REVEL with MIKE SIMONETTI [Italians Do It Better] + SOFT METALS Live!

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Selectorate debuts a debauched new indie/tronica/synth event concept for musical misfits, REVEL

Featuring:
MIKE SIMONETTI, Italians Do It Better's head honcho
+
SOFT METALS Live, Captured Tracks' synth darlings

with:
OMAR [Popscene, Leisure]
Jacob [REVEL]

Monarch
101 6th St, SF
9pm to 2am
$10 with facebook RSVP

..: Mike Simonetti Info :..

Mike Simonetti, has got to be one of the most prominent tastemakers in “modern” disco!

Not only does he release some of the freshest disco around, he also has a superior taste when it comes to older disco sounds.

Mike is a man with a pretty unimpeachable cv, founder of the post-punk/noise label Troubleman Unlimited, started his dance-oriented Italians Do It Better imprint in 2006, as a means to foster the new Italo-disco leanings of former no-wavers like Glass Candy, Desire and Chromatics. Now, after the breakthrough After Dark compilation, IDIB is every bit the tastemaker Troubleman is. Its icy, mechanized sounds are an oddly perfect counterpoint to TMU's noise rock, and Simonetti the DJ is as much the genre hopscotcher as Simonetti the label honcho — his breadwinning Moroder/Bobby O disco segues fluidly into classic rock and esoteric dance.

..: Soft Metals Info :..

From Pitchfork:

All pop music is love and theft, and Soft Metals are particularly upfront about both. The arty Portland electronic duo formed in early 2009, with singer Patricia Hall and keyboardist/programmer Ian Hicks becoming a romantic couple not much later. The two recently did a mean cover of Throbbing Gristle's 1979 "Hot on the Heels of Love", a techno-predicting cult classic that mixes robotic arpeggios and steamy vocals (recalling Donna Summer's rapturous "I Feel Love" from a couple of years earlier) with the industrial pioneers' own creepy foreboding.

Soft Metals' self-titled album extends that combination of lovers' intimacy and retro-futuristic ominousness, which Hall and Hicks previously introduced on the 2010 EP The Cold World Melts. With Hall's detached, often-indecipherable vocals over Hicks' pulsating configurations of vintage synthesizers and drum machines, Soft Metals bears traces of virtually every bleakly gliding descendant of Kraftwerk's O.G. synth-pop grooves, from gothic early-1980s new wave to house, techno, and electroclash. But it's somewhat telling that this blurrily beguiling debut-- which reprises two tracks from the EP, plus eight new ones-- arrives on Brooklyn-based Captured Tracks, a label better known for the lo-fi noise-pop of Blank Dogs, Beach Fossils, or Wild Nothing.

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