It’s a beautiful day in Tel Aviv and DIY Tel Aviv is toiling on the computer to bring you this week’s party listings. Oh the horror and the sacrifice (just kidding, I just came back from the beach. The sea smells like sewage. Yuck!). Get set for some very fun looking parties this weekend. It’s all go.
Tonight (Wed)
The weekly Balishag nights @ Pasaz is hosting the wonderful Alaev Family’s Salon project, a funky oriental gypsy group family act with a mix of new and traditional instruments. DJs will be playing happy, funky world music before and after. From 22:00. Free.
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OMG! It’s been several days without a Red Axes set. Don’t worry, though, because Tel Aviv’s hardest working duo is on tonight @ Radio EPGB from 23:00 so you can catch your groovy, mid-tempo electronica for free. Aaaaaaand breathe!
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Thursday
E-Bony playing some sort of oriental electronica @ Passaz from 22:00 with more electronic goodness throughout the night. Free.
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Totem Rave @ Tahat looks like the place to be for bass lovers from dancehall to d&B and jungle. Jahrkon / Sabbo / Doobo & Turnymator / OG Kush plus underground art sale, live tattooing and an awesome underground venue. From 23:00. 20NIS before midnight, 30NIS after.
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The Block’s headliners are the wonderfully strange Damian Lazarus & Karl Geiger. 60NIS before 1:00. 110NIS after.
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Friday
Afternoon swing dance party at the corner of Rothschild and Nahalat Binyamin. Absolutely free. Starts at 13:00 and goes on for 3 hours.
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Khen Elmaleh brings Middle Eastern bling and some hip hop sleaze to Anna Loulou from 21:00. Free till 23:00, then 20NIS.
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Oldies night @ radio EPGB from 22:00. From Ray Charles to Stevie Wonder and the Supremes. That kind of stuff. Free.
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House & techno with Later @ Deli, this time hosting Michael Zucker (USA). From 22:00.
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Booty Call @ Pasaz from 22:00 – hip hop all night. Free.
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Hardcore Ukranian techno @ Alphabet with Timur Basha. Support from Anna. From 22:30. Free till 00:30, then 20NIS.
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Nathan Fake and Wesley Matsell @ Bootleg from 23:30. Hit attending on event page for 60NIS entry before 1:00. Otherwise 80NIS.
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Saturday
Pazez @ Pasaz from 23:00 – an eclectic night of global beats from Middle Eastern to African, hip hop, funk, Balkan and even pop. Free.
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Matate free dance party @ Mitriya Studio (Hatchiya 14, Jaffa) from 21:00. One of those “dance like no one’s watching” parties for people who like to move but don’t necessarily like being in smoky clubs. Michal Gefen on the music. 40NIS.