HOUSEPITALITY w/ VINCENT LEMIUEX, Polk & Hyde and Matt Richardson on Luke Nasaw's Bday!

( ( ( ( (H O U S E P I T A L I T Y) ) ) ) ) is proud to announce a night of awesomely weird house and techno, celebrating Housepitality crew member Luke David Nasaw’s birthday with a DJ set from one of Montreal’s finest and a live hardware set from SF’s elites, featuring

::VINCENT LEMIEUX (Musique Risquée, Perlon | Montreal)::
::POLK & HYDE (Realtime, 222 | San Francisco)::
::MATT RICHARDSON (Housepitality | San Francisco)::

In the Groove Lounge (aka back room), we’ll be having a very special birthday celebration for Housepitality’s own Luke David Nasaw, and Housepitality friend Domilyn Mitchell, featuring

::WILLIAM WARDLAW (Oakland)::
*special downtempo set*
::GARRETT SCOTT (SF)::
::ED MARCO (UK)::

The details:
FREE before 11pm with RSVP at www.housepitalitysf.com/rsvp
otherwise $5 before 11pm, $10 after
FREE champagne from 9pm-10pm
$5 Jameson (with mention of Housepitality discount)

So it’s mid-March. Housepitality has been, and will continue to, bring the best house and techno we can, at the price you can afford. This week is a special one, being that it’s Housepitality’s promoter/Chief Dancing Officer Luke David Nasaw’s birthday. Luke is a little bit weird, and in so keeping with his standard, we’ve booked some of the best eclectic house/techno music we can. Mr. Vincent Lemieux is the founder of the Musique Risquée label (of which past guest Akufen is part), and has been bringing fun, eclectic, and juicy house tunes to the ears of discerning listeners for many many years. We are truly excited to have this talent in our humble party.

Also playing (if we can find room for their hardware in the small booth at 1192 Folsom), is the compact supergroup Polk & Hyde, aka Jonah Sharp and Emilio Orlandi. These talented folks will be playing a live PA (and probably mostly improvised) set, playing electronic music with no turntables, no Traktor, no Ableton… all live, all gear… all awesome. We are huge fans and great friends of these folks, and are honored to have them play for us to open for Vincent. (That part about fitting their gear on stage? That’s a real concern; they really have too much hardware, and it’s all too big… that’s what she said? Hell yeah! 😀 )

Opening up the main room, a man that Luke met while raving in Detroit, Housepitality resident Matt Richardson. Matt has a wide-ranging, beautiful taste in house and techno music, and is a vinyl aficionado. We need nothing more than his slightly eccentric tastes (and deep vinyl selection) to open for these leaders of the industry. I’m happy to call him a friend (and a resident).

In the back room we’ll be celebrating the birthdays of two special folks, our good friend Domilyn Mitchell, and Housepitality Chief Dancing Officer Luke Nasaw. These two folks have hand-picked the DJs, and so Domilyn’s man Garrett Scott will be opening the room and building the vibe, and Luke’s good friend William Wardlaw will be playing a very special downtempo set. We love all of these folks, and respect them as DJs, and are very honored to have them musically officiate for the birthdays of our good friends.

COME OUT AND DANCE WITH ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY! With so much love, (the guy who always writes these invites).

XOXOX -Luke David Nasaw

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Vincent Lemieux

For almost a decade, Vincent Lemieux has played an integral role in Montreal’s internationally acclaimed dance-music community. Lemieux is man who wears many different hats: curator, label owner, DJ, producer, taste-maker… this is a man who has done it all and inflected every project in his association with an indelible personal style.

Internationally, Vince is probably best known as one of the curators behind Montreal’s MUTEK Festival. Since 2000, he has helped shape his hometown conception of progressive electronic music through the acts he brings to town. When not programming the festival, Lemieux hosts two of the most cutting-edge techno weeklies in the city. His long-running Tuesday night at Salon Daomé, where he DJ’s alongside world-class talent, has become a staple in Montreal’s nightlife. Claude Von Stroke, Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Zip, Sammy D, they’ve all graced the decks at Daomé courtesy of Vince.

As label owner of Musique Risquée, which he started with Akufen’s Marc Leclair, Lemieux is also responsible for fostering local and international talent. The label has released work by Atom TM, Akufen, Bruno Pronsatto, The Mole, Jichael Mackson, Guillaume & the Coutu-Dumonts, Philippe Cam, and others. Musique Risquée tracks have been featured on compilations by Crosstown Rebels, Tigersushi, Fabric, and Freud Am Tanzen. Vince has also spawned the city’s Soirée Risquée nights, now with over 30 incarnations, showcasing the label’s fine roster to enthusiastic fans.

Yet it is his work as a DJ that has caught the ears of the most listeners. Lemieux has toured the world as an ambassador for Montreal’s distinctive brand of micro-house. As the official MUTEK DJ, his sets have been a staple of festival showcase from China to Paris to Berlin and back. His DJing skills have found fervent followers all over the world, at events in Spain (Sonar), Mexico (MUTEK_MX), Chile (MUTEK_CL), and Argentina (MUTEK_AR).

Since 2006, Lemieux has been expanding into music production through collaborations with Guillaume Coutu-Dumont (as Flabbergast) and Stephen Beaupré (as Brandy Snifter). Currently he’s mixing first mix album of Musique Risquée greatest hits, which is due in 2008. In the next year, focus will shift increasingly to recording music and moving into the one domain of electronic music he has yet to conquer.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/vincentlemieux
http://www.lovecity-central.com/portfolio/vincent-lemieux/
http://www.musique-risquee.com/

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Polk & Hyde

Live analog electronic music from Jonah Sharp and EO, aka Emilio Orlandi.

https://soundcloud.com/polk-3
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Polk-Hyde/375124099168459

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Matt Richardson

DJ from San Francisco pushing a Berlin-centric, groovy, deep-minimal House sound; representing Housepitality and in support of VINYL.

I also spin Nigerian Funk, Blues, Psychedelic Rock, and Highlife records from the 1970s, but we don’t talk about that.

www.soundcloud.com/mattrichardson
www.discogs.com/user/mattrichardson
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/mattrichardson

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William Wardlaw