DEMON DAYS SAN FRANCISCO

Thursday December 11th 2008
Mezzanine presents
DEMON DAYS An official Planet E Selection
Carl Craig (Planet E / Detroit)
Spacetime Continuum live with Sikiru Adepoju (Reflective Records SF)
Gamall (Demon Days / NYC) &
Kontrol (San Francsico

@ MEZZANINE, 444 Jessie St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Doors open at 10. Come Early - live performance at 11.30. Event closes at 2.

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Carl Craig and Gamall's roving electronic music club night DEMON DAYS makes it's long overdue
third appearance in San Francisco. The parties last appearance in SF was over a year and a
half ago - since then the night has continued to grow with a regular quarterly residency at
NYC's famous Cielo club and numerous well received dates across the country.

This is a special evening for the headliners - Gamall met Carl Craig the first time time Craig
spun in SF, way back in 1991. Gamall also used to work closely with Jonah Sharp of Spacetime
Continuum running his well respected SF electronic music label Reflective and Craig remixed
Spacetime's classic "Kairo" cut for Reflective so this night marks something of a reunion for
these pioneers of forward thinking electronic music.

Carl Craig is celebrating the release of a brand new album (import only sadly) on legendary
classical label Deutsche Grammophon with Moritz Von Oswald that sees him taking on the
music of Ravel and Mussorgsky - Read more about it here and listen here He also just
completed an amazing collaboration with a symphony orchestra in Paris (that will be
recorded in 2009) - see a video of the concert here.

Metro Times in Detroit very recently picked Carl Craig as one of the 50 most influential and
important Detroiters - here's what they said - "The Belleville Three (Atkins, May and
Saunderson) may have gotten there first in the 1980s — but it's second-waver Carl Craig who
makes Detroit Techno a sustainable force in the worldwide dance-music community (as well
as continuing to make D-town his home). He produces and spins tracks for the clubs, sure, but
he does something rarely attempted in this scene: he makes fucking daringly authentic music,
man. Craig has brought jazz, rock, dub and modern classical influences into his productions
better than anyone who ever jacked the house with a stack of vinyl, a synth or midi controller.
His newest project, a collaboration with Berlin icon Moritz von Oswald, is an ambitious
recomposition of music by 19th and 20th century classicists Ravel and Mussorgsky. He recently
brought together surviving members of Detroit's Tribe (Marcus Belgrave, Wendell Harrison, Phil
Ranelin) to revisit the space odyssey the group launched in the early 1970s. Respect for C2 is
global; his creative trajectory, now approaching 20 years and counting, still rising. Play on,
brother!"

Electronic music innovator Jonah Sharp was among the first ambient techno producers,
breaking onto the scene in 1993 with the "Flurescence" EP on his own Reflective label. Shortly
after, his Spacetime Continuum act became the first domestic US based project to be signed
to the Astralwerks label releasing albums such as “Sea Biscuit” and “Emit Ecaps.” As STC
Jonah played an important role in the 90's electronic music scene both as one of the few
consistently touring and performing live electronic acts and as one of the few artists to be
both on a major label and running his own imprint.

Reflective Records was active from 1993 till 2003 and consolidated the global experimental
ambient and techno scene, linking producers from the US, Germany and UK cohesively on the
label. Many acts recorded and remixed for Reflective including still active producers like
Thomas Melchior,Mike Paradinas (Mu-ziq), Plaid, Luke Vibert and Pete Namlook. Jonah’s many
live shows have included the Love Parade in Berlin at Tresor Club 1994, the very first Detroit
Electronic Music Festival in 2000 and Mount Fuji in front of 18,000 people. Amongst his many
collaborations are projects with psychedelic philosopher Terence McKennna, DJ Mixmaster
Morris, Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra, Pete Namlook, poetess Ursula Rucker,
Move D (David Moufang), Plaid, Tetsu Inoue, Bill Laswell and the fellow DJ on this bill - Gamall
(as Capries). Jonah has also recorded under many other alias' including Alien Community,
Reagenz and Electro Harmonix. He has remixed the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat
Manifesto and Matthew Herbert and in turn has been remixed by the likes of Carl Craig,
Autechre and others.

More recently he has competed work on film soundtracks, performed live and collaborated
with Mixmaster Morris at the 2008 Big Chill, has written music and toured with tabla legend
Zakir Hussain and has just completed a new Reagenz album with Move D. You can discover
the entire back catalogue on Beatport now and over the next few months, with the new
releases coming up shortly after. Read a recent interview with Jonah from Time Out New York
here

Appearing with Spacetime is a master of the talking drum, Sikiru Adepoju who comes from a
musical family from Eruwa in western Nigeria. He was taught drumming very early on by his
father, Chief Ayanleke Adepoju, whose very name, Ayan, means "descended from drummers"
and then while still in his teens, Sikiru joined the band of one of the pioneers of Afro-beat,
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey.

In 1985, Adepoju came to America to play with O.J. Ekemode's Nigerian All-Stars, and one year
later met Babatunde Olatunji. He became an integral part of Olatunji's Drums of Passion and
through Olatunji met Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Since then he has frequently been
a guest percussionist during Hart and Bill Kreutzmann's "Rhythm Devils" segments of Grateful
Dead concerts, and was a Grammy Award contributor to Mickey Hart's Planet Drum. He has
collaborated with Muruga Booker and Olatunji on the CD Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations and played
talking drum with Mickey Hart's group Bembe Orishas. Sikiru also leads his own group, The
Honeymakers. He plays with Muruga Booker and Badal Roy as part of the Global Village
Ceremonial Band. He has recorded albums with artists as varied as Carlos Santana, Airto
Moreira, Bola Abimbola, the String Cheese Incident, Stevie Wonder, Zakir Hussain, Chief
Ebenezer Obey, the Inter-Reformers Band, and the Nigerian All-Stars. His latest band Afrika
Heartbeat debut their first CD, entitled Ijinle Ilu, in 2003. This gig with Jonah Sharp sees him
branching into new musical territories fusing African and electronic dance music

Yorkshire UK raised Gamall started his DJ career in San Francisco playing at spots like Thomas
(Rub n Tug) legendary Gardening Club and The Top. He co-founded the Demon Days party with
Carl Craig three years ago and continues to push a sound that fuses both house and techno
from both sides of the Atlantic.

Rounding out the night is San Francisco's very own kings of techno Kontrol who need no
introduction to SF dancers. Click here to listen to their recent podcast for XLR8R.