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Around the Clubs: Dark Entries, Galcher Lustwerk and more

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The San Francisco label Dark Entries has become a preeminent destination for bleak, obscure and transgressive electronic music. The company’s strength is in reissues of ‘70s and ‘80s LPs and EPs that, while they reached maybe a few hundred or thousand listeners in their time, inspired all the right fans and now deserve rediscovery on their own terms.

Some of it is pretty difficult listening, but other cuts from the likes of Severed Heads and Xymox have a strong pop streak that can easily blend into today’s club floors. The label is throwing a six-year anniversary party Thursday night at DTLA’s The Lash, where Nowhere Girl, Reanimator, the excellent Silent Servant and Josh Cheon will spin their singles and others inspired by their midnight moods.

On Friday, the underground party crew fixture Making Shapes pulls Sweden’s Axel Boman and Tim Sweeney (of the Beats in Space label, and an old DFA Records cohort) in for a late night of muscular, thoughtful house and modern techno at Lot 613 in downtown Los Angeles. Derrick Carter, a ‘90s Chicago house staple, brings his vintage but ever-more-relevant workouts to Sound in Hollywood, while a couple of noisy newcomers — NGHTMRE at Avalon and Loudpvck at Create — bring a more of-the-moment brand of EDM.

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Saturday finds a couple of stellar underground options: the spacey, sexed-up tracks from Hot Natured member Lee Foss (joined by the witty disco duo Holy Ghost and John Tej) at Lot 613, and the fast-rising Club Time series gets Galcher Lustwerk, who has a pair of fantastic new EPs from the moody fringes of ambient house.

On Sunday afternoon, the mimosas will be flowing and the appropriately rejuvenating Jackmaster will be playing at the Standard rooftop in downtown L.A. Some may be in repose preparing their bodies for HARD Summer in a couple of weeks, but we know you professionals don’t need time off.

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