Event Description: The Culture of Sound takes over Hotel Crocodile for a night of deep grooves, tribal percussion, and peak-time energy across Afro & Latin House.
Opening the night, Toña Zubia sets the tone with hypnotic rhythms and organic textures. Then DRIIAN & EDDEL go back-to-back, weaving melodic tension and big-room momentum. Finishing strong, our headliner Mr. Pauer drives the dance floor with his signature blend of Latin beats and electronic power with live percussion.
Doors: 7:00 PM
21+
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Mr. Pauer: Mr. Pauer (Toto González) is a pioneer in fusing traditional Latinx genres with electronic music. A Latin Grammy nominee for Best Alternative Album, he has collaborated with artists such as Diplo, Chucky73, Daddy Yankee, RedOne, French Montana, and Los Amigos Invisibles. His music has reached major stages including EDC Mexico, Chicago’s World Music Festival, Central Park SummerStage, the Latin Grammys, and Billboard Music Week, with international appearances across Colombia, Germany, Canada, Peru, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and much of Central America. He is the official DJ for the Latin Grammys.
DRIIAN & EDDEL: Venezuelan-born, Seattle-based duo behind the city’s viral Coffee Rave, blending organic Afro-Latin house and live percussion into high-energy, story-driven sets.
DJ Toña: mixing an experimental sound bath from around the world!
Night By Design: Audrey, who goes by Night by design, is a photographer and mixed media artist born and based in Seattle, known for her creative shoots and distinctive visual style. With a fresh perspective and a passion for storytelling, Audrey brings a unique edge to every project—blending technical skill with artistic intuition to deliver striking, original imagery.
Daniela Merav: As someone who thinks without an internal monologue, Daniela finds art to be the best form of communication and reflective of their own personal life; never knowing what it will become, but driven forward by something felt. She experiments with different materials while creating multi-medium pieces that seemingly are like surrealism and magical realism storytelling combined, mixing painting with drawing, and finalizing them with collage elements. Recently they've used a lot of glitter, pencil shavings, recycled materials, instant coffee, gesso, acrylic paints, and pastel pencils.
William Nuʻutupu Giles (he/they): is an afakasi Samoan Poet & Tarot Reader from Honolulu. They are an International Poetry Slam Champ, Kundiman Fellow, & First Wave Scholar who has taught creative writing throughout Oceania including: Aotearoa, Papua New Guinea, & Guåhan. They use Tarot Mucha and offer readings to encourage an artistic space to reflect, express, & process the world’s wonders. William composes and prints poems live, using a vintage Smith-Corona typewriter. These works are conversational, poetic portraits that use shared inspiration. He believes that poetry should not be locked in a distant tower, reserved for academics and scholars. A good poem should reflect the small and magnificent things we see in our daily lives. “Poetry is not a luxury.” Take a page home with you.
Hi, I’m Cass, or LysergicFemme. I am a Seattle-based visual artist who primarily works with oil and acrylic paints. My work centers around transcendent or out of body experiences, conceptually and from personal experience. My works shift between abstraction and representation, inviting the viewer to form their own interpretation and response as they connect with the piece. Each work is an expression of concepts that cannot be explained with plain words.