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This week at Killswitch: Emilio Orlandi (Satellite), Fil Latorre (Stap[e) and the Worker (Fiction)!

About Emilio Orlandi:

Emilio Orlandi (DJ EO) has been involved in the Bay Area house/techno community since 1999, when he was swept up by the heady House music scene that had SF going off back then. Parties and gigs, his love for old gear, analog drum machines and synths, notorious afterhours at the beloved Hive, and good old hedonism have kept him busy for the last nine years.

His musical roots range from New Wave, Classic Rock, Speed Metal, Jazz, Disco, Industrial, Dub Reggae, Psychedelic Rock, Electro, HIpHop, Techno... and it comes out in his dj sets as well as his production work. Keeping one ear to the dancefloor and the other in the clouds, EO lays down tracks to keep you moving while taking you to a heady space, with a detour to the mean and gritty side of techno, minimal, and house... EO loves the decks and gets a workout any time he gets behind them. Yeah he's sweaty so get him a Shmutzwiper...

Producing with Kenneth Scott (Nightlight, Auralism) as Moniker has yielded the most inspiring and fulfilling collaborations to date. Keep an ear out for future releases.

Originally from Washington DC, and after years of playing at nightclubs and raves around the country and South America, Fil Latorre settled in San Francisco in 1999, and shortly thereafter helped start the party known as Stap[e. Stap[e's focus has always been on deep, quality dance music, what Fil and partner David "dj Javaight" Javate call "Future house and Deep techno". Over the years, Stap[e has featured acts like Layo & Bushwacka!, Stacey Pullen, Kenny Larkin, Dan Bell, Jori Hulkonnen, Common Factor, Mark Ambrose, John Tejada and Alexi Delano, culminating in being awarded "Best House Night" by the SF Bay Guardian. Passionate about music all of his life, Fil currently works as an Audio Engineer, and has been working on his own production work, which he regularly plays in his DJ sets.

San Francisco promoter and DJ producing techno and international electronic nights, The Worker established a series of unique and innovative international electronic nights, Stateless and Novo Sounds, which focused on developing electronic sounds from various parts of the world, bringing acts such as Rob Smith (Smith and Mighty) DJ/rupture, Timeblind, Mexican Dubwiser, Maga Bo, Filastine and acts from Tunisia, India and Spain to clubs in SF. In 2007 he began Fiction with DJs André Lucero and Christian Schmidt - focusing on techno, electro and mutant disco and running a monthly at Vertigo with one-offs at various clubs throughout SF. The Worker is deeply inspired and influenced by tech house, techno and minimal and searches for the freshest developments in these sounds from various regions of the world. His sets reflect this broad vision and eclecticism but are rooted in a foundation of deep, grinding, percussive tech beats that make his DJ sets resonant with various dancefloors.