This month we bring you a host of live performances, more than you can shake a stick at, and all for only $5. Yes $5.

April 11th 2009
8pm - 4am / $5 (yes only $5!)
Coco66 - 66 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn
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The Future Is Beautiful’s goal is to bring a fine selection of live electronic music and visual performances to Brooklyn and NYC, spanning genres and styles. We curate our events based on the simple idea that music feels good, and if presented in the proper environment the feelings of the artists are broadcast and picked up by the listeners.

Early evening (from 8 - 11) we present down-tempo listening music. We curate the early evening to be a genre-spanning multi-media experience. All of the acts are selected not only for their musical content, but for the visual experience they provide as well. We set up chairs in the space so you can sit down and enjoy the sights and sounds without having to be distracted by standing. Things really do sound different when you can sit. You can even order food. It is a truly amazing experience - seating is limited, so arrive early.

As the evening progresses, the lights go down, and the music picks up. The chairs disappear and the night transforms. Around midnight everything is complete and the night is alive.

The whole experience is gradual, and wonderfully spiritual. If you haven’t been to a TFIB event yet than you really are missing something special. A pristine and clear sound system, visual stimulation, a respectful and attentive crowd, and a venue that is intimate.

Welcome to The Future Is Beautiful.

This month we bring you a fine selection of performances spanning the genres of drone and folktronic to hip hop and techno.

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:

( ) - sheets of ecstatic drones / Parenthesis Music
Praveen - Harmonium and toy piano folktronica with Pandatone on visuals / Music Related & Moodgadget
Mon.key.pod - MPC laden hip-hop funk / Cook Street Elite
Mux Mool - grimey hip-hop & new disco / Ghostly International & Moodgadget
Atomly - first proper liveset this year / Atomiq & Wolf + Lamb

With TFIB RESIDENTS:

Isomer Transition - DJ/LivePA Performance / Archipel & Moodgadget
Patrick Gallagher - DJ Set / SP9
CHiKA - VJ
Zach Dilgard - Photography
Nik - Sound

