Indoctrination 2008

By now, the cat is pretty well out of the bag. We regret to say that yes, Indoctrination 2008 has been postponed. Without going into too much detail, let’s just say that finding a venue suitable for such an endeavor is a truly astounding pain in the ass. We lost a lot of promotion and organization time due to this less-than-exciting turn of events, so our options were simple: Do we do it now, or do we do it right? After some last-minute hemming and hawing, we decided that no timeframe that involved Indoctrination happening in 2008 would be suitable for doing the festival the way it should be done. There was too much potential for it to be a big disappointment to the fans and the bands. In light of that, we decided the best thing would be to scrap the festival this year and, with the enormous lead time it would offer, refocus on setting things up in 2009.

So in a nutshell, Indoc 2008 is nixed, but Indoc 2009 is in the works. We’re sorry to all the bands who were excited to play, but it is almost certainly for the best that the festival is postponed for everyone. In the mean time, we’ll be continuing to schedule regular live shows, probably with a lot of the people we were meaning to bring in for the festival.

There you have it!

–mr. pathogen, minister of little rocks in your shoe which you can never find when you take your shoe off.

Quick note: Kinetic and Nexus 6 exist separately as clubs, it is true.

Greetings, intertrons. Apparently there has been some confusion about the dynamic between Kinetic and Nexus 6. The facts are as such:

1) Nexus 6 is at Neo. It will stay at Neo, because we like it there and Neo likes having us around. It is NOT moving to Spot 6.

2) When we say Kinetic is returning to Spot 6, we mean the Kinetic noize night itself, not all of our events.

3) As it stands, Kinetic’s return tomorrow is a trial run for the return of said rhythmic noize dance night. We will judge whether or not to bring it back as a monthly based on the popular response to it, so by all means if you want us to do it again, come out!

Thanks,

–mr. pathogen, minister of fish.

Kinetic :: August Schedule

Saturday, August 2nd :: KINETIC @ Spot 6

At long last, Chicago’s angriest club is back. The notorious Kinetic dance night returns. Rhythmic noize, aggro EBM, IDM, glitch, and all the music in between.

w/DJs Sprite and Gremlin

Drink specials are $4 vodka crans (the Blood of Our Enemies, for those of you playing at home) and $2 PBRs. Bartending by Michelle, so you know she’ll treat you right.

KINETIC :: Saturday, August 2nd
@ Spot 6: 3343 N Clark St, Chicago
$5 cover, but free before 10pm!
9pm - 3am, 21+ w/ID

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NOTE: Due to a street festival on Halsted, there will not be a Fishtank during August.

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Friday, August 22nd :: Nexus 6 @ Neo

NOTE: Due to all of us being out of town on the usual Nexus 6 weekend, we’re pushing it back to the 4th Friday of August.

Kinetic invades Neo! The music format is a mix of club hits, old classics, new music and alternative songs from established artists in EBM, industrial, rhythmic noise and other familar genres, plus attention paid to the request list. Make ‘em count, people!

PLUS: From Chicago’s own Tympanik Audio comes two CD release parties: The highly-anticipated sophomore release from Endif, titled Carbon, and the the debut of Lucidstatic, Gravedigger. We’ll have copies on-hand to give away to you, our happy smiling patrons.

w/Kinetic DJs WEiRD sKeTCH and Licious & Neo DJ Razer-X

NEXUS 6
Friday, July 18th @ Neo
2350 N Clark St, Chicago
10pm - 4am :: $7 cover, 21+ w/ID

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A quick explanation of our cover charges.

It’s come to our attention that a few people have been taking issue with Kinetic’s increasing the cover charge for our regular events. I’d like to explain why we charge what we do in order to assuage any discontent.

For starters, bear in mind that Kinetic is effectively a non-profit organization. Every cent we make is recycled back into our events. Our DJs have no take-home pay. We are about as “not in it for the money” as you can get. We do this out of love for this kind of music and a desire to see Chicago’s industrial scene revitalized; none of us labor under the delusion that grandeur and wealth will flow from our efforts.

Second, we’re trying to get things moving again around Chicago, especially in terms of events and live shows in the Kinetic vein. These things cost quite a bit of money. Guarantees for the bands ranging from $500 to thousands of dollars have to be negotiated in order to bring bands in. Often, we foot the bill for transportation. Equipment rentals have to be made. Venues cost money to be secured. Every single dollar you spend on Kinetic events, merchandise and whatnot is poured directly back into these costs because we want to keep Chicago’s scene interesting.

