Thursday Dec. 4th
10pm-2am
The Downbeat Presents:
Fleetwood Smack (L.A.)
G.I. Blunt
Clark
$15 Early Bird
$20 Advance
$25 Door
We are super excited to bring these L.A. legends (Repping for DJ Dan’s InStereo label) for a special intimate Thursday engagement. Featuring local legends G.I. Blunt and Clark
Fleetwood Smack
https://soundcloud.com/djsfleetwoodsmack
https://www.instagram.com/djsfleetwoodsmack/
Captivated by house, breaks, and the mid 90’s east coast rave culture they spawned, Adam and Niles have been fixated on Electronic Music for most of their lives. Though Adam started by playing jungle and drum n’ bass, by the height of the rave scene in Orlando in 1999, he was best known for moving the dancefloor with a blend of deep and funky house. 1,000 miles to the north, in addition to organizing his own events, Niles was working with the legendary Fever and Buzz events of Baltimore and Washington, DC.
After meeting in Los Angeles and comparing collections, Adam and Niles immediately formed a camaraderie. With tastes so perfectly matched, playing together was a natural evolution. In their first public performance atop the Charlie The Unicorn art car at Burning Man 2011, they dropped a blend of funky, dirty, and electro house and breaks that slayed the dance floor. Immediately after returning their rented Fleetwood RV they took on the name Fleetwood Smack and in the years to follow, have developed a unique sound blending a unifying element of funk across a variety of house and techno sub-genres.
G.I. Blunt
https://www.instagram.com/gordonblunt/
https://soundcloud.com/g-i-blunt
G.I.BLUNT got his start DJing in Vancouver in the early warehouse scene in the late 90s . Originally a down tempo DJ it wasn't long before G.I. was dropping the beats of house , tech and electro . You may have seen G.I.BLUNT DJIng at events like Shambhala in the Fractal Forrest , Soundwave , Rifflandia , Tall Tree , and Song and Surf . Musical influences come from friends and colleagues like Diva Danielle , Fleetwood Smack themselves, or the legendary Pumpkin , and labels like InStereo , Dirtybrid , or Extraklasse Records.
Clark (Vic.)
Clark is the consummate tastemaker. He has been curating underground dance lineups for some of Vancouver Islands most notorious stages for well over a decade, with deep involvement in the West Coast dance music community for well over 20 years. Clarks efforts curating artists for major events like The Spirit Tree Stage at Tall Tree Music Festival, and the electronic dance acts at the legendary Song and Surf Music festival (which has garnered so much trust from its diehard fans that it sells out in minutes, long before the always stellar lineup is announced), have spilled over to his set curation. His selections go deep, taking advantage of his years of exposure to some of the worlds premier diggers and selectors, but his sets are aimed squarely at making us dance, decoupling us from time; giving ourselves over to rhythm and sound. Preferring the long format freestyle set for its capacity for connection with the dancers in front of him, as well as the storytelling that can be accomplished as one DJ links a set together, locked in the moment with a space and and the people filling it, Clark will warm up the room proper with a 2 hour set.
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