Artist Bios

( ) / Parenthesis Music
Sheets of ecstatic drones
http://www.myspace.com/parenthesis
( ) is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. ( ) uses a laptop computer to create a variety of sound and image.
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Praveen / Music Related & Moodgadget
Harmonium and toy piano folktronica, with Pandatone on visuals
http://www.myspace.com/praveen
Praveen Sharma has been making music for most of his life, and has contributed releases to AI, Neo Ouija, and Expanding Records. He also runs Percussion Lab, a hub for underground electronic music and exclusive DJ sets, in addition to being an avid live performer and event organizer in New York City. His most recent set of releases are based on a profound journey through his family’s native India. During his journey Praveen gathered a minidisk full of field recordings and voices. Upon his return to the US, Praveen accompanied by Kranky’s Benoit Pioulard crafted ‘Song Spun Simla’ based on these sounds. SSS, Praveen’s second album is available now, on NYC’s Music Related Records. In addition, this month marks the release of Songs Spun Simla remixes, on NYC’s Moodgadget.
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Mon.key.pod / Cook Street Elite
MPC laden hip-hop funk
http://www.myspace.com/monkeypodduo
MON.KEY.POD is Christian Eric Reinhardsen, Justin Miller, and Ryan Casey. Utilizing a mix of analogue synth, wet bass, dirty drums and static laden samples, Mon.Key.Pod composes a cinematic blend of dark electronic rock and hard hip hop. The result is a mixture of science fiction monkeys, b-movie horror, psychedelic dance party’s, 8-bit crunk, and dirty south heavy metal. Add to this some gritty VHS video projection and Mon.Key.Pod’s live show is truly something to be heard, seen, and felt.
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Mux Mool / Ghostly International & Moodgadget
Grimey hip-hop & New Disco
http://www.myspace.com/muxmool
Brooklyn’s Mux Mool is set to blow it up in 2009. Mux rose to popularity after inclusion on iTunes’ best of 2006 list, with the classic “Lost and Found.” His hard work and productions solidified him as an iTunes triple-threat in 2008. With the help of a remix by Machinedrum he claimed: Best Track “Death 9000 (Machinedrum Remix),” Best New Artist” for the “Drum EP,” and a slot on the Best Instrumental Album, Moodgadget’s “The Synchronicity Suite”.
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Atomly / Atomiq & Wolf + Lamb
First Live PA of 2009
http://www.myspace.com/atomly
http://www.atomly.com
Known throughout NYC, Berlin and Chicago, Atomly is a fixture in the dance music. He DJs regularly at underground techno weeklies and after hours parties, where he folds deep-grooved machine music into heavy doses of housey soul with ease. Releasing his productions on his own Atomiq Records as well as Brooklyn’s Wolf + Lamb imprint, Atomly is no stranger to making the music others play. Pushing boundaries and making weird sounds is his style, and we are honored to have Atomly perform his first LIVE PA of 2009 at The Future Is Beautiful this month.
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Isomer Transition / Archipel & Moodgadget
Live PA & DJ Set, Mixed
http://www.myspace.com/isomertransition
http://www.transelectronic.net
With current releases on Pheek’s well-respected Archipel Musique and the Ghostly International subsidiary Moodgadget, and with an upcoming inclusion on Claude VonStroke’s Fabric mix CD, Isomer Transition is quietly and consistently making a name for himself. This month Isomer will be performing a special set, both DJing and performing a Live PA, mixed together. A genre-spanning mix of vintage, released and unreleased tracks combined with on-the-spot programming and new material. Definitely something to be heard.
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Patrick Gallagher / SP9
DJ Set
http://www.theoreticalbacon.com
http://www.unwillingcollaborations.com
Patrick has been involved with the Underground New York Dance scene since 98′. First and foremost as a fan, then visual artist, and finally an event promoter and DJ. Though all his endeavors its always been about the music. Believing that there are always only 2 kinds of music, that of good and bad. He is inspired by the sounds and sights of the NYC and the increasing ability to layer new and different elements together.

As a Brooklyn based digital artist, Patrick inhabits a place where the technology enhances reality and creative output. His DJ Style is layered with everything from Funk and Techno to Hard House and Tribal with accents and subtexts of Electro and Hip Hop.
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CHiKA
Moving Image Visualist
http://imagima.com
CHiKA is a live media artist working in the international VJ and experimental music scene. Her performances vary from minimalist geometric patterns to unique compositions overflowing with a variety of forms and color.

Since CHiKA started performing live in the summer of 2004 she has performed at WMC2009, The Museum of Modern Art, Mutek, The Mapping Festival, Decibel festival, Eyebeam, Monkeytown, The Issue Project, Galapagos Art Space, Tonic, as well as private parties, festivals, events, galleries and night clubs.
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Label: Io Records
Catalog Number: iod.001 & iod.003
Release Date: March/April 2009
Format: Digital

The Devolution Series’, initially released partially in 2001, is a universe created by Richard J Valeo where machines speak to each other, and we get to listen to them as they think and play. Utilizing only field recordings and non-audio computer files files as audio sources, Valeo explores what sounds the computer itself makes when married to the organic world. With time stretching, convolution and pitching as the main methods of sound processing, he creates a truly ‘digital landscape’, a place that can only exist inside of computers, that is both organic and strangely familiar.

Designed to create an emotive sonic genome through the marrying of the organic and digital sound universes, ‘The Devolution Series’ creates a ‘digital sonic landscape’ that can only exist inside of the computer.  Listening to this sonic universe is much like listening to the sounds of machines becoming sentient, their inner thoughts, and their dialogues with each other.

By labeling the compositions with numbers rather than titles, it disconnects the listener from any frame of reference for the sounds and allows the listener to simply experience the music.

Volume One Available Here on Boomkat.

