I still have yet to write any sort of summary of my Sonar experience (in short, it was incredible), but here are two Seattle-related sights from my trip to Barcelona:

In Barcelona, the postering is all very clean and organized. I don’t mind the Seattle postering style, but there are poles in Barcelona that seem to exist for only that purpose. The pole size (3ft. diameter) lends itself to huge posters (2’ x 3’), so it’s pretty easy to find out about the bigger happenings. Considering the size of the venues you need to have posters that size to pull in the necessary numbers. As for this poster, if you look at tonight’s date, you’ll see that locals (to us) The Gossip are playing tonight (considering the time zone difference, it’s more in a few hours).

Dave’s already said plenty about Infernal Noise Brigade founder and !Tchkung! rhythm-sectioner Filastine here, so I won’t repeat that. I met him before his set prior to dj /rupture, and he’s an incredibly nice guy along with being a very engaging performer (and very mobile for a guy with a broken leg). This picture is from that performance, not held in a club but in a space known as La Makabra. It’s an autonomous community that’s brokered a deal with the police for their own independence, so it exists on the edges of anarchy in a more gritty part of Barcelona. In short, it was the perfect space for the evening’s mix of reggae, grime, ragga jungle, and other urban beats. I’ve got video I’ll post once it’s uploaded somewhere.