Underground Techno and House Music Events in Boston, MA
Past Events
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Lit City Rave: DJ Deeon, J-Cush, DJ TiGa, Blay Vision @Good Life, Boston
Shake! presents Lit City Rave:
Shake! is teaming up with London/NYC record label and club night Lit City Trax to bring you our biggest party yet, for a special two floor takeover of Good Life on August 11.
Ghetto house legend DJ Deeon, Lit City Trax boss and Rinse.FM fixture J-Cush, MC/producer fresh off of his Turner Ave album release Blay Vision, and Jersey Club stalwart of Brick Bandits fame DJ TiGa join us alongside a whole host of local collectives representing some of Boston’s most cutting edge club sounds.
DJ Deeon: https://soundcloud.com/djdeeon
J-Cush: https://soundcloud.com/litcity
DJ TiGa: https://litcitytrax.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-vol-1-2
Blay Vision: https://soundcloud.com/blayvision
Dev/Null & Fens (Shake!)
https://soundcloud.com/devnull
https://soundcloud.com/fensDee Diggs (Evlv Tech) & Alfredo (Social Studies)
https://soundcloud.com/dee_diggs
https://soundcloud.com/socialstudiesnightAmadeezy (PVRPLE) & Yung Towfu (Crvftsmen)
https://soundcloud.com/amadeezybeats
https://soundcloud.com/yungtowfuDamian Silva & CDubs (BASSIC) & UMI (SUBDuction)
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9:30 PM | 21+ | $10 LIMITED PRESALE / $15 DOOR
at BOTH FLOORS AT GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
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Dre Skull, Jubilee, Dev/Null @Good Life, Boston
DRE SKULL (Mixpak | Brooklyn)
As the founder of Mixpak Records in 2009, Dre Skull has overseen the release of some of the most monumental dancehall releases of recent years, from artists like Popcaan, Vybz Kartel, Spice, Beenie Man, and more. He is a well-known producer, often times branching out of the dancehall sound, producing for artists like Beenie Man, and for also bringing artists outside of the dancehall community towards the jamaican sound, most notably co-producing the Snoop Lion project with Major Lazer for Snoop Dogg. Expect a wide reaching mix of selections from this legendary producer, who admits himself “For whatever reason, I’m most fascinated with pop music”, listing Miguel and 2 Chainz as recent inspirations. One of the Mixpak label’s standout contributors is our other featured guest for the evening…
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JUBILEE (Mixpak | Brooklyn, Miami)
While Mixpak is undoubtedly responsible for releasing some of the biggest names in dancehall in recent memory, they also have been turning out a steady stream of forward thinking, bass heavy club music that often touches on, and in turn inspires, the dancehall sound. Jubilee represents one of those artists who have helped establish that signature sound, along with contemporaries such as Dubbel Dutch, Murlo, and others. Hailing from Miami, her DJ style mimics the link between the early origins of hip hop and dancehall culture. Miami bass mixed with Jersey club, meets grime and other bass forward styles, she knows how to keep a party at attention and pumping.
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DEV/NULL (SHAKE! / BLOG TO THE OLDSKOOL)
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TICKETS AVAILABLE ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
10 PM | 21+ | $10 LIMITED PRESALE / $15 DOOR
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
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Kingdom, MikeQ, Ma, & Fens @Good Life, Boston
TEARS IN THE CLUB ALBUM TOUR
KINGDOM (Fade to Mind, LA)
For the better part of the last decade, Kingdom — Los Angeles-based producer and DJ Ezra Rubin — has been a key figure in club music’s revision of sonic and social norms, a generational update on dance-floor freedom that’s also had an affect on the aesthetics of R&B. Known for some of the most groundbreaking club singles and EPs of the last decade, including releases on Night Slugs, as well as their own label Fade to Mind. Kingdom is hot off the release of their first full length album release, Tears in the Club, giving us a masterpiece that transcends beyond the dancefloor and gives us fruits of their unique, wide production breadth. Returning to Boston for the first time in years, we are humbled to present this incredible artist alongside another unique and iconic voice…
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MIKE Q (Fade to Mind, Qween Beat, NJ)
Mike Q has been a leading figure in the ballroom sound and has been synonymous with the modern resurrection of the artform for the last decade and beyond. They have been a leading figure in championing ballroom’s allure—and its commercial viability, carrying the legacy of producers like Vjuan Allure, who brought the music into forefront with reworks of classics like The Ha Dance from Masters at Work (The Allure Ha). He’s toured cities where local ballroom scenes are sprouting up, like Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, Mexico, and Seoul. He’s invaded living rooms across the globe with his live-streamed Boiler Room sets, and seduced the heads by linking up with the Fade to Mind label and GHE20G0TH1K party—both bulwarks of the experimental avant-garde.
