Tek Subport: DJs giving you Planet Earth at its best
These guys really had it down in every aspect of their performance except one. Their music, their image, their atmosphere, and their originality were perfection, but I really suggest that they change their scene.
Tech Support Tek Subport played at the ODDSAC screening After-party held at the Senator Theater. They paired fresh beats with vintage eighties songs, they paired dance music with looped flutes and guitars, and they paired a helicopter baseball hat with Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth. That was probably my favorite part of their performance – behind them, a giant screen showed some of the best clips from Planet Earth. But the music was not right for the crowd before them. If you’ve ever seen hipsters dance you know what I mean – they need funky stuff to throw their bodies around to. If the music is too controlled they don’t know what to do with themselves. If you haven’t seen hipsters dance please see my post about Dan Deacon.
Anyway, Tech Support Tek Subport had a really controlled sound, perfect for the kind of dancing I had been doing at Power Plant on Friday night but not perfect for hipsters. In fact, they sounded a lot like the stuff I heard being played all over clubs like Mynt in South Beach, Miami. They have a Dubstep feel so they’re definitely joining the emerging genre of dance music.
I congratulated them after the show and they said they play somewhere in Baltimore every Friday night. They are seriously impossible to find online so check them out below – we need see more of these guys in the future.
Correction (4/20): Tek Subport is spelled as such, not like the geek squad people.
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April 19th, 2010 at 8:13 PM
Andy says:I have had the privilege of knowing one of these guys since high school and the other for only a few weeks, but I can literally say that together they are the most impressive display of talent that has come out of Baltimore City in my entire life.
These guys are absolutely incredible, and they are far more talented than they appear to be on the surface. They will definitely become huge, so everyone needs to meet these guys before they’re so popular they won’t remember names!
April 19th, 2010 at 8:23 PM
Judy says:These guys play every Friday at the Midtown Yacht Club in Baltimore. Its a small venue, so you get to be up close and personal with Tek Subport. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to see the progression of their music, and all I can say is that if everyone was as dedicated to their craft as Stephen and Chris, we’d be in the midst of another Renaissance. I’d follow Tek Subport anywhere!
April 19th, 2010 at 9:42 PM
Ben says:I had the privilege of playing flute with these guys at the ODDSAC screening and I can say that it was such a treat. Assisting these guys is such an artistically stimulating experience — trying to blend the acoustic nature of what I do as an instrumentalist with the electronic beat-oriented grooves of their art form is both challenging and exhilarating. I understand so little about how they are able to produce the wonderful music that they do that the entire experience ends up being completely organic.
You don’t wanna miss these guys!
May 28th, 2010 at 5:33 PM
imawesome says:Hey there, I’m a long-time reader and also have been too shy to create a comment.