Label: Io Records
Catalog Number: iod.002
Release Date: March 2009
Format: Digital

Hardware Excursions Volume One:
The Hardware Excursions is a series of compositions composed using only harware. Excursion One and Excursion Two are completely improvised and done with out sequencers and use only an Oberheim OB-1, a Korg Monopoly, a clock modified Ibanez D-1000 digital delay and an Alesis Midiverb as sound sources. The concept behind this performance, we well as all of these ‘Excursions’ is to create a meditative space where the listener can let go of concrete ideas of sound sources and become one with the sounds and get inside their own head.

Available now exclusively at Boomkat

With each release Io Records explores the diverse musical universe of RJ Valeo — both his own compositions and those by fellow musicians he feels fits the distinct vision of Io Records.

With this series of releases, ‘Devolutions’, Valeo creates a universe where machines speak to each other, and we get to listen to them as they think and play. Utilizing only field recordings and non-audio computer files files as audio sources, Valeo explores what sounds the computer itself makes when married to the organic world. With time stretching, convolution and pitching as the main methods of sound creation he creates a truly ‘digital landscape’, a place that can only exist inside of computers, that is both organic and strangely familiar.

Beginning the series with 2 long play releases, followed by an EP, ‘Devolutions’ takes us on a computer aided journey through a contemplative digital landscape that can best be described at intimate and personal. The processes developed during the creation of these initial compositions in 2000 and 2001 form the foundation for his signature sound design style still present in all of his compositions today.

Boomkat review:
“After last week’s Hardware Excursions, RJ Valeo sustains his experimental outlook with this selection of masterfully realized micro-drones. The interchange between extreme high frequencies and deep, steady-handed industrial tones on ‘Construct 05′ immediately brings to mind Richard Chartier’s highly disciplined sound world, but these compositions also move towards more extrovert territory, harbouring shadows of half-melodies and flourishes of fractured circuitry. These more exploratory releases find Valeo in glorious form - let’s hope that he continues to pursue this beatless direction for a good while longer yet…”

After much work and toiling the Io Records launch is finally here. Hibernating quietly for over 8 years Io is back with a vengeance, with 4 releases in the first two months. We opted for a lowkey minimal website to begin with and will fill it out as time goes by. There is no secret who releases on this label, and there is no secret as to how to get in touch with the label owner.

First up on Io is Richard J Valeo with ‘The Hardware Excursions Volume One”. Boomkat says…

“Returning under his own name after recent activity as Isomer Transition, Type’s very excellent RJ Valeo resumes more experimental duties, momentarily setting aside his preoccupations with techno formats. Hardware Excursions Vol. 1 finds the New York producer exploring deep and extended freeform synthesizer explorations, at time bordering on drone or even outright noise. You can hear a bit of a sci-fi influence creeping into the music, with combining elements of low frequency, motor-like oscillations and higher pitched, modulated bird-like timbres making up the largest part of Valeo’s minimalist sound palette. Structurally these pieces are very liberated, unburdening themselves from anything that might be termed ‘form’ right up until the distorted industrial rhythm that fires up towards the end of ‘Excursion Two’. The result is 16 minutes of dense, surprising and immersive electronic music of the highest order. Very highly recommended.”

Fucking awesome. :)

For this month’s edition we will skip the snappy description and get right to the meat of things. Door open at 7:30, music begins promptly at 8pm.

Come early and celebrate Jessi’s 30th birthday with wonderful oysters during performances by NY favorites Morgan Packard, Ezekiel Honig and Calmer. Josh Ott is going to be performing with Zeke and Morgan using his custom built ‘Superdraw’ platform. If you haven’t seen ‘Superdraw’ you really need to get out more. It really is ‘future-beautiful’.

