Friday, August 22nd - Illusion of Safety

Illusion of Safety plays Dead Tech
TVPow
Jason Soliday
Mykel Boyd
Vertonen

Doors 8 PM
Music 8:30 PM

$5 donation

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IOS performs Dead Tech

In 1981, Mitch Enderle was the first collaborator with Dan Burke recording as Psychotic Dub, which later became Illusion Of Safety. In 1985 Mitch released a cassette on Complacency called Dead Tech. This work was Industrial music described as "noise like it used to be", featuring distorted drum machine, loops, samples, synth, guitar, and vocals very similar to early SPK, Nocturnal Emission, and Test Department. For this performance longtime collaborators Mitch and Dan will be recreating some of this material for a one off performance at Enemy.

Sound Choice Review:
This is some pretty frightening stuff, about as industrial as it gets. The working technique is largely based on samples and the use of loops to provide structure and rhythm. These loops are maniacal in tone, well chosen and combined to present a truly disturbing image that allows no room for escape. The competency of this band's groups of found vocals is above reproach, as is there generation of rhythms. Added to this is some of the most bent synthesizer and guitar manipulations that I have heard to date. These are some of the most powerful works in the exploration of such deviant realms that I have heard, comparable to the best bands of its kind. If you like Maybe Mental or Test Department, IOS/Dead Tech is your ticket to hell. (Complacency)--Nathan Griffith

Friday, August 29th - Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics
http://www.myspace.com/dirtywordspecialist
http://philipbest.blogspot.com/

Bloodyminded
http://www.myspace.com/officialbloodyminded
http://bloodlust.blogspot.com/

Friday, August 29th, 2008
doors 8PM
music 9PM
$10 suggested donation

Friday, August 8th - Bad Party, Viki

Bad Party
VIKI
Extreme Animals
Fortress of Amplitude
Friday, August 8th, 2008
doors 8
music 8:30
$5 suggested donation

Saturday, August 2nd - Animal Law. Sseepage.

Animal Law
The Menthols
Sseepage
Sexual Freedom

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
doors 8
music 8:30
$5 suggested donation

Saturday, July 12th - Sic Alps. Wet Hair.

SIC ALPS
WET HAIR
MAGIC MISSLE
DRUIDS OF HUGE

Saturday, July 12, 2008
Doors 8PM
Sounds 8:30PM
$5 suggested donation
All Ages

Friday, August 1st - Bryce Beverlin II. Anthony Decanini

Bryce Beverlin II
Anthony Decanini
Pisspisspissmoanmoanmoan
Hybrid Frequency

Friday, August 1st, 2008
doors 8
music 8:30
$5 suggested donation

Thursday, July 17th - Hunted Creatures. Tusk Lord.

Hunted Creatures
http://www.myspace.com/huntedcreatures
Tusk Lord
http://www.myspace.com/tusklord
Chris Niels
http://www.myspace.com/chrisniels
Will Soderberg
http://www.myspace.com/willsoderberg

Thursday, July 17th
Doors 8 PM
Music 8:30 PM
$5 suggested donation
All Ages

June 21 - Chicago - A night of noise, drone, feedback, and power-electronics

BloodLust! and Enemy present a night of harsh noise, minimalist drone, feedback, and power-electronics

Boston harsh noise artist Karlheinz will return to Chicago on Saturday June 21, to play his first show here in three years. For this Midwestern trek, he has assembled a crack team of East Coast electronic music comrades, ranging from the deep and minimal drone of Silvum (formerly of Champaign, IL, now of Fairfax, VA), to the vicious power-electronics of Boston trio, Sharpwaist, to the nihilistic and dark Stillbirth, also from Boston. At their Chicago stop, Mark Solotroff (of BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day, and Animal Law) will perform a feedback and vocal set, simply utilizing a clutch of microphones.

