Thursday night: Percussion Lab x NTS Radio Live with XI

Get excited. The Percussion Lab Radio Live! nights have been a highlight of the summer, both in the club and listening at home. Tomorrow they’re doing a special collab event with NTS radio and featuring one of my favorite producers, XI.

Check out his incredible work here remixing Sepalcure:

In a lot of ways, XI is the ideal future bass producer – playing off the tropes of 2-step, darker strains of techno and meditative dubstep, and congealing them into something both introspective and floor-ready. But more importantly, his tunes all have this plaintive, poignant melodic thrust that makes them seem instantly nostalgic.

Check out these juicy clips from his latest EP, just stunning:

They’ve been kind enough to get an exclusive mix from him, full of “uncompromising, up-front club music” — you can listen to that HERE, and they also have a guestmix of his HERE that he did for the hotflush podcast from 2010, and still sounds fresh as hell.

XI is going to be playing Thursday night at Tammany Hall on the LES – All the relevant details are in the event listing HERE. It’s only $5, and goes from 7-2, so you can’t really use being employed OR being unemployed as an excuse.