Third, specifically for Nexus 6, that $2 extra you’re paying is our profit for the night. We try really hard to make it worth an extra $2 to go to Neo once a month, with CD release parties, new and exciting music, and whatnot. If it’s really not worth $2 to you to get a unique experience once a month at Neo, then we’re sorry to hear that. However, for the reasons stated above, we can’t just do it and get nothing back.

Fourth… Kinetic has been around for what, four years now? We’ve had our ups and downs, we’ve found venues and lost venues, we’ve thrown some fun parties and had a lot of great times. When we first began, we were all about altruism and keeping the cost to our patrons very low. We very quickly found out that doing so really limited our ability to expand as a promotion group, and as a result, limited our ability to improve the local scene. That was before the economy all but collapsed as well. You know how prices have doubled for flight bookings and quadrupled for gasoline? Add that to the increasingly isolationist policies of the federal government, translating into increased visa costs and difficulty in acquiring them, and it’s become quite expensive to bring bands in from other parts of the country and downright ridiculous trying to get international bands. Unfortunately, our options in light of that are to either increase costs but try and keep it manageable and worth it to our patrons, or give up on trying to do live shows, not to mention the Indoctrination Festival.

So if you get sticker shock from the $7 cover at Nexus 6 and $5 cover at Kinetic, we’re sorry. However, our mandate since Kinetic’s inception has been to operate as an agent for change and growth in Chicago’s scene, and that mandate is not cheap. Hopefully knowing that the extra few dollars you’re spending are going straight back into making Chicago’s industrial scene more vibrant and active will help take the edge off.

Thanks,
mr. pathogen, minister of funny walkspropaganda.

It returns…

KINETIC :: July Events

First of all, for ease of information dissemination, we’ve decided to switch to a blog format for the website, so welcome to the new site!
Second, Kinetic’s July schedule:

Sunday, July 6th :: Sanctum, Mago & Aphorism @ the Underground Lounge

Hearkening back to the raw, emotionally-charged days of industrial’s inception, Cold Meat Industry’s Sanctum will be coming to Chicago with Ad Noiseam’s ambient pioneers Mago, as well as Chicago’s own dark IDM project Aphorism.

Kinetic presents: Sanctum, Mago & Aphorism
Sunday, July 6th @ the Underground Lounge
952 W. Newport, Chicago
Doors @ 8pm, close @ 2am
$8 cover at the door, 21+ w/ID

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Friday, July 11th :: C/A/T and Unter Null live @ Underground Lounge

Having joined forces for their live performances, Alfa-Matrix top-seller Unter Null and Crunch Pod heavy-hitter C/A/T are coming to Chicago on July 11th for their national tour. Kinetic is pleased to present a night of awesome live industrial music, DJing and tomfoolery. Opening the show will be Chicago locals [critical][system][error], and DJing by Kinetic residents Sprite & WEiRD sKeTCH and WTF resident Pretty Pistol.

PLUS: The official afterparty for this show will be at Neo (2350 N Clark St). Free admission to Neo with a pass from the show!

Kinetic presents: C/A/T and Unter Null
@ the Underground Lounge
952 W. Newport, Chicago
Doors @ 8pm, close @ 2am, show starts @ 9pm
$10 cover at the door, 21+ w/ID

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Saturday, July 12 :: The Fishtank @ Spin

Every second Saturday of the month, Kinetic resident DJs Gremlin and Sprite come to Spin to pound the dancefloor with more quality EBM, industrial, noize, and IDM than you can shake a stick at.

THE FISHTANK
Saturday, July 12 @ Spin
800 W Belmont Ave, Chicago
9pm - 2:30am :: $5 cover, 21+ w/ID

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Friday, July 18thth :: Nexus 6 @ Neo

Kinetic invades Neo! The music format is a mix of club hits, old classics, new music and alternative songs from established artists in EBM, industrial, rhythmic noise and other familar genres, plus attention paid to the request list. Make ‘em count, people!

w/Kinetic DJs Patogen and Licious & Neo DJ Razer-X

PLUS: zomg, CD release party! Sonic Mainline’s fine tradition of releasing weird-ass industrial albums continues with San Francisco’s Everything Goes Cold’s debut CD, Prepare To Be Refrigerated. I’m not really sure how to describe music by a band whose official imagery is a deranged anthropomorphized refrigerator, but if you like coldwave like 16 Volt and Hate Dept., or if you like exotic Hawaiian fruit, you’re going to like this cd. Luckily, we’ve got copies to give people, because we’re cruel like that.

NEXUS 6
Friday, June 20th @ Neo
2350 N Clark St, Chicago
10pm - 4am :: $7 cover, 21+ w/ID

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