This Friday, the 26th, you’ll find this splendid beat seeker at the Seattle Art Museum, for an installation of their SAM Remix event series, featuring some of my favorite local (and nearly-local) producers, plus a museum full of other happenings…. all for only $10!

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26TH @ THE DOWNTOWN SAM

Experience SAM Remix Downtown, which will bursting at the seams with live music, art, DJs, performances, talks, dancing and more at this late-night creative explosion!

The night’s activities include:

• Decibel Festival stage featuring A/V performances by LOSCIL (Kranky : Vancouver), THE SIGHT BELOW (Ghostly International), NORDIC SOUL (Decibel) & GEL-SOL (em:t).
• Brokenbeat performances by SUNTZU SOUND
• Mashups spun by DJ FREDDIE KING OF PANTS
• Accordionist Philip Kobernik of band Hey Marseilles playing live in the galleries
• SAM Talks: Artist Salon with videos, images and more presented by Seattle-based artists
• Live, kinetic sculpture installations by Lingo Dance Company
• Theatrical performance by Mike Pham of Helsinki Syndrome
• Modern dance by Evoke Productions
• Teatro ZinZanni’s amazing juggler Bernard Hazens
• SAMtrax playlists in the Third and Fourth Floor galleries, curated by writers, artists and critics
• Seattle Beard & Stache Fest’s Bearded Lady competition
• A drawing studio with live models
• Masquerade face painting
• A design competition using Seattle-based artist Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 Blocks interactive sculpture
• Readings by poets Daemond Arrindell and Storme Webberwith Rosalyn DeRoos
• My Favorite Things tours with local artists, critics and arts organizations, including Adriana Grant, Regina Hackett, Denee McCloud & Gao Gao, KT Niehoff of Lingo Dance, Yoko Ott & Scott Lawrimore, Jessica Powers, Helen Divjak of MOHAI, Vivian Phillips of the Hansberry Project at ACT, Carlo Scandiuzzi of Act Theatre and more.

Doors open at 8pm / 18+

Tickets may be purchased at the Ticketing Desk at any of SAM’s three sites or over the phone with a credit card by calling the Box Office at 206.654.3121. This is an ages 18+ event. Visit THE SAM REMIX EVENT PAGE for more info on the February SAM Remix event.

Members: $5
Adults: $10
Students: $8
Seniors: $8

The Seattle Art Museum
1300 1st Ave, Seattle

Yup, it’s finally here. All your hard work and patient waiting has paid off. Time to chill the f out to some of the finest mellow beats the PNW has to offer.

Full event info is here.

Can’t make it to the show? Don’t forget that you can stream our live webcast from here or here.

February is promising to be a month stacked with great music events here in Seattle. Here’s a quick run down of what I’m looking forward to. Follow the included links for full event details.

Friday, Feb. 5 :: Chillography 203
with Bloom, Cotec, Nelia, and Hendrik

Saturday, Feb 6 :: HOTwired
with Blue Spectral Monkey vs Captain Trips, Osiris Indryia vs Lara, and Amanita vs Nick Mc

Friday, Feb 12 :: Ambire Linearis
with Playing With Knobs, John Ames, Jenna Marshall, and Skoi Sirius

Friday, Feb 19 :: The Lotus Petal
with Evan Bluetech, Phutureprimitive, Dropzone, and Channel Surfer

The January 2009 episode of Psilicon Dreams is locked and loaded. Tune in to DI.FM’s Psychill channel this Saturday, the 9th, at 9am US PST / 12pm US EST / 5pm UK / 18:00 Central Europe to catch its debut. I’ll post the set here for download later in the weekend.

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Join us again to celebrate chillout the way it was meant to be enjoyed—comfortably lounging in a bubble of pristine audio, with a group of fellow chill aficionados. We’re taking the chill room and putting it in it’s proper place—front and center.

Welcome to Chillography 203.

When :: Friday, February 5, 2010, 10pm – 4am
Where :: Transcendent Church of Bass, 920 Elliott Ave. W, Seattle, WA 98105
Tickets :: $15 at door
Who :: 18+

Presenting the evening’s chillographers ::

BLOOM (live)
COTEC (live)
NELIA
HENDRIK

Full event details, audio samples and links can be found at the Chillography site.

Hooray! The Chillography 202 sets are now available for download. Relive, or hear for the first time, the fine chillout sets from DJ Eckoe, Kalpataru Tree (live), Michael Manahan, and Scott Sunn.

