Mark “Ellery” Leach has set a rather ambitious goal for his newest DJ weekly LayLow. He wants it to destroy people's perceptions of typical club nights, starting with what’s coming out of the mixers.
While the night celebrates bass music, he says, don’t expect to hear the usual crush of that overplayed Knife Party track (read: "Internet Friends”) or Borgore remixes broadcast over the sound system up on the rooftop at Bar Smith, 130 East Washington, every Wednesday. Nope. Leach and his LayLow collaborators Anthony “HartBreaks” Hart and Issa will eschew the “same old sounds” and instead dole out next-level shizzle like future bass or more ambient dubplates, while visual artists from different mediums work their magic during the Hump Night event. All three are infamous early adopters of new genres and sounds (Case in point: Issa was one of the first to lay down dubstep in Phoenix) and promise to take their patrons' ears on a weekly trip into parts unknown.
“Lay Low [is] an adventure,” Leach says, “set in an atmosphere where culture and style live on the forefront of music and art.” Word.
