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The first in a new semi-monthly experimental electronic music, art, and performance series by JOINTHESTUDIO's new Chicago branch.

For our debut show we have the combined beat-forces of DOWN GIANT (Zainghis, Doc Ill, and b.banks of the Push Beats family) with live vocals by Alexandra Bautista, the legendary SHARKULA as guest host and MC, NORMAN. with accompanying live drums, SHARDSTYLE with guest MCs, the electronic performance opera of HAITLIN, Dr. GOOM, live modular video by brownshoesonly, and some sort of artwork by members of JTS Chicago!!

FEB 24th, 10-2

Reversible Eye Gallery, 1103 N. California (Cali and Division)

$7 """"Suggested""" Donation for 18+, $5 Suggested for 21+ (there will be booze but you can also BYOB)

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DOWN GIANT

...is a 3-man collaborative effort uniting some of the fiercest underground electronic beat-talent Chicago has to offer by way of Zainghis (http://soundcloud.com/zainghis), Doc ILL (http://soundcloud.com/doc-ill), both members of the almighty Push Beats collective, and b.banks (http://soundcloud.com/bbanks). Joining them for the first Spectratone Show is the fantastic vocalist Alexandra Bautista (http://soundcloud.com/alexandrabautista)

http://soundcloud.com/down-giant

SHARKULA

...is a goddamn Chicago hip-hop legend. To say nothing of his 18 years of rhyming with a freeform, scattershot style that no one else can pull off

successfully, Sharkula's album Martin Luther King Jr. Whopper With Cheese was voted by readers of The Chicago Reader as one of the 20 best albums of 2004 and was the subject of a documentary film titled Sharkula: Diarrhea of a Madman. Sharkula's the guest MC for the first Spectratone show and will be dropping a set of his own, better start prepping yourself now.

http://sharkula.info/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharkula



SHARDSTYLE

...is a painter, designer (outdated portfolio: www.behance.net/samrolfes), turntablist, violinist, owner and co-founder of the Austin and Chicago based art and music collective Join The Studio (online mag: www.jointhestudio.com), and producer of some sort of (often distorted and glitched out) experimental electronic beat music often accompanied by frenetic skratching and yelled, modulated vocals.

WWW.JOINTHESTUDIO.COM

www.soundcloud.com/shardstyle

NORMAN.

...is a rapidly rising force in both the Chicago hip-hop and beat scenes with his effortlessly flowing, syncopated drums and captivating melodies. For the first Spectratone Show Norman.'s gonna bring up a few of Chicago's dopest underground MC's so be damn sure you're ready for that.

http://soundcloud.com/norman-3

**Featuring live modular video by "brownshoesonly", honestly something to come for in itself, it's pretty damn incredible***

http://www.brownshoesonly.com.php5-21.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/?page_id=257SUPPORT THE UNDERGROUND!!

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If we don't pull together and support each other, Chicago's not gonna have shit for an experimental underground scene!