This week at the barn it’s time to dress up and come on down as we here at KUCR and housing services bring you the official dance party KUCR style. Spinning throughout the night we will have Guns N Bombs and Dj Chachiwho. Guns N Bombs are well known in the LA area club scene and are bringing their intense beats and mixing skills here to Riverside to give the Inland Empire a taste of the LA sound. Guns N Bombs is made up of Ima Robot bassist Filip Turbotito and Dj Johnny Love, so you can expect to hear a quality set. Here is a video to show the kind of performance these guys bring.

GNB REMIX OF TEENAGERS LIVE @ WOMB TOKYO

Also spinning will be Dj Chachiwho, a Riverside local slowly climbing the ranks in the club scene and making a name for himself both at home and abroad. His set will not disappoint as he brings his “A” game no matter where he goes and wouldn’t dream of giving anything less to the city he calls home.

Then headlining for the night we have a live set from electro dance act Funeral Party. Funeral Party is another act that hails from the LA area and plans on helping the people of Riverside have a night of fun they won’t soon forget. The band has had the pleasure of playing alongside established acts such as Crystal Castles and Health Not to mention they’ve been featured on Indie 103.1’s popular show, Neon Noise, known for bringing the best of the electro scene to the radio airwaves.

As always doors open at 6 and music should start soon after. The show is free, all ages and open to the public. Happy hour menu and drink specials, for those old enough, will be available throughout the night. So definitely come by and share a dance or two with us here at KUCR.

RADIO 200

 

1 DAVE GAHAN Hourglass Remixes Mute

2 STEVE REICH Daniel Variations Nonesuch

3 JIM NOIR Jim Noir Barsuk

4 FOUR TET Ringer Domino

5 B-52S Funplex Remix [EP]

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As promised, last Wednesday was a revelatory experience. As promised, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound melted our collective face while gently drowning us in relentless waves of orgiastic cosmic joy. As promised, Health owned. If you haven’t already, you really ought to consider making it out these events. They’re kind of historical. Thanks to Matthew Yeung at the Highlander for the photos.

Coming up next Wednesday, Mula and Boogaloo Assassins. Wear your dancing shoes.

"I’ve always thought Erykah Badu looked like a really cool human being, but I never really liked her music. I’ve always wanted to, though, because I want to associate cool sounding music with a cool looking person. I kind of like this single, but I’m not sure I can trust myself. Maybe my urge to like Erykah Badu has overridden my critical faculties. Somebody else decide."

dex says - Trust your instincts, Ryan. This one is good.

This week, Ryan reviews Solomon’s Hip-Hopera…

With a special epilogue and confirmation by dex. Reject bin.

Sigur Ros

Hvarf/Heim

(XL; 2007)

When Radiohead fans get bored listening to Kid A and In Rainbows and feel like progging out like their parents did to King Crimson in the early 70’s, they put on Sigur Ros.

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[Wea/Relapse; 2007]

Ire Works, one of the top albums of the year, emerges as Dillinger Escape Plan’s most genre bending and innovative albums. After losing a core member and drummer, Chris Pennie, to a mediocre and half as talented band, Coheed and Cambria; Greg Puciato, Liam Wilson, Ben Weiman, Brian Benoit and replacement drummer, Gil Sharone of Stolen babies, continue the path to solidifying themselves as a band that refuses to lack integrity in a genre of music that is consuming itself; post punk and hardcore.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU2jpHmz2sI[/youtube]

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Apparently this CD won’t be getting a whole lot of airplay on your favorite radio station. I do remember Sole doing some cool things.

Ryan Says is a weekly column featuring pithy things that Ryan writes on tape about various records that come in to KUCR.

Words to describe Prefuse 73-Hypnotic, Fractured, Complex, Cerebral, Bright, Intense, Trippy, Anxious, Whimsical and often Dreamy…

Preparations (Warp Records), the latest efforts by Prefuse 73’s Guillermo Scott Herren, contrary to the listed adjectives above, offer anything but a whimsical hipster hip-hop ride to the far off land of Intelligent Dance Music. From “East Intro”, the title track off Preparations, starts in the predictable Prefuse fashion; the MC “lyrically” introduces Prefuse 73 admist heavy glitch and broken melodies as heard on the Extinguished: Outtakes album. Does this sound familiar? It’s a hip-hop cliche and in the experimental world of Hipster Hip-Hop, cliches are either exploited or avoided. Personally, if I put on a Prefuse 73 album, I want to hear anything but cliche.

I honestly feel like it would be a waste of time to give a track-by-track explanation of why I feel like Preparations created a new meaning of the acronym IDM: Irrational Driving Music. I’ll give two examples without exhausting my critque - The track, “Girlfriend Boyfriend”, has no depth or melodic direction, while the structure is hard to define. Unfortunately, I can say the same for the rest of the album. Another track, “Let It Ring”, leaves the listener wanting more from the production. There is minor potential in some of the melodies but the beat completely destroys its effect, being drowned in an ocean of digitally altered vocal harmonies.

Has Prefuse 73 pushed the envelope as far as possible in his genre with Preparations? A few years ago his albums were the most exciting and innovative…now they sound like bad versions of Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives.