Duke Shin

If the veracity of James Murphy's belligerently self-proclaimed "Disco Infiltrator" status was ever in doubt, he'll get a chance to settle matters when he invades Chicago's flagship nightclub this Friday. It might seem like a curious venue for a musical genius (or at the very least, a hyper-educated genre-revivalist) who just a couple years ago was spinning at Smart Bar alongside 2Many DJs. Resembling the lovechild of John Cusack's Rob Gordon from "High Fidelity" and Pigpen from Peanuts, Murphy weaved together a set that was less agit-beats and more disco than you'd expect. Tonight, the man from DFA and LCD Soundsystem gets a chance to take on the big room with his patented bag of hand-claps, rim-shots, pogo-bounces and more than a few white-label remixes you won't hear anywhere else. Supporting selector James Fucking Friedman made a few waves when his debut mix CD "Go Commando with James Fucking Friedman" dropped at the end of last year. A former band member, music journalist, respected label manager (Trevor Jackson's Output Recordings) and New York party organizer of cutting-edge music, Friedman's skills behind the mixer have caught up to his influences. Sure, you automatically expect to find the likes of Annie, Out Hud and Tom Vek being chewed up between German electro-house fuzz molars... but that's not necessarily a bad thing, right? These New York cool merchants are lowering the sculpted tone of Sound-Bar this evening--and in the best way possible.

Fashion Rocks Chicago also features a midnight fashion show and DJs Erick Material, John Grammatis and Ben Castaneda at Sound-Bar, 226 West Ontario, (312)787-4480, on April 14. Free before 11pm with rsvp to purefuture.com or $20 cover.

(2006-04-11)

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