Imagine a grimier Skrillex, cranked up to 11, and you’re starting to get the sounds that Frédérick Durrand—a.k.a. Snails—conjures from his DJ deck. This Montreal-based producer is credited with pioneering the heavy, maximalist EDM subgenre known as “vomitstep”—named after the gurgly filter he passes his bowel-rattling bass drops through. His latest album, The Shell, is a bonafide fist-pumping party starter (for those into the whole fist-pumping party scene), and boasts some marquee features and collaborations, like Big Gigantic, Waka Flocka Flame and Collie Buddz. Liquid Stranger, Sudden Death and Ubur open the show.
Snails
Fri, 9pm, $20+
City National Civic, San Jose
