Duke Shin

It’s easy to gloss over the much ballyhooed Dubsided crew as one entity, with Switch and Sinden crunking up house, hip-hop and techno, remixing and producing tracks celebrated and charted by DJs spinning house, electro and more. For the recent “fidget” converts, Trevor Loveys seems to occupy space somewhere between Switch’s recent hyper-kinetic fidget-fests and the more reserved (yet effectively thumping) work of Jesse Rose, with his collaborations with Herve as Speaker Junk being the most celebrated. But perhaps the comparisons should stop right there. Loveys’ background is rooted more in deeper house rhythms, with earlier productions paying homage to deck heroes like Masters at Work and Ron Trent. Those deep exercises also worked in a fair amount of beat manipulation, with chilled-out exercises playfully encompassing breaky and broken rhythms. His experience in working a groove with less is a skill seemingly relegated to the back of his ever-expanding range, with recent electro-house workouts and ridiculous remixes for the likes of Pink Skull and Aquasky making some wonder if Loveys had been captured by an invasion of the DJ-snatchers sometime before last year. Or perhaps these DJ-snatchers happen to be Machines Don’t Care—a rotating cast of like-minded collaborators including, most notably, Drop The Lime, Fake Blood, Herve and Sinden. Eleven jacked-up tracks mark their debut self-titled release, and you’ll be sure to hear a few of them tonight as Loveys makes his Chicago debut. One of Chicago’s more versatile DJs in illmeasures’ Striz opens, along with Sexual Chocolate.

Trevor Loveys, Striz, Sexual Chocolate at Smart Bar, 3730 North Clark, (773)549-0203, 10pm-4am. (2008-07-15)

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