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DALLASIAN WARRIORS ->- GEORGE QUARTZ & DARKTOWN STRUTTERS performed Dallas, TX ->- 06-18-10

Last Friday, my band PSYCHIC VIOLENCE had the pleasure to play a show with two of my favorite groups creating these days.

First up, George Quartz (who performed at PENDU DISCO in NYC previously this year) started off the night by scaring away a group of curious but easily frightened Dallas yuppies having their 10 year high school reunion. You got to stick it to the squares sometimes, and put a little fire in their heel if you know what im sayin…

Anyways…George is a fantastic performer; like if Studio 54 birthed a psychotic lounge singer with a crooked sense of charisma and charm. Or perhaps a wedding singer coming down off an acid trip and wanders into a funeral accidentally. Backing him up on synthesizer was the talented Jake Schrock who is also a performing member of another fave of mine, Houston based E.B.M. group //TENSE//. Joining them that night was a new addition to the group, a smooth sax player named Lisa. The 3 of them all live down the hall from each other in a an industrial suite of lofts that used to be a candy factory, live and make music together.

Later in the night were the jewels of Darktown Strutters. I was totally fucking enamored with lead singer Kara Howell’s stage presence and the near robotic straight faced sunglasses-wearing Wes Darrin on drum pads. They have driving rhythms generated from a mixture of vintage home organ drum presets and live playing of drum samples, warm creeping organ tones, and a swooning voice glazed atop all of it. The sound and vision is unique and skillful. Pure Jammers, like being lured into a slow moving dream curiously and then it exploding into a vast pit of demons having an unworldly blacklit dance party and you keep asking where the bathroom is and the demons just point to a laptop with your facebook profile on the screen.

Darktown Strutters recently released their first 12″ and its solid. Be sure to check them out along with George Quartz!

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-posted by Malcolm Elijah

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New video to one of my favorite //TENSE// songs.
//TENSE// TURN IT OFF
From the limited ESCAPE 7″ on MishkaNYC Records 2010
Directed by Tommy Boy
Videography by Thomas of Black Magic Rollercoaster

-by Eli Welbourne

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//TENSE// from Houston, TX delivers all of the punch of Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Portion Control without resorting to a simple retro aesthetic or becoming a rehashed copycat. This is a new beginning.

http://www.myspace.com/tensexxx

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