MACHO CITY w/ Sal P (Liquid Liquid/DFA/NYC) & BMG (Ectomorph/IT)

Macho City is back for more disco debauchery with two serious bruisers: Salvatore Principato of legendary NYC minimalist-funk band Liquid Liquid and our old friend BMG of Ectomorph/Interdimensional Transmissions. Let's end summer with a BANG! Salvatore Principato (Sal P.) is best known as the vocalist and percussionist of seminal NYC minimalist-funk band Liquid Liquid, but his over three-decade career actually spans a wide variety of genres. Liquid Liquid (Scott Hartley, Richard McGuire, Salvatore Principato, Dennis Young) recorded and released four EPs for 99 Records: Liquid Liquid, Successive Reflexes (both 1981), Optimo (1983), and Dig We Must (1984). The group’s successes included club hits such as “Cavern,” “Bellhead,” and “Optimo,” in addition to sold-out concerts worldwide. “Cavern” became the basis of Grandmaster Flash’s rap classic, “White Lines (Don’t Do It).” Immediately following, Principato along with Ken “Man” Caldeira formed the industrial-dub outfit Fist of Facts, they toured Europe and released a 12-inch EP Fugitive Vesco in 1988 with Helvete Underground Records (Switzerland). Recently Claremont 56 (London) released a limited edition EP of formerly unreleased Fist Of Facts material. In the early 1990’s, Principato began producing words-and-music shows in downtown New York clubs and galleries, as well as an annual series of free outdoor shows on the piers on the Hudson River and a public access cable TV program called Voices/Vision based on these productions. He played drums with a rock band Liki Outhaus, collaborated with the late Zen Guitar author Phil Toshio Sudo in the experimental music project Avant Garbage, and also runs a downtown rehearsal studio collective. Sal P.’s DJ efforts are as varied as his other musical projects and he has championed the turntables at venues in the U.S., Europe, South Africa and Brazil and is known for his blend of Afro-Latin, Rare Groove, and deep disco tracks. Additionally, he has worked on remixes for various artists and labels around the world, and has collaborated with musicians and producers such as Dennis Young, Brennan Green, Dennis Citizen Kane, and the Neurotic Drum Band. He has also worked with Kaos, the Berlin-based DJ and producer, with Ectomorph’s BMG from Detroit and with Paul Murphy from Claremont 56 on his musical project, Bison. On May 19, 2008, Domino Records released a reissue of Liquid Liquid’s first three records along with previously unreleased bonus tracks in a newly designed package. Liquid Liquid occasionally reform to play a series of shows. From their initial reunion at The Knitting Factory (Manhattan) in 2003, the band had appeared at Optimo (Glasgow), DEMF (Detroit), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Domino Records 10th Anniversary at The Barbican (London), Primavera Sound (Barcelona), with the latest series of shows sharing the stage with LCD Soundsystem at Terminal 5 and concluding at Madison Square Garden (New York City). MACHO CITY at The R&R Saloon Saturday, September 28th 10PM - 5AM $3 / 21+ Resident DJs Mike Trombley * Scott Zacharias * Chuck Hampton