Event Information

FICTION
techno electro mutant disco

Thursday April 22nd, 2010
@222 Hyde (@Turk St.)

w/ special guest - Lance De Sardi (Bang The Box, Landshark)

and residents - André Lucero, The Worker and Christian Schmidt

10pm - 2am
free before 11pm, $5 after
21+ w/ ID

Lance de Sardi (Bang The Box, Landshark, SF)

Not willing to claim any one genre as his “style”, Lance De Sardi's musical output always teeters somewhere between house and techno, and is always highly electronic. At 30 years old, living in San Francisco, his music embraces all of his influences to the fullest, creating a unique juxtaposition of styles, deep to jacking and back again. These days, with the party in full swing in SF, Lance has his grubby fingers in almost every aspect of music. He’s started a label and coinciding club night called Bang the Box, turned his alter ego Land Shark into a full live band, and is even working on a live performance for his solo material. “Whatever you do”, he says, “don’t pigeon hole me. Aren’t those things rats with wings?” In his hometown of Dallas, Texas he got into music at an early age; and not the sounds of the honky tonk you might expect. At twelve a friend introduced him to industrial and dance music, listening to bands like Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, LFO, and 808 State. As he dug deeper, the raw energy in music from Detroit and Chicago started to pique his interest. He couldn’t get enough. Next thing he knew, he was at the local record store every Wednesday, waiting for the twelve inches to come in. Once he grasped the DJ thing, he started to mess around with samplers and keyboards, trying to emulate the records he liked. Knowing that production was a means to help get DJ gigs, the combination became an obsession. Hearing his records played to a crowd brought him a whole different feeling than mixing other peoples music, and he couldn’t live without either of them. Not long after getting his first few songs on wax, he uprooted and moved to California. Having had enough of the dry plains of Texas, he wanted to put the “small fish in a big pond” theory to the test. It proved to work in his favor, and he quickly became a mainstay in the house music community, releasing records on labels like Classic, Naked Music, Coco Machete, Seasons, and PIAS, to name a few. With his 2003 underground hit “Tie Me Up”, under the moniker Land Shark, or his huge remix of Zap Mama’s “Rafiki”, he solidified his place in dance music lore. Now you know some pertinent musical information on Lance’s life. But if you’re ever in San Francisco and want to see what he’s really like, look him up, maybe ya’ll can get in to some trouble...

André Lucero (Fiction, Machine, SF)

A veteran of West Coast underground electronic music scene, André Lucero continues to reinvent himself. Starting with the earliest electro hip-hop to the present and future of electronic music, his selections are open minded but always have a dancefloor sensibility. From his involvement with the seminal San Francisco techhouse event/DJ crew, Urban Development; to playing with international legends for Space Children and recently for San Francisco techno staples [Kontrol], Black Market Techno and listed, he has been a key contributor to SF's exploding electronic music scene. As a promoter and DJ for the SF based Fiction crew, André has forged a strong link between forward thinking sounds, upbeat fun and building a musical community.

The Worker (Fiction, SF)
The Worker is deeply inspired and influenced by techno, house, tech house, and minimal and has consistently been searching for the latest and most innovative developments in these genres from various regions of the world. His sets reflect this broad vision and eclecticism but are rooted in a foundation of deep, grinding, yet funky, tech beats that make his sets energize most dancefloors. Promoter and DJ for the SF based event Fiction he can also be found at Fiction's monthly residency at 222 Hyde w/ Christian Schmidt and rotating guests from SF's local techno community.

Christian Schmidt (Fiction, SF)

Bringing his musical imagination and talents all the way from Norway, Christian Schmidt is a DJ and promoter for SF's Fiction crew. Exploring the strong propulsive sounds of techno with branches into minimal and tweakier European productions Christian awakens and electrifies dancefloors with the latest and freshest cuts - often debuting tracks months ahead of other DJs. His technical skills behind the decks make tracks reinvent themselves in the mix and could make you reinvent some moves on the dancefloor.

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