The fast staccato beats, cunning sample flips, and booming bass kick into high gear when Chicago footwork pioneer PR Boo returns to ALICE on April 12th. Roskilde-bound Slauson Malone 1 kicks off the evening with his dense, surrealist sound collages influenced by hip-hop, free jazz, grungy no-wave, and chamber music. Slauson Malone 1 released his second album “EXCELSIOR” on the iconic Warp Records in the fall.

RP Boo
Producer and DJ RP Boo, also known as Kavain Space, is the father of Chicago footwork – the hectic fast, repetitive dance and music characterized by rhythmic syncopation, staccato beats, clever sample flips, and booming bass. Footwork emerged from Chicago House in the 1990s, and since then, dance, rhythms, and beats have evolved in tandem within an ecosystem where dancers and producers are inseparable. RP Boo was himself a dancer before he started producing music. Packed with frenetic high-hats, the distinctive clap of the Roland R-70, and mosaics of samples produced on the Akai S01, his tracks are also impossible to stand still to. With the internet and a handful of releases on Planet Mu, the RP Boo hype has spread like wildfire.

RP Boo transformed ALICE into a sweaty nightclub without exaggeration when he played sold-out concerts in both 2018 and 2022. Now he’s finally returning to ALICE, playing tonight with new material.

Slauson Malone 1
Behind the alias Slauson Malone 1 is the American multidisciplinary artist and producer Jasper Marsalis, previously known from the Brooklyn-based avant-garde hip-hop collective Standing on the Corner, which produced mixtapes and beats for artists such as Solange. As Slauson Malone 1, Marsalis works in the realm between performance and popular music, creating saturated, dissonant sound collages influenced by hip-hop, soul, free jazz, grungy no-wave, and chamber music. As a listener, one is drawn to Marsalis’ restless journey through a surreal and genre-bending musical landscape, unfolding into fascinating kaleidoscopic soundscapes each time one revisits his music.

In 2019, Jasper Marsalis released his first album “A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018” under the alias Slauson Malone. On his second studio album “EXCELSIOR,” released on Warp Records (Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, OPN, Yves Tumor) in the autumn of 2023, the death of Slauson Malone and the birth of Slauson Malone 1 are marked – a revived musical persona that takes its listener on a dizzying, surreal journey through blurred and atmospheric compositions, exploring themes such as masculinity, love, and Black identity. “EXCELSIOR” is crafted from a collection of personal essays and is packed with both musical and literary references, featuring over 20 different instruments – from acoustic guitar and brass to theremin, percussion, glockenspiel, and Wurlitzer. Among the collaborators on the album are, for example, BADBADNOTGOOD drummer Alex Sowinski, the legendary singer/songwriter Chocolate Genius, ALICE-featured Astrid Sonne on vocals, and cellist Nicky Wetherell, who also performs live with Marsalis.

Slauson Malone 1 is currently on everyone’s lips with his outstanding release and a very special live reputation, and ALICE is proud to present the Roskilde Festival-bound multidisciplinary artist and producer in intimate settings in April, accompanied by cello.

About Slauson Malone 1’s EXCELSIOR:
“A fascinating and hypnotic listen” – The Quietus

“Another vulnerable expression of raw truth that takes dozens of listens to begin to decipher, but it’s entirely worth the effort” – AllMusic

ALICE at Stairway
While the concert hall at Nørre Allé 7 is undergoing renovation, ALICE is located at the music venue Stairway in Vanløse.