[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UTGkkTVz7U] L.A. RECORD‘s Daiana Feuer interviewed two-thirds of underground techno collective Droid Behavior back in February, and now they will be celebrating their seventh anniversary with Kid 606, Chris Liebing and more this weekend! Congratulations to Droid Behavior and thanks as well for everything they do!

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This is darkly sensual stuff made by and for nighttime people rampant midnight-to-six in ill-lit warehouses as spiritually far from Hollywood as Podunk or Parnassus; a hassle-diminished urban paradise best approached with GPS and pepper spray. These five bleak and sexy tracks compress L.A.’s node of this international milieu into a tidy 90-megabyte romp, good for your next spasm of non-dancefloor action-adventure and as fine an occasion for civic pride as Ripley’s Museum, the next Randy Newman album or the grave of Sam Yorty.

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Way out east in the warehouses of Los Angeles, Acid Circus oversees a late-night techno empire. Brothers Vangelis and Vidal Vargas (also two-thirds of promoting group Droid Behavior) produce, play live, and remix sci-fi monkey calls into clean minimal beats. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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