8/5: Ancient Astronauts in Chicago! (Lolla '10 Artists, ESL Music)

TREW

As we approach the 2010 Lollapalooza festival weekend, Ground Lift Media & The Dirty Social are proud to announce a special pre-festival set by Lollapalooza artists - Ancient Astronauts (ESL Music / Switchstance Records)!

Fresh of their tour with fellow ESL artists Thievery Corporation, the Cologne, Germany-based DJ / production duo is ready to herald in a memorable weekend with a special DJ set at Chicago???s Darkroom alongside local Electronic / Downtempo band The Atomica Project, and DJs Intel, John Simmons, Newlife, & TREW???

Event Details:
Thursday, August 5th 2010
Darkroom
2210 W. Chicago Ave.
Doors @ 9pm, 21+, $7 before 10pm, $10 after

ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS INVADE CHICAGO

Ground Lift Media, The Dirty Social, and Redlight Productions present:

Lollapalooza 2010 artists Ancient Astronauts (Switchstance Recording/ESL Music) for an exclusive pre-festival engagement with Chicago-based Electronic/Downtempo band The Atomica Project at the Darkroom on August 5, 2010. Fresh off their recent tour with fellow producers Thievery Corporation, this concert marks the Ancient Astronaut???s first ever Chicago performance.

Ancient Astronauts, in theory, were believed to be extraterrestrial beings and some of the greatest influences of human culture, organizational perception, technologies. In their earthly forms, band members Kajanbak and Dogu hail from Cologne, Germany bringing an inimitable sound that combines the unthinkable new with the rhythms of generations past. They together are a production team, working with artists including Imani and Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Ladybug Mecca of Digable Planets, Raashan Ahmad of Crown City Rockers, Ali Farka Toure, Tippa Irie, Zion I, Azeem, and Bajka. Their most recent album ???We Are to Answer??? was released on ESL Music, a D.C.-based label home to Thievery Corporation, Frederic Aubele, & Ursula 1000 among others. Amid a hectic touring schedule, they continue to release music and mixes, in accompaniment to running their own label, Switchstance Recordings.

Well-versed performers, The Atomica Project, Wade Alin and Christine Ingaldson are au fait in the experience of city spaces and relationships, with or without love. Their music amplifies downtempo and warm-lit trimmed curves of electronic background to female vocals, as they describe a resonation of internal truth and strong subjects. With three releases, The Atomica Project exhibits instrumental capacity and understanding of directed vision. They speak to those who live with the fervor of authenticity and human conditions.

Also joining the festivities are Chicago???s esteemed DJs John Simmons, DJ Trew (Ground Lift Media), DJ Intel (Dirty Social), and DJ NewLife.