Terminal 5 upcoming shows
Warp20 (New York) : A Celebration of Warp Records and Two Decades of Music and Film
Battles / !!! / Flying Lotus / Pivot
Warp DJs
- Venue:
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Terminal 5
- Date:
- Fri 9/04
- Notes:
- all ages
- Doors: 6:00 PM / Show: 7:00 PM
- $27.50 advance / $30 day of show
- Warp20
- Warp20 (New York) paid and free events announced at multiple venues in the city - Thursday 3rd, through Sunday 6th of September
Including performances by Battles (only North American show of 2009, first preview of new material), !!! (only NYC show of 2009) and many more, as well as film screenings from Warp Films
To celebrate twenty years of cutting edge music, film and design, Warp Records and Warp Films are hosting a series of one-off spectacular events around the World.
Warp20 comes to NYC on 4th & 5th September, the only Warp20 event in North America!
Friday 4th September
The flagship live event takes place at Terminal 5 on Friday 4th September, presented by Bowery Presents.
Battles (first preview of new material, only US show of 2009!)
!!! (chkchkchk) (only NYC show of 2009)
Flying Lotus live
Pivot (US debut show)
Warp DJs.
Doors 7pm, Tickets $27.50 advance, No-fee box offices: Mercury Lounge Box Office: 212.260.4700. Mon-Sat, Noon-7pm, 217 E. Houston (b/w Essex & Ludlow) Music Hall of Williamsburg Box Office: 718.486.5400, Sat 11am-6pm, 66 N. 6th St. (b/w Wythe & Kent)
Or from Ticketmaster.com (additional booking fee)
Warp Films: Thursday September 3 – Sunday September 6
Film screenings at The New Museum Theater. Presented by Wordless Music and Warp Films.
WarpVision: The Videos 1989-2009
Dead Man’s Shoes
Selected Warp Films Shorts
Cinema16 Shorts (selections from all Cinema16 releases)
The New Museum / www.newmuseum.org
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002. 212.219.1222
Continuous screenings during museum hours. Warp screenings are free. Admission to New Museum galleries must be purchased separately
Accommodation
For people planning to travel to NYC to attend Warp20 (New York) events, The Ace Hotel in Manhattan is offering special rates, including rooms with turntables and Warp releases in the rooms.
For bookings call 212-679-2222 quoting reference 'WARP', or go here:
https://reservations.synxis.com/LBE/rez.aspx?Hotel=22033&Chain=7231&promo=WARP
- Battles
- official website
- myspace
- Some bands need biographies written on them, some bands don’t, yet someone still foolishly insists on writing one. Brooklyn’s Battles fall squarely into the latter category. Nonetheless…
Rising from the ether of a pop-scarred 2004, the enigmatic EP C announced Battles arrival like a blinding succession of Morse Code strobes across an aphotic landscape. Even as a short-form debut it was clear that band members Ian Williams, John Stanier, Tyondai Braxton and Dave Konopka had established something utterly unique. Instead of the conventional band dynamic of individual players waiting for their turn to be showcased, the members of Battles are more analogous to a tangle of brain synapses all firing in time with each other.
Having served time in seminal acts Don Caballero, Helmet, Tomahawk, Lynx and The Mark of Cain amongst others, Battles draw from a sprawling range of styles and sounds and distill this erratic static into the tightest mindfuck jams to be committed to playable format. Closely following EP C, Tras/Fantasy served as another definitive dose of labyrinthine, juggernaut rhythms and equilibrium-shifting textures that would safely place the band outside the orbit of any contemporaries.
On this first pair of EPs, Stanier’s drumming is like pinpoint buckshot, Williams’ guitar is sharpened schizophrenia, Braxton’s sound manipulations are fragments focused and Konopka’s guitar is malleable granite; which is to say, all are nearly impossible to define yet none can be ignored. Late in 2004, Battles unleashed B EP and set their cryptic marks in stone. Centered by a set of extended musical movements, B EP was a fitting conclusion to the band’s inception-as-trilogy.
In 2005 Battles set off across the globe on tour with Prefuse 73 and his crack live collective, combining driving atonal grooves and bombastic improvised fury that landed them in Japan opening for The Mars Volta and establishing their reputation as one of the most exciting live acts to crisscross the globe. The sheer musical breadth of their first three EPs and the lasting impact of their live shows have left fans and skeptics alike in perplexed anticipation of their debut full-length.
May of 2007 saw the release of Mirrored, Battles first album proper and a significant measure of evolution from a band that has yet to cease moving. Still entirely intact are the unflinching experimentations and metallic angles of their young catalog, but a new melodic insight has manifested itself in the form of some of their most engaging tracks yet. “Tonto” opens with and off-kilter series of chimes and chugs which are welded to a forcibly shuffling drumbeat and a foreboding chant that gives way to a soaring midsection. First single “Atlas” is a verifiable anthem, unrelenting and gigantic, but never surrendering the skewed aesthetic of the band’s past. With snaking, entrancing harmonies and thundering percussive force, Battles are a distorted reflection of an entire musical diaspora, a view of innovation and tension reverberated as a flash, mirrored.
