Matthew Cha [Live] & Marteka Fair

MATTHEW CHA & MARTEKA FAIR @ LOSO Friday, January 24 Doors: 8pm DJ Sets: 9pm - 2am 2727 W. Broad St. Richmond, VA 23220 21+ Cha is a sophisticated live musician, devising expressively daring performances that celebrate the nuance of the buchla’s unique input structures. These sets feature live synthesis on his music easel or buchla 200 and explore improvisation, minimalism, and the power of analogue modular synthesis. also a fluent DJ, his uncompromising techno sets reflect his appreciation for experimental sound design and hypnotic grooves. Known to prepare custom tracks for his sets ahead of time on his buchla, cha’s personal approach to mixing has been proven in contexts ranging from his own d.i.y. “avant-hard” parties to prominent dc venues like U street music hall, flash and The anthem. Cha pursues extensive international collaboration and output, with engagements in shanghai, chongqing, tokyo, seoul, prague, and mexico city on his performance resume. In july 2024, he made his berlin debut at Berghain’s Klubnacht. ____ Marteka Fair is a techno DJ from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Drawing from a background in acoustic percussion, Fair expresses a sophisticated concept of time and precise internal rhythm through the decks. Marked by repetitious, emergent ostinati and intense drive, her style in the booth explores the outer reaches of harmony and submerges the listener in a bold, sonorous, hypnotic experience. With a relentless focus on body rhythm by using creative filtering and nonlinear rhythmic interactions between tracks, Fair's performances disorientate, reorientate, and induce movement at a core level. Fair is an experienced selector with a dense resume of club and festival performances, including DJ sets at Slingshot Festival in 2024 and Intellephunk's Great Beyond festival in 2023. She has directly supported up-to-the-minute artists like Rødhåd, Rrose, Bloody Mary and DVS1, and has made recordings for Berlin's HÖR, Refuge Worldwide and THF radio shows. Most recently, Fair is developing and performing a mixed-media concert series called "Liminal Space," crossing techno with the visual realm alongside North Carolina-based video artist Fluxxss.