http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10642153&rws=%2Fclaude-vonstroke%2Fmusic-videos.rssWhen San Francisco's Barclay Crenshaw isn't busy running dirtybird, one of the city's key underground house labels, he's ruffling feathers on the dancefloor as Claude VonStroke, a purveyor of lascivious, left-of-center funk. His first release, 2005's "Deep Throat," put a perverse spin on the prickly minimalism then coming out of Berlin: the trademark clicking sound came from Crenshaw's own vocal chords, slowed to a crawl. Focusing their efforts on a European public, VonStroke and dirtybird jumped from underdogs to hometown heroes when the Bay Area got wind of their successes in Berlin's dirtiest discos. After VonStroke's 2006 debut album, <I>Beware of the Bird</I>, he continued to release a slew of almost criminally catchy hits, including "The Whistler" and "Who's Afraid of Detroit?" After recording a mix for London's vaunted Fabric club, he followed up with his second album, <I>Bird Brain</I>, in late 2009. - Philip SherburneTech-Houseen720Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:33:00 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10642153&rws=%2Fclaude-vonstroke%2Fmusic-videos.rss When San Francisco's Barclay Crenshaw isn't busy running dirtybird, one of the city's key underground house labels, he's ruffling feathers on the dancefloor as Claude VonStroke, a purveyor of lascivious, left-of-center funk. His first release, 2005's "Deep Throat," put a perverse spin on the prickly minimalism then coming out of Berlin: the trademark clicking sound came from Crenshaw's own vocal chords, slowed to a crawl. Focusing their efforts on a European public, VonStroke and dirtybird jumped from underdogs to hometown heroes when the Bay Area got wind of their successes in Berlin's dirtiest discos. After VonStroke's 2006 debut album, <I>Beware of the Bird</I>, he continued to release a slew of almost criminally catchy hits, including "The Whistler" and "Who's Afraid of Detroit?" After recording a mix for London's vaunted Fabric club, he followed up with his second album, <I>Bird Brain</I>, in late 2009. - Philip Sherburne