Hello my macabre darlings! It’s time to tease you with more details about our fabulous event which creeps ever closer. So let’s dish music! Three nights of sexy, spooky partying demands three different lineups of delightfully diabolical DJs. So while you’re planning your weekend, peruse our list and either pick your favorite or come spend time with all three. Indulge yourself. We won’t judge.
Thursday
Aos and Archivist are residents and organizers with Seattle’s secondnature, an artist collective, party series and record label focused on immersive, eclectic underground dance music since 2012. Their parties have spanned a range of sounds from manic techno & avant garde explorations to lush house, dub and minimal. As DJs, their selections thread a narrative that is by turns playful and menacing, euphoric and disorienting, but always retains a strong focus on the movement of bodies in space.
Friday
Dani Loose, better known as DJ Having Sex has developed a strong reputation as one of Seattle’s most beloved and forward thinking selectors. In their early days of djing Loose performed under several different aliases in Olympia’s thriving feminist/queer punk scene and regularly drove up to Seattle whenever possible to “really party”. Since moving, Seattle’s nightlife scene provided an inspiring and competitive environment where they began to dig for records more seriously and throw parties to bridge the gap between the techno and queer nightlife community. Billed with the likes of D.Tiffany, Lone, Physical Therapy, and Octo Octa; their approach to the craft is unique, unpretentious, cheeky, and wholeheartedly concerned with having a lot of fun.
Some people have all the luck. Some take the easy route. Some pick the low hanging fruit. And then there’s Cody Morrison and the High+Tight crew. For the last 9+ years, Cody and his merry band of pranksters called High+Tight have been throwing some of the seemingly most effortless parties in the States. Every detail worked out, from sound to decor to door policy. There may be louder parties. There are certainly bigger parties. There are flashier flyers sprinkled with piss in every commode this side of Pike Place Market. And these guys wouldn’t want it any other way.
The thought that goes into a High+Tight party means you are getting an experience, an environment: set and setting. And they put just as much thought into their DJ sets. An insatiable hunger for dance floor knowledge both old and new, their work is your gain. But they also know that longer sets for headliners sometimes means taking the back seat. And they do so gladly. When the moment is right, they aren’t shy about playing the right music for the right moment. Knowing the arc of the night. Letting the crowd down easy. Keep ’em wanting more. Share in their community and get lost for a lifetime.
Saturday
livwutang is a member of TUF and resident of Seattle-based label Tech Startup’s party series. She oscillates deftly between genres, her aim to soundtrack the ever-changing landscape and demographic of the “not so obvious rave city” she calls home.
DJ Sharlese got her start as a club DJ as a resident of Seattle’s goth industrial wave crew, Second Sight in 2012. Hosting shows at the iconic Electronic Tea Garden, Sharlese drew inspiration from her time there. Connecting with the wider electronic community she began DJing Techno and from there dabbled in house. Years later Sharlese is a co-founder industrial wave crew False Prophet, and is a resident at Pony with her night Audiodrome. She is also currently is a member of Depth, TUF and Studio 4/4 and works at KEXP as the Education & Community Engagement Manager and as a rotating host of Expansions.
We are ever so excited for these maestros to come set the mood and get us all dancing and spin up a soundtrack for nights of fiendish, flirty fun. So come join us, October 24, 25, and 26 at Gallery Erato for Seduction 2019!