Liquid Liquid’s Salvatore Principato

Screw the Beatles, Zep and those Sonic Youth whippersnappers—Liquid Liquid is one of the most influential bands of all time. The combo that your Clubs section has branded “The In-House Dance Band of the No Wave Generation” spent the early ’80s redefining what dance music was, taking disco and funk’s bass-and-drums backbone and twisting it into new shapes, inserting plenty of dub technique and general weirdness into the dance-floor formula. Plus, the combo’s signature tune, “Cavern,” has one of the most recognizable basslines of all time. In the last few years, the quartet of Salvatore Principato, Richard McGuire, Scott Hartley and Dennis Young has reformed on a part-time basis for a series of megagigs (are new tracks on the way?); the foursome plays Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park on Saturday 8, where it’ll be sharing a bill with Rhys Chatham and his phalanx of guitarists. In addition to his band duties—namely, contributing percussion and otherworldly vocals—Principato is a DJ of note; here’s a mix he compiled for France’s Campus Paris website (radiocampusparis.org) this past May.

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