[music] >> male announcer: From beautiful downtown Solano Beach, this is San Diego's musical showcase, "Live at the Belly Up."

In tonight's episode, Beats Antique, an electronic and worldly-influenced fusion of music and dance.

[music] >> Tommy Cappel: Well when you come to a Beats Antique show, you can expect the unexpected.

It's not just music, it's performance art, it's expression, and it all comes out of--it's born out of experimentation.

>> male: We are live at the Belly Up, welcome to the stage Beats Antique.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> male: One more time Belly Up, let's see you scream.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] ♪ Kill, killer bee ♪ ♪ kill, kill, killer bee ♪ [music] ♪ Kill, killer bee ♪ ♪ kill, kill, killer bee ♪ [music] [music] [music] ♪ Kill, killer bee ♪ ♪ kill, kill, killer bee ♪ [music] ♪ Kill, killer bee ♪ ♪ kill, kill, killer bee ♪ [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] ♪ Kill, killer bee ♪ ♪ kill, kill, killer bee ♪ [music] ♪ Kill, killer bee ♪ ♪ kill, kill, killer bee ♪ [music] ♪ Kill, killer bee ♪ ♪ kill, kill, killer bee ♪ [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] ♪ Killer bee ♪♪ >> Tommy: The concept came together really basically as music for Zoe to dance to.

She had gotten approached by Miles Copeland, Stewart Copeland's brother, and manager of The Police.

And owner of many record labels and stuff.

And so, you know, he had asked her to do, put together--produce an album that was songs she would dance to.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Tommy: The style comes from a concept; the influences are vast and everything.

There's no real limits of what we're doing.

You know, we don't have, we've kind of made our own genre of music based on other genres of music coming together.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> male: Belly Up makes some noise.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Tommy: We did a song called, "Three Sisters," that features an artist named Tatyana Kalmykova, who's from Russia.

And yeah, we made that when we were visiting her in Russia, playing a show.

[music] [music] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [music] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [music] [singing in foreign language] [music] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [music] [singing in foreign language] [music] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] >> Chris Goldsmith: Beat Antique is more than just a band.

It's a really performance collective that includes groups of musicians interacting with dancers and even belly dancers.

[music] >> male: Belly Up, let's get our hands up in the air right here, yeah, come on, get 'em up.

We're going to do a little chant.

It goes like this, think you know it, here it comes: Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Wait for it, wait for it, here it comes, here it comes right here, what?

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Here it comes, a little loud, a little louder, what?

>> crowd: Hey, hey, hey, hey.

>> male: That's right, we got Pixie up here.

She can't hear you, she can't hear you, what?

>> crowd: Hey, hey, hey, hey.

>> male: Yeah, c'mon a little louder, you go louder, what, what, what?

>> crowd: Hey, hey, hey, hey.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> male: Makes some noise.

[music] [music] [music] >> Tommy: I'd say some of the tracks that we'll playing tonight, like, there's one called, "Vesper Star," that features Alam Khan playing sarod, which is totally beautiful when Zoe dances to it.

And she does a feather fan dance that's absolutely beautiful.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Tommy: We're from Oakland, California.

That's where we've been based for the entirety of our career.

I've lived there for almost 20 years now.

And David and Zoe, we all met there.

Me and Zoe were in a band before this called the Yard Dogs Road Show.

And that was like a circus, sideshow, rock band, burlesque, crazy, fun time to have a thing with, like, thirteen people.

It was awesome, it was super fun.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Tommy: At first, one of the things was, you know, the west coast-based culture, just the festivals and the parties and the fun times we're all having.

We wanted our music to fit into that world, because that's what we were in the process of being involved in.

[music] [music] [music] [music] >> male: Psycho Tommy on the drums right there.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Tommy: We're reproduce each track for a live setting by taking out some of the melodic instruments, some of the drum sets stuff.

'Cause I'll be playing that live.

And the things that we're going to take from the track are things that we're gonna then reproduce live on stage, so there's like the electronic sounds and the squishes and the [whooshing noises] you know, and the stuff like that.

It stays in the track, because it's part of the song.

It's part of the flow of the track.

We play to a click, which is incredible, because as a drummer and as a instrumentalists, you can be completely free as opposed to the idea of you're stuck to a thing.

It's like, no, I can actually, like, open up more, you know, playing to tracks and playing to a click than I ever could as a drummer without that.

[music] >> male: We'd like to bring Calamity Sam to the stage.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Tommy: Part of the DJ culture and part of the band culture have come together and merged into worlds of the unknown.

You know, it's acceptable to stand in front of your computer and play people music that they've never heard before.

And you know, have a blast.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> male: Make some noise.

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Tommy: Part of the DJ culture and part of the band culture have come together and merged into worlds of the unknown.

You know, it's acceptable to stand in front of your computer and play people music that they've never heard before.

And you know, have a blast there, you know.

And just as accepted as it is to go to a full live band show.

We're not either, we're both.

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