Category Archives: parties

Push The Feeling: Chrissy + Panavision (live) + Kevin Meenan + Glenn Jackson

Push The Feeling

Chrissy
(DJ Set • The Nite Owl/Cool Ranch)
https://soundcloud.com/chrissytrax

Panavision
(Live • Hobocamp)
http://goo.gl/YyJzef

Glenn Jackson • Kevin Meenan

Saturday, June 16th
Underground SF
9 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

\\\\\///////\\\\\\//////\\\\\\///////\\\\\\//////\\\\\\//////

Chrissy is a genre-bending DJ/producer with productions on esteemed labels like Classic, Freerange, Razor-N-Tape, Tugboat Edits and Hypercolour. He co-runs The Nite Owl Diner label with Alex Burkat, holds a DJ residency at the legendary Chicago nightclub Smart Bar and is one half of the disco group Chrissy & Hawley.

“A virtual walking encyclopedia of the last 30 years of dance music” — XLR8R

Push The Feeling: Space Ghost, Kevin Meenan, Glenn Jackson

Push The Feeling

Space Ghost (Live • 100% Late Feelings/Tartelet Records)
https://soundcloud.com/space-ghost-1

Glenn Jackson • Kevin Meenan

Saturday, April 21st
Underground SF
9 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\

Coming on like a brainchild to Dam Funk and Mutant Beat Dance, Ghost’s sound falls off the shelf between a number of distinct reference points: Lone’s early tropical synaesthetics; the modern funk of “Funkosphere”; the intimate tapes out of PPU. In a sea of SoundCloud copycats, he’s a revelation.

Push The Feeling: Magic Touch, Kevin Meenan, Marcogliese, Glenn Jackson

Push The Feeling

Magic Touch (Live • 100% Silk/True Romance)
https://soundcloud.com/magic_touch

Glenn Jackson • Marcogliese • Kevin Meenan

Saturday, April 21st
Underground SF
9 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\

“impressively robust, reverently embracing disco’s sparkle and classic house music’s sassy thump…. not unlike something Frankie Knuckles would throw into one of his sets” -Pitchfork

“joyous riot of chunky house whose big synth riffs and vocals were offset by a deceptively deft production hand.” -Resident Advisor

“blur the lines between old-school house, indulgent disco, and classic garage” -XLR8R

“head-bobbing flirtations with a wide array of musical styles, from the filter house experiments of his earlier work to disco, funk and r&b.” -The Fader

“Magic Touch mixes the psychedelic ethos of San Francisco with the house movements of Chicago, Detroit and smatters the whole thing with a solid nod to the UK rave underground” -Magnetic
Music

Push The Feeling: Benedek, Glenn Jackson, Kevin Meenan, Drew Marcogliese

Push The Feeling

Benedek (Leaving Records/Peoples Potential Unlimited )
https://soundcloud.com/ppu/benedek-untitled-ppu

Glenn Jackson • Kevin Meenan • Marcogliese

Saturday, January 20th
Underground SF
9 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\

Benedek ::

“crafts funkified, bass-heavy music grounded in tradition and history, albeit with his own futuristic slant.” -XLR8R

“There’s something uncanny and familiar about Benedek’s sound palette across these eight instrumentals: the bubbly synths, the popping basslines, the crisp drum machine hits, the canned handclaps, all of which evoke the production tropes of a bygone era. ” -Pitchfork

“The sheer density of boogie on this track makes it nearly indistinguishable from the decades-old musical tradition that inspired it” -Vice

“everything we like in music at Test Pressing in one LP” -Test Pressings

Push The Feeling 6th Anniversary w/ Jex Opolis

Push The Feeling 6th Anniversary Party

Jex Opolis
https://soundcloud.com/good-timin

Glenn Jackson • Kevin Meenan • Marcogliese

Saturday, January 20th
Underground SF
10 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\

“The New York-based Albertan has established a sound somewhere between disco, early house and the best of ’80s synth jams… a veritable one-man funk band, with the verve and vintage equipment to prove it. ” -Resident Advisor

“Jex is now a undisputed staple in the domestic and international scene of vinyl enthusiasts. Influenced by the complex melodic language of the past, Jex’s music results in a laid-back melange of disco and boogie, perfect for the bath, bar, club and car. – THUMP

“The bottom line is this is brilliant. If you found it in some wacky computer-driven 80s sleeve in a box of records somewhere that you thought no-one else knew you’d believe it to be the greatest record you’d ever bought. With that in mind this comes massively recommended” -Test Pressing

“ a multi-colored collection of warped pop cuts that interpret everything from disco to jazz, funk, and house.” -Xlr8r

“Predictably, it’s a thrilling set, packed with undeniably Balearic moments rich in kaleidoscopic synths, rich boogie bass, jammed out electrofunk solos, tapped out drum machine rhythms and breezy, summer’s afternoon chords.” -Juno

Push The Feeling: E. Live, Diversify, Glenn Jackson, Kevin Meenan

Push The Feeling Presents:

