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Disco-Punk DJ Set: The Juan Maclean | SF

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Friday, February 6, 2015 - 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Cost: FREE*
*Free before 11 pm with a required RSVP.

Harlot | 46 Minna St. San Francisco, CA

Event Details

The dance world way too often privileges the new, and not many dance artists write albums as good as In A Dream, the third full-length album by The Juan MacLean, this far into their career. The Juan MacLean have weathered electroclash, disco-punk, electro-disco, techno, house, deep house, and whatever we can call the sound of today. They never feel totally in step with the moment, but somehow always feel right and necessary.

Free before 11 pm with a required RSVP.

Like every Juan record, this one quotes freely from house and techno and disco. Dead drums and vintage synthesizers are abundant. This is a DFA record, after all. But early on in their career, The Juan MacLean stopped sounding like genres and just started sounding like The Juan MacLean. Part of that is lyrical — how the words interact with the melodies that carry them. The diction is always off in all the right ways. Another distinction is how much fun Juan and Nancy have with the arrangements of their songs. Different parts interact and play off one another in a way that’s remindful of the interplay on classic disco records.

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Cost: FREE*
*Free before 11 pm with a required RSVP.
Categories: Club / DJ, San Francisco
Venue: Harlot
Address: 46 Minna St. San Francisco, CA