Beat Church December 15, 2011

Another BUMPIN night of beats and good peeps at Icon Lounge in S.F.

LAST BEAT CHURCH OF 2011 !!!
Featuring the audio artistry of west coast music maestro's:

DJ LAURA (LowRIDERz)

www.soundcloud.com/djlauramusic
http://madisonhouseinc.com/dj-laura

Deep 808s blending with heavy rolling melodic dubstep describes the West Coast sound of DJ LAURA.

Laura Howett has been DJing for the last decade and making her mark in the underground scene. Laura's electronic journey will embrace you. Balancing hard-hitting drops mixed with bottomless low rolls, she produces and remixes delicious floor shattering beats. DJ LAURA makes it dirty and crunk. All said, DJ LAURA is HYPHY.

Laura also partners with SF beat-junkie An-Ten-Nae in creating club bangers as the notorious LowRIDERz. This duo is blowing up parties and festivals with their new frenzy of hyphy, crunked sounds.

ChrisB. (Headtron)

www.soundcloud.com/chrisbmusik
www.facebook.com/chrisbsound
www.headtron.com/artists/chrisb

Born and raised in Los Angeles, ChrisB. was immersed in West Coast flavor since day one. Drawn to music and art from an early age, Chris grew up always having an instrument in his hands. Although new to production, his obsessive musical passion is palpable in the deep and sensual soundscapes he meticulously weaves.
Boldly exploring vast melodic realms full of hypnotic textures and a heavy dose of emotionally-resonant driving bass, his high energy live performances never fail to inspire each person in the audience. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he is utterly unafraid to toss aside the crutch of ‘brute-force’ sonic assaults and instead relies only on his brilliant melodic compositions. Chris’s sound reflects a developed musicality not often associated with the bulk of contemporary electronic music.

DOV (Muti Music)
www.soundcloud.com/dov

www.mutimusic.com/index.php/artist/dov

Dov is the person behind Muti Music, a selector at heart, compulsively picking tunes for record labels and for your dancing / listening pleasure.
He produces everything from Dubstep to various downtempo, midtempo and uptempo Breaks and also receiving accolades for collaborations with An-ten-nae and ill.Gates.
His sound when performing represents that of a whole movement of young producers coming out on his Muti Music imprint and adds directions that you know are going to emerge more in the future.
Known for his energetic sets that delve as hard into a tranquil interlude as they do into bassline drops and glitched out frenzies. The sounds to be expected from Dov are always elevated and emotional, whether downtempo or peak time uptempo in super-clubs, his diversity and experience have prepared him for the job.

Past gig highlights include Burning Man, Village Stage Shambala (Canada), Trigger (UK), Shine On (Australia), Raindance (San Francisco), Get Freaky (San Francisco) and a plethora of outdoor summer festivals.

Related production and company projects that Dov has founded / worked on include: Muti Music, Cyberset Music, Fusion Festival and monthlies, Eyephunk, “ig-nite”, Radio-v, Digital Be-In, 1015 Folsom, Subalicious, Shattered, Music without Borders and multiple ‘one-off’ nights.

jOBOT (Headtron)

www.soundcloud.com/jobotmusic
www.facebook.com/jobotmusic
www.headtron.com/artists/jobot

Joe Wendt was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He is a classically trained jazz bassist and a lover of all genres of music. Over the past few years he has developed a keen ear and, in turn, a voice for the creation of crunchy, slimy, nasty, and cerebrally enticing electronic dance music. jOBOT is that voice.

NICO LUMINOUS
http://soundcloud.com/nicoluminous
http://nicoluminous.com/

West Coast musical artist Nicoluminous is on a mission...This unique multi-faceted artist takes a soulful approach to creating electronic music while fusing melodic progressions, futuristic sound design and organic elements into dirty bass drops."Sunrize in LA",his most recent release on Street Ritual records on March 21st 2011, went straight to #1 on Addictech.com.The EP is an elegant downtempo lovestep journey moving swiftly between haunting samples, throbbing sub-bass and 8 bit funk.Lately, his sets have been geared to the sexier and less aggressive side of Dubstep with bass deep and hypnotic. When it comes to his love of Hiphop, Dub, and Dancehall, Nico melds these influences into upbeat Left Coast Crunk and Glitch Hop.Having been performing as an MC/Beatboxer since he was a teenager, Nico also puts those skills to work in his DJ sets along with his looper pedal/effects belt to create a live element and raise the vibes. Stay tuned nicoluminous.com, Nico's forthcoming Ep "Love Star" out on Muti Music this fall.

*** Also there will be a couple of *extra special* secret guests that have been playing with us for years who are now considered some of the most innovative and explosive performers on the worldwide electronic music scene and will be returning to play for y'all for fun like the old days. It will be a night for the books !

We are suggesting earlier arrival since this line-up is so rad, the club reached capacity and there was a line around the block so we've improved the methods of flow into the club for your convenience. Some things that we have added are:

MORE SPEAKERS (Our sound engineer Matt will be there working the systems all night to maximize our audio experience)
FREE ICED MINT YERBA MATE (self serve with marker attached to write on and re-use your cup)
MORE FANS and AIR FLOW (won't be a sweaty jungle like it was last time)
DRINK SPECIALS !
there are really, REALLY good drink specials before midnight, and excellent drink specials all night with efficient bar staff that are very nice.
SURPRISE GUEST ARTISTS
Very often we have friends that are bad-ass music producers that come out and play unannounced for fun or just happen to have their gear in their car so spontaneous collaborations and random tag team mashups are not uncommen and are welcome if it's in the flow.

we have an extended list of residents including :Knowa Knowone, Karim So, Smasheltooth

RESIDENT DJ/ SELECTORS :

MiHKAL (Symbiosis/Street Ritual/Beat Church) http://soundcloud.com/mihkal

KITTY-D http://soundcloud.com/kitty-d
&
NEPTUNE (Beat Church)

DEC. 15 2011

Thanks again for supporting your local underground music and arts community !!! Beat Church has been happy to bring cutting edge music and talent for almost 10 years in San Francisco every 1st and 3rd thursdays.
21+
$10 suggested donation
Icon Lounge
1192 Folsom St
(between 8th St & Rausch St)