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Saturday June 21, 2008
Door: 8:00 PM
Show: 8:30 PM
All Ages
$6.00 Suggested Donation

Karlheinz (Boston, MA)
http://www.khznoise.net/karlheinz/
http://www.myspace.com/karlheinz

Silvum (Fairfax, VA)
http://www.myspace.com/silvum

Sharpwaist (Boston, MA)
http://www.myspace.com/monarches

Stillbirth (Boston, MA; member of Craniopagus)
http://www.myspace.com/stillbirthnoise

Mark Solotroff (of BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day, Animal Law)
http://bloodlust.blogspot.com/
ttp://www.myspace.com/officialbloodyminded

Sat June 28 - Noise and Drone with New Pledgemaster and Evenings from Michigan

(Photo by Mark Solotroff)
New Pledgemaster (AKA Paul Gunsberg, AKA P.E. Paul) is part of the new breed of greater Detroit area noisemakers that has developed with the close support of the Wolf Eyes family. Among his notable collaborations are Crosse Humiliation, with Greh Holger of Hive Mind, and the bizarre, horror noise troupe, The Jasons, with Tovah Olson of Dead Machines and Dan Dlugosielski from Haunted Castle and Uneven Universe. For this show, Gunsberg is expected to unleash a vitriolic spew of unhinged, raw power-electronics


(Photo by Ben Scott-Brandt)
Evenings is one Miles Haney, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, the proprietor of the Tapeworm Tapes label and the tiny but vital basement concert venue, The Red Room. Audience members can expect suitably subterranean rumble and distortion, located somewhere between dense ambiance and harsh noise.


(Photo by Marlene K)
Jason Soliday (Animal Law, I Love Presets, Mora, Behold! The Living Corpse) and Mark Solotroff (Animal Law, BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day, Super Eight Loop, A Vague Disquiet, ex-Intrinsic Action), who had a double-CD-R release on the Chicago label, Whitechapel, in 2007, continue to explore their blend of nuanced-yet-heavy electronic composition and primitive, harsh feedback.


(Photo by Mark Solotroff)
Chicago's Winters In Osaka, who just returned from jet-setting shows in Mexico and China, have a scorching new CD, "Red Tooth, Red Claw," on Power Silence.


(Photo courtesy of http://www.myspace.com/quetzalcoatl3)
If the track on their MySpace page is any indication, Ashville, North Carolina's Quetzalcoatl will likely bring down the roof with their monolithic doom-drone, which should appeal to fans of early Earth records, Boris, Sunn O))), Moss, etc.

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Saturday June 28, 2008

Door: 8:00 PM
Show: 8:30 PM Sharp!
Cost: $5.00 Suggested Donation
All Ages

New Pledgemaster (Ypsilanti, MI)
http://www.discogs.com/artist/New+Pledgemaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHp7WDbRQCc

Evenings (Kalamazoo, MI)
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Evenings
http://www.tapewormtapes.com/

Jason Soliday + Mark Solotroff (Chicago, IL)
http://cranksatori.net/js/
http://bloodlust.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/officialbloodyminded

Winters In Osaka (Chicago, IL)
http://www.myspace.com/wintersinosaka1

Quetzalcoatl (Ashville, NC)
http://www.myspace.com/quetzalcoatl3

ASTRO! TONIGHT ONLY! @ ENEMY

Lots of things up in the air with AV Aerie the last few weeks
And when the dust settles we're left with this:

FRIDAY, MAY 23RD, 8PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY

HASEGAWA/SHIFLET/SOLIDAY
ASTRO
TVPOW
PEAKING LIGHTS
PETER J. WOODS
VERTONEN
MYKEL BOYD

@ENEMY
http://cranksatori.net/enemy
http://www.myspace.com/enemychicago

1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl.
Chicago, IL
60622

JUST TO REPEAT THIS IS THE ONLY CHICAGO ASTRO SHOW!
AV AERIE SHOW ON SUNDAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED!

04.11.08 - Craig Baldwin . I<3Presets

Call it a free-for-all: a carnival of intellectual freedom.
This Friday, April 11th, one day following the sneak-peak
world premiere of his new film Mock up on Mu at the Gene
Siskel Film Center, agitprop cut-up master Craig Baldwin will
play tag with hacker supremes Jon Cates and I Milwaukee Ave.
3rd FL – a half block southeast of the Damen Blueline Stop).
This really will be a situation you won’t want to miss!

