PELLYVISION is a monthly cohesion of sound and vision. Alex Pelly creates live video to accompany sounds from an artist of her choosing. Make sure to check out the live video stream on our Facebook page!

This month we showcased Darkmatter Soundsystem in anticipation of their 18th Year Anniversary Party on Saturday, July 27th, with E-De-Cologne, Moment Trigger and various members of the Darkmatter Crew. Darkmatter was founded in 2001 by a collective of like minded individuals who sought to fill a void in the Los Angeles underground. They wanted nothing to do with the restrictive, overpriced nature of clubs and commercial raves, and most importantly wanted to showcase music that did not fit anywhere else in the L.A underground. Their collective mission is to showcase extreme electronics and splintered beats in independent autonomous zones. We had three members of the Darkmatter Crew spinning for us: Baseck, Shrill and Diskore.

Alex Pelly is a filmmaker and video artist. She blends digital graphics and video with analog video feedback and VHS processing. Pelly came up through dublab, beginning by mixing live sampled video for shows, DJ nights and parties. She developed her analog feedback aesthetic during the years of Top Tape, dublab’s monthly night at the Hyperion Tavern, where she mixed VHS tapes to accompany music mixed on cassette tapes. Continuing her work with dublab, she is also resident visualist at the underground techno party, Perpetual Dawn , and creates audio-visual experiences with improvisational noise duo, Telecaves .

0:00:00 Shrill
0:40:29 Baseck
1:16:33 Diskore