World Famous Productions presents Lazer sword, R/D, Machinedrum & Cacoa

Saturday, September 11

Doors at 9 PM

$20

$15 advanced at The Works in Arcata & Eureka and inticketing.com

21 and over

World Famous Productions presents Lazer sword, R/D, Machinedrum & Cacoa!

Lazer Sword

Lazer Sword is a San Francisco-based live electronic act and production duo at the forefront of an emerging sound – a future music – fusing anything from rap, electro, dubstep, and grime together to form a new kind of club experience.  On stage, Lazer Sword is a hands-on affair, evolving further with every performance.  Atypical of most DJ/producer sets, Lazer Sword performs the material to the audience as a highly improvised live production showcase. Tried and true dance music with a flare for the boom-bap. Due to their wide palette of influences and styles (the two share a love for all things hip hop, disco, phsychedelic rock, electro, early synthesizer music, ghettotech, etc.), Lazer Sword can be found performing amongst many diverse line-ups.  Often custom-preparing their set for each specific occasion, they’ve built themselves a name as a uniquely versatile act when it comes to booking.  They have shared the stage with such acts as Flying Lotus, Megasoid, Eliot Lipp, MSTRKRFT, Trackademics, The Cool Kids, Chromatics, The Glitch Mob, Ghislain Poirier, Kid 606, Bassnectar, Hudson Mohawke, Rustie, The Gaslamp Killer and Cobra Krames.

R/D

R/D started making his own music on borrowed gear, hammering out glitched up IDM and electro on an MPC 2000. Luckily, the first tracks he ever wrote were later released on Andrea Parker’s UK label ‘Touchin’ Bass‘.  As the era of Aphex Twin influenced IDM came to an end, R/D virtually hung up his hat, turning to film sound as a creative outlet. But, his musical nature was re-invigorated in 2007 when he moved in with pals edIT and Ooah, just as the Glitch Mob sound was forming. Feeding off the fresh energy of his incredibly talented roommates, he went back to the drawing board, developing his take on glitch-hop inspired tunes aimed at the dancefloor. His new sound fetched him gigs at Coachella with the Do Lab in 2007 and 2009, and put him on the West Coast festival circuit where he shared bills with Flying Lotus, Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, The Glitch Mob, Les Claypool, Cocoe Rosie, Caspa, Mala, Beats Antique, Mimosa, MartyParty and a laundry list of incredible talent.

Machinedrum

Travis Stewart, better known by his stage name Machinedrum, sometimes capitalized Machine Drum, is an electronic musician and one of the artists who helped launch Merck Records. He is also the owner of New York-based Normrex Records. He has also sold rights to some of his music to Adult Swim for tracks played during some of their program interludes. His debut album was released under one of his aliases, Syndrone, and was soon licensed by European IDM label called Djak-Up-Bitch.