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Tonight: Sunshine Jones in Seattle

Posted by MATT CORWINE at 09:45 AM

(Light blogging from me lately, sorry — I’ve been very busy watching that dogs and lasers video over and over and over and over again and can’t find time to do anything else.)

Your assignment tonight is to head down to Lo-Fi at 429 Eastlake and check out Sunshine Jones. Sunshine was half of Dubtribe Sound System, who called it a day last year after three albums and more than a decade of rocking parties up and down the West Coast and across both oceans. (Not to mention being perennial Seattle favorites — ask any ex-raver about the hands-down best parties from back in the day and I’ll give you $10 if they don’t mention Dubtribe.)

But those days are over. Now he’s struck out on his own, with a new DJ/live set that combines custom edits and original tracks with live vocals and effects. Techno folks will appreciate the richer textures, stripped-down production and sideways/forward motion of the music, and househeads get their fair share of dubwise production and San Franciscan good vibes. He blew the roof off Francois K’s Deep Space night in New York a few weeks back, and he’s on his way to do the same in Japan right after this, so you know it’s going to be good.