As You Like It: Party Preview
Just a few short years ago,
The Black Madonna's name might have been unfamiliar to many fans of underground dance music. While she has long since been active in various capacities in the Midwestern rave scene, it wasn't until she launched her Black Madonna alias in 2011 — and shortly thereafter became the creative director at
Smart Bar, Chicago's premiere house and techno club — that the world began to take notice of her DJ sets, which seamlessly hop from disco to Chicago house to spaced-out techno and back again. When she plays records, she does so in a way that's steeped in awareness of electronic music's history and its context — but also in a joyous, gleeful way, unabashedly appealing to dancers and to record geeks alike. For her return to
As You Like It, she's joined by Secret Studio, a duo consisting of fellow Chicagoan Tyrel Williams and Bryan Bai-ee, Los Angeles' Joe Bickle, and AYLI resident Mike Gushansky.
— Chris Zaldua
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