subk

Upon looking at early pencil drawings of her favorite blip-bleepy ODYSSEY II video games (now featured as cover art for what was to become her “Out of this World is a Space Game” mix) , it comes as no surprise that this unsuspecting little girl would eventually submit to the mechanical world of technoid music and morph into DJ SUBK.

The earliest prototype of a SUBK set was saturated with synthpop, darkwave, post-punk dronings and industrial, but now has evolved into a newer, sleeker Version charged by the more abstractly robotic sounds of Electro, Techno, Italo, and all mutations in between. Instead of restricting itself to one genre, location, or period in musical history, the SUBK program extracts from the dark, deep and mechanical side of many, creating hybrid techno-electro mixes that tell stories of machines doing rain dances and making out in corners infused with blinking neon lights…

In addition to DJing the Midwest and her home city of Chicago, SUBK has been travelling the backroads of the US, Europe and Canada to perform alongside such diverse acts as TERENCE FIXMER and DOUGLAS MCCARTHY of NITZER EBB, DETROIT IN EFFECT, ECTOMORPH, METOPE, TOK TOK, SAL PRINCIPATO of LIQUID LIQUID ,TODD SINES, KILL MEMORY CRASH, LUKE EARGOGGLE, PUNISHER, and ADAM X. The SubK-Mix: Mental Inertia was created in tandem with the live set of the same name of prolific UK electro producer and synapse-destroyer SCAPE ONE, who she recently completed a 6-city US tour with to help promote his new label, ADAPTIVE PROGRAMS.

SUBK's vision of the future includes conducting further experiments in both Audio and Visual, from continuing to unearth the legions of sleeping, dreaming Robots with her discriminating needles, to twisting molten Neon glass tubing for her Holograms to wink at.

All of her creations arise out of the kindred experiences of watching traffic lights change, recording the staticky hum of shortwave radio emergency broadcast stations, and realizing that in the 5am light of sunrise, you no longer recognize the street you've inhabited for years.

It all subsides into beats and abstractions, urban shutdown and mental inertia, music for minds and dancefloors combined.

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