- !!!
- official website
- myspace
- The curiously named !!!, whose moniker can be pronounced by repeating any one-syllable percussive sound three times (e.g., "chk chk chk"), formed in 1996 after the demise of the mid-'90s hardcore act the Yah Mos. While on tour, members of the Yah Mos, including !!! singer Nic Offer, envisioned forming a band oriented more toward danceable music, and once they returned to Sacramento, CA, their hometown, they decided to turn their working concept into an actual group. The band quickly grew into an eight-member ensemble, including Mario Andreoni on guitar, Offer on vocals, Justin van der Volgen on bass, Dan Gorman on trumpet and percussion, Tyler Pope on guitar, Allan Wilson on saxophone and percussion, John Pugh on drums, and Jason Racine on percussion. Fusing the groove-oriented style of James Brown's backing band with the edginess of Gang of Four and the Contortions and featuring an expansive percussive presence, !!! spent its first few years as a group developing its sound and playing at house parties for friends in Sacramento. At the same time, Offer, Pope, and van der Volgen were playing in a dub-inflected instrumental outfit called Out Hud with Molly Schnick and Phyllis Forbes, two musicians who used to be in the band Raoul. After putting out a 7" on Hopscotch Records and a split single with Out Hud in 1998, the two bands decide to release a split full-length together in 1999, a release jointly sponsored by the Sacramento-based label Gold Standards Laboratories, founded by Sonny Kaye of Angel Hair and the VSS fame, and Zum, a San Francisco-based zine. After extensive touring of the States, which gave them a chance to further expand the songs they had written by placing them in the interactive context of a live show, !!! recorded and released a self-titled album on GSL in December 2000. Soon after, the band re-entered the studio and recorded enough material for a second album. Members of the band moved to New York, but the group still remained intact, planning regional tours and tape trades across the expanses of the Midwest. In 2003, the band issued Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story), their first release for Touch and Go. They followed it with 2004's politically charged Louden Up Now (mixed by Maurice Fulton) and 2007's relatively lighthearted Myth Takes.
--by Josh Eppert
- Flying Lotus
- official website
- myspace
- A work of bass-driven metaphysics, Flying Lotus’ Los Angeles could have been regarded as a lone dispatch from a distant musical plane. Instead it has struck an ultimately resonant chord with everyone from the indie pack to Massive Attack, soul heads and Portishead, as well as music critics across the globe as well as Radiohead, who tapped Flying Lotus to remix “Reckoner” from In Rainbows.
Of course, the album’s wide appeal isn’t such a surprise. Never pledging allegiance to a single genre or sound, Los Angeles stays true to its name by presenting itself as Lotus’ vision of his hometown, much the way Burial’s equally striking Untrue portrays London. From the opening analog shimmer of “Brainfeeder” to the last echoes of “Infinitum”, the album covers a dizzying amount of musical landscape, but manages to stay amazingly cohesive by anchoring itself with earth quaking percussion. It’s this combination of panoramic sounds and knocking drums that prompted Portishead’s Geoff Barrow to proclaim “For me it’s Public Enemy, Marley Marl, EPMD, Flying Lotus and Madlib. That is pure mad music…”
With praise coming from every direction it would seem easy for Flying Lotus to rest on the strength of his accomplishments, however he’s doing no such thing. In the wake of Los Angeles release, he was hard at work in the lab putting the finishing touches on a series of LA EPs as well as remixes for Stereolab, Blank Blue and the aforementioned Radiohead. LA EP 1X3 reprised a pair of album tracks alongside mind-blowing new jams like “Rickshaw” and “Paper Crane Gang” while LA EP 2X3 sees tracks being remixed by Martyn, Samiyam, Nosaj Thing, Ras G and others. The third EP in the series remains a mystery, but rest assured it will be an excellent prelude to Flying Lotus’ installment in the seminal DJ-Kicks mix series next year.
Quite a busy year to follow the release of one of 2008’s most groundbreaking albums, and that is without even mentioning the groundbreaking Brainfeeder festival held in London in June. Bringing together what Flying Lotus likes to call “the fucking United Nations of big bass music”, the epic rave saw him top a bill that included Kode 9, Gaslamp Killer, Digital Mystikz, Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, Danny Breaks and more. In November, Flying Lotus brings his low-end delegates to his home turf for a two-date Brainfeeder run in Los Angeles and San Francisco, after which the party-smasher with the big smile sets off on a European journey that promises to be anything but sedate. No rest for Flying Lotus it would seem…not as long as there are fresh brains to feast on.
- Pivot
- official website
- myspace
- Pivot (Australia) is equally influenced by synthesizer luminaries Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre, Warp label mates Autechre and the post-punk new wave of Talking Heads.
Comprised of Sydney’s brothers Pike, Laurence and Richard, and Perth electronic wunderkind Dave Miller, Pivot’s debut on Warp Records, ‘O Soundtrack My Heart’ came out in August 2008. The first single ‘In The Blood’ came out in May 2008, followed by 7” tour single and video clip for title track ‘O Soundtrack My Heart’, October 2008.
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