Cold Waves: SF Showcase

Performing Live:

TEST DEPT -- https://www.facebook.com/testdept.hq.

SEVERED HEADS -- https://www.facebook.com/moreellard

POP WILL EAT ITSELF -- https://www.facebook.com/popwilleatitself

PAUL BARKER MIN-DUB-SOUNDSYSTEM -- https://www.paulionbarker.com/

trew

KæLAN MIKLA -- https://www.facebook.com/kaelanmikla

VORE AURORA -- https://www.facebook.com/voreaurora

With DJ:

CRXCKWHXRE -- https://www.facebook.com/bodyshock-486319994748471

(Bodyshock)

VIP ticket includes:

• One gen. adm. ticket;

• Private pre-show artist meet-and-greet;

• Balcony access;

• Cold Waves VIII Comp CD;

• Cold Waves VIII screened poster!

Test Dept's formation in 1981 in the decaying docklands of South London, was an urgent reaction to the materialistic drift and reactionary conservatism of the prevailing musical and political culture. TD rejected the conventional and developed a style that reflected the decay of their surroundings scavenging the unregenerated wastelands for raw materials, and transforming found industrial items into designed, sculptural instruments. Suitably armed they forged a hard rhythmic sonic battery, fusing found sound samples and cutting edge electronics in the construction of a dynamic physical totality. Their infamous sonic assaults were challenging and demanding for audience and performers alike, a test of physical endurance that journeyed through the sonic pain threshold and into a cathartic energy release. The 'Stakhanovite Sound' was a furnace that forged an attitude of total collective commitment, embracing the spirit of punk with an avant-revolutionary sensibility that sought to challenge the status quo. It was the antithesis of commercial record industry values.

There Is nothing quintessentially Australian about Severed Heads, which is one of the group's strengths. Predominantly a vehicle for Sydneysider Tom Ellard, the best Severed Heads tracks are strange, subliminally malignant fever dreams you can dance to. Aided by a roster of frequently changing collaborators, Ellard's sharp pop sensibility worked best when it clashed with the group's eerie synth arrangements. It sounded of another world. Severed Heads is many things: a dance group, pop group, experimental group, but above all else Severed Heads is weird. Unforgivingly synthetic and often garishly detailed, Ellard's productions never strive for commonly prized characteristics such as warmth or humanity. Severed Heads is icy and unsentimental, but it's also very funny. It's inhuman, but it's not dead.

Taking their name from an NME feature on the group Jamie Wednesday (later known as Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine), the archetypal grebo band Pop Will Eat Itself formed in Stourbridge, England in 1986. PWEI quickly became immersed in sampling, drawing material from sources ranging from James Brown to Iggy Pop. Honing a fusion of rock, pop, and rap that they dubbed \"grebo,\" the Poppies kick-started a small revolution; by the release of their 1987 full-length debut, Box Frenzy, and the hit \"There Is No Love Between Us Anymore,\" grebo -- the name quickly given the entire subculture of similarly grimy and raunchy bands -- was all the rage in the British music press.

Paul Barker Min-Dub-Soundsystem: Paul Ion Barker is a producer, composer and touring musician. His extensive production and writing work with Ministry extended from 1985 through 2004. He has been involved with bringing a wide range of other musical projects into fruition: Lard, Pailhead, Revolting Cocks, Flowering Blight, USSA, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Malekko, Lead into Gold, & recently as a touring member of Puscifer.

Icelandic trio Kælan Mikla got an unlikely start trying their hand with moody synths and post-punk at a poetry slam. The results are co-signed by The Cure frontman Robert Smith, who included them on the Meltdown Festival lineup he curated. The Icelandic trio of Laufey Soffia, Sólveig Matthildur-Kristjánsdóttir and Margrét Rósa Dóru-Harrysdóttir, trade-in poetry, darkened post-punk, moody synths, and hypnotic bass that would sound as much at home at a warehouse all-nighter as they do in a sweaty rock venue. All three bandmates contribute vocals: lead singer Laufey's alternately collected, half-spoken punk snarl, and tormented, hair-raising screams mixed with Solveig's powerful melodies, and an occasional flair from Margrét seems to ignite the dark spells of their music, and though their delivery is a touch theatrical, their rawness and charisma are enough to convert the staunchest non-believer in their direction.

Starting with heavy club play in San Francisco, Vore Aurora are quickly changing the landscape of electronic music in the Bay Area. Jonah Phillips on synths and drums, and A'llisabeth Barrett on vocals, form a group of musicians that turn cold wave music into burning lava. This is all about typical American electro sound that may reach your ears warm and A-class on the hardware, along with their ace on the table: A'Lizzabeth Barret's vocals, so warm and passionate, whilst performing a character and letting the Californian whining on the guitar to embrace her vocals. Listen to their musings and the arrangements they make or how that cold wave has the structure to cause the listener to take off. I shouldn't forget to mention the lyrics: they judge and grieve, and they command.

industrial.

doors @ 6pm;

show @ 7pm.

all ages.

Gen. Adm.: $42 advance;

$50 day of show;

VIP: $100.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/2172898306134672/

Buy tickets: https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2019/09-12.html

Watch and listen:

Test Dept.: Total State Machine: http://youtu.be/KUxoughdYto

Severed Heads: Dead Eyes Opened: http://youtu.be/MVMiFfdcKJM

Pop Will Eat Itself: Def Con One: http://youtu.be/Xef60FAN6Vk

Kælan Mikla: Nornalagið: http://youtu.be/Mb2fwBjXTRk