Last night at Moe Bar was a listening party of the new Sleepy Eyes of Death remix album coming out soon on local label Mass Mvmnt. Scientific American played a megamix of all the remixes, and though I don't have a hard copy to review, everything I heard last night sounded great. No surprise given both the quality of the source material (those synths!) and the caliber of remixing talent assembled for the project: Jerry Abstract, Truckasauras, Pezzner and Hansen of Jacob London, AMS of Fcs, and many more, pretty much all of whom were in attendance last night, giving the even the feel of a little Seattle techno social. It's pretty inspiring that Seattle has enough quality producers in town to turn out a home-grown project like this, and it was a nerdy joy hanging out with them (and witnessing geekery along the lines of, say, DJ Turk talking shop with Scientific about the pros and cons of various warping algorithms in Ableton Live).

Next door, Rye Rye was making her Seattle debut, which was boisterous, fun, and short. I caught "Wassup" and one other number, went back next door for a drink, and then it was all over. It was a small crowd (the room curtained in half), but a good amount of dancing. Fun, but nothing to change my pre-show assessment: "Her songs, like "Bang," don't transcend party rap to become proper pop anthems in the way that her mentor's do, but they are at least top-quality, heart-palpitatingly rhythm-heavy specimens of club music."