The Bunker presents Marc Houle, Clark Warner, Cookie Mongoloid, and Haunted Pussy at subTonic
$5
Marc Houle's first solo release was an amazing double 12" on M_nus that dropped in November and immediately turned heads at the Bunker and throughout the minimal techno community. Marc's Run Stop Restore collective, which includes Magda and Troy Pierce, also released a stunning 12" on M_nus last year. His unique brand of jacking minimalism is influenced as much by Kraftwerk and 80's synthpop as it is by Dan Bell and classic Chicago acid house. Houle's constantly evolving live set stole the show when he opened for Magda at the Canal Room last year, and we expect more of the same tonight. http://www.m-nus.com/ Clark Warner is an old friend of the Bunker. He used to play at our Undercity parties at Halcyon on Sunday afternoons after many Saturday night opening / sideroom gigs with Richie Hawtin in larger venues. Clark has played at DEMF, Sonar, Mutek, and many other prestigous electronic music events. When he's not busy with DJing and other creative projects, he runs Richie Hawtin's M_nus and Plus8 labels. He is one of the best and most interesting chillout DJs we've heard, and we're psyched to have him start us off properly tonight. http://www.m-nus.com/ Perhaps you've heard that most agressive and misanthropic form of speed metal with its Gatling gun tempo and growling indistiguishable vocals. And perhaps you've heard of this malevolent genre of metal refered to as "cookie monster vocals". And perhaps this reference evoked for a split second the image of that happy-go-lucky muppet gone bad and fronting a deafening and dangerous metal band. Well that image has become an obsession for the malcontent creators of San Francisco cookie-centric metal act Cookie Mongoloid. Cookie Mongoloid is Sesame Speed Metal. See the Cookie Mongoloid in all his blue, furry, googly-eyed glory backed by the baddest of gender mixed metal bands as they decimate and regurgitate your childhood favorites in an abrasive metal wrath. See their harem of gothic gyrators, the Cookies, demonstrate such elemental concepts as up and down in a blaze of lights, smoke and pyrotechnic cookie shrapnel. http://www.wearemongoloid.com/cookie Haunted Pussy are bloody ghosts that rock slutty psychedelic dark scary screeching shrieking metal and have agreed at the very last minute to play with Cookie Mongoloid at the Bunker Midnight show. Mr. Brooke Shields, The Ghost Drummer, Bilge Byron, and Bilge Baron will probably sound something like Diamanda Galas stabbing a Chihuahua to death in Food Bazaar with racks of guitar amps replacing the frozen food section and without the fluorescent lights. They don't usually play clubs, preferring to play dirty parties in basements and lofts, and... cemeteries. So this is a rare chance to see them in full rockstar glory. "These local men und women turn spoken-word ghost stories into Diamanda Galas/Meredith Monk orgasmoans over weird-assed pscho-Frippetronic guitar-noodling noise for outer-space archery contests. Their hilarious press release suggests the music's silliness is on purpose." -Village Voice