Suzie Harrison A percolator is heating up...

Suzie Harrison

A percolator is heating up in Costa Mesa, but it’s not of the

coffee variety. It’s of the explorative variety and its called a

Velcro Percolator.

It happens at Detroit Bar. DJs, art, fashion, people and music all

merge and meld into a metamorphosis of fun and mayhem -- sights,

sounds and movement. Never producing the same outcome is the

preferred result.

KatoSpace, also known as Sir Adamsmasher, brought the percolator

party to his roots in Orange County after spending almost a decade in

San Francisco.

Velcro Percolator is an exploration in low and high fidelity audio

frontiers and is described as a convergence of electro-clash, house,

lounge rock ‘n’ roll, punk and new discoveries.

“It’s a live music experience with different music, visuals and

art,” KatoSpace said. “I’m very inspired, it’s all about the fashion

and funk.”

The first Orange County Velcro Percolator was last May and

KatoSpace knew that Detroit Bar was the only space that would work,

offering the quintessential environment and bringing in the right

people. There have been two others since with one happening last

weekend.

Last year, Gavin Hardkiss, pioneer DJ and producer of global

status, released “Heatstroke” from Sunburn/Six Degrees Records. It

featured Sir Adamsmasher’s song “Party People (We’re Gonna Change the

World),” which spent many weeks over the summer on the top 40

Billboard Club Chart. “Starfish Waitress” is his other contribution

to “Heatstroke” -- he calls it his homage to women.

San Francisco has been know as the place where electronic music

and the technological movement was birthed.

“I was in San Francisco during the underground merging of

technology, music, art and culture ... basically when the internet

was becoming the Web,” KatoSpace said. “We were the first to do

‘immersive environments’ with video, lasers, music and bays of

computers.”

Detroit Bar is its official address, but from time to time Velcro

Percolator can be found at private parties and people’s residences.

“The whole idea of Velcro Percolator is that it is constantly

evolving. I call it a live movie where the audience experiences

different ideas, concepts and shifts, pushing the boundaries of live

sculpture,” KatoSpace said.

Velcro Percolator has featured world renowned DJs like Hardkiss

and Southern California favorites Olias and Scotty Coates. Themes

have been inspired by the 1960s show “the Thunderbirds” and gangster

drama “the Sopranos.”

There have been sculptures like the “tin man” by Christian

Hackett, a Costa Mesa artist, and fire breathing by performance

artist Karalicious. .

“I’m doing this because of the mass exodus of talent that left San

Francisco and came here,” KatoSpace said. “I wanted to come up with

an idea where my hometown and San Francisco friends would come

together.”

KatoSpace won’t even say when the next Velcro Percolator will be,

but he did say that the next event at Detroit Bar will feature a

celebrity DJ.