Mister Lies, Beat Culture, Color Plus BAR 03/27/2013 09:00 PM EDT FREE Mister Lies Mister Lies is the operational alias for producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nick Zanca. It was also the product of dorm-room insomnia, developing an odd family of friends in a city of strangers, and homesickness for places where one only feels homesick. Born in 1992 and raised by wolves in the suburban jungles of Connecticut, he learned to hunt his prey by means of basement shows and prolonged caffeine binges. Shortly after Zanca relocated to Chicago to attend school, he formed an pack with several other lone wolves aiming to create something greater. In the harshest parts of February winter in the Windy City; equipped with a laptop, several controllers and whatever instruments were lying around his congested dorm-room; he released his first EP anonymously before eventually revealing his identity making rounds across the blog circuit. The trip-hop inspired Hidden Neighbors has been compared to the dark nostalgia found in acts like Boards of Canada, Burial, and Massive Attack. Zanca now budgets time between his habitat in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago and his hideaway at a cabin on a Vermont lake, preparing new material for his first full-length to be released on Lefse Records in early 2013. Beat Culture Beat Culture is 18-year old Sunik Kim, who, simply put, creates experimental electronic pop music, incorporating sampled pianos, ghostly vocals and synths that recall the "Wall of Sound" typically found in shoegaze. You can hear a slight influence of James Blake, SBTRKT, and My Bloody Valentine. From Seoul and attending college in the USA, Beat Culture creates pieces that consist of catchy phrases and atmospheric beats that invoke a wide range of emotions. Color Plus There are certain artists that just can't help but expand upon their genre, Color Plus is one of these artists. Lars Probert (Connecticut) seems to have the bizarre talent of combining ambient acoustic sounds with some truly rhythmic patterns of hi-hats and 808 kicks. His latest tape, Cerulean Dream, is a true melding of cosmic sounds touching in the genres of future garage, juke, hip hop and downtempo.. Some of tracks sits at a syrupy slow pace, while others are more uptempo, sub-heavy melodies that are prepped for the dance floor. Venue Information BAR 254 Crown Street New Haven, CT 06511 http://www.barnightclub.com/ FREE