Matthew Dear

Thu., Oct. 21, 10 p.m., $10, with Jamaica, Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., 215-735-5772, igetrvng.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Oct 20, 2010

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Detroit's Matthew Dear emerged in 2003 as the pretty poster boy of microhouse, a short-lived but pivotal strain of glitch-infused digital disco and tech-pop which has since largely folded itself. Dear, meanwhile, has veered into progressively weirder, more idiosyncratic realms, as a would-be "pop" artist. This year's uncompromising Black City (Ghostly) twists his ever-immaculate productions into haunting, mechanically seductive body-music, laced with steely, monochrome vocals and greased up with the sort of pornographic sleaze normally reserved for his rougher-edged Audion alias. Filthy.

Thu., Oct. 21, 10 p.m., $10, with Jamaica, Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., 215-735-5772, igetrvng.com.

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