Chubby Beavers

Don’t let the “Bromance” in the Bromance Tour fool you:  Gesaffelstein and Brodinski are anything but your average bros.  The French DJs made their way over to the Sunset Strip on Saturday at the Key Club and proceeded to tear the house down with their bass-heavy beats to promote the first release off of Brodinski’s Bromance label.  To combine Brodinski’s refined yet party-starting electro with Gesaffelstein’s metal-clad techno is every music lover’s dream: to have that brutal, raw sound that’s so unusual, almost unearthly, yet so… so damn danceable.  For two and a half hours, the two DJs worked collectively and really built upon each other’s expertise to create sky-highs and faceplant-on-linoleum-floor drops, creating an aural atmosphere somewhat like being trapped inside a metal dome while someone (with unrivaled, beautiful rhythm, of course) bangs on it from the outside.  Later in the night there were the tracks of honor for which the tour was named, and even later, Gesaffelstein’s remix of Duck Sauce’s “Big Bad Wolf.”

The Key Club is no Madison Square Garden, but it’s not some hole-in-the-wall smaller than Donald Trump’s bathroom, either (at least let’s hope so, for the sake of humanity).  There was no denying (by sight nor smell) that the place was packed wall-to-wall, bar-to-bar, filled with revelers grinding to the bass and fist-pumping to the high-hats.  A tremendous joy and certainly surprising highlight of the night was none other than the opener, HARD owner Gary Richards, aka Destructo, who played an admittedly pretty awesome tech-house-filled set, and even dropped some Radiohead.

Just one word of advice to anyone who may be attending the Key Club in the future, and I just say this because, having been there before, I happen to know: if you’re not 21, bring cash for drink tickets. This wasn’t something widely communicated to ticket-buyers, so I saw a lot of people having to run to the ATM machine.  Bring cash. That is all.

-K

Bonus: the Bromance EP for some aural stimulation. Enjoy!
Gesaffelstein – Control Movement by UnleashYourMind
Brodinski ft. Louisahhh – Let The Beat Control Your Body by Rec Room