Greetings to all Chicagoans hanging on Elektronauts! After seeing a few posts by fellow Windy City musicians I thought it would be cool to have a thread to post about local venues, our music/performances, and possible meetups.
Personally I am interested in finding out about live hardware acts in the city and would love to check out any shows featuring Nauts performing!
My personal music output has been slow over the past year but my YouTube channel linked in my profile can give a sense of the type of music I make.
Hello from Chicago. Not sure where all the hardware acts are, but I went to the plantasia tribute at the garfield park ovservatory recently and that was good fun. I might have a few shows with a buddy soon, I’ll post it here if so
Lucy’s is the best chicken sandwich you’ll ever have.
I’m back in Chicago after a few years in NYC. Saw Suzanne Ciani last night in Hyde Park, but I’m still getting used to the cold again. Waiting in line outside before the show was brutal.
As far as local venues one that was new to me that seems to be heating up is Podlasie Club, they’ve had some electronic live acts but I haven’t made it out to anything.
I’ve been curious about Podlasie Club, too, but haven’t really heard of many other spaces for live electronic music. Now and again, I’ve seen some synth-pop and rock w/ electronics at Schuba’s or Beat Kitchen, but I wish some smaller/easier-to-book places would get in on it.
Has anybody been to Open Beats? They used to hold it at Cafe Mustache and it’s now at Dorian’s. Thinking of going this Friday to get a vibe, open mics are pretty weird sometimes.
Detroit whatup doe! I’d like to go to a Chicago event if some nauts are getting together. There’s this event here called Technically, Yeah once a month that sometimes has elektron heads. Movement on Labor Day Weekend is also great, but kinda commercial now.
I followed Beau Wanzer on instagram a little while back and he was posting about some show series he’s hosting called Various Distractions that was supposed to be all live hardware electronic sets, from what I could tell. I haven’t seen it advertised outside of his social media though, and unfortunately haven’t been able to make it to any yet.
Other than that I’ve been keeping my eye on Resident Advisor as shows like that usually get posted there when they crop up.
Anybody going to Sanctum next weekend? I got tickets to the Saturday and Sunday nights.
No judgement here. You’re just as likely to catch me at an industrial/EBM festival, a night of house music at Smartbar, or a local indie show at the Empty Bottle. I just love music
Never heard of Heatwave before but that looks like fun too.
These guys are doing a series of events at Illuminated Brew Works on the northwest side. It’s very on the modular side but not exclusively. One of my friends invited me to play the last one in September and I just used a laptop and mixer.
@anniewells be sure and let us know what that open beats night is like if you go!
@thesimplemachine I’m going to make it out to at least one night of Sanctum, probably Sunday. I’ve been out of the industrial scene for a while but that festival isn’t a bunch of nostalgia acts which is great to see.
