If you want to tell your friends what you’re doing this Saturday night, just make the above hand motion and say, “FOG AND LASER.” And then shoot a laser out your sleeve.
Here’s the deal:
Our running joke for the ‘FOG’ in Fog & Laser is that it stands for “Free of Genre” and we plan to hold ourselves true to this mantra. As a kitchen sink/anything goes/party jam kind of night, one might hear anything from 60s soul to 80s crowd pleasers. Anything from 90s guilty pleasures to the best electro cuts from 2005. A large emphasis will be placed on emerging indie and electronic music but that’s not to say we’ll hold ourselves back from playing a great forgotten punk tune here or a Smiths b-side there.
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Did we mention fog machines and lasers?!! Of course this is one of the reasons it was so easy for us to name the event… but we do plan to up the fun even further with special guests, laser backdrop photo portraits, and great drink specials.
LASER BACKDROP PHOTO PORTRAITS. Rickshaw Stop, this Saturday, only $7. RSVP and invite your friends here.
[Hand modeling by Dennis Kernohan] [Disco epaulet by Tag Savage]
Full press release after the jump:
Fog & Laser’s first ever official kick-off extravaganza will take place on Saturday,
April 23rd, 2011 at The Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, CA. In a nutshell,
the party will be just that: A large club/dance
floor + fog machines + lasers + great music (from any genre) to dance to.
Host DJs EmDee & RamblinWorker will be behind the decks
as your guides to the music portion of this equation. Rather than attempting to go into any great detail in defining the exact types of music
that will get played, let’s just say that if we think it will be fun on the dance floor, then it might get played. Our running joke for the ‘FOG’ in Fog & Laser is that it stands for “Free of Genre” and we plan to hold ourselves true to this mantra. As a kitchen sink/anything goes/party jam kind of night, one might hear anything from 60s soul to 80s crowd pleasers. Anything from 90s guilty pleasures to the best electro cuts from 2005. A large emphasis will be placed on emerging indie and electronic music but that’s not to say we’ll hold ourselves back from playing a great forgotten punk tune here or a Smiths b-side there.
With over a decade of DJ experience (Rockbox/Club Lovely/Club Neon/Debaser),
Matthew Davis (EmDee) and Steve MacDonald (Ramblinworker) both feel the time is right in San Francisco to have a party like Fog & Laser. Back in 2004, Steve and Matthew were co-founders of a legendary SFbased party known as Club Neon that took place at
The Makeout Room. Along with a few others we created a weekly party that literally had no rules except to have fun with friends and play the music we loved.
We often featured guest DJs and emerging bands—something we plan to do at
Fog & Laser as well when it hopefully finds a home as a monthly reoccuring event.
Did we mention fog machines and lasers?!! Of course this is one of the reasons it was so easy for us to name the event… but we do plan to up the fun even further with special guests, laser backdrop photo portraits, and great drink specials.
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When: Saturday, April 23, 2011 – 155 Fell Street – SF, CA 94102
Where: Rickshaw Stop
Time: 9-2am
Cost: an economical $7
additonal details and to RSVP: www.facebook.com/fogandlaser
100+ bands you might hear loudly at Fog & Laser
40 Thieves
Active Child
Anoraak
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Azari & III
Bag Raiders
Black Strobe
Black Van
Boom Clap Bachelors
Bowie, Davis
Bot’Ox
Cash, Johnny
Cassius
Chateau Marmont
Crystal Castles
Cut Copy
Daft Punk
Depeche Mode
Destroyer
Digitalism
Dominant Legs
Dream Cop
DMX Krew
Eels
Electric Light Orchestra
Guincho, El
Flight Facilities
Foals
Franz Ferdinand
Fruit Bats
Gold Panda
Golden Bug
Golden Silvers
Gonjasufi
Harris, Calvin
Hi Tiger
Holy Ghost!
Hot Chip
Hundred In The Hands, The
Islands
Jackson, Michael
Jam, The
Joy Division
JR Seaton
Juan Maclean, The
Junip
Kelly, R.
Kids of 88
King, Evelyn Champagne
Kisses
Kraftwerk
Krystal Klear
LCD Soundsystem
Lionni, Tony
London Beat
Lynyrd Skynyrd
M83
Matthew Dear
Memory Cassette
Miami Horror
Minks
Mock & Toof
MSTRKRFT
Munk
Mustang
My Robot Friend
Neon Indian
New Order
New Young Pony Club
Nightriders
Of Montreal
Pacific!
Passion Pit
Penguin Prison
Phenomenal Handclap Band
Prince
Pulp
Radio Dept., The
Ra Ra Riot
Robyn
Ross, Diana, & The Supremes
Sadier, Lætitia
Smith Westerns
Smiths, The
Snowden
Soccio, Gino
Soft Cell
Soulwax
Spoon
Starfucker
Style Council
Suuns
Talking Heads
Tame Impala
Tapes ‘n Tapes
Tellier, Sébastien
Telonius
Tepr
The The
Thieves Like Us
Tiga
Tomboy
Toro Y Moi
T. Rex
Trickski
Turner, Ike & Tina
Twin Shadow
Vondelpark
Washed Out
Wild Nothing
Woolfy vs Projections
Yacht
Yelle
Young, Karen
Young Galaxy
Zombies, The
Zongamin
See you,
Steve
Ps, we did a test set up @ Rickshaw Stop today.
It’s going to be nuts!
Anybody into contemporary electro should check out Little Dragon:
http://www.little-dragon.se/site.html
I noticed they aren’t on the Fog & Laser setlist.
Thanks for the post Allan/Mission Mission! Great suggestion Corpus! Little Dragon is fantastic. The list is merely an overview but I’ll make sure to toss a track our two of LD into the bag!
Oh and…
Yes! What Janey said!
-MD
Is it socially objectionable to listen to The Chemical Brothers in 2011? I noticed you’ll play label mates Cassius and Daft Punk. A lot of people considered CB to be sell-outs for signing with Virgin, but I still think Dig Your Own Hole is a good album. Funny, I feel like a total fossil saying that, but seriously, it’s a good record!
http://www.fredhystere.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/The-Chemical-Brothers.jpg
“Let Forever Be” still rules it.
I think there will always be people around that object to just about anything a DJ plays. I personally know DJs in this city that would harp at ever playing an LCD track but I’d rather not lose sleep over it thinking I’m hindering the state of music progress by playing/dancing! to it.
Agreeing with you on Dig Your Own Hole. As much as there is the Virgin/sellout issue the Chemical Bros. made seminal 90s electronic music and toured amazing shows.
I like LCD Soundsystem. “Losing My Edge,” is classic nightclub comedy, and the whole DFA catalog is worth listening to. Did you get their sampler they released a few years ago? Comp. #2 (2004)
http://www.amazon.com/Vol-2-Dfa-Compilation-Dfa/dp/B00067Z2TG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1303526629&sr=8-1
I love the bass opening on the Pixeltan track on disc 3, it’s so hypnotic.
I’ll be dancing in my underwear!
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