Arts&Beats July 2, 2011

Forward SF, Terra and George present
Arts & Beats 3

Saturday July 2nd 2011
4pm to 5am
Sound by Know:Audio
more info: www.forwardsf.com

Arts & Beats 3 will be headlining the artwork of OWEN MAIGRET !

"If any visual artist captured the ethos of the San Francisco house music scene during its '90s salad days, it would be Owen Maigret. As with hippies and their cherished Grateful Dead poster art, an aging raver need only glance at one of Maigret's expressionistic blue-green musclemen figures to be transported to a trippier time."

Also featuring works from local Artists & Vendors.
Artists below brought to you by Melisa Elena Galvan from Sticks + Stones Gallery

Jean Tripier - Simon Cox - Tallita Suassuna
Max Subtalk - Mark Rada - Jonesy Jones
Jae Fella - Bert Yip - ECON - HYDE

Artist below brought to you by Terra Gallery:
www.terrasf.com

Ron Sandoval - Chepe Voz Angulano - Dunce Art - Brian Grief - Christian Titus - Michael Clarke - Jordan Quintero - Tamo Hulva - John Flores - Silver Lucy - Bruce Tamberelli

This time around we will be combining the Arts & Beats in the same level!!!

Full Bar from 4pm to 2am benefiting in part the H.E.A.R. Foundation.

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- M A N I K (Ovum / Hot Creations / Poker Flat)

- [a]pendics.shuffle Live (Adjunct / Sunset diskos - LA)

- Solar (pacificsound)

- Lance Desardi (Bang the Box)

- Rich Korach (As You Like It)

- Nav Izadi (Smoke n' Mirrors / Nice'n'Slow)

- Mike Frugaletti (Brazil)

- and Forward SF Resident Adnan Sharif

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Note: This is a Fully Legal event with a full bar serving till 2am, 21+ only

$10 before 8pm / $20 from 8pm to 2am / $25 after 2am
(INS and OUTS ALLOWED)

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*** M A N I K ***

New York City born and bred, M A N I K (note the spaces in the name!) is a producer that lives and breathes electronic music. With a discography less than one year old, his mature production style and ear for the dancefloor mark him out as a talent that is here to stay.

'Park To The Slope' on Josh Wink’s Ovum imprint was a well received debut release in early 2010 with A-side ‘Rau Down Low’ gaining most plaudits. This initial offering was quickly followed up by EP’s on the revered UK label Four:Twenty, and Chicago’s very own Fresh Meat. An eye catching slate of material for the fall/winter schedule of 2010 comes courtesy of records on Culprit, Poker Flat and Komplex De Deep. In addition there is a highly anticipated second release on Ovum, which rounds out a groundbreaking year for the young artist. Watch out for the album in 2011.

Whilst some artists are pigeonholed into purely one genre, MANIK prides himself on being heavily inspired by a diverse and comprehensive musical background. His style is a unique blend of cutting edge house, futuristic techno and deep, classic old school grooves, along with dark & edgy sounds. Pumping out music 24/7 at his infamous ‘I'm Nice Like That Studios’ in Queens, his tracks are regularly supported across the spectrum, by luminaries Josh Wink, Steve Bug, Laurent Garnier, Davide Squillace and Anja Schneider.

Recent highlights include playing alongside Josh Wink, Steve Bug, and DJ Sneak at the ‘15 Years of Ovum WMC event’. M A N I K’s music is being championed as unique, fresh, and forward thinking. Having been described as one of the 'most focused, humble, and active musicians around in electronic dance music today", the M A N I K style has quickly evolved into a class of its own.

This driven 24 year old is one of the leaders for the next generation of multi-genre artists, as well as being one of the top cutting edge electronic musicians hailing from the burgeoning US scene.

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*** [a]pendics.shuffle ***

Kenneth James Gibson is a man of many personas. Keeping up with him can be a time consuming, yet rewarding venture into sound. As soon as you think you know him and can grasp whats going on, he puts on yet another mask and becomes something else. Always a surprise and never a let down, he gives us what we want but dont expect. A rare stone in todays musical climate, Ken is rolling and collects no moss.

Kens first recordings were as the guitarist, singer, part time keyboardist and producer of the 90s indie rock band Furry Things. He slowly grew tired of being in a band and started producing a slew of electronic mish mash on his own as Eight Frozen Modules. Starting out with a guitar, half broken sampler (given to him by King Coffee of the legendary Texas band The Butthole Surfers), a drum machine, borrowed synths and a four track, Ken laid down an off kilter mix of electro, abstract hip hop, dub and techno.

In 1997, Ken moved from Austin Texas to the big city of Los Angeles, California. After releasing a few records as Eight Frozen Modules on various labels such as Trance Syndicate and City Slang, he gave up the 4 tracks and guitar for a desktop computer and software. While taking a few years off from releasing music, he learned how to create a new world in the land of computers. After 3 years of not leaving his padded studio cell, he resurfaced with the 2001 Eight Frozen Modules CD Random Activities and Broken Sunsets, a mix of glitched out electro, techno, and idm for the LA label, Phthalo. Since then, he has also released music under the names [a]pendics.shuffle, The Premature Wig, dubLoner, Electronic Music Composer, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Hiss and Buzz (with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto), Kenneth James G., KJ Gibbs, Whoa Buck, Cascabel Gentz (with Argentine Dilo), Men In Slippers (with Mikael Stavostrand) for labels such as Mo's Ferry Productions, Adjunct, We Are, Lick My Deck, Revolver, Leftroom, Resopal, Floppy Funk, Underl_ne, Orac, Mille Plateaux, Planet-Mu, Proptronix, Titbit, Force Tracks, Disco Inc., and Sunset Diskos....just to name a few.

When Kenneth isn't in the studio reeking havoc on his neighbors, he is touring the world playing his music for the crazy kids late at night. Ken lives in Los Angeles, California and co-runs the label Adjunct, part of the Kompakt family. Adjunct is a forward thinking techno and house label releasing such artists as Mikael Stavostrand, Dilo and Gurtz, Mathias Schaffhauser, Sutekh, Franco Cinelli, Kit Clayton, Peter F. Spiess and many more.

Kenneth just finished up a big remix / live project with Crostown Rebels main man Damian Lazarus, which you can hear in Damian's latest live sets. Some of this material will also be making it to vinyl in the near future. Kenneth has also finished up his full length Reverse Commuter LP and EP's for DJ Threes label Hallucination Limited, which will be out very soon, along with some excellent remixes. The Reverse Commuter live set at WMC 2009 was listed as Mr. C's (Superfreq) favorite set of the conference. Also in the works is a Kenneth James G. house influenced EP and LP for new LA label Culprit, a label run by the Droog folks. Another venture is the latest project Cascabel Gentz. This is a duo consisting of Kenneth and Dilo from Argentina. The 2 latest Cascabel EP's have been getting rave reviews from play from such DJ's as Luciano, Tim Xavier, Shonky, Brothers Vibe and many more.

Official Website: http://www.forwardsf.com