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Justin Carter

100 listings in 3 named rooms, over the last three years · 2 ahead · 703 following on RA

also plays Berlin — 3 nights

His practices of space making and music are intertwined, aligning to create moments for community and catharsis. Among his tools are turntables, his voice and records that create either vast, detailed scenes in the mind, the deep urge to move the body, or both.

In his early teens, Justin started playing guitar and spending his nights at underground shows at makeshift venues in his small town in the southwest of Virginia. Arriving in NYC in the late 90s, he started performing at and organizing events in the early Brooklyn DIY scene, starting to DJ in 2003.

He soon became a resident DJ, booking person and the label manager at Nublu and the Music Director and a resident DJ at APT, two of the last bastions of underground dance music in the wake of 9/11 and the 90s culture wars.

Between 2009 and 2011, Justin and fellow DJ Eamon Harkin started Mister Saturday Night and Mister Sunday, parties that happened mostly in friends’ loft spaces and back yards. In 2015, spurred by a need for more permanent space for their own parties as well as a desire to create space for the larger nightlife community, they opened Nowadays.

The rest of it — two more paragraphs

Justin runs and regularly performs at a series called Planetarium, an event where people bring pillows, blankets and sleeping bags, lie in silence and listen deeply to music. He also co-owns Mister Saturday Night Records, a label that's released music and mixes by Suso Saiz, Esteban Adame, CCL, Anthony Naples, Musclecars, Avalon Emerson, Rena Anakwe and Floating Points.

As a musician, Justin has released an album of solo material called "The Leaves Fall" (2017) as well as collaborative EPs with The Twilite Tone and Move D. He also performed in the Chorus of Poets conducted by the late downtown experimental jazz musician Butch Morris.

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

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Records out on Electric Minds and Mister Saturday Night Records. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

102 listings across 99 nights — three dates carry more than one listing, and all of them are here.

2026

2025 — 35 listings
2024 — 29 nights
2023 — 16 nights

Their rooms

One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.

Aug 2023Jan 2027
  • Nowadaysa standing night, most Sundays · Aug 2023 – Oct 202673 nights

Once each: 3 Dollar Bill and Bossa Nova Civic Club. 24 of the 102 listings never named a room, and are not counted as one.

Who they play with

Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.

  • Eamon HarkinNowadays ×56, an unnamed room ×3 · Aug 2023 – Nov 2026 · together again Sun 1 Nov59 nights
  • Rena Anakwean unnamed room ×6 · May 2024 – Apr 20266 nights
  • Chee Shimizuan unnamed room ×4, Nowadays ×2 · Dec 2023 – Jan 20265 nights
  • Zach Cowiean unnamed room ×3, Nowadays ×2 · Nov 2023 – Jan 20265 nights
  • Carlos Niñoan unnamed room ×4 · Mar 2025 – Apr 20264 nights
  • Aurora HalalNowadays ×3 · Oct 2023 – Oct 20263 nights
  • ToribioNowadays ×3 · Jul 2025 – Mar 20263 nights
  • Sarah Davachian unnamed room ×3 · Apr 20253 nights
17 more, 2 nights each
  • AmaliahNowadays ×2 · Jul 2024 – Mar 20262 nights
  • Or:laNowadays ×2 · Jan 2025 – Mar 20262 nights
  • PowderNowadays ×2 · Jan 2025 – Jan 20262 nights
  • Analog SoulNowadays ×2 · Jan 2024 – Dec 20252 nights
  • Avalon EmersonNowadays ×2 · Jan 2024 – Dec 20252 nights
  • Gee Deean unnamed room ×2 · Dec 20252 nights
  • Infinity Machinean unnamed room ×2 · Dec 20252 nights
  • Juan Macleanan unnamed room ×2 · Dec 20252 nights
  • Kfeelzan unnamed room ×2 · Dec 2024 – Dec 20252 nights
  • Purelinkan unnamed room ×2 · Nov 20252 nights
  • JADALAREIGNNowadays ×2 · Dec 2024 – Nov 20252 nights
  • Mark Francis3 Dollar Bill ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Mar 2025 – Jul 20252 nights
  • Timmy Regisford3 Dollar Bill ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Apr 2024 – Mar 20252 nights
  • Chris Ryan Williamsan unnamed room ×2 · Jan 20252 nights
  • Carlos SouffrontNowadays ×2 · Mar 2024 – Dec 20242 nights
  • Jacky SommerBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Jun 2024 – Nov 20242 nights
  • TTNowadays ×2 · Sep 2023 – Jul 20242 nights

On record

5 more, back to 2010

Every one of these resolves on Discogs; the ones that do not are not printed. What Discogs files them under is not printed either — its label column carries mix series as if they were imprints.

The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. The records are Discogs'. Nothing on this page was written for it.