Deep Exposure Presents Boyz II Them

Russell E.L. Butler's long-running Earthly residency presents their stunning duo project with producer ADAB :: BOYZ II THEM DOORS 10PM MUSIC 'TIL LATE ABOUT RUSSELL E.L. BUTLER Russell Ellington Langston Butler is a Black artist from Bermuda, living and working in New York City. Russell has painstakingly cultivated a unique artistic expression that integrates and investigates themes around process, technological innovation, the archive, and confrontation. Their works have taken the form of vinyl records, digital audio releases, live A/V performances, and special archiving projects. Deep Exposure is Russell's opportunity to share a style of playing that they have cultivated for 20 years. The Lot Radio show, and now, party are a demonstration of a focused listening practice. Informed by the work of Pauline Oliveros and Edward George, Russell selects songs that encourage listeners and dancers to be present and experience the delicate concert between organized sound and the music of the world around them. Deep Exposure is an expression of narratives that arise thru the sequencing of recorded music, poetry, and the occasional improvised live performance. I hope that you will join us for our journey into now. ABOUT ADAB Adab became the knowledge of poetry, oratory, ancient Arab tribal history, rhetoric, grammar, philology, and non-Arab civilizations that qualified a person to be called well-bred, or adīb. Characterized often by their palette of sounds, they made a name for themselves in Cleveland spinning a variety of genres (house/techno/beats etc.) and venues alike. Having started djing dance music heavily as a result of finding Cleveland's queer run techno party In Training and being a non binary black youth raised across a few states in the Rustbelt (IL/MICH/OH), they seek to unabashedly open up new understandings for both themselves and others...