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MA (Nguzunguzu / Fade to Mind, LA)
In 10 years as a musician, Asma Maroof has released five EPs with Daniel Pineda as Nguzunguzu, spent two years as M.I.A.’s touring DJ, and released a self-titled album with three other musicians as Future Brown. She has helped lead the charge in developing the now iconic dark, bass driven R&B tinged club sound that the whole Fade to Mind label has become known for, often called “party music with a brutalist edge”. The first release for the label was the Timesup EP, and quickly set the pace for what would follow. We are delighted to have her join us for an all-star line up that will set the bar even higher for our humble basement party home.
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FENS (SHAKE!)
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TICKETS AVAILABLE ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
10 PM | 21+ | $10 LIMITED PRESALE / $15 DOOR
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
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Joey Beltram, Shy Eyez, Dev/Null @Good Life, Boston
JOEY BELTRAM (DRUMCODE, BUSH, 1605, R&S, WARP / NYC)
For over the last 20+ years, Joey Beltram is considered one of the pioneers and a legendary producer of Techno and House. He has recorded on many of the biggest labels of the early 90’s such as Nu-Groove, Tresor, Warp, Transmat, and R&S records. Much of his music during that time is widely acknowledged as groundbreaking. Beltram has also been heralded as a major influence by many of today’s DJ’s and producers including Daft Punk (as mentioned in their song “Teachers”). He has also produced many Techno staples of the 1990’s including “Energy Flash”, “Mentasm”, “Forklift”, “Ballpark” and “Game Form”. In more recent years Joey Beltram has worked with and remixed artist’s and DJ’s such as Adam Beyer, Carl Cox, Umek, Oliver Huntemann and Steve Lawler.
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SHY EYEZ (NOODS RADIO / NYC)
Between her bi-weekly happy hours at Bossa and her monthly residency at Bristol’s Noods Radio, Shy Eyez is in the booth more often than not. Recent gigs include Discwoman, Confused House and GROOVY GROOVY, with appearances on the Lot Radio and WNYU as well as a guest mix for Berceuse Heroique. Drawing continual inspiration from the many DJs she makes a point of seeing behind the decks, as well as the numerous radio shows she religiously follows, her DJ sets span countless genres—from techno to breakbeat to experimental U.K. dubstep and beyond. In addition to DJing, she recently ventured into booking dnb/bass/breaks/non-4-2-the-floor-techno talent for her party series, BreakZ—which has already hosted sets from Matrixxman, Dieselboy and Batu.
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DEV/NULL (SHAKE! / BLOG TO THE OLDSKOOL)
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TICKETS AVAILABLE ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
10 PM | 21+ | $10 LIMITED PRESALE / $15 DOOR
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
FACEBOOK EVENT
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Dubbel Dutch, Doctor Jeep, Fens @Good Life, Boston
This month at Shake!…
DUBBEL DUTCH (RARE EARTH TONES, MIXPAK)
For several years, Brooklyn-based producer Dubbel Dutch (a.k.a Marc Glasser) has acted as a harbinger for American club music, often steps ahead of his peers in discovering and defining the proverbial next sound. As both a producer and DJ, Glasser has shown a willingness to study, reinterpret and re-contextualize disparate sounds, transfixing his skills on a grab bag of genres, ranging from euphoric dancehall to triumphant grime with brief stops to experiment with UK funky, kuduro and Jersey club. A contemporary club shaman, Dubbel Dutch’s aim is to inspire transcendence with his ‘cosmic tone poems and club anthems from the abyss’.
