El Guincho
El Guincho is the alias of Spanish musician Pablo Díaz-Reixa, also of the band Coconot. El Guincho's recordings absorb elements of tropicália, Afrobeat, and psych-pop, and synthesize them into something else entirely—a trippy, swirling, sampledelic sound anchored to 4/4 club thump and syncopated steel drum and hand percussion, like Animal Collective at their most giddy and uplifted. Live, Díaz-Reixa sings, controls loops, and plays keyboards, backed by another musician triggering rhythm and bass. With Copy and DJ Kid Hops. (Nectar, 412 N 36th St, 632-2020. 9 pm, $10, 21+.) Eric Grandy

ohGr, American Memory Project
(El Corazón) Skinny Puppy member Nivek Ogre has gone on to do some fairly interesting solo and collaborative work after the SP mothership first disbanded in 1995. OhGr (Ogre and Mark Walk) have released two albums that rummaged in IDM's warehouse of oddity with rewardingly eerie results. Their latest opus, Devils in My Details, occasionally pounds some Nine Inch Nails into your cranium, albeit with vocals less bombastically nihilistic than Trent's. Still, ohGr convey requisite electro-goth hostility through clenched-teeth vocals, belligerent beats, and fuck-off synth emissions. Baroque, tuneful art-rock also seeps into proceedings, reflecting ohGr's fondness for early Genesis and Alan Parsons Project. With acts like ohGr, apocalypse is always imminent, horror is the mind's default mode, and weird, hard electronic music is omnipresent, like Muzak's evil doppelgänger. DAVE SEGAL

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