CHILL ROOM Featuring Merrick Brown & Duke Shin

Name: CHILL ROOM Featuring Merrick Brown & Duke Shin
Start: 2025-08-17T21:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-18T01:30:00-05:00
Location: The California Clipper

Schedule

Sun, 17 Aug, 2025 at 09:00 pm to Mon, 18 Aug, 2025 at 01:30 am

UTC-05:00

Location

The California Clipper | Chicago, IL

The 'CHILL ROOM' concept refers back to the golden age of rave and underground parties in the 90's, where an alternate side room would often be available to escape the pounding dance music. Downtempo, trip hop, and ambient sounds were the soundtrack inside, allowing for a mental and physical recharge. This concept seems to be almost lost with modern dance and party culture, and we aim to bring it back. Hosted by underground veteran Striz, the first installment features 3 downtempo selectors who have been keeping that scene alive since the golden age. Recharge your week :)
MERRICK BROWN
Merrick Brown — a vinyl virtuoso and mixing maestro — boasts three decades behind the decks and leads the way as one of Chicago's finest underground selectors. A favorite of both DJs and dancers, Merrick is a true multi-genre DJ. For his set at Chill Room, expect a wide mix of downtempo, from old favorites to fresh new cuts ranging from deep and dubby to funky, jazzy, broken beat jams. Beyond his role as a DJ, Merrick is the visionary behind esteemed record labels Tektite Recordings and Chalant Music, as well as contributing his own productions to respected imprints like Harmonious Discord, Safe in Sound, and Aathee. Catch him spinning across Chicago and the Midwest,
where every set promises the unexpected!
Link: https://www.mixcloud.com/merrickb/
DUKE SHIN
Duke Shin has been a DJ for a while, opening for the likes of [insert "big" names], and playing at discerning dance destinations like [insert venues, parties, orgs]. He's held residencies with [more stuff] and currently runs [stuff and/or things]. Before focusing on music and DJing, Duke worked professionally in film and music journalism, and still believes "IT" is all about the story... whatever that means.
Link: https://www.dukeshin.com/
STRIZ
One of the windy city’s most versatile DJs, Striz has developed a reputation for funking up any environment with his unique blend of downtempo, hip hop, broken beat, and house. Mixing broken polyrhythms, live instrumentation and a heavy dose of funk, his genre-defying DJ sets showcase the organic side of electronic music. Starting out in 1996, Striz developed his crowd rocking abilities at college house parties playing golden age hip hop. After moving back to sweet home Chicago in 2000, he co-founded illmeasures, a collective of DJs, producers, and designers that have been keeping the local underground scene alive through club nights and legendary large-scale loft and warehouse parties. Living in Madrid and his three-year employment at Groove Distribution (a jazzy underground record importer) opened his ears to new styles of electronic music from around the world and expanded his music collection to encompass a multitude of tempos and moods. Fast forward to 2006 when he co-founded The Freakeasy, a series of burner-oriented underground gatherings that became the hottest ticket in town over their unprecedented 10 year run.
Striz has been chosen to perform alongside numerous international talents including Tricky, Jazzanova, DJ Krush, Nicolas Jaar, Jamie **, Four Tet, Amon Tobin, Bonobo, James Murphy, DJ Food, Metro Area, Nickodemus, The Herbaliser, Quantic, and many others of myriad disciplines. He and fellow illmeasures founder Justin Reed were honored to warm up the historic Kennedy Center in Washington DC in 2017 for a once in a lifetime show featuring Thievery Corporation performing live with a 22 piece orchestra, and he also supported the band at their most recent Chicago appearance.
Link:
https://www.mixcloud.com/djstriz/