Following the relaxing and atmospheric stylings of the early evening’s sonic explorations we have Isomer Transition playing selections from unreleased and upcoming projects from the transelectronic vaults. Following Isomer we have plenty of electronic future music to go around. Jen Lusker, a NYC fixture will be gracing the decks, followed by the infamous Patrick Gallagher truly mashing it up, and finishing the night off, in honor of his friend Jessi’s 30th is the legendary Derek Plaslaiko.

For your visual stimulation Chika will be bringing her unique brand of VJing to the big screen, and Zach will be taking pictures, so there is no way you can say you were there if you weren’t.

All that and enough bass to shake light fixtures from the ceiling. Not even close to kidding, it happened last month.
Bass, that’s right.

Here are the set times.
8:00 Morgan Packard w/Josh Ott
9:00 Ezekiel Honig w/Josh Ott
10:00 Calmer
10:40 Isomer Transition
12:00 Jen Lusker
1:00 Patrick Gallagher
2:00 Derek Plaslaiko

$5 admission all night - to help cover the cost for the sound and the performers. More would be amazing.

Come early and stay late. No need to eat humans, there is plenty of food at Coco66.

All of the Isomer Transition releases revolve around, and build upon a single story. The releases and song titles represent different chapters and scenes in this story. The story chronicles the adventures of Captain Rethan Doepfer and his team of renegade scientists aboard ‘The Mistress’, who are racing to locate and decode a mysterious transmission before it disappears forever. With each successive ‘Isomer Transition’ release (and select ‘Richard J Valeo releases) the story evolves, more information is revealed, and the saga continues.

The story so far…

Shadowlands

Captain Rethan Doepfer is called to begin his journey by a mysterious transmission. The discovery of the transmission takes place on the ISLOO (Independent Scientific Lunar Orbiting Observatory). The transmission is received from a point in space that should not be transmitting anything as nothing shows up at that spot on any scans of the region.
When decoded the transmissions tells of…

A Dark Star where none was previously.
Where Heavy Water can be found on Io.
A Red Giant located in a neighboring galaxy where none should be or could exist based on the current understanding of Physics.

Mission to Mars

Rethan Doepfer and his crew leave the ISLOO and travel to Mars aboard ‘The Mistress’. They are going to Mars to pick up Lara Dunhill, Captain Doepfer’s navigator and long-time companion, and to see what information the Martian Government is willing to share about the transmissions.

Loop Me Through To Control The Mains
The crew needs to hack the ship’s guidance control systems to regain control after a mysterious virus corrupts the navigational systems.

Deep In Space
The Mistress receives an additional transmission, but this time the content is encrypted beyond the ship’s decryption capabilities.

Space Madness
Rethan learns about the origins of the transmissions from Lara and is pushed to the brink of sanity by a mysterious illness.

The Exploration Of Region 13
The crew lands on Mars near Olympus Mons and discovers that there were inhabitants on the planet before them. The evidence is in a cave deep under the mountain, discovered by Lara and is linked the the origins of the transmission.

1971

1971 is the year that Captain Rethan Doepfer’s Great Grandfather first began transmitting encoded messages into space looking for extraterrestrial life, and subsequently set in motion the chain of events that would take Rethan on his journey today.

All of the scenes in 1971 take place on Mars

Close To Me (Dirty Edit)
While showing Rethan the cave and the proof that there was an ancient civilization on Mars, Lara and Rethan find themselves rekindling their long forgotten passionate affair.

Downtime In The Hangar
While Rethan and Lara are away a group of fundamentalist Martians try to sabotage ‘The Mistress’ and prevent the crew from investigating the transmission. They are eventually foiled by Arman, the ship’s head of engineering.

Complex Undertow
A medicinal and spiritual hallucinogenic pharmaceutical native to Mars, (slang: CU pronounced See You) - taken during the festival of the lights and during certain Martian tribal initiation rituals. Lara and Rethan take CU and have a vision quest, and discover Rethan’s Great Grandfather’s transmissions into outer space.

