This Thursday August 31, celebrate the last night of Winter with the first of the Red Bull Sound Select Series at The Toff In Town. This month’s lineup is curated by Chapter Music and features my favourite Melbourne heat beat kings and queens NO ZU with support from Various Asses and Corin. It’s been a ripper year for NO ZU, having played Primavera Sound in Barcelona and then blown the roof off various venues around Europe. This is their first Melbourne show since then and they reckon it’ll be the last for a while (guessing it’s new album time?). It’s only $3 entry if you go and RSVP/sign-up at the Red Bull Sound Select website and $10 entry if you ceebs doing that. It all kicks off at 8pm – get in early if you’re 100%, as the RSVP doesn’t actually guarantee you entry.
On Friday producer duo Shouse are throwing their third Openshouse party, this time at the Gasometer Hotel. For the first time the party pair is exploring talent beyond our shores – hailing all the way from Austria, Demuja will be bringing his crunchy, blissful, wistfully raw house to the Gaso. As always, Shouse will be performing live too, joined on stage by a weird, wonderful and powerful collection of artists and performers – plus the most heavenly choir yet assembled. Support by masterful spinners of tunes Colette and Princess Donkey. Kicks off at 8pm.
Also on Friday, Bunker is taking over Lounge and hosting two Sydney women who’ve become the shining jewels of the Sydney scene in recent times – Trinity and Magda Bytnerowicz. Trinity’s relentless touring on the club and festival circuits throughout the various techno Meccas in Europe has garnered her camaraderie with some the world’s techno elite, though her most recent breakout moment was performing with Richie Hawtin at Vivid Live earlier this year. 2017 has also seen her start working officially as A&R for the record label Nightime Drama, running various Nightime Drama events in Sydney. Bytnerowicz is no stranger to Melbourne – a repeat performer at the Inner Varnika festival, she’s well versed in getting Melbourne’s rocks off. On support duties are locals Simona Castricum and DJ Kiti. Kicks off at 11pm.
