SAME DNA

"They heard I was good, they wanna see if it's true": The mixtape Where I'm At, from Dan Ames (DJ Same DNA), opens with Cassie's summer jam layered on a house breakbeat, and flows oh so smoothly into mashed-up funk, soul, and hip-hop of the most feel-good variety. This crate-digger works almost every day of the week somewhere, and hosts Trashy Trash once a month at the Sunset, where he brings an eclectic bunch of bands (like Truckasaurus and the Suffering Fuckheads) to back up his wonderfully schizo style. Yes, it's all good. RACHEL SHIMP, Seattle WeeklyTrashy Trash One-Year Anniversary: Fleshtone, Colin Jones, DJs Introcut, Same DNA, Claude Balzac, Madmax (Sunset) Trashy Trash, for the last year, has had the unenviable, Sisyphean task of rolling a dance-party rock up the steep hill that is Sunday night, and in Ballard no less. But they’ve kept at it, month after month, and for their one-year anniversary, they’re rocking a sweeter Thursday-night spot and importing Portland’s Fleshtone, a hard-to-explain act that combines club-rattling electro, nu age performance art, and scanty skintight neon cladding. It’s part dance party, part freaky happening, and all good, trashy fun. With a live set from fellow Portlander Colin Jones playing live and DJ sets from resident boulder-pushers Introcut, Same DNA, Claude Balzac, and Madmax. Eric Grandy, The Stranger