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Sea Level Live: Jensen Sportag | Caroline Polachek | Obey City
JENSEN SPORTAG
Jensen Sportag is a MAN from Copenhagen, Denmark. Jensen Sportag is also a two-man electronic BAND from Nashville. Jensen Sportag the MAN, an ex-tennis pro-cum-avant-garde composer, has an outstanding ability to visualize and illustrate complex musical arrangements in the form of MIDI notation. Benji Craig and Austin Wilkinson, who comprise Jensen Sportag the BAND, exercise the endurance to decode and construct the maddeningly circuitous arrangements. Jensen Sportag the MAN has devised a set of unique and effective sound design theories specifically for the post-techno dance floor. Jensen Sportag the BAND refine and master these theories in their instrumental selection and sample application. (What a funny way to work! Why? Could the MAN not do it all?) Jensen Sportag the MAN understands the indefinable value of collaboration and the importance of the human element in all music that the BAND, with their own unique perceptions of sound and movement, help to provide. The BAND allow the MAN to maintain his ascetic lifestyle and perfect serve.
Caroline Polachek (DJ Set)
Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly made Something, their sophomore record, over 18 months between the back of an antique store in Brooklyn and the basement of a family home in Streatham, London. The world and characters of Something, slowly emerged- overtones of manic revenge contrast with a dark brooding guilt ("Sidewalk Safari", "Amanaemonesia", "Take it out on Me", "Guilty as Charged"); pastoral, almost psychedelic love meets its own inevitable, blue future ("Met Before", "Frigid Spring", "Turning", "Cool as a Fire"). In contrast to Chairlift's debut album's Does you Inspire You pop-dreamscape, created in the dark, after school and work, the band uncovered the songs on Something in the daytime, drinking coffee. Producer Dan Carey's studio is part of the world of Something, full of giant plate-reverb boxes, mint green reel-to-reels salvaged from dismantled BBC studios, plastic human heads which are used to record and simulate the listeners location in approximation to the sound. The head was sitting in the back seat of Carey's car, a microphone on each ear, while Caroline drove, screaming the "I'm gonna hunt you down I'm gonna run you down" lyric of "Sidewalk Safari". Perhaps this incident lends itself to the fact that Something recalls the anthemic driving albums of the mid-90's (Weezer's 'Blue' album comes to mind). Larry Fitzmaurice (Pitchfork) says that "...Chairlift go for 'big' like, really big and succeed on every level".
Sea Level (DJ set)
KR (Kim Robinson) and Obey City (Sam Obey) are unabashed smooth music fans. From the 70's yacht rock of Toto to the 90's stylings of legendary electro producers Daft Punk, the duo's love of the 70's and 80's AM/R&B production atheistic crosses every boundary of popular music.
After initially coalescing around a mutual love of the same artists, Obey and Robinson begin to trade youtube links of their favorite artists that employ smooth techniques. Going from dance to rock to R&B, both DJ's began to pinpoint a smooth production aesthetic within their favorite songs they were swapping. After producing mixtapes for friends and spreading the word individually, they joined forces to produce the monthly party "Sea Level" at The Tender Trap in Williamsburg, Brooklyn beginning in October of 2012.
With Sea Level Live the duo will be take the event to the next level with live performances and DJ sets from smooth inspired artists they've championed at their popular monthly party.
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Join us a little earlier at Tammany Hall for a Happy Hour w/ free Pacifico at 7pm until it lasts. The Sea Level crew will be there doing a special warm DJ set as well.
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LocationTammany Hall (View)
152 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
United States
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