They’ve asked me to hand-pick the lineup, and as always I’ve tried to showcase the diversity of Chicago’s world-class talent at the moment:

CHRISSY MURDERBOT vs MC ZULU (planet mu / sleazetone)

BBU (das racist collaborators)

DJ NEHPETS (power 92 / dance mania)

STARFOXXX

And Saturday afternoon make sure to check out me & MC ZULU at Pitchfork Music Festival! We’re playing the Blue Stage at 1pm.

Friday March 18
Event: Broken Teeth Showcase
Venue: Loft718 (718 N Congress)
Set time: 3:30pm
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LOOSE SQUARES VOL. 3: CHICAGO BASS MUSIC
Juke/Booty/Footwork/Ghetto/Grime/Garage

This month’s special guests:
DJ SPINN (Record Release Party! — Celebrating his new EP on Planet Mu Records)
RP BOO (The GODFATHER of Footwork — “Godzilla”, “Baby Come On”, etc.)

hosted by:
CHRISSY MURDERBOT (sleazetone / planet mu / my year of mixtapes)
DAVE QUAM (it’s after the end of the world)

March 11 / 10pm / free admission

In recent years Chrissy Murderbot has been a tireless enthusiast and standard-bearer for Chicago juke music, playing an instrumental role in bringing the music to Europe and beyond.

Those of you who were at FACT’s footwork party in London last year will probably have caught Chrissy warming up for his pal DJ Spinn, and have been suitably impressed; 2011 will see the young DJ/producer take centre-stage with an album, Women’s Studies, coming soon on Planet Mu and featuring guest turns from Spinn, Coool Dundee of DMG$, Johnny Moog, MC ZULU, Popeye, Rubi Dan and Warrior Queen. The LP will be preceded by a limited edition 12″ EP, not to be missed.

To whet your appetite for the coming storm, check out the Murderbot refix of Spanish indie darlings Delorean. He chops up the original’s wistful harmonies like so much meatloaf and dubs out the keyboards before pitching up the main hook and letting it fly across a tom-heavy 808 juke beat. The result is at once a high-octane dancefloor smasher and a distinctly melancholy lament – quite a combination, you’ll agree. Stream and download (by clicking on the arrow) below.

Delorean – Real Love (Chrissy Murderbot Remix)

So we’re kicking off our new sister label LOOSE SQUARES with a party here in Chicago on January 7. DJs for the night are DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad (Ghetto Teknitianz / Planet Mu / Juke Trax), Chrissy Murderbot (Planet Mu / Sleazetone), and Dave Quam (It’s After The End of the World). PHOTO BOOTH by GLITTERGUTS (www.glitterguts.com)

The whole thing happens January 7 at BEAUTY BAR, 1444 w Chicago Ave. See you then!

Chicagoan Chrissy Murderbot is behind the dizzying My Year of Mixtapes project, 52 DJ sets that roamed all over but whose true heart was in the breaks-and-bass mutations of the first half of the ’90s. Murderbot’s label Sleazetone issues music with the same basic thrust, as this EP demonstrates in spades.

Kanji Kinetic is from Bristol, so he’s no stranger to rave history, and “Thrill Seeka” offers an ingenious twist to the spate of early jungle redux we’ve heard lately… ["Thrill Seeka"] is very Euro-hardcore, with scraping synth riffs reminiscent of Human Resource, but its 3D kick drums bring it into the present day. He turns that trick even further out on “Scatter,” the EP’s finale, which commingles Euro-blaring rhythm riffs and 4 Hero-style pitch-shifted drums to eye-popping effect.

Both “Seeka” remixes are strong. New Yorker Kingdom furthers his hot streak with a shadowboxing subwoofer workout; a gaseous hands-in-the-air keyboard riff surfacing about three minutes in makes it even ravier. Krazy Fiesta’s mix is more carnivalesque, a liquid, tropical bounce with sharp snares and Wayne’s chant tap-dancing all over it.

Read the full review here; buy the EP here!