The first part of this double-header is a program of guerilla
theatre video documentation, newscast cut-ups, and other misc.
acts of takin’ it to the man – a video series called Blows
Against the Empire (no, not the Jefferson Starship album – but
still conceptual nonetheless) presented by our guest Agent Baldwin.


But that’s not all, as if a talk by Baldwin and a screening of
Blows isn’t enough to make you rally against the neo-cons,
corporations, and the subtle advancement of neo-liberal
globalization. Jon Cates will climb out from underneath his
tenure-track paperwork and step up to the mic. to introduce the
conceptual audio/video trio I Love Presets. DIY Chicago hacker
and circuit-breakers that are part of the ever-evolving
culture-jamming movement.

Situations like these usually spring people into action. For
that reason, I would expect a number of people to interact with
the program. Several people have already mentioned they’d like
to announce upcoming cultural interventions of some sort or another.
If you have something to announce or plan of action,this is the
type of gathering you’d find support for your project. And remember,
internationally renowned artists are supposed to paint over billboards,
remix and rebroadcast newscasts, hack radio waves and mainframes,
it’s a social responsibility.

This event starts at 8pm. And, it’s about sharing, so bring snacks
or beverages (the good kind). There will be a $5 suggested donation
– people have to pay the bills, but no one will be turned away.
Besides, it’s still half the price you’d pay to see the premiere of
Street Kings at the multi-plex.

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Friday, April 11, 2008 8PM

Craig Baldwin: Blows Against the Empire

I Love Presets: Live A/V

@ Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622

04.25.08. Dilloway . Magas . Solotroff . Soliday

04.04.08 - Audrey Chen & Frederic Blondy . zeropoint

Friday, April 4th 2008 10PM

ENEMY + PROTEST HEAVEN PRESENT:
Audrey Chen & Frederic Blondy
zeropoint


FIRST SET:

zeropoint
(Robb Drinkwater: electronics + Jason Soliday: electronics)

http://cranksatori.net/js/2008/01/zeropoint.html


SECOND SET:

Audrey Chen (Baltimore, MD): voice/cello/electronics
Frederic Blondy (Paris, France): Prepared Piano

http://www.myspace.com/audreychen
http://www.fredericblondy.net
link for duo music recorded live at atelier tampon in paris, france october 6, 2007:
http://download.yousendit.com/15FA1FCB687C73C5
also on: http://fredericblondy.net/en/66chenblondy.htm


@
Heaven
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 2nd FL

http://www.heavengallery.com
http://cranksatori.net/enemy
http://www.myspace.com/enemychicago

Michelle Webb . Mykel Boyd . Magic Missile . 3.28.08

Wednesday, March 26th 8PM
$5 suggested donation

Michelle Webb

Mykel Boyd

Magic Missile

Squid Fist - Transmission write-up

Maniacs on the prowl in Wicker Park

More madness at Enemy (1550 N. Milwaukee, 3rd Floor) this Saturday, as three totally parabolic nightmare-walkers stalk your sleeping hours with fogs of dissonance and hilarity.

Blood Waterfall, according to their Myspace page, sound like "Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, and Zach Hill watching commercials," and invoke the Luttenbachers, Braxton, Brotzmann and Melt-Banana in their "influences" section. Believe it or not, that actually pretty much nails it.

Sexual Freedom, formerly known as Gays in the Military, burst free from their shackles once again to thug up the ears and pass around some of the generous helpings of kinky theatricality that has left Wicker Park in awe since the halcyon days of the Big Horse. Swoon....

Squid Fist are from Minneapolis, and seem to live in a Black Metal cave while foraging in noise trashcans for tender morsels. Thrashing and clattering, squirming and squeaking, a 2001-esque new-rebirth-style space baby is being born on this very stage for you.

Jason Soliday (Enemy's host and resident) and Anthony Decanini will open. I've heard Soliday many times, but not with Mr. Decanini, so this promises to be a new and different direction. Try it, you'll like it! 8 p.m. sharp, $5.

- Chris S.