When: Fri., April 24, 10:00PM
Where: Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave., Williamsburg (MAP)
Cost: $5 before 11, $7 after.

Dutty is throwin’ another New York Tropical party at Glasslands. You won’t be able to stop dancin’. Just try not to lean on anything while you’re there. Featuring Matt Shadetek, Uproot Andy, and Geko Jones. Mad Decent‘s Maluca will also rock the place.

Check Uproot’s Guacharaca Migration mix or Geko’s La Nueva Guaracha mix or Shadetek’s mix for a taste of the flavor.

When: Every Mon.
Where: Pyramid Club, Avenue A at 6th St. (East Village)
Cost: $5 before midnight with flyer or guest list, $10 after midnight but $8 with flyer or guest list (got all that?)

Konkrete Jungle: Soroka, DJ Dore and Nebulla (Code of Arms) drop dubstep while Seen and Dinesh spin drum ‘n bass. To hear some of the COA ish, peep the Roaring River Studio Mix by Nebulla or try their blog. Also, check their dancier stuff on the new sub-label Amphibian.

Juan De Fukyah, AKA Johnny Only, AKA Hakim Bey just dropped a new corrupted bass monster of a mixtape over on the Run Riot Blog. It’s a wild glitchy beast, trained just enough to reap the hardest dancefloor. “The right combination of intellect and fuck.”

Juan De Fukyah, “Spring_Bass Mix”

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Instrument creation isn’t just for those crazies out there. Take the scientist and politician Ben Franklin; a man that even the most conservative American could appreciate. Franklin apparently created an instrument called the glass armonica, a piano-like tool designed to replicate the echo of wine glass rims. It has a series of glass bowls laid out in scale from large to small, sanded to the perfect pitch. The glasses are wrapped around a spinning wheel so the player doesn’t have to roll around the rim, freeing them to hit multiple notes at once.

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Micro is probably more descriptive than minimal for this style of music. The genre has an ethic of creating tiny, micro sounds which creates a broad sound pallet of percussive noises. The result is rich, polyrhythm tapestries.

Waer, “Charcoal Drums Mix”

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The starting point for Charcoal Drums was Dubfire’s 2007 rework of Richie Hawtin‘s “Spastik”. He took the rapid fire percussion sound design of Hawtin’s 1994 track (under his Plastikman alias) and added a level of composition to it that brought it from experimentation to a fully realized idea. We then sought out as many recent examples of that idea – arpeggiated drums with attention to composition – that we could find and put them together.

But we can’t look over Hawtin’s impact, so here we are going to post another of his drum oriented visions, this one from 1993 on Warp Records under the guise of F.U.S.E. It’s called “Train Trac (Train-Abuse).” For a minute and a half, he piles layer after layer of drums styles on top of each other without ruining the beat, only to drop into an entirely different pattern and build on that for another 30 seconds.

F.U.S.E., “Train Trac (Train-Abuse)” [BUY IT]

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Ultimately, the timelessness of the song is challenged by weaknesses. Hawtin repeats those patterns for the rest of the song. Still, their depth allows them to ride. Eventually, he lays some simple melodies on top of the percussion. But this is where it fully looses its endurance. Especially with the atonal warning sirens.

Nonetheless, it’s a classic that should still hold influence. And so can compositionally intricate minimal itself. While some people may be turned off by the 4 x 4, techy patterns that help define the style, its ideal of percussionary design and dense rhythms could be adapted and inspire any other genre.

Not in My Name first came to our attention when his song “Blunted” appeared on Dubstep Forum’s 3rd birthday mix. It was one of the cuts from that mix that stood out among the rest on the strength of its own without being mixed with another song. Now, he comes back with “Unbreathed” on UKTrendz, which uses the same formula of foggy settings, rapid drums, and dark, subtle melodies. Only this time, his vision has been further realized.

Mysterious metallic plops dribble over a crunchy beat that quickly shuffles along like a nervous pedestrian on a gray empty street. Eerie female vocals pursue the rhythm, wafting in and out alongside a disembodied male voice. A solid, grimey bassline realizes the danger and pulls it all together with a drawn out, simple melody. Midway the bass and the drips, as well as new stabs of higher range synths, all combine for the full out chase; evolving into a dense, melodic unknown assailant.

Not in My Name, “Unbreathed” [BUY IT]

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Overall, there’s only about two minutes of originality, while the rest of this six minute joint repeats different parts of itself. But he doesn’t randomly spread out the components, which keeps the progression and rhythm intact, and the overall atmosphere is so powerful that it stays engaging.

When: Fri., April 17, 9:00PM
Where: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th St. (MAP)
Cost: $25, includes a free return visit to the museum

Looks like Kode 9 and Flying Lotus aren’t done with New York yet. Why come from London and LA to do one show when you could perform back to back? The day after their show at Love the day before, they will be spinning at the Museum of Natural History.

Badawi vs Kode 9, “Den of Drumz” (clip) [BUY IT]

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When: Fri., April 17, 11:00PM
Where: Le Royale, 21 7th Avenue South, West Village (MAP)
Cost: FREE

Le Royale is an intimate club, to say the least of its size. So Machinedrum figured he’d see how many performers he could fit in there at once for his new album release party. Sorta like that game with the telephone booth we’ve seen on TV.

His style is a mixture of instrumental hip hop, soul-stylin’, vintage synths and rich, structured glitchiness.

At 11, he’ll perform with Addiquit and Jesse Boykins III. Then at midnight, the DJ thing blows up, with Mux Mool, Mike Slotts, Are Dad, HeartMe!, Throwy, Marc-Alan Gray, Lucas Walters, Mike Dextro and the Chain Smokers.

Here’s “Fresh Kids,” an instrumental off Want to 1 2?.

When: Sat., April 18, 10:00PM
Where: Studio B, 259 Banker St., Greenpoint (MAP)
Cost: $10 advance tickets
Ages: 19+

Breaks-based dance makers Stanton Warriors roll through Brooklyn for their US tour Saturday, and with them, they open up a filthy bass room filled with New York dubstep DJs. DJ Dore and Nebulla from Code of Arms will kill it alongside Iron Mike of Enkryption Projekt, Dave Gee, and Hellfire Machina. Sonz Of Mecha, Retro Kidz, and Odi will also perform.

When: Fri., April 17, 10:00PM
Where: Love, 179 MacDougal St., The Village (MAP)
Cost: $10 advance and before midnight at door, $12 after

DUUUUUUB WAAAARRRRR!!! This month, they got Clouds, DJG, Ras_G (for his second night in a row at Love) and – last but not least – New York based Falty DL. Go peep “Paradise Lost” on Falty’s MySpace page. On the reals, that ish is fire

Plus random giveaways to those on the presale list from RAMP RECORDINGS, VINNIE’S STYLES, and JUAKALI’S Come From Yard CD.