This Friday @ 222 Hyde, San Francisco

RedWine presents: Ivy (Black Bridge), J-Boogie (Om Records)

& Toph One (RedWine DJs/ AS Krew), in booming, crisp Turbo Sound!

222 Hyde, San Francisco, CA 94102

9p-2a, $5 after 10pm, 21up

Facebook event page here.

Q & A with keyboardist Erik Deutsch

Our favorite keyboard wizard is featured in this week's Backbeat. His new album, Hush Money, was recently released, and Colorado's getting a special release party tonight at the Boulder Theater. Don't miss it!

Here's a great video of him performing with Norah Jones. Drop by his website while you're at it.

And here's a couple of shots from our Black Bridge party back in May of '09 with Deutsch and Ivy teamin' up. Photos provided by Mr. Darrin Harris Frisby.

Death Calls the Tune

Created by German design collective lab binaer, this ingenious turntable-based light sculpture was made by applying light-sensitive phosphorescent paint to the turntable and replacing the needle cartridge with an LED light. As you can see in the video, this changes the table’s function, creating a visual player out of an audio player. The LED cartridge creates the individual characters by exposing the paint to specific patterns of light pulses which are controlled via an outboard microcontroller.

Titled “Death Calls the Tune,” the piece is a visual statement about news, death, and memory. What you see displayed are real news bulletins, all related to death, strung together to create a never-ending flow of headlines. The cycle of bright and fading text is meant to represent the cycle of our collective memory, mirroring the way that forgotten thoughts are so quickly replaced with new information.

We found this on the Dancetracks blog.

Death Calls The Tune (lab binaer) from lab binaer on Vimeo.

I Am Haiti Fundraiser

Facebook event page.

LP Player Concept by Charlie Pyott

Super slick idea by Charlie Pyott, a Designer from the USA. Check out the full scoop at lookslikegooddesign.

Make Mistakes 2

Make Mistakes is proud to present its 2nd edition starring Detroit's Jeremy Ellis!

Along with: Scott Everett, Papyrus, Roy England, Attentat, Les Freres Courvoisier

@ Theory + Practice, 738 Santa Fe, Denver, CO, 10PM-6AM, $10, 21+, No Exceptions, BYOB

Westword feature here.

R.I.P. Teddy Pendergrass

Soul star Teddy P has passed.

Free Download from J-Boogie

J-Boogie's offering up his Soul Vibrations Dub Remixes album for free download. Dope!!

While you're at it, take a cruise on over to his blog for all the latest from the Dubtronic Science camp!

The Cassette Tape Closet

The Black Bridge office definitely needs one of these.

Footer, Drop Logik, Styles Davis @ Tooey's in Denver

Come welcome home our friend/Colorado man-myth-and-legend, Frank a.k.a. Footer, Foot and Frank Footer! We will be droppin' an insanely good blend of trip hop, funk, breaks, hip hop, downtempo and other appropriate tunes old and new. Footer, Drop Logik and Styles Davis switching off on the turntables. Poor Mans Lunch Box special in full effect all night- any 12oz can and a shot of Beam for $5, BYAW! Tooey's is gonna go off for this one kids, please do yourself a favor and GET YOUR ASS DOWN THERE!

Tooey's
1521 Marion (Colfax and Marion), Denver, Colorado.