Friday Nov. 19th... the PARTY LIBERATION FRONT returns!!!

Friday Nov. 19th 9pm-2am 21+ $5
burner happy hour downstairs 7pm

The party liberation front are a collective
of incredible fire artists, deejays & lunatics
from richmond, virginia. They play festivals
all over the country including burning man &
are known for their good vibes, funky beats,
hot burlesque, tasty food & heavy bass...
expect a huge range of music... dubstep, juke,
u.k. funky, moonbahton, electro, glitchop,
tropical bass, balkan beat... oh, and fire!

last year they came and it was epic.
i've been meaning to post photos of that
party for almost a year now... soon, maybe!

brillobox d.j. lineup:
reinhold (P.L.F. - richmond, VA)
Mr jennings (P.L.F. - richmond, VA)
james gyre (earthly delights - pgh, pa)
dr zayaz (pittsburners, bat country - pgh, pa)

afterparty d.j. lineup:
DJ Cucitroa (Get weird - PGH, PA)
Matty Freebles (bat country - pgh, pa)
Michael NightTime (P.E.X., P.L.F. - philly, pA)

this is my birthday party, and i'm turning 30.
we will do this big. expect installations at the club,
drink specials, surprise guests, killer tunes
and good luck finding the afterparty!

*DJ/rupture* -->April 22nd (Earth Day!)

DJ /rupture (Jace Clayton) is pretty much my favorite deejay. His ear for the often far-flung connections between disparate music styles is unmatched. A lecturer, writer, and blogger, he's as much an ethnomusicologist and cultural theoretician as deejay and producer. His mixes Gold Teeth Thief and Minesweeper Suite were benchmarks for three turntable mixing, combining hip hop, drum n bass, dancehall and experimental sounds within a global context.

DJ /rupture picked up a strong ear for North African music during his five year residence in Barcelona, and has recently been delving deeply into Central and South American styles and traditional styles at that, not just the popular modern hybrids. He has been instrumental in furthering appreciation of the dubstep, grime and u.k. funky scene here in America, as well as being an early adopter of new global dance forms like kuduro and tribal guachero.

Acoustic music, true stories, and earth-shuddering bass. Pop, politics and pure sound. Deejay, philosopher and travel guide.

DJ /rupture is coming here.

learn up!

notable /rupture websites:

wikipedia entry
full deejay bio
full writer bio
solo blog "mudd up!"
crew blog "dutty artz"
/rupture wfmu radio archives (an embarrassment of riches)

notable /rupture mixes:

2001 gold teeth thief (free! wire magazine top 50 albums of 2001)
2002 minesweeper suite (wire magazine top 10 albums of 2003)
2005 secret google cheat codes (with filastine)
2008 uproot (pitchfork top 10 albums of the year 2008)
2008 ghetto palms cumbia mix (free!)
2009 solar life raft (with matt shadetek)

other /rupture stuff:

/rupture youtube: interviews, music, etc...
/rupture discography at discogs

DJ /rupture +
James Gyre & Edgar Um
@ Garden of Earthly Delights
9PM - 2AM April 22nd @ Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA
$7 pre-sale $10 at the door

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

November 13th (Friday the 13th!) - The Party Liberation Front!

this will be a really fun Earthly Delights.

It's close to my birthday, so i've brought in some of my favorite musicians to play for us...

PLF!

the party liberation front, for those of you that don't go to burning man or a lot of regional burns, are one of the finest crews of festival music out there. they bring infinite good vibes, good tracks and are some of my favorite people. For this event we'll have Mr. Jennings and The Reinhold of PLF up from richmond to bless the speakers. Mr. Dug (of Pgh) is going to start out the night with me playing some non-bass musics for us to get our breath before the bass. Mr. Jennings and I share a love for twerked-out bass madness, so we'll be tag-teaming for much of the dance... The Reinhold plays a bouncy and crowd-pleasing set of minimal techno/electro and he'll be closing the night for us.

these people are gems. i love waking up in the morning at their camp and playing tabla music for breakfast while the hula hoops spin and people clean up from the late-night partiers. the vegan chili gets busted out and people of all stripes take their turns on the stripper pole. as the day goes on the bass gets iller and people start spinning shit while it's lit on fire. the sounds pump out of their covered-wagon soundsystem all night, with a real diverse and talented line-up of deejays. I've never done a festival with PLF where the party didn't gravitate, night after night, to our part of the woods. which makes me so happy to share their vibe with all of you (god i feel like such a raver right now!)

come to this party people... give them a warm, pittsburgh welcome!

a secret after-party will be held where things will, indeed, be lit. on. fire. talk to me in private if you think you're into that.

(the garden of) Earthly Delights

w/ James Gyre & the P.L.F.

Friday, November 13th

4104 Penn Ave.

Brillobox

10-2

$5