N.A.S.A.

NEW LOCATION: Making Time, Fri., March 13, 9 p.m.-3:30 a.m., $10-$12, with Spank Rock, Pure Nightclub, r5productions.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

rock/pop/hip-hop

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The Spirit of Apollo, the preposterously star-studded debut platter from pan-American production duo N.A.S.A., boasts a few jams that sound right on schedule for 2009: the glittery electro-hop of "Gifted," a Santigold (née Santogold) feature with a Kanye verse and Lykke Li on backups and the M.I.A.-led dial-tone baile funk of "Whachadoin?," which also includes Spank Rock and Nick Zinner. Mostly, though, the album parties like it was 1999, conjuring a 10-year time warp back to an age when the phrase "conscious hip-hop" didn't inspire such an instant gag reflex, when electronica was the domain of good-natured goofballs like Fatboy Slim (who recently re-emerged with his own collabo-happy project/acronym, the BPA), when we were introduced to the self-consciously "quirky" indie-rap pastiche of acts like Handsome Boy Modeling School (N.A.S.A.'s most obvious forerunners) and Jurassic 5 (whose Chali 2na turns up twice here). Apollo's attention-grabbing 40-plus guests won't (we presume) be in attendance at Friday's throwdown, but we hear that chief audionauts Zegon and Squeak E. Clean may be bringing some green-skinned go-go-dancing aliens to make up for it.

Fri., March 13, 8 p.m., $10, The Barbary, 951 N. Frankford Ave., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

NEW LOCATION: Making Time, 9 p.m.-3:30 a.m., $10-$12, with Spank Rock, Pure Nightclub, 1221 St. James St., r5productions.com.