age, must have confused this Paul Edwards McCallick with Paul McCartney, whom she must have forgoten she already knighted anyway", he went on to say. Accidental confusion or not, Paul Edwards and his hybrid performance are not to be missed!