Too much posse

by JACK OATMON

Buckle up, because there’s no room for chitchat and pithy segues this week. The club-hopping kicks off strong tonight, May 3, with a number of parties in close proximity of one another. To have your ears blasted off of your head by what I can only call a low-budget cross between Slayer and Aphex Twin, check out Genghis Tron at Zoobizarre. Think NIN on dirty crystal meth. If you’d rather have your drum machines served with slackjawed Southern rap than throaty screeching, peep Flosstradamus at Club Lambi along with Purple Crush. Right around the corner, Mir and Bleuchut hold down the hardwood at Salon Daomé.

Ernesto will be appearing at Academy on Friday, May 4, for a live set, alongside Vincent Lemieux and Akufen. Up the street, you can check out French producer Joakim’s DJ set with Cherry Cola and Mike D at the Main Hall. Keep your eye out for Mike D, unparalleled techno connoisseur and director of Tiga’s latest music video as well as the mastermind behind an upcoming Turbo Records rager featuring the obscure-but-incredible talents of Moscow’s Proxy and Germany’s D.I.M. That party’s on May 11 at Juste Pour Rire.

Saturday night, catch 1 Speed Bike as he joins Masala, Ivory Temple and Khiasma, holding down the city’s premier Baile Funk night at Zoobizarre. Stay tuned to Khiasma, who will appear at the last—repeat, last—edition of the wildly successful and ludicrously fun Bounce le Gros series at Main Hall, early next month. That will be with Supreme Bounce Commander Ghislain Poirier and guest Kid Kameleon.

Organizers of the Beat Me Up Sunday-nighters at Saphir seem to have gotten tired of the domestic abuse and parted ways, with Mary Hell continuing the sonic violence along with Sean Kosa and Cherry Cola at Saphir, while Mz Sunday Luv migrates downtown to le Social for Bite My Style Sundays with this week’s guests Clifford Brown, Sixx, Nellboy and Sigrid Elliot. It kinda makes you wonder who’s doing the beating and who’s doing the biting.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past three years, I don’t need to tell you about NYC’s pioneering dance-punk posse LCD Soundsystem, but just in case you didn’t notice, they’re playing a gig at Spectrum on Wednesday, May 9. No questions, just go.

In other news, Centre Fractal is officially reopening for their second year with a heinous pile of DJs playing Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. It’s way up off Jean-Talon, but it’s well worth the trek to check out.

The banger of the week is, without a doubt, “B.E.A.T.” by Justice, the eagerly awaited second leak off of their upcoming album as well as the first dirty, glitchy electro track to be fully embraced by trust-funded McGill students and the Britney Spears-worshipping masses. The video for it is up on YouTube, and features quite possibly the greatest t-shirt design sequences of music-video history. Also, keep an eye out for bootlegs of the eons-in-production Digitalism full-length, Idealism, a jaw-dropping follow-up to their genre-defining singles catalog.

Fake it till you make it…jack.oatmon@gmail.com