Alien Nation

While most South Bitch DJs are resolutely earthbound in their advocacy of the good thug life, Richard "Q-Bert" Quitevis is from planet Mars, a UFO with lightning-quick hands. Since emerging from the Bay Area's potent hip-hop scene in the early Nineties, Q-Bert has evolved from a dominant hip-hop DJ with three U.S. DMC titles under his belt to the near-iconic auteur behind the terrestrial-sounding Wave Twistersto a traveling ambassador for the underappreciated art of skratch, a genre that celebrates the transmutation of turntable sound through expert needle thrashing into walls of pure noise discernible only to the trained ear. Complex for sure, but thrilling nevertheless.

Brian Moghadam

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Sunday, January 25, at 9:00 p.m. Tickets range from $12 to $15. Call 305-358-8007.

I/O, 30 NE 14th St., Miami

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Thankfully Q-Bert has an amiable, winning personality to front his sonic exploits. The thirtysomething Filipino Buddhist exudes a quiet, Zen-like calm frequently disrupted by a barrage of juvenile high jinks and bizarre in-jokes. (He once released a mixtape titled Wash Yer Butt.) If you venture out to see him this Saturday night -- and you should -- be on the lookout for Scratchy Seal, his trusty, foulmouthed sidekick.