Cabaret Voltaire - Crackdown


Skinny Puppy - Glass Houses
The beauty of their souls, the sweetness of their characters, live on with us forever…
Depeche Mode - People Are People
There are thousands of songs I have listened to over and over during my lifetime. I know many by heart; their lyrics and their sound forever embedded within me… what I’m trying to say, is that I fucking love Depeche Mode ;)
Using bass and glitch as its niche, the SUBcon Beyond Fest continues to occupy a special place in the dark, experimental world of electronic music. Organized by cEVin Key of industrial quartet Skinny Puppy, the moniker of the festival stems from Key’s L.A.-based label Subconscious Communications. Originated in 1993, SUBcon has lasted for 18 years on a strict diet of sonic weirdness.
Starting Tuesday night at Zanzibar in Santa Monica, Key and other notable Subconscious artists, including Philip Western of Vancouver and England’s Mark Spybey, parlay their various programming and psychedelic synth projects into a week-long tour through the western U.S. and Canada. The carnival of ambient and ear splitting noise includes Key’s hypnotic side projects Tokyo Decadence and plaTEAU (featuring Western), along with Spybey and Western’s collaborative act Download.
Spybey’s also showcasing the haunting atmospherics of his solo project Dead Voices on Air and Gnome and Spybey, a collaboration with trance and industrial artist Tony D’Oporto. Aside from Key, who’s from L.A. by way of Vancouver, the local portion of the bill resides with electro experimentalist Cyrusrex and Wet Mango, a raucous beat vixen based in downtown whose abrasive mix of ghetto house and Game Boy beats rounds out the lineup.
SUBcon Beyond Fest, Tuesday at Zanzibar, 1301 5th St., Santa Monica, 9 p.m. $5 before 11 p.m., $10 after. (310) 451-2221, www.zanzibarlive.com.
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I’ll be there wearing my trademark Batman attire, in case you wanna say ‘sup
Nine Inch Nails w/Gary Numan - Metal -live from that show I might have gone to