Undertone returns with ISR VOL. IV: TonalTheory Invites.
After a year of change, growth, and time away, Undertone comes back to DC with renewed purpose, bringing our signature series home for its 4th edition.
Led by TonalTheory, the I See Red series has always been more than a party. It’s a reflection of everything we stand for: community, intention, and music that moves without compromise.This year away didn’t slow us down, it sharpened the vision.
For VOL. IV, we’re excited to welcome Detroit’s hard-hitting force Henry Brooks @henrybrooksmusic , Miami-based minimal and hypnotic selector Kevin Bithell @kevinbithelll , rising DC artist SRNK @66jaimeandre , alongside our very own TonalTheory.
Friday, May 29th, we return to the red.
Here are some moments from past ISR nights as we begin the next chapter!
Artwork by: @johnson_mwj
🎟️ : No Cover
📍 : Jimmy Valentine's Lonely Hearts Club
🎶 : Hardcore/Baltimore Club/Jersey Club/Techno/etc.
📸 : @borealisbugs & @go.de.lus
Designs by @go.de.lus
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Præter·Natura - GENESIS
In the beginning, there was the word--and all that was fertile in potential found delineation in shape and form. And it was good.
In the beginning, there was a beat--your mother's heartbeat. Even before the formation of ears to hear and feet to move, there was endless rhythm and meter. And it offered sweet calm and consolation.
It is beginning; a new sound forms in the belly of the beast. It is of a timbre and cadence previously inconceivable, yet fully irresistible. It is a sound to train your ears to hear and train your feet to move anew. Hard kicks and driving bass wash you clean in acoustic renewal.
The moment of Genesis is outside the strictures of space and time. The moment of Genesis is in every moment, right now. All that is, is born and shaped in every waking second that you are. Every frame of consciousness is a moment of first creation, infinite potential in the singular event. Share this moment with us December 26th at Jimmy's, we look forward to seeing ya :)
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Praeter - beyond/outside
Natura - Nature/that which is born
There exists that which is outside the cycles of birth and death. It is outside the wanton, slighted enterprise of man. It is Sound that passes through the veil to you.
Praeter·Natura is the liberation of the being through sound, sound is a progeny of the DJ who transmutes light infinitum into form and flavor.
Find your strength in the sound 🔥
DESYNC is a cultural disconnection hosted by Heaven Dancing Club. A night of striking Techno cradled in a dungeonesque warehouse loft — find darkness, tension, aggression, and peace. We return to Fabrica with DESYNC: a night designed to interact with Techno in deeply personal, human ways.
Through the masked darkness, distant, peaking lights cast over dancing minimal visuals, creating a barrier of design that stands before you. With the dancefloor removed from the DJ, sound becomes your first contact with their raw, unadulterated Techno artistry. No phones, no cameras — just pure, unfiltered expression.
For her long-awaited return, CLAUDIX brings her antagonizing and sharply cut selections to DESYNC. Rounding off the night, the storied D.C. selector shreds deep sub-bass with 303s like you wouldn’t believe. Metronomic, percussive — dare it be said — groovy. CLAUDIX strikes that dark, cerebral chord within you.
HDC’s own Jade Cao stages her very first primetime extended set. D.C.’s fastest-rising Techno talent makes her headline debut, no bars held. With an old-school punk attitude, Jade Cao hypnotizes those on the receiving end. Combative, abrasive, and introspective — her Techno is uniquely her own. Jade Cao, unleashed.
Brooklyn’s premier high-octane architect, Michelle Kay, joins DESYNC, working the late shift. Sensual, compressed, and raw — her Techno effortlessly blends classic New York grit with contemporary groove. Michelle Kay’s uncompromising potency has earned her performances at acclaimed institutions such as H0L0, Elsewhere, SILO, and Signal. As the creative director for the NYC-based label IMPULSE CØNTROL, Michelle Kay works to advance Techno’s cultural progressiveness.
Making his Washington, D.C. debut, the newly local SRNK (Surrender To The Unknown) burns the floor with high-pressure, Berlin-esque Techno. The Chilean SRNK uniquely fuses melodic industrial samples with floating polyrhythmic punch.
Eklektrik Elektrik’s formidable and legendary TurboSound system returns in full deployment — the single most transparent and aggressive sound system in D.C.
December 5th
23:00
La Fabrica
21+
Tickets on Shotgun
🕸️SYNTERGICA PODCAST X SURRENDER TO THE UNKNOWN🕸️. Segunda edición de este podcast, estamos muy felices de seguir con este proyecto, si quieres participar hablanos por DM. “todo parte de las emociones y del sentir. Sentir esa inexplicable energía eufórica que se genera en nuestro cuerpo y mente al escuchar patrones sonoros en perfecta secuencia. sentir la liberación del alma a través de las expresiones artísticas, como la propia naturaleza humana siempre lo ah dictado. En la búsqueda de lo desconocido el arte siempre irá a la vanguardia, porque nos hará encontrar nuestras emociones más profundas, aunque no las entendamos”. LINK EN BIO🫶🏻
