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[ tuesday may 27th: under the radar ]
UNDER THE RADAR at 26Mix

3024 Mission Street between 26th and Ceasar Chavez
9:00pm - Close
$5.00

WARMDESK (deluxe records / fallt: chicago)
ARK & SETY (perlon / circuscompany: france)
PIN-UP MOTEL (tenderloft / freebeats: san francisco)
ZYGOTE (under the radar // : san francisco)

$1 Pabst Blue Ribbons all night

Artists Profiles

WARMDESK:
http://aposteriori.org/wdsk.html

Warmdesk is the project of chicago-based producer William Selman. The sound 
of Warmdesk has evolved from his earliest work of musique concrete and 
skewed rhythms into combining these elements into stripped-down minimal 
techno. Still present are the dubby textures and samples from everyday life, 
but now they coexist with smooth chords and rhythmic grooves. The desire is 
to create a multi-faceted "spray" of sound grounded by a pulse of beats and 
concrete sounds. Formerly a drummer, Selman's strategy is to allow rhythm to 
intuitively develop through repetition instead of the current obsession with 
changing its timbre and structure every measure.

Warmdesk has released material on several labels, including deluxe, bip-hop, 
static caravan and fallt. He has just released the "guero variations" cd for 
the well-regarded deluxe label (home of electric birds, blechtum from 
blechdom and matmos's early endeavors). The record is composed almost 
completely with sounds from the piano without actually playing the keys and 
according to the portland mercury's Dave Segal, it "makes musique concrete 
detritus shimmy and shake with glee." He is about to release a 12" on his 
own label with remixes by Stephan Mathieu and Ulrich Troyer. He is also 
working on a collaborative project of unapologetic dancefloor cut-and-paste 
with Forte Record's Matt Mercer. Selman is currently completing a master's 
degree in computer science.

ARK & SETY: (*content taken from Ark web site)
http://www.djouls.com/ark/

Ark is the artist who first brought the minimal style to many French. As 
soon as 1997 he issues on the Brif label "Siderurgie esthétique" and "De 
derrière les fagots", two EPs which were not much f a great success... It's 
logical, Ark is a precurssor, always light years ahead of his time.) (But he 
doesn't loose faith in his craft for that, and collaborates in 1999 with 
Herbert (UK) and Losoul (GER) on "Belle lurette". Everyone got skeptic 
listening to this new music and yet, as today Losoul or Herbert have became 
stars of the genre, they discover the sound of Ark!

PIN-UP MOTEL:
http://www.pinupmotel.com/

PIN-UP MOTEL is:
Dan Racanelli (Keyboards)
Jameson Edwards (Guitar, Vox, Keys)
Martin Przybyla (Guitar, Bass, Vox)
Alex Feldman (Drums)

ZYGOTE: (Prepared Audio)
http://www.bayimproviser.com/StephenRuiz

Stephen Ruiz (aka Zygote) uses the mechanized process of electronic music 
production and combines the expression of complex human feelings to create 
sound art. The tools of his output are computers, tape recorders, wires and 
other conduits of noise. His sound transcends the inhuman element of 
"technologically enhanced" production methods so vital in the world of 
electronic music producers, and in it's place submits raw and unfiltered 
emotion. While exploring the idea of personal expression through the cold 
exterior of machines, he takes the concepts of compositional indeterminacy, 
generative music and evolving cellular automata and humanizes them. The end 
result is populist music of emotional depth that illicits response via 
technology. Having trained in percussion and guitar, his compositional 
methods are rooted in structured narrative that are constantly being mutated 
under the pressure of new forms of expression.

Stephen has releases on Under the Radar Records and Alectric Records 
(Canada) and is the founding organizer of The "Under the Radar" experimental 
music and video events in San Francisco.

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TWO YEARS AND RUNNING
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003
Julip: 839 Geary (between Hyde and Larkin)

u.t.r.// 2 year anniversary event

DAT POLITICS:
Dat politics flash by the way of music but also texts some pixellised and 
pop snapshot focused on failed flirt and gastronomy, After work with 
innovative  and respectable labels as A-musik, Mille Plateaux, Skipp or 
Tigerbeat6, now the laptop-band collaborates with the electro-trash label 
from the Berlin-based trio Chicks On Speed to diffuse their domestic and 
terribly exotic new sonic adventures.

BLEVIN BLECHDOM:
Blevin Blectum - nee Bevin Kelley - one-third of Sagan, ex-d84 and formerly 
50% of Blectum From Blechdom. Currently Blevin plays solo and in Sagan (with 
fellow musician J Lesser and video artist Ryan Junell). Her first solo CD 
was released on Phthalo in 1999. Her second solo CD Talon Slalom was 
released May 2002 on Seattle's Deluxe Records. She makes electronic music 
with samplers and computers mostly.

LESSER:
Starting off with the templates of drum and bass but tweeking them beyond 
recognition, Lesser's music delivers crunchy snares and overdriven bass 
frequencies with a heaping helping of skeptical humor, gritty digital noise, 
and DIY instrument-building ingenuity. Soldering together new instruments 
out of the refuse of 80's mixers and synths, J Lesser avoids the standard 
sounds and strategies in favor of a confrontational, schizophrenic and often 
hilarious rethinking of conventional "intelligent: electronic dance music.

Lance Grabmiller
Born in Kansas City , Missouri in 1975. Studied viola, cello, alto 
saxophone, tenor saxophone and music composition (in that order) before 
putting all formal studies on hold with the discovery of his first four 
track tape recorder at the age of 14. Using various tapes, effects, objects, 
microphones, amplifiers, razor blades and any instruments that could be 
begged or borrowed, he created quite a din in the Midwest, most notably in 
his collaborations with Shannon Fields which included such bands as Alice's 
Offspring, Requiem (which included a revolving cast of dozens) and HSoA 
(with Martin Nieznanski), the last of which culminated in a gigantic 
performance noise nightmare that nearly destroyed the Gizmo in Galesburg, IL 
in 1994.

Co-organizer of the Under the Radar events.

DJ PERFORMANCES:

Wobbly:
Wobbly is a multi-talented artist who excels in music, painting, singing, 
writing, dancing and even woodworking. Once dubbed "Mr. High on Life", his 
colorful high energy is like electricity as it provokes intense emotion in 
his audience.

Wobbly is practical and youthful. He possesses charisma and magnetism. He's 
been a natural artist since early youth, but has restrained himself until 
recently, as his creative drive is pushing him to give to the world what 
lies inside of him. He developed himself as a portrait painter. This year, 
he's gone beyond that as he fulfills his philosophical nature in the avenue 
of music, writing and singing. He wants to live a long life and be creative. 
His fulfillment will not come until he's completed the full cycle of his 
inborn talent. His high creativity in all areas has funneled into music 
where he finds himself at this time, with his artistic ability as a painter 
having a profound effect. It appears as if his painting background shows up 
in his music as he paints pictures with his words. His broad background is 
embraced in his inspired voice.

Zygote:
*see above

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