I spent yesterday evening in the RX Gallery experiencing Onyx Ashanti's latest night of electronica mayhem: Backlit Lounge San Francisco. It was a wonderful 6 hours of musical worlds created by Wyatt Gurp and Uplink, Vertical Blanking Interval, Harborsounds, The Saturnines, Bradelectro, Astronout and Onyx himself.

All the performances were excellent and the whole atmosphere as laid-back and lounge-like or as frenetic and interactive as wanted, depending on mindset. I alternated between checking out musical gear and Max patches, talking to other musicians and rocking the fizzy water while laptoping on upcoming Daevlmakr projects in the Backlit sonic environment. Rx Gallery is bathed in open wifi... appropriate for the high audio geekery regularly taking place there.

I snapped images of every performer. Above you see Harborsounds during an excellent set of Max/MSP madness. I really wish I had a soundboard recording of the night.

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