whooooaaaaa!! 🔥 playing the beach stage on Sunday 7/23 at SHIFT was absolutely bonkers - thank you soooo much to all the volunteers and all the folks who danced, connected etc w me all weekend! 🥵 that was a tiiiime. 

I think this is one of the best sets i've ever played... the last song is a funny surprise and inside joke with my fellow campmates 🌈 I re-recorded this set when i got home all in one take! enjoy 😘😘

plz check my IG for the setlist: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvu9SlJvJwy/?img_index=2

TECTONIC SHIFT FESTIVAL 2023 ✨

Playing tracks for people, helping to illuminate the path to better music, has been Silpher's passion ever since he started making Industrial and EBM mix tapes with a single cd player and tape deck, early in his teens.  

In the fall of 1992, Silpher discovered the Oregon rave scene.  It was love at first sight, reorienting his focus directly on everything related to Electronic Dance Music, starting with helping to found the University of Oregon's campus radio station (KWVA), as the Electronic Music Director.  Since then, in addition to consistently introducing his listeners to the outlying frontiers of Electronic Dance Music, Silpher has promoted events, owned and operated a ServoDrive / Sound Physics Labs sound system (Stylus Systems), owned and managed a record store (Stylus Grooves), designed party flyers, and is always down to teach anyone how to spin records.

The electronic dance music scene is in Silpher's blood, and he can't see ever living without it.

Currently, Silpher resides in Portland, OR, making sound systems sound better.

✨CHICK - SEE - GUAP ✨

for bookings email chixyguap@gmail.com 

Upcoming shows:
10/1-10/3: The Dirtnap (Moab, UT) 
10/19: A Beat Happening - L'Atelier Cafe (Portland, OR) 
11/1: HOWL - The Den (Portland, OR) 
11/14: TBA (Portland, OR) 
12/31: TBA (Portland, OR) 

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When CHIXY is on the bill, you know it's gonna be a party. Known for high-energy, bass-heavy sets, CHIXY GUAP aka Kelsey is a DJ and producer who channels her sound from the trapical ratchetverse, navigating global genres from UK club to trap to baile funk and beyond. A fan of forward-thinking low-end, fresh world rhythms, and selects that generally make you go “DAAMMMMNNN," she has a highly intuitive way of keeping the room bumpin'.

Fusing many different voices and flavors, CHIXY stirs up an undeniably spicy sound (and a packed dance floor).

Since starting her DJ career in 2021, CHIXY's already been fortunate to play well-known venues and festivals across the US, Mexico, and Canada, including Shambhala, Soundpieces, Shady's Rest at Oregon Country Fair, Camp Questionmark at Burning Man, and more. She also already has a few of her own productions floating around the sonic stratosphere. 

Based in Portland, OR, but originally from the suburbs of Minneapolis, MN, Kelsey's been privileged to travel extensively, and her selects reflect exposure to many different soundscapes and people. She’s particularly fond of femme-forward rap, music in Spanish and Portuguese, sounds from the African Diaspora and basically anything underground that makes your chest vibrate. Heavily influenced by years living off and on in Mexico City, she also spent several summers working the Amphitheatre Stage at Shambhala Music Festival in Canada, where she witnessed dozens of up-and-coming bass connoisseurs alike. 

CHIXY GUAP wants to acknowledge and thank artists around the world, especially black and brown folks, for their exceptional music, art and culture. Thank you. 🧡
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Getting lost and found in music is a favorite pastime.