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JKriv

56 listings in 22 named rooms, over the last three years · 1,911 following on RA

JKriv is a Brooklyn-based producer, DJ, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and label owner. With a professional musical career stretching nearly 2 decades, J has gained serious attention recently for his original productions and inspired DJ sets, and was called “an innovator of the scene” by Defected Records boss Simon Dunmore. It’s a title he has rightly earned, with releases and remixes on Joey Negro’s Z Records, Soundway Records, his own label Razor-N-Tape, among many others, plus massive new singles and remixes for Glitterbox.

J brings a seasoned musicality to everything he touches, whether original productions, remixes or reworks and re-edits. A trained musician, his talent for dazzling live instrumentation is evident in original disco productions like his recent Traxsource #1 Soul/ Funk/Disco track Not That Serious (Big Love), Vertigo (Z Records) and Yo Love (Glitterbox). As a studio musician he has recorded bass, guitar, and/or written string & horn arrangements for Dimitri From Paris, Horse Meat Disco feat. Kathy Sledge, and as the producer of the sprawling Studio 54 Music: Night Magic Vol. 1 project, J reimagined disco classics with brand