E. Live (Live • Star Creature)
https://soundcloud.com/elivebeats

Diversify (DJ Set • Exray’s)
https://soundcloud.com/djdiversify

Glenn Jackson + Kevin Meenan

Saturday, November 18th
Underground SF
10 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

“E. Live’s A-side “Everybody” was a perfect aesthetic statement that marked Star Creature as a celebrant and pioneer of modern funk, where rich bass tones and keytar riffage playfully nod to Rick James and Steve Arrington. Within a minute of the needle’s drop, E. Live makes the liberating announcement that, “Everybody needs to find a place to get down tonight that feels alright. Everybody needs to find a zone they can call their own tonight.””
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/08/01/star-creature-label-profile/

Push The Feeling: Taraval, Touchless, Glenn Jackson, Kevin Meenan

Taraval (DJ Set • Text Records / Geej)
http://soundcloud.com/taraval

Touchless (Live • Push The Feeling)
https://soundcloud.com/touchlesssf

Glenn Jackson + Kevin Meenan

Saturday, October 21st
Underground SF
10 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

Taraval is a San Francisco based producer of underground house and techno music. His debut EPs quietly appeared on Four Tet’s iconic TEXT records and were shortly being rinsed out in Panorama Bar, cutting edge US underground parties, BBC1 Radio 1, and festival main stages the world over. Taraval tracks are a colorful, mutated and personal take on dance music that is none the less precisely constructed for maximum dance floor intensity, evidenced by support from mainroom house DJs to aficionados of the experimental operating in strobe lit backrooms. His journey to solo music making has been long gestating in between stints as secret-weapon sideman for a beloved Canadian electronic act but looks set to accelerate as he accepts invitations to play at beloved US underground club nights as well as iconic techno institutions from London to Berlin. His current ‘EP II’ 12’’ is available on TEXT in all good shops and digitally at taraval.bandcamp.com.

Push The Feeling: Plaza, Ilya, Kevin Meenan, Johnny Nunes

Push The Feeling Presents:

Plaza
https://soundcloud.com/plazasf

Ilya • Johnny Nunes • Kevin Meenan

Saturday, September 19th
Underground SF
10 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

“With his new side project PLAzA, Tres Lingerie producer Johan Churchill is hoping to join a genre he labels “electro-lounge.” With tracks that could serve as the intro to a ’70s cop drama a la Starsky and Hutch, PLAzA’s debut EP, Flip Phone, consists of dark synth melodies interwoven with disco drum loops. ” -SF Weekly

Push The Feeling: Glenn Jackson, Ilya, Kevin Meenan, Marcogliese

Push The Feeling

Glenn Jackson (Easy Bay Tapes)
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-jackson

Ilya (Zodiac Disco)

+Push The Feeling Residents:
Marcogliese (FKA YR SKULL, Dawggy, Lil’ Drew) & Kevin Meenan

Saturday, June 17th
Underground SF
10 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\

Glenn Jackson ::

“buoyant instrumental disco that feels like a five-minute tropical vacation.” -SF Weekly

“Straight outta Oakland, a new figure in the handmade-house resurgence … The three tracks on Jackson’s Morning Swim EP are awash in lush textures and limpid color: The record runs the gamut from heavy-lidded piano jams to sprightly, R&B-inspired cuts fleshed out with congas and spine-tingling digital synths. ” -Spin

“starry-eyed dancefloor groove” -XLR8R

“moves from disco drums to metallic synths to bright chords to rough basslines to R&B twinkles to house hi-hats.” -Dummymag

“Carefree disco daydreams flecked with jazz-laden overtones in the form of polished piano samples and deep grooved drum beats gracefully make their way to the dancefloor that is 2013.” -The Line Best Fit

“throws you into the deep end of house grooves ” -Impose

Push The Feeling: Aria Rostami (Live)

Push The Feeling

Aria Rostami (Live!)
https://soundcloud.com/ariarostami

+Push The Feeling Residents:
Kevin Meenan & Marcogliese

Saturday, May 20th
Underground SF
10 p.m. – 2 a.m. • 21+

Like us on Facebook :: https://www.facebook.com/pushthefeeling/
///////

Aria Rostami debuted in 2011 with two releases on Audiobulb records. Rostami’s first record, “Form” was about the illusion of control. The album starts off kicking and screaming and slowly unwinds into the last song which is infinitely loop-able; an old memory as it plays forever. The soundscape of “Form” was unstable and fragile. The low ends held power over everything. It was a battle between what an individual pursues and the overwhelming power of nature. It eventually was included on Headphone Commute’s End of Year list alongside artists such as Alva Noto (The Revenant OST), Autechre & Halfer Trio, Fennesz + Sakamoto. Conceptually, this was a good seed for Rostami’s later work. “Uniform” came out later that year with remixes of songs form “Form” by Ollie Bown (1/2 of Icarus), Saine, and Shawn Dickerson as well as originals created by randomly recording material and then configuring the recordings together. “Uniform” was a counterpart of “Form” by approaching control as something you do in response to given occurrences rather than something you do to manipulate future results. In 2013, Rostami released two EPs “Decades” and “Peter” on tape label, Crash Symbols. (read more)