Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Dance Until You Drop Tonight at Pearl Street with electronic whiz kid Dan Deacon...and we mean WITH Dan Deacon!

Dan Deacon has garnered a reputation in the underground as an intense performer and classic showman. The table top full of pedals, sine wave generator, vocoder and casio blasting through the PA, joined by a makeshift light board with various bulbs and green skull strobe light, make his all out dance-til-you-drop performance a complete experience. The shows he performs in his native Baltimore, namely those at Wham City, (the live-in artists collective and DIY venue/theater that he calls home), are especially notorious for its frenzied crowds.

But it isn’t all fancy feet and bouncy beats. Deacon is a classically trained composer with a Masters degree in electro-acoustic composition. He has released 7 albums from 2003 to 2006, but those self-produced recordings do not contain the vocal based experimental pop that he has fine-tuned in live performance. His latest full length, ‘Spiderman of the Rings’ is the first album bridging the gap between party performer and genuine composer. A mixture of his live show dance anthems, intricate instrumentals and epic psychedelics, ‘Spiderman of the Rings’ establishes Dan Deacon as a new direction in the contemporary underground.
Oh, and if you can't tell from the picture at the top of the post, he plays his set in the crowd!!! Get your tickets here to partake in the fun.

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