All in all, Dubbel Dutch has situated himself neatly at the cross-roads of forward-thinking club music, Jamaican dancehall culture, and American pop music consciousness. With a massive, still bubbling single, an extended portfolio of euphoric solo material, and a growing stockpile of club munitions, the coming years look bright for this dance music polyglot.
Soundcloud | Twitter | FacebookDOCTOR JEEP (CHAOS CLAN, TUBA, TROUBLE & BASS)
Doctor Jeep is a 26-year old New York native known to most as Andre Lira. While attending college in Boston he quickly gained notoriety as one of the city’s most eclectic young selectors, blending upbeat house and techno with the global sounds of baile funk, dancehall, uk garage, drum & bass and more. With DJ sets mixing the past, present, and future of dance music in some of America’s best clubs, and festival appearances at Outlook, Bass Coast, Bonnaroo, and EDC, he has proven to adapt to any vibe and make it his own style of party.
Production-wise, Jeep’s music has been described as “a style somewhere between the tropical inclinations of Dutty Artz, the grinding 808 electro of Swamp81, and the breakbeat-heavy sound of 90′s UK rave music.” With releases on a wide range of international labels such as NYC’s Trouble & Bass (R.I.P.), Nottingham’s Tumble Audio, and Lisbon’s Enchufada, and support from tastemaking DJs such as Claude VonStroke, Eats Everything, Shy FX, B.Traits, Hannah Wants, Addison Groove, and My Nu Leng to name a few, the future looks bright for this young producer.
Soundcloud | Twitter | FacebookFENS (SHAKE!)
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TICKETS AVAILABLE ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
10 PM | 21+ | $10 LIMITED PRESALE / $15 DOOR
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
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Randomer, Batu, Dev/Null @Good Life, Boston
This month at Shake!, we have UK heavyweights Randomer and Batu, joined by our own Dev/Null. Randomer’s discography reads like a who’s who of modern techno: across a six year career, he’s produced four EPs for Untold’s Hemlock Recordings; released records for Hessle Audio, Numbers and Clone; and most recently, for Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S. As a DJ, he’s one of the UK’s finest, capable of effortlessly stitching together modern bass with classic techno and less esoteric 4/4 rhythms.
Coming out of Bristol, Batu stands at the forefront of a rising new order in UK techno. Alongside fellow Bristol artists Hodge, Facta, Lurka, Ploy, Bruce and Asusu, London-based Beneath and Manchester’s Alex Coulton, the 22 year old is a key figure in an inventive crop of young producers making a low-end, broken and forceful style of underground dance music that’s tailor made for the sound-systems of warehouses and basements.RANDOMER (CLONE / HEMLOCK / L.I.E.S / UK)
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BATU (TIMEDANCE / BRISTOL / UK)
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DEV/NULL (SHAKE! / BLOG TO THE OLDSKOOL)
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TICKETS AVAILABLE ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
10 PM | 21+ | $10 LIMITED PRESALE / $15 DOOR
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
FACEBOOK EVENT
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Bok Bok, Egyptrixx, Fens @Good Life, Boston
Shake! returns with a line-up that we are positive will satisfy your wait. We are proud to welcome back Night Slugs legend and quintessential RinseFM DJ, Bok Bok, joined by the prolific Egyptrixx, for his Shake! debut, with resident Fens getting the subwoofers nice and hot…
BOK BOK (Night Slugs)
Label head and founder of the seminal Night Slugs label, Bok Bok (Alex Sushon) draws from a creative pool that has launched some of the best club material of all time. Started in the MySpace era with co-founder L-Vis 1990, Night Slugs has been delivering ground breaking sounds and hosting legendary club nights way before many of his contemporaries. The hallmark of Bok Bok’s career is to curate and foster emerging genres. His ability to transcend music, sounds, and definition, while staying true to his grime and bass heavy roots, has set him and the Night Slugs crew apart by a wide margin. Often imitated, but rarely bested, he has released on some of the best labels around, from Sound Pellegrino, Monkeytown, Brainfeeder, Mixpak, and countless others, yet his true legacy lies with Night Slugs, which brings us to our next esteemed guest…
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EGYPTRIXX (Night Slugs / Halocline Trance)
Following his debut LP Bible Eyes, Egyptrixx (David Psutka) has been busy developing a unique, and wide breadth of material under a number of different projects including of course Egyptrixx, but also collaborations such as Hiawatha (currently with Cameron Gilpin), a multimedia collaboration with German visual artist ANF for his second album A/B til Infinity, and is a member of experimental folk project Anamai, underscoring his more experimental approach to electronic music that transcends both the club and other realms. More recently, Egyptrixx paired up with Night Slugs label mate L-Vis 1990 for their project Limit, which demonstrates a more club oriented and driven production style, released under Egyptrixx’s own label, Halocline Trace.
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FENS (Shake!)
Since he first took to DJing in 2008, local Fens (Matt Rohr) has carved his way through Boston through countless storied club nights and parties. From his early beginnings with Banana Peel Records, where his collaborations with CreateSpace Collab helped launch the Good Life staple, Sweet Shop, to his involvement with the JASS crew, which helped bring several groundbreaking, and now much sought after producers to town for their first Boston performances, Fens has always placed an emphasis on new and fresh, which brings him to his involvement with Shake, where he continues to help bring Boston the best in dance music. Hosting a weekly mix show on local station 90.3FM WZBC, he has been delivering well crafted selections from a wide variety of backgrounds, and you can always expect quality, and diversity, both known and otherwise.
TICKETS AVAILABLE ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
DOORS 9:30PM | 21+ | $10 LIMITED ADVANCE / $15 / $20
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
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Jam City, Sol Nova, Fens, Dev/Null @Good Life, Boston
JAM CITY (Night Slugs)
The man behind some of Night Slugs’ most well known releases, Jam City (Jack Latham) has proven to be one of the labels most diverse producers as well. Starting off with the timeless and heavy hitting Magic Drops (2010) and Water Worx (2011) EPs, Jam City recently released his second full length album, To Dream A Garden (2015), a departure from his signature, stripped down club sound, and brought us to know a more intimate side of the indelible producer. The latest album is symbolic of what he manages to achieve best in his sound—highlighting the fleeting and intangible aspects of the club environment, while providing the basis for deep introspective exploration that makes his music more than your typical club thumper. But make no mistake, he knows how to guide his audience to soaring heights, and expect to have this label stalwart leaving you breathless.
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SOL NOVA (NYC)
Sol Nova is a DJ with a keen interest in sound who believes DJing is a radical, political act as a Queer, woman-identifying AfroLatinx. She infiltrates spaces with visceral, bass-laden, drum-heavy club constructions of contemporary electronic dance music, giving prominence to music created by artists of and from the African diaspora—both local and global.
FENS (Shake!)
Since he first took to DJing in 2008, local Fens (Matt Rohr) has carved his way through Boston through countless storied club nights and parties. From his early beginnings with Banana Peel Records, where his collaborations with CreateSpace Collab helped launch the Good Life staple, Sweet Shop, to his involvement with the JASS crew, which helped bring several groundbreaking, and now much sought after producers to town for their first Boston performances, Fens has always placed an emphasis on new and fresh, which brings him to his involvement with Shake, where he continues to help bring Boston the best in dance music. Hosting a weekly mix show on local station 90.3FM WZBC, he has been delivering well crafted selections from a wide variety of backgrounds, and you can always expect quality, and diversity, both known and otherwise.
DEV/NULL (Shake! / Blog to the Oldskool)
Dev/Null got started by listening to Crazy Jungle / DNB in the mid to late 90’s, which then lead him to music production. Dev/Null now focuses much of his time on his website BLOG TO THE OLDSKOOL, 7 years running, that is dedicated to oldskool UK hardcore/jungle, as well as DJ-ing biweekly sets on online stations Jungletrain.net and Radio Frontline. Additionally, he started a label 8205 RECORDINGS dedicated to releasing unreleased 91-95 UK Jungle on vinyl, and was recently listed as one of Fact Magazine’s “100 Underrated DJs Who Deserves More Shine”.
Soundcloud | Twitter | Blog To The Old Skool
TICKETS AVAILABLE ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
DOORS 9:30PM | 21+ | $10 ADVANCE / $15 DOOR
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
FACEBOOK EVENT
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Neil Landstrumm, Isabella, DJ Won’t, Dev/Null @Good Life, Boston
Join us for another edition of Shake! as we welcome Scottish veteran Neil Landstrumm, and local icons Isabella and DJ Won’t, joined by our own Dev/Null, for a night of unrelenting techno, featuring live sets from both Neil Landstrumm and Isabella. Simply put, this night promises to be a defining moment in Shake! history and we can’t wait to share this one with you. Neil has been delivering blistering and unique live sets for over two decades, with a sound truly his own, with a perspective crafted through ventures into other realms of house and all orders of bass.
NEIL LANDSTRUMM (Planet Mu, Tresor, Peacefrog, Killekill, Zone, Don’t, Scandinavia)
Neil Landstrumm has released records on a wide variety of electronic music’s finest labels over the last two decades and is one of the true innovators in techno. Highlights include 12″s and LP’s for Peacefrog, Tresor and Planet Mu records and has recently released his tenth career LP , ‘Dragon Under’ on the UK’s Sneaker Social Club label. Other noteworthy collaborations have been with Optimo’s JD Twitch as Doubleheart, Sugar Experiment Station with Tobias Schmidt and Modini with Alan ‘Hostage’ Parley recently released on Dixon Avenue Basement Jams,Optimo and Hypercolour. Essentially a live hardware based artist since the beginning of his career, he has toured internationally for the last 20 years with regular events in Europe, Japan and China. Landstrumm also lived in New York for a number of years but is now based back in Edinburgh working from his own Witness Rooms studio. A pioneer of new electronic styles with a strong signature techno sound often copied and imitated, he has always been, and continues to be, a unique electronic artist.
ISABELLA (Substructure)
ISABELLA (Koen, formerly known as SITTING ADULT) only recently emerged from her bedroom studio to share her odd, off-beat impressions of acid and techno. As an outlet to breach the static form, she uses a quirky collection of synthesizers and drum machines to explore texture, fluidity and boundaries within sound. Building and maintaining an oscillating structure for one to interact with. A concept that’s fitting. Moving spaces.
DJ WON’T (Scanners, Slow Blood)
Will Mayo is a man of many hats (but no fedoras). He performs DJ sets incorporating a variety of technoid sounds as his inverted alter-ego DJ Won’t, and produces “harsh-toke electronica” under the Homeworld alias. These projects all exist under his long-running Slow Blood Music label, through which he occasionally releases tapes for himself and his friends. He has also organized the monthly-ish SCANNERS party in conjunction with Boston Hassle since 2013, which fuses live hardware performances with forward-thinking DJ sets and experimental visual projections.
DEV/NULL (Shake! / Blog to the Oldskool)
Dev/Null got started by listening to Crazy Jungle / DNB in the mid to late 90’s, which then lead him to music production. Dev/Null now focuses much of his time on his website BLOG TO THE OLDSKOOL, 7 years running, that is dedicated to oldskool UK hardcore/jungle, as well as DJ-ing biweekly sets on online stations Jungletrain.net and Radio Frontline. Additionally, he started a label 8205 RECORDINGS dedicated to releasing unreleased 91-95 UK Jungle on vinyl, and was recently listed as one of Fact Magazine’s “100 Underrated DJs Who Deserves More Shine”.
Soundcloud | Twitter | Blog To The Old Skool
TICKETS AVAILABLE ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
DOORS 9:30PM | 21+ | $10 ADVANCE / $15 DOOR
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
FACEBOOK EVENT
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DJ Earl, Fens, Damian Silva, Antonious Monk @Good Life, Boston
Get ready to shake it and welcome Teklife’s DJ Earl for his debut performance in Boston!
DJ Earl has been a critical member of Chicago’s Teklife crew who have put footwork on a global stage. He has been producing a constant stream of material which consistently prove to be at the leading edge of the ever growing footwork revolution. Delivering mixes packed with blistering 160bpm tracks, this party is guaranteed to make you sweat. And, get there early to warm up with the Shake residents and special guest.
DJ EARL (Teklife)
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FENS
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DAMIAN SILVA
ANTONIOUS MONK
DOORS 9:30PM | 21+ | $5 BEFORE 11PM, $10 AFTER
at GOOD LIFE, 28 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111
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