Attendance Required

Good shows coming up, folks. This weekend sees California receive heavy blog-world juggernauts in the electronic scene in preparation for the big bash down in Austin. For starters, this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Miami Horror will be showcasing his Aussie flair in SF, SD and LA, respectively. Tonight's show sees him pair up with the Cut Copy DJs at Popscene; tomorrow, my town will host him at U-31 for Feel the Noise, San Diego's favored electro-dance nite w/ DJs Gabe Vega and Saul Q; Saturday will have him with Futurecop! @ the Echoplex. There should be something to like for everybody here, even if it's not Miami Horror (shame on you if that's the case).

Just as interesting is tomorrow nite, as LA hosts HARD 13. An all-star cast of DJs, headlined by Boys Noize would warrant you being there anyways, but as if that wasn't enough, also playing are Shadow Dancer, Boy 8-Bit, Diplo, D.I.M. and Erol Alkan amongst others. You can take this moment to drool if you'd like.

2/3 of the members of this blog will be @ HARD 13, hopefully most of you who read this will be there, and if not then in any of the shows listed above. In any case, hef a fan thyme, cuz we know we will:

Goodies:

Miami Horror - Summerfest '86
Boy 8-Bit - Bulbs Burn Out (alt)
Boyz Noize - Shine Shine (Shadow Dancer Unreleased Remix) (alt)

Obscure to Omnipotent

The group Shadow Dancer, signed under the Boys Noize Rec. moniker, have always been personal favorites of mine, one of my first posts highlighting their characteristics as producers. Almost a year later and Shadow Dancer have finished their debut LP tittled "Golden Traxe" and are making a tour, stopping in the US for SXSW (Austin) and Hard 13 (LA). Having listened to a couple of the promotional tracks, on top of my personal blessing, I can't wait for this one to drop. Here are the goodies, some of them belonging to previous releases, some in low kbps quality, all intended to encourage a future purchase! Enjoy:

Tracklist:
01. Poke (alt)
02. Soap
03. Infinite Lies
04. Walker
05. Golden Traxe
06. Landlines (alt)
07. Drivetime
08. What is Natural
09. Loader (alt)
10. Be Happy
11. Lower Left
12. The Bad Thing
13. This is This

PRE-ORDER HERE

Thanks to LAFriendly and Hyperbole for the promos and stream more stuff here.

Noon Hangovers

Shadow Dancer is an alum of Boys Noize, signed under Mr. Riddha's label. This particular jam is packed with a variety of synths and electronic sounds that play particularly well when they come together; the breaks are adjusted with voice coder bits and other vocal samples, and the melody is decipherable in spite of how busy it is given the monotony of the of the rhythm section, which is a solid platform for the song to build off of:

Shadow Dancer - Daytime Drinking

Give Shadow Dancer some love on his myspace.