STS9.If you go• What: STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9)• When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29• Where: Track 29, 1400 Market St.• Admission: $27.50 in advance, $30 day of• Phone: 423-521-2929• Venue website: track29.co• Artist website: sts9.comDiscography• 1999: “Interplanetary Escape Vehicle,” “Sector 9 – The Brown Album” (live)• 2000: “Offered Schematics Suggesting Peace”• 2002: “Seasons 1” (live)• 2003: “Live at Home”• 2005: “Artifact”• 2008: “Peaceblaster”• 2009: “Ad Explorata”• 2010: “Axe the Cables”• 2011: “When the Dust Settles””They paved the road for acts like Bassnectar, Pretty Lights and Big Gigantic. I’m stoked to see them coming to Chattanooga as this is a first.”- local STS9 fan Justin Casey
In most cases, the phrase “see a band play” is a bit of a misnomer. In the case of electronic gurus STS9, however, fans say the experience is distinctly audiovisual.
“They are one of the reasons that I became a lighting designer,” says Justin Casey, an STS9 fan and production manager at Chattanooga-based entertainment production company Solid Rock Live.
“[STS9 lighting designer] Saxton Waller has been a huge influence in my career,” he adds. “He’s always pushing the technology and us[ing] the latest gear with their light shows. I have traveled around the country to just see their light shows. They are always inspiring.”
STS9 – shorthand for Sound Tribe Sector 9 – formed in Atlanta in the late ’90s and currently boasts a five-man lineup including Hunter Brown (guitar/sequences), Jeffree Lerner (percussion), David Phipps (keyboards/synth), Zach Velmer (drums) and Alana Rocklin (bass).