Boiler Room and iconic cult lifestyle brand Places+Faces are forming the latest power duo. Once a Tumblr blog photographing the biggest names in hip-hop, now a cultural phenomenan, a Places+Faces collab means you’re getting nothing but the best. Expect performances from the most exciting fresh artists in modern hip-hop, certified legends AND big DJs.
The Gardens of Babylon is a global family that co-creates mythical events around the world. Their magical NYC premier will feature performances from Red Axes, Kerala Dust, KMLN, Wild Dark, Carlita, and Gabriel Belmudes, plus meditations, ceremonies, a Market of Curiosities, and much more.
BASEMENT, a brand new venue, launched in May 2019 underneath the main hall of Knockdown Center. The newly designed and literally underground room is New York City’s new home for top and up-and-coming techno talent from all over the world.
Artists to play the venue include Rebekah, Answer Code Request, Aurora Halal, DJ Stingray, DVS1, Etapp Kyle, Fiedel, Function, Headless Horseman, Juan Atkins, Juana, Juliana Huxtable, Justin Cudmore, Katie Rex, L.Sangre, Luke Slater, Newa, Silent Servant, Somewhen, Steffi, Tin Man, Tommy Four Seven, Vatican Shadow, Veronica Vasicka, Volvox, and Vril, live sets from FJAAK, O/H, and Orphx, plus the NYC debuts of Fabrizio Lapiana, 999999999, SHDW & Obscure Shape, and Shlømo.
BASEMENT will also host special events from Quo Vadis and STAUB, the Berghain 09 | Vatican Shadow Mix Release Party, Horse Meat Disco’s NYC Pride, Bassiani, FIST and will be the new home to the Wrecked party series. Additionally, BASEMENT will host various workshops with performing artists, and release podcasts from those playing the space with details to be released soon.
Keeping with a European club tradition, BASEMENT features a state-of-the-art, Funktion-One sound system, and a custom lighting rig throughout the venue. All events are 21+, and attendees will be required to adhere to a set of house rules, including no photo/video, and a safer space policy.
For more information and tickets to all events, visit the BASEMENT WEBSITE.
Knockdown Center welcomes back techno-queen Nina Kraviz and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy for a supercharged night of techno and dance music with support from Justin Cudmore.
In the Ready Room:
Museum Of Love (DJ Set)
Shit Robot
In Texas:
Fabe
Mike Huckaby
A night of “immersive sonic experimentation” with modular synth alchemists Pita and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe playing on the kind of soundsystem they deserve.
PITA
An alias of Peter Rehberg, Pita has been an outlet for the Vienna-based artist to explore experimental niches in electro-acoustic sounds steeped in industrial, noise and left-leaning techno. His oeuvre spans two decades of boundary-pushing music, and has seen Rehberg collaborate with the likes of Jim O’Rourke, Fennesz, Marcus Schmickler and Stephen O’Malley. Rehberg is also the founder of the seminal pioneering Editions Mego label and family of sub-labels, which needs no introduction, and he’s released some of the most important albums from the electronic avant-garde since 2006 via this platform. Performing solo as Pita with his modular synthesis setup, we can expect the unexpected as sounds are pitted against each other in tensile, unconventional and beautiful ways.
ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is an acclaimed and adventurous artist and composer who primarily works with voice and modular synthesizer for sound in the realm of spontaneous music. He has contributed to, and collaborated on, a dizzying amount of projects in the contemporary classical and electronic music world for more than a decade, both in Brooklyn where he’s based and internationally. His performances often invoke trancelike states as he uses his voice and analogue modular synthesis in tandem, pushing each instrument to its fullest depth of expression.
JANUARY HUNT
Artist, sound engineer, writer and producer January Hunt combines her many talents, utilizing noise and drone to convey life experience, emotions and identity musings amongst other things. We are excited to have her back on another Quo Vadis lineup, having performed for us last year as New Castrati; this time opening the room with an intense, noise-driven foray into body-centric musings, transition and malleability.
SOUQ Festival returns to NYC for a 2-day festival!
⏀ “Life passes like a mysterious caravan, take from it its moment of joy”
Day 1
❍ – OASIS Stage: Feathered Sun (Live), O/Y (Live), Söra, Special Guest
❍ – SOUQ Stage: Viken Arman (Live), Iorie (Live), CHAIM
❍ – AKUMANDRA Stage: Spaniol, Mateo, Eli + Special Guest (live)
Day 2
❍ – OASIS Stage: Baris K, Acid Arab, Viken Arman, Oceanvs Orientalis
❍ – MYSTERIES & HAPPENINGS: Fortune tellers & magical potions, Body Painting & Henna Tattoos, Art installation & Visual Mappings, Circus acts & performers seen all around
❍ – MARKETPLACE & VENDORS: TBA
♦ Ṩ ♦ ounds like the imaginary souk in your head
♦ O ♦ n all the charming melodies and emotions
♦ U ♦ nravelling your craziest dreams
♦ Ϙ ♦ uestioning the red light of the horizon
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JWP Presents Horse Meat Disco New York
New York WorldPride 2019
WorldPride Weekend
Innervisions will hold its first US event of the year in none other than the city that never sleeps, New York.
Dixon and Âme will be joined by some of the most exciting names in underground dance music: critically-acclaimed DJ Koze, fast-rising star Trikk and French talent, Jennifer Cardini.
Knockdown Center in Queens, a former factory with over a century of history and now transformed into an innovative arts and performance space, will play host to Innervisions for 8 hours of non stop music and dancing.
For more information about Innervisions:
www.facebook.com/innercityvisions
www.instagram.com/Innervisions_Official
