March 25th - DJ RIPLEY @ Earthly Delights

DJ Ripley is an amazing deejay. After I saw her at one of Brooklyn's legendary (on the down-low) Rubaiyat parties in 2002 I knew I had to bring her to Pittsburgh...

So I am! March 25th Facebook event page here.

BIO-> Now disturbing San Francisco, California, since 1996 Ripley has careened through 17 countries with no sign of stopping, causing total dance mayhem at events from Berlin to Boston to Bristol to Brussels to Brisbane to Belgrade, Riga to Rotterdam to Rennes, Halle to Helsinki, Cambridge to Cholula, Scezczin to San Francisco, Tallinn to Toronto, Linz to London, Paris to Prague, Melbourne to Mexico City.

Ripley's wreckstep raggaphonics slice through genres of street bass, dubstep, baltimore club music, UK garage, kuduru, hiphop, jungle, dancehall, breakcore, d'n'b, glitched-out breaks, juke, baile funk, bhangra and dub, sprouting new life on the dancefloor. On sunny afternoons, Ripley spins rocksteady.

Ripley has caused total dance mayhem in spaces like a re-purposed public lavatory underground in East London, a former commercial fishing ship off the cost of Rostock, an (initially) laid-back lounge in Oakland California, a half-squatted office space in downtown Riga, a former military airport in eastern Germany, the basement of an Indian restaurant in Bristol, the Boston Children's Museum, alongside a riverbed in Mexico, as well as warehouses and clubs across America and Europe, in most places you'd think and some you wouldn't. Ripley's used her dj skills to support the Revolutionary Afghan Women's
Association, Medical Activists of New York, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Ripley's been voted "Best Dance DJ 2009" by the Sf Bay Guardian Readers' poll, and her monthly Surya Dub won "Best Club Night 2008" in the same poll, and one year later the Guardian named Surya Dub "Best Ambassadors of Dread Bass."

She's played alongside art-music luminaries like Kaffe Matthews, noted thereminist Pamelia Kurstin, as well as beat maniacs like Asian Dub Foundation, The Bug, Drop The Lime, Vex'd, Dub Gabriel, Dizzee Rascal, Plastician, Dr. Israel, Flying Lotus, Toecutter, Mike Slott and many more.

In the world of letters, Ripley examines global and subcultural property systems through the lens of law, especially investigating how people come to think they can own music as if it was a thing and not a practice. She is a columnist on technology & rights issues for Wiretap online youth magazine. But really, Ripley wants everyone to dance.

Latest mix: Terenga Global Bass sessions -
http://soundcloud.com/ripley/slayers-club-ft-ripley-at-terenga-11-12-09

Dubstep/breaks mix -
http://s3.amazonaws.com/noise/ripley.insensible.mp3

Breakcore mix -
http://www.span.nered.org/mixes/djripley/djripley_histeriadelaripley.mp3

Other mixes, mashes and thoughts up at http://djripley.blogspot.com

Garden of Earthly Delights
Dj Ripley w/ James Gyre
March 25th 10pm-2am
Brillobox 4104 Penn
$6/drink specials
video projections
by Flux Rostrum

earthly delights: new year's eve @ the brillobox

Peace 2009 <-> Hello 2010

Brillobox
Dec. 31st 8pm - 2am
Garden of Earthly Delights
New Year's Eve: "a black belt & white tie joint"
$5 with all black & white threads (small color accents a.o.k.) $10 w/o

Resident D.J. James Gyre with Keeb$, Temisan Adoki, Nice Rec & Bartholomew Dylan

Seriously... this party will be beautiful. Keeb$ (stackinpaper.com, lazer crunk, fuzz) and I have been conniving secret new year's plans for months. For starters we're starting early with a potluck and cocktail reception. We'll be providing some appetizers and are encouraging people who want to eat before they drink to bring some food to share. Bartholomew Dylan's esoteric sounds & Nice Rec's deep vinyl crates of funk & soul will accompany our feasting. I'm planning on whipping up a batch of winter sangria... a spiced white wine concoction that's been received well at previous new year's events... All night we'll have a private photo booth available so you can get shot in your stunning black & white outfits. We're also transforming the Brillobox with art and installations.

After feasting Temisan Adoki, Pittsburgh's under-sung hero of the esoteric d.j. set will start the dance. He plays everything... expect techno, baile funk, electro, hip hop, b-more, wobble and classic detroit and chicago tracks. His set at Lazer Crunk this year was one of my favorite sets of the year, hands down. Then for the ball drop Keeb$ and I will blow the roof off. I've already pulled so many awesome tunes for that set. We'll have some custom, one-time only audio for the night, too! That last two hours will be dance mayhem... start 2010 by shaking your ass with us!