Mastery Of The Gravel (Where Did You Come From)
Upon returning from the vision quest Rethan and Lara fall prey to a plot to break them apart and sabotage the mission yet again. Rethan is drugged and seduced by the allure of an ‘easy life’ (giving up the mission) and Lara’s love for him is put to the ultimate test.

South Side Of The Mountain
Rethan and Lara are re-united, but Lara isn’t quick to forgive him for his weaknesses, even though he was drugged. Rethan proves to be the consummate captain, puts his personal feelings and dramas aside and gets on with their mission to investigate the transmission. All the while thinking about what the vision quest revealed to him and Lara.

Some time has passed and The Mistress and her crew have left Mars and are on their way to Jupiter when they discover that something is wrong with their orbit, bringing us to…

Orbits Decaying

The crew is on a long orbital slingshot around the sun to gain speed and reach Jupiter. Instead of increasing it’s orbit’s arch, something is causing The Mistress’ orbit’s telemetry to shrink rather than expand, causing great alarm for if they don’t get this maneuver right they will burn up in the Sun.

Give Me Your Hand
During a routine dish adjustment outside on the ship’s main communications array Tannoy, the ships communication’s engineer, almost plunges deep into space due to a malfunctioning safety harness. Quickly Rethan saves him by snapping off his own oxygen tank and uses it as a propellant.

Hot Salsa
The food replicators break down and only produce Hot Salsa for two weeks. Strange things start to happen when the salsa all becomes rancid and the crew starts to mass hallucinate. The replicators are fixed, but something is still off with the food. Strangely everything now has the smoky bite of Chipotle and the crew is wondering of it is really safe to eat the food again.

Parametric Pressure
During a water harvesting run it is discovered that the readings for the near-ship asteroids masses are off from what they should be, based on actual grappler arm load readings. Lara runs diagnostic calculations on the parametric phase-shifting control modules and finds that the pressure readings are off by over 30%. It is then discovered that the virus that initially infected the guidance control systems re-calibrated the Parametric Pressure gauges to cause the decaying orbit. Lara re-calibrates the pressure gauges and re-engineers the control system fixing the orbit. By using information from the transmission she is able to re-configure the Ion Drive, creating the most efficient and powerful drive to date.

Landing Near The Center
The Crew, finally able to harvest water from local asteroids, lands a scouting party on one with an irregular orbit to investigate some extremely bizarre readings: carbon, frozen water and amino acids. They gather samples and barely make it off the asteroid before it suddenly veers off course, almost as if it was piloted, and disappears in a trail of water vapor and star dust.

Searching For Clues
Having sling-shot around the sun and able to travel at unheard of speeds, the crew makes it to Jupiter in record time. Now that they are at Jupiter the transmission has stopped and they can no longer triangulate the transmission’s location.

Captain Doepfer and the crew of The Mistress launch a probe in the vicinity of the transmission’s origins and let it collect data while they dock at the Jupiter Orbital Observatory for some much needed R&R, repairs and ship maintenance. That damn food replicator certainly needs some adjustments.

The Hardware Excursions Vol 1

This series are audio documentations of the 2 unique transmissions that damage the probe and are the cause of it’s problems. They take place on a parallel plot line and are told by the artist ‘Richard J Valeo’ on Io Records in April.

The Hardware Excursions Vol 2

While the crew is docked at the Jupiter Orbiting Observatory the probe encounters some transmissions that reconfigure it’s circuits, almost causing it to crash into Io.

On The Verge Of A Breakdown
The probe, armed with Lara’s proprietary toolkits and programs decoded from the initial transmission, the probe battles the mysterious damaging transmission as they attempt to crash the probe. Ultimately the probe succeeds in warding off the electronic attack and repairs the damage done to it’s circuits.

Harvested and Collected
Finally done with it’s mission and armed with the data it was sent to collect, the probe returns to a geo-synchronous orbit along side the Jupiter Orbiting Observatory and awaits retrieval by The Mistress and her crew.

The next chapter in the story is called:

Bright Lights, Big City

to be continued…