Veteran Seattle producer Wizdumb (aka Alex Hupp) is steeped in the values of golden age hip-hop, that time in the late ’80s and early ’90s when creatively transforming funky and eerie samples from obscure records into cinematic sonic experiences reached its zenith (think DJ Premier, RZA, Prince Paul, the Bomb Squad, et al.). His artful productions have laid head-nodding foundations for rappers such as MF Grimm, Moka Only, Silas Blak, Specswizard, and many others. Astrament (ex-Grave Babies member and Seattle musician Mitchell Saulsberry) has been creating fascinating electronic music for over a decade as Yoko Phono, Perpetual Ritual, and Astrament. Taking inspiration from non-Western rhythms, percussive timbres, and melodic structures, Astrament generates hyperreal mutations that are at once danceable and disorienting. He’s the closest thing Seattle has to Muslimgauze or Demdike Stare.  (Full disclosure: I'm also DJing this event.) by Dave Segal