Panic Bomber

Location Info

Map

The Vagabond

30 NE 14th St.
Miami, FL 33132

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown/Overtown

Photos

15 user reviews	Write A Review
Save to foursquare	0

Details

Panic Bomber: Friday, January 9. The Vagabond, 30 NE 11th St., Miami. Doors open at 10 p.m. Admission is free before midnight, $5 from midnight to 3 a.m. Ages 21+ with ID. 305-379-0508, www.thevagabondmiami.com

Related Content

• Good Old-Fashioned House Party
  September 8, 2011
• Ten best acts at Ultra Music Fest 2012
  March 15, 2012
• Ultra Music Festival 2012's Ten Most Exciting Acts
  January 11, 2012
• Fatboy Slim at Ultra Music Festival 2012
  March 26, 2012
• Panic Bomber Releases Video For "Visit From the Grave" and Announces New EP For July 5
  June 20, 2011

More About

• Richard Haig
• Daft Punk
• Crystal Castles
• Electronic Music
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Retro-videogame nerds, don't get too excited. Friday's guest act at The Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo game, but rather has appropriated the moniker, à la Crystal Castles, to broadcast a fascination with retro bleeps and bloops. The multicolor, eight-bit-style graphics festooning Panic Bomber's various web presences should give a clue as to where the project's influences lie: in the golden era of electro, acid funk, and anything that involved a vocoder. What's impressive, though, is that Richard Haig, the brains behind the motherboard, doesn't get mired in all-too-easy Daft Punk rip-offs. Rather, his sound is surprisingly lush, smoother and more melodic than the current crop of electro-house-producers-come-lately. There's a real musicality, even a pop undercurrent, to the six tracks on Panic Bomber's debut demo, Calling in Threats. So it's no surprise, then, to learn via Haig's "treatise" on his MySpace page (www.myspace.com/panicbomber) that he's a former, um, organic musician who has taken on this new mantle as some kind of act of defiance. "I have played in live bands in Miami where the band has gotten cut off early at a show because the DJ is scheduled to 'play,'" he complains in his mission statement. Fair enough. So as an act of protest, he has become a "live" dance music act that performs in the DJ booth. Well, whatever. Part of the fun will be monitoring how much of his synthetic sound Haig can reproduce on the fly.