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Saturday, April 24: Mad Happy

Le Voyeur

BUST A MOVE: There's something garish about Mad Happy. Photos courtesy of MySpace

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Husband and wife duo Mad Happy's dance music is covered in a certain air of sleaze. They sound like the music that might be booming out of a near-deserted dance floor at four in the morning: shamefully sexy and hazily exhausted upon coming down from the night, the music soldiering on.

Mike iLL and Rivka formed Mad Happy 10 years ago. The group's sound was shaped on the road. Mike iLL says that, for a while, Mad Happy did about 250 shows a year. What worked on the road, they kept; and what didn't, the band ditched. What Mad Happy was left with is stark, minimal dance music, full of analog sounds and occasional dips into Hasidic folk melodies; the band has an art-punk, almost euro-trash vibe.

[Le Voyeur, with The Fixt, Z Kamp, Collective Love Unlimited, Saturday, April 24, 9 p.m., no cover, 404 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, 360.943.5710]

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