‘Deep Space Presents Ashley Beedle, Francois K. & Small Change’

Fresh off yesterday’s gig at Sunday Best, Ashley Beedle drops by the city’s most diversely deep party to visit its longtime master, Francois K. The Barbadian Brit has worked in a variety of styles—Bob Marley mash-ups, ’80s acid, X-Press 2’s club tracks—but some of Beedle’s greatest work has been done in delivering disco-inflected, US-style house as part of Black Science Orchestra. With the extensive funk crates of local $mall ¢hange.

Mon., July 26, 10 p.m., 2010

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