Download them and many others from our past shows here: www.chillography.net/blog/downloads

Enjoy!

Tonight I’m playing at DanceChurch with Amanita and Osiris Indriya of the Future Nurses. This is sure to be one stompalicious night. There may even been some 3-way tagteam action…. we shall see how the evening plays out, but I can think of no other DJs that I’d rather be paired with for the intimate DanceChurch setting. I’m scheduled to open at 7:30, so come early!

Here’s the official blurb, from the Facebook event:

Join us this Wednesday for a special Dancechurch with Amanita (http://www.myspace.com/DJAmanita) and Osiris (http://www.osirisindriya.com) and Crispy (www.splendidbeats.com) serving up hot dance beats all night long (7:30-10:00)!

All ages, family friendly, and alcohol free. $5-10 requested donation. (But if that keeps you away you’re really silly and losing out for sure.) Water will be available for free (please bring your own cup or container). Hot tea, bottled water, and reusable earplugs will for sale.

Please help keep things cool with our neighbors: please park in the street and not in any of the lots around the church.

Love and beats,

Hendrik

**Dancechurch is a family-friendly alcohol-free community gathering on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month. We dance to a variety of music provided by some of the finest West Coast DJ’s and musicians. And those of you that think dancing with kids can’t be fun, think again. It’s a riot to see young and innocent kids having a blast shaking it to the music we love! And this is a perfect opportunity for all our teenagers and young adults to come and kick it as well.

Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Time: 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Location: Transcendent Church of Bass
Street: 920 Elliot Ave W
City/Town: Seattle, WA

Tomorrow’s HOTwired is stacked with a fantastic line-up. Unfortunately, I have other commitments, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to catch it this time around… but if you are in Seattle and looking for an amazing night of dance music, then look no further!

December 5th~

HOTwired 2.0 + Afterhours

NEW DAY: EVERY FIRST SATURDAY

NEW VENUE: WAID’S on 12th and Jefferson on Capitol Hill

NEW SOUND: WAID’S soundsystem got a big upgrade, it now has CLEAN powerful sound!

HOTwired brings the best dj’s and musicians in our community and beyond to team up and collaborate in unexpected, amazing and often unusual parings. The dirty and the deep merge with circus and fire performance groups to create a unique club night that defies the usual style and genre stereotypes.

This month we are excited to come full circle from the very first Infinite Connections show and feature MICHAEL BANEL, Founder of Iboga Records & Sofa Beats…

DJ BANEL, also writing as Behind blue eyes, is known for his many amazing progressive techno and trance sets around the globe during the last 8 years and before that he was a well known DJ in his home country Denmark and in Sweden, playing sets since the early days of the techno/house scene in scandinavia. These days Michael Banel DJ’s an outstanding & energetic mixture of Techno, prog. house & trance.

Dec 5th ~
BANEL (IBOGA RECORDS – DENMARK)
MICHAEL MANAHAN VS PHIDELITY
OSIRIS INDRIYA VS AMANITA

We had a great showing for our first HOTwired at the new location and where going strong until 4AM. Expect this edition to go into after hours as well.

Doors from 10pm till 4AM
10 to 11 ONLY $5!
After 11 $10
WAID’S
1212 E Jefferson Street & 12th Avenue

Additional sound by Luv Shack and Starborne KV2 Bass.

Well, that was the largest Seacompression yet, and with this being the fourth Seacomp in that hanger space, I do believe the army of production folks have finally figured out the best way to work with that giant concrete box of a space. Participating in the H’Art Center “chillout” dome was a grand time, with lots of squish, beautiful art and all my favorite people, but in order to compete with the live music stage at the far end of the room, we all had to up the chill a tick and keep the bass pumping. Certainly not a problem, but I walked in hoping to play a super mellow set of lovely ambiance.

The dance stage in the side room looked and sounded amazing this year, and I applaud the decision to only place on sound system in there. I know it was tough to whittle down the list of 40 some DJs that wanted to play to the 10 or so that got slots, but it was a better party because of that effort.

The only real knock against the night I had was that due to the new extra stringent fire code mandates, the space did feel significantly sparser than past Seacomps. Not being able cover canopies in flowy fabrics and wacky art made for a colder, less inviting space. I know everyone did what they could under the new rules, but it did make a notable impact on the decor of a typically sensory overloading event.

I have some photos still on my camera, so until I upload them to the cloud, please enjoy this awesome set from Yonderboy.