Events

:::Drumcell of Droid Behavior fame swings through on an East Coast tour to ravage the dance floor of the Underground...

Extended set by Drumcell as well as an Extended opening set from our very own, Nihal Ramchandani!

Lineup:
Drumcell (CLR/Droid/LA) EXTENDED SET
Nihal Ramchandani (Halcyon/Syllabus/NYC) EXTENDED SET

***Note, the doors open at 12:00am...Facebook says 11:30 only to keep the date correct, stupid computers...***

A few super discounted presales will be available soon at www.residentadvisor.net, get them before they are gone!

National Underground
159 E Houston @ Eldridge
Basement
Turbo Sound Extreme

More info on the boys:

Drumcell:

www.drumcell.net
http://soundcloud.com/drumcell (new mixes available here)
http://twitter.com/drumce11

Drumcell is the founder of Droid Recordings and co-founder of Droid Behavior along with the Vargas brothers of techno duo Acid Circus. Since the mid Nineties Drumcell has been a firm believer in the power of techno and over the past decade become one of Southern California’s greatest champions.

As a graduate of the Musician’s Institute, a veteran performer at parties, and longtime recording engineer Drumcell harnesses a strong musical background with a gifted sense of technological intuition. The delicate balance keeps him pushing the limits of his gear continually as a way to develop his artistic express. Forming the Droid Behavior collective with Acid Circus earlier this decade was another other major step in this ongoing development. In turn, the collective has helped expose other local artists as well as established DJs to the growing legion of techno fans in the Los Angeles basin. In the past five years, he’s played alongside nearly every major DJ in the genre via the trio’s signature Interface parties. This year he also did a mini-tour of the US which culminated in him playing the main stage at the prestigious Movement festival in Detroit.

Drumcell ‘s constant push into the bleeding edges of music technology has earned him the title of product specialist for Native Instruments. He is out there pushing the limits of what current technology has to offer- developing homebrew software as well as cutting edge hardware solutions to bring a fresh, innovative taste to his production and performances. Innovations that blur the lines between live performance and a traditional DJ set up creating “a thick blend of acidic techno and aggressive but funky minimalist groove”. Drumcell is one of the few artists exploiting the full power of software like Traktor and Ableton run through state-of-the-art Allen & Heath mixer technology. In conjunction, the trinity is used to create a hybrid of flexibility and fidelity for the ultimate in electronic music performance. Drumcell uses this platform to highlight his own needles-in-the-red brand of aggressive, discordant techno. In fact, this summer’s Droid Recordings release “Cell Injection”, with longtime production partner Audio Injection, crystallized this amped up testosterone booster meets Quaalude jack and funk perfectly. In turn, the release captured the attention of many of the world’s top techno jocks in the process – including Speedy J and Richie Hawtin. It’s a sound born of musical menace and the kinds of wickedness that only the poisoned airs of LA can conjure.

Recently, Drumcell has also had a string of additional successes including remixes of techno legend Chris Leibing on Leibing’s own CLR label as well as the seventh anniversary of the now legendary Interface parties These gatherings have brought the best of the old school warehouse vibe together with intense new school multimedia presentations that defy explanation. He is currently developing a audio/visual performance to be unveiled by the end of this year in hopes of elevating his performances at these events to the next level. Drumcell will definitely be one artist worth watching in 2011.

Nihal Ramchandani :

Following a crash course in music taught by his older brother, Nihal got his turntables at the tender age of 13 so perhaps it’s not so surprising that music already runs deep in the veins of this young Texan. Already established in Houston’s Techno scene by age 17, Nihal arrived in NYC, immediately getting mixed up in the halcyon crew. Now two years of seasoning later, this young phenom has proven himself capable of stringing together deeper psychedelic strains of electronic music with a veteran sensibility. He continues to hone his craft and explore new territories while focusing on his internship with the NYC arm of Scuba’s Hotflush Recordings.