Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF
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8:00 The Taraval Technique (aka Duncan Dobson)- turntables
8:30 Cerebral Roil - turntablesaw, feedback, and electronics
9:00 Moira Scar

In the tradition of Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Marclay, Qbert, Craze, and Faust comes a new approach to the turntablist arts. Using only a single turntable and a distortion pedal, the Taraval Technique creates a uniquely primitivist, retrogressive, and culturally savvy form of sonic expression. Distorted closed loops, howling scratches, and intentional vinyl damage form the basis of what can only be termed total media destruction. This is not music. This is but the experience of listening to the decay of obsolete ideas, the known and the unknown. The Taraval Technique turns recorded history inside out, records the results, and awaits your approval.

Bizarre San Francisco art-rockers Moira Scar are a bit like a couple of 10-year-olds building a makeshift fort in their backyard out of snow, toys, and old garbage. Sure, it’s not quite inhabitable, it smells, and it’s freezing—but damn, it’s a pretty sweet fort. Touring behind their debut album Excerpts From The Holy Scumbrella, the duo of Saphoid and Pelvis abuse a wealth of instruments to concoct their own fractured take on psychedelic rock. Falsetto howls tumble over twitching analog synthesizer, fuzzy bass guitar, and off-kilter drumming, creating a wall of sound that is often as compelling as it is obnoxious.

Cost: $6-10