Around the Clubs: Matrixxman, Lindstrom and more

San Francisco has been going through a sea change in the last decade, with moneyed tech workers and development interests threatening to oust the last bastions of its outsider art and music culture.

The San Franciscan producer Matrixxman is firmly on the side of the artists in this fight, but he’s also got a deep futurist and technologist streak in him. His recent LP for the acclaimed Ghostly label, “Homesick,” embodies the paradox of wanting progress and ambition while also needing a foundation of familiarity. Techno throbs and clangs carve out new aesthetic spaces on tracks like the single “Augmented,” but it’s all melodic enough to stay accessible. When he plays for Fine Time’s Saturday night pop-up, he’ll have the ghosts of his city’s past - and maybe it’s dystopic future - on deck with him.

Beforehand, on Friday, there’s Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan and Captured Tracks’ Mike Simonetti playing lovestruck dance tunes for the Far Away series; Chris Malinchak goes a bit harder for the ongoing All Gone Pete Tong series at Sound.

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Saturday’s other big club show marks the live-set return of Lindstrom, the Norwegian producer who often gets tagged as the godfather of “space disco.” That’s a reductive but not wholly inaccurate way of describing his wide-screen, slower tempo tracks that do indeed sort of feel like roller-skating on a distant moon.

Also that night? The very welcome return of Severed Heads, the pioneering Australian trio who married no-wave electronics and punk antagonism with unexpected slashes of beauty and melody. They come to Complex in Glendale, and dance music fans owe it to themselves to see one of the genre’s most insightful founding acts in person.

Still going strong on Sunday? Top it off with a gut-punch techno set from Shifted, Cassegrain and Skarn at the fantastically weird, medieval Bavarian outpost Medusa Lounge in Westlake. Festival season is almost over, but that just means the kids are back to school and you have the nights to yourselves again.

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