Events . RON MORELLI [L.I.E.S.] with SCOTT ZACHARIAS, GANGWISH, nonsite, CHARLE WALLACE, F.P.O.R., NASTY TAXI

RON MORELLI [L.I.E.S.] with SCOTT ZACHARIAS, GANGWISH, nonsite, CHARLE WALLACE, F.P.O.R., NASTY TAXI

a haunting night of live electronic music & three superb DJs
Club Night
Certain Death II 7775 Lock Way E Pittsburgh
All Ages $15

Friday October 13th 2023

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a haunting night of live electronic music & three superb DJs


featuring DJ sets by

RON MORELLI [Long Island Electrical Systems: NYC/Paris]

and

SCOTT ZACHARIAS [Detroit]


with live performances by

GANGWISH

nonsite

and

CHARLE WALLACE


plus opening and in-between music by

FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES


and live video mixing and projections by

NASTY TAXI


8pm - late

all-ages

$15 advance

$20 at the door


Certain Death II
7775 Lock Way E
Pittsburgh, PA 15206 USA



RON MORELLI

Over the last 13 years, Ron Morel­li has become a major and influ­en­tial fix­ture in the world of con­tem­po­rary elec­tron­ic music. The New York­er has sin­gle-hand­ed­ly carved out a unique path of his own, with his often-imi­tat­ed, rarely dupli­cat­ed L.I.E.S. Records label. Morel­li has, in his own words, “unin­ten­tion­al­ly” shak­en things up in the elec­tron­ic music world with his son­ic aes­thet­ic which orig­i­nal­ly evolved from a tight-knit group in his local NYC scene. Now glob­al­ly recog­nised and reach­ing far beyond New York, Morel­li is looked to as a cen­ter­piece of this wave, con­tin­u­ing to con­found expec­ta­tions with each new move, always evolv­ing and nev­er stay­ing stagnant.

Hav­ing gained cult sta­tus as time has passed, it’s no won­der the pub­li­ca­tion Pitch­fork pro­claimed, “the rise of L.I.E.S. is one of the most sig­nif­i­cant and encour­ag­ing devel­op­ments in Amer­i­can under­ground elec­tron­ic music in years”

DJing since the late-90s, Morel­li has toured all over the globe play­ing near­ly every major club and fes­ti­val world­wide. Nev­er fol­low­ing the trends and tak­ing his vast knowl­edge from work­ing behind the counter at NYC’s leg­endary A1 Records, Ron can be found play­ing across the board on any giv­en night… from 80s NY house to Detroit tech­no to ita­lo dis­co to wave, it’s all game when the time is right, always with a style of his own.

On the pro­duc­tion front, Morel­li has worked close­ly with New York label Hos­pi­tal Pro­duc­tions over the years, as well as with Phase Fatale’s BITE Records, record­ing numer­ous LPs and 12 inch­es for both labels.

With 2023 on the hori­zon, Morel­li is set to release his first full-length on his own L.I.E.S. label, titled “Heart Stop­per”, where he revis­its his love and obses­sion for clas­sic, old-school 80s house, bring­ing his sound full cir­cle. Emo­tion­al, raw, and from the gut, “Heart Stop­per” is poised to be his most antic­i­pat­ed “dance music” work to date.

Reach­ing far out­side the world of con­ven­tion­al elec­tron­ic music, Morel­li has over the years col­lab­o­rat­ed among the likes of French visu­al artist Cyprien Gal­liard, Japan­ese cult fash­ion brand Under­cov­er, chore­o­g­ra­ph­er Damien Jalet, and cloth­ing brand Cav Empt on var­i­ous large-scale projects.

All of this is a tes­ta­ment to Ron Morel­li and L.I.E.S. Records, tire­less work and com­mit­ment to putting the music first, as they con­tin­ue to reach far and wide with a long-last­ing and huge­ly influ­en­tial pres­ence in the world of mod­ern elec­tron­ic music and beyond.
-- Octopus Agents

https://liesrecords.com/

https://soundcloud.com/l-i-e-s

https://www.instagram.com/lies_records/



SCOTT ZACHARIAS

Scott Zacharias is Detroit’s best kept secret. A true cult DJ, a DJs DJ and a true legend in the Detroit underground today. In fact, within Detroit, he may be the busiest DJ in the scene.

Scott isn’t like anyone else. He doesn’t copy or play to another code, he’s a pure original. The amount of music styles he synthesizes into a solid whole is astounding, what he creates is simultaneously psychedelic, deep groove, an exploration of human freedom, and a finely curated expression of endless human curiosity. He never stops digging for new records from “the trash bins of history” to endlessly find new gold. His collection has created such a footprint that like Daniele Baldelli, he has to keep these records at a second property.

Scott Zacharias has moved around the Detroit music subculture, defying genrefication or grouping, moving freely between scenes. From his younger days of being a drummer in Detroit’s fertile Space Rock scene, to being the first resident at Oslo, and co-founding Disco / Secret and Macho City, to being the resident closer of the Outer Space Room at No Way Back, Scott always is finding a way to spread the message. Scott is also co-founder of the Fantasy, a project with BMG of Ectomorph and Interdimensional Transmissions. To date The Fantasy have reshaped and recontextualized many hidden gems, reshaping them for the all night ecstatic massive sound system experience. Besides their 4 records on the venerated Secret Mixes Fixes, they have also remixed original 70’s Funkadelic from the original master tapes for Westbound, and have done a hypnotic remix for Teleseen on Goldmin. Watch this space — new original music from The Fantasy is forthcoming.

Scott Zacharias’ residency at No Way Back has had a large impact on the Detroit scene, and continues to resonate around the world. The set itself is a unique concept, his own original interpretation of Sleaze, a lost subgenre on late 70s early 80s gay leather disco, a special kind of low-tempo disco usually played in a euphoric post coitus way towards the end of the night, deeply lost in the groove, very hypnotic and sleazy. What began at 1515 Broadway as the ending come down of No Way Back took on a whole new life when the party moved to The Tangent.

The Tangent had the space to do two rooms, and IT built the concept around how we experienced John Elliott’s music, true cosmic ambient experimental music. People laid down on the ground and vibed with the music, it was beautiful. At dawn, Scott comes on and does a DJ set unique in format to anywhere in the world, a DJ who raises a crowd from laying down to standing up and dancing. He invented a style that keeps evolving and resonating with people that starts with ambient and jazz and builds through a freeform take on sleaze into whatever and wherever he goes — it’s magic. Words can’t really describe it, it must be experienced.

The core idea of these sets come from a David Mancuso concept, that if you take people to the stratosphere, then at the end you have to land the plane. That’s what these sets are. A DJ set to land the plane. -- Good Life Agency

https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra606-scott-zacharias

https://www.instagram.com/scott_zacharias/

https://soundcloud.com/scottzacharias

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