Joker

Fri., Nov. 20, 9 p.m., $12-$15, with Nomad, L-Vis 1990, Bok-Bok, Kingdom, DJ Sega, Dirty South Joe, Flufftronix and Lady Prowl, Mad Decent Mausoleum, 531 N. 12th St., radsummer.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Nov 18, 2009

As dubsteppers go, 20-year-old Liam McLean (aka Bristol producer Joker) seems nearly as focused on sparking dancefloors as he is on inducing woozy, head-nodding hypnosis. His tracks, typically dotted with chintzy video-game bleeps and grungy G-funk synthesizers, have a queasy, menacing spookiness and an intoxicating instability that's linked him to quasi-genres with names like "wonky" and "aqua-crunk," but he doesn't skimp on the Dirty South-infused kinetic energy either; expect plenty of bodies in motion when he takes over the Mad Decent Mausoleum this Friday.

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