MEIOTIC CHICAGO

A couple notes from the web this week:     Chicago’s Cultural Affair woes Jim DeRogaitis has updated his Pop N Stuff blog over at WBEZ with more on the internal downsizing/consolidation drama going down at the Chicago Office of Tourism. The results are not good for those of us who appreciate the fine work the team over at the Cultural Center has done over the past decade. http://www.wbez.org/blog/jim-derogatis/2012-01-25/cultural-affairs-update-music-out-cold-now-95802     Idol Read more [...]

Culturally inclined Chicago music patrons can breathe a sigh of relief; the schedule for the Lunchbreak Music Series at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion is out, and though the fall/winter reorganization at the CCC was cause for a certain amount of concern, this news coupled with New Music Mondays schedule all but confirms a smooth transition of duties from the former Department of Cultural Affairs to the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture.

Ils sont de retour! (Translation: They’re baaaaaack!)

As you may have noticed from the Facebook posts, Resident Advisor event pages, and the mini-site on Mutek.org, the Avant_MUTEK experience is returning to Chicago this April…

Since we typically have cobwebs and fog from NYE strolling about our brains for a couple weeks after ringing the new year in, we figured several things to be probable truths:

1. There are others who would likely be in the same blurry position.
2. It would be quite nice to get said others together for a quaint and cozy night of warm beats and libations in a not-so-clubby-or-basementy environment.

When Rajko Müller’s BEAU MOT PLAGE (Playhouse) was released to an unsuspecting public in 1998 under his ISOLÉE moniker, little did he know that it would cement him in electronic music lore amongst house and techno connoisseurs worldwide…