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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