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papermag: Dark Wave Disco nominated: People’s Choice: America’s Best Party 2008 |
11-02-2008
America's Best Party
Dim Mak Tuesdays at Cinespace - Los Angeles, CA
Dark Wave Disco at Sonotheque - Chicago, IL
Rock the Casbah at The Parish - Austin, TX
Funk Night at various locations - Detroit, MI
Blow Up at the Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA
The Fix at Someday Lounge - Portland, OR
HotMess at the War Room - Seattle, WA
Favela Chic at Mokai - Miami, FL
Debonair Presents at Debonair Social Club - Chicago, IL
Full Article:
http://peoples-choice-awards08.papermag.com/ |
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newcity: Preview: Dark Wave Disco: Sinden/Sonotheque |
09-25-2008
RECOMMENDED
Sinden does not sleep. Sinden might have a secret time machine. Sinden invented the question mark. OK, none of the previous statements have been verified at time of print, but here’s what we do know: the man born Graeme Sinden is some sort of dance-floor superhero whose maximal beat-building powers cause involuntary dancing. He scored his first big residency by being handpicked by the Basement Jaxx to open their Inside Out parties in Brixton. He recently joined the Justice League of Fidget super-team known as Machines Don’t Care, alongside frequent cohorts Hervé aka the Count and one Dave Taylor aka Switch, among others. Sinden and Switch still hold down a residency at London’s famed Fabric, where his deft studio abilities match his hyper-active DJ sets as house, hip-hop, Baltimore club, electro, grime, dancehall and Miami bass spar playfully with each other like violently graceful Capoeira. Up next will be the debut EP from Sinden and the Count, whose recent ubiquitous club hits featuring Rye Rye (“Hardcore Girls”) and Chicago’s own Kid Sister (“Beeper”) have lit up the charts. Sinden’s Chicago ties don’t end there—with the help of Switch he also crunked-up Walter Meego’s “Through A Keyhole,” turning their sad, introspective feelings into a full-on floor burner. (Duke Shin)
Full Article:
http://music.newcity.com/2008/09/25/preview-dark-wave-disco-sindensonotheque/ |
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newcity: Tommie Rock Opera |
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06-24-2008
Tommie Sunshine burns in Chicago once again
by Duke Shin
His concept for the rest of the album includes using MCs to rhyme over his tracks, with singers brought in to sing the hooks. He rattles off a list of Brooklyn Fire collaborators that include Baltimore’s prankster MC Oh Snap!! and Lady Tigra from L’Trimm before he cuts himself off in fear of divulging too much.
"I look at production and being a producer in a very traditional sense—I look at it in the way that Rick Rubin and Arthur Baker were producers. And when they were done with a record, they washed their hands…they were on to the next project," he says.
For Chicago, that next project is headlining a loaded bill for Dark Wave Disco’s Trancid and Greg Corner’s Birthday bash. So what is to be expected? "Armageddon fidget-rave," he says. "When I step into a DJ booth, that is my drug, that is my alcohol. That’s my every vice, with two CDJs and a Pioneer mixer." Shine on.
Full Article:
http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/7878.html |
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illinois-entertainer: The Teenagers Live Review |
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01-26-2008
Posted in Illinois Entertainer, Live Reviews, The Teenagers by Jaime Black
The Teenagers
Dark Wave Disco At Sonoteque, Chicago
Saturday, January 26, 2008
teens
There’s a good chance a group whose most notorious song is a document of the narrator sleeping with his step-cousin shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Perhaps that should’ve been the first indication of what was to come.
Synth-heavy French electro outfit The Teenagers touched down for their first ever Chicago appearance over the weekend, performing a set midway through Saturday night’s Dark Wave Disco monthly at Sonoteque. The result was a mixed experiment: a frenzied, haphazard experiment that at best was cheesy french electro (better translated for stage with guitars, bass, and a live drummer) that didn’t take itself too seriously. At worst, the trio-led Teenagers were a loose, disjointed, intoxicated train-wreck.
Full Article:
http://chicagoverse.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/the-teenagers-live-review/ |
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newcity: Joe Cool: How Joe Bryl turned Sonotheque into one of Chicago’s musical treasures |
01-15-2008
by Michael Hirtzer
"That’s my job, to not be normal," Bryl says. Under his direction, Sonotheque is an exercise in extreme variety, with different music played practically every night—bhangra, boogaloo, disco, funk, house, tropicalia, not to mention crazy-popular monthly parties like Dark Wave Disco and a Flosstradamus residency.
"I’ve gotten a lot of offers from other places… but when it comes down to it, I don’t see this anywhere else aside from Sonotheque," says Mark Gertz, DJ and founder of Dark Wave Disco. He has held his parties there for nearly three years. He says the club’s location—the nearest El stop is about five blocks away—is part of the charm; people have to seek it out. "It’s a little bit more of a destination point," Gertz says.
Gertz says he recently pulled the plug on a weekly Dark Wave Disco offshoot at Debonair Social Club to focus more on the monthly party at Sonotheque. "I like it in a slightly smaller place," he says. "We could do [the party] in a bigger venue but I like there being a hype around it."
Full Article
http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/7344.html
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illinois-entertainer: Dark Wave Disco - Redefining Partying In Chicago Two Years At A Time |
10-31-2007
Posted in Illinois Entertainer by Jaime Black
For every party, club night, or DJ event that launches in Chicago with any level of staying power, there are countless more that vanish into the night, leaving behind nothing more than a trail of desperate, screaming flyers strewn outside Crobar at 5 a.m.
So when a local DJ party crosses the two-year mark, it’s not only impressive, it’s almost unheard of. Which makes the Chicago party Dark Wave Disco’s two-and-a-half year march toward a more celebratory, electro-laden tomorrow all the more remarkable.
Dark Wave Disco began as a monthly held in the city’s West Town neighborhood, at hipster haven Sonotheque, a club that’s laid back on the inside and non-descript on the out — except when Dark Wave takes over. Then it’s not uncommon to see lines stretching down the block, all waiting to get inside and hear sets spun by not only the DW residents, but the likes of The Faint, Lady Sovereign, and Tommie Sunshine. It’s a party with a repeat fanbase who regard the event — and its offshoot weekly and one-off parties — must-attend affairs.
Full Article
http://chicagoverse.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/dark-wave-disco-feature/ |
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newcity: Best regular club night 2007 |
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10-02-07
Best regular club night
Readers Choice
Dark Wave Disco
Sonotheque, 1444 West Chicago
(312)226-7600
Full Article:
http://www.newcitycgi.com/cgi-bin/boc/boc2007.cgi?id=78 |
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DWD DJS in Lincoln,NE at the Bourbon Theatre tonight 18+. Last show of the weekend warrior tour!
