Thursday May 12, Dark Disco returns, this time bringing the beats to Santos Party House in the form of a CSS after party. CSS will be performing a DJ set, with opening sets from Justine D and Lorraine Sangre. With three sold out shows in New York City, CSS is sure to bring some great tunes for an even better time.

Formed in 2003 in Sao Paulo by a group of friends with an unquenchable thirst for good times and indulgence in all things pop and art, CSS rose to notoriety with the help of a thriving creative community, underground club scene and a little thing called the internet. Pulling together their numerous talents, the band drew legions of international followers entranced by a universally accessible, albeit original and off the wall, look and style.

The band name is Portuguese for “Tired of Being Sexy” (taken from something Beyoncé once commented to the press: “I am tired of being sexy”).The live performance CSS offers is uniquely energetic and entertaining. Lovefoxxx dodges among her bandmates and involves the audience in virtually every song. Sá, Cintra, and Parra switch instruments so often it’s easy to forget where they started.

Advanced tickets can be purchased HERE, or at the door. Be sure to bring your CSS/Sleigh Bells ticket stub if you’ve got it for super reduced $10 entry at the door.

This Saturday, Dark Disco is back at Good Units once again, this time with a lineup that’s sure to inspire some serious debauchery. Although the artists featured this week are varied in their musical productions, they have all pushed the envelop of what electronic music is understood to be, each in their own individual way.

Toronto native Merrill Nisker, better known as Peaches, is an electroclash artist whose songs are mainly focused on sexuality. She lives and works in Berlin. She plays almost all the instruments for her songs, programs her own electronic beats, and produces her records. Peaches’ music is preoccupied with gender identity. Her lyrics and live shows self-consciously blur the distinction between male and female: she appears on the cover of her second album Fatherfucker with a full beard. Peaches is a state of mind as much as she is an artist. Essentially, Peaches is a revelation — an embodiment of sexual freedom, a damnation of gendered and lookist labels, and an admirable nasty attitude.

Creep are two girls from Brooklyn making sexy and spectral trip-hop that sounds like the soundtrack to an unearthly porno. Composed of producers/DJs Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard, the duo are calling in acts such as The xx and Nina Sky to sweeten their sinister soundscapes. Though they’ve been acting primarily as producers, Creep will soon be a full on band, using heavy visuals in their live performances.

Saheer Umar, together with Olivier Spencer, is one half of the infamous duo House of House. House Of House was formed to inject a grandiose and soul-searing bit of drama onto the dance floor, a lost element that made legends of the great clubs of yesteryear. They have been influenced by the classic sounds of New York and New Jersey Deep House, seminal Techno outfits like Basic Channel and Underground Resistance and the soulful sounds of Imagination, Womack and Sade.

Relatively new to the scene, Rinsed combines some of the best upcoming drum & bass talent in the Midlands area. Promoted by Wizzdom and Jonty, Rinsed holds regular drum & bass nights at The Caddyshack, Whitchurch aswell as supporting many other promoters in the area.

Advanced tickets can be purchased HERE.

Check out photos from the last Dark Disco HERE.

This Friday, September 24, our lovely friends over at Good Peoples present a one-off party from one of the hottest UK labels LuckyMe, based out of Glasgow, Scotland. This is an event so legendary it is only fitting that it take place in our very own Chinatown mini-mall turned rave hub, otherwise known as 88 Palace.

LuckyMe started in the summer of 2007 as a pipe dream to run a hip-hop group in a place that wasn’t on the map for hip-hop at the time. They went to the best clubs in the vicinity and thereby got caught up in other music whether it was underground dance music, techno, jazz, pop or rock. They ran parties in and around the Glasgow School of Art and Stereo. Simply put, they weren’t trying to do something innovative and different, but were just doing their thing. In July 2007 they started the label, artist collective and website as it exists today.

Since then, LuckyMe has become one of the world’s leading young crews, fusing hip-hop and new electronic club music. Us New Yorkers are lucky enough to have the crew cruise through our city this weekend for a rare event featuring their A-list starting line-up of Hudson Mohawke and Rustie who will be spinning back to back with support from Mike Slott, The Blessings and some of the most exciting new producers and DJs traveling in from around the world: Lunice, Jacques Greene, Eclair Fifi, Machinedrum, Cubic Zirconia, and Azelia Banks. In short, you’ll be kicking yourself for months to come if you dare to skip this awesome influx of European talent, so start plotting your route into the heart of Chinatown and beat bliss today.

A limited number of $10 advanced tickets can be purchased HERE, after which the price rises to $15. We also have two tickets to give away to one lucky winner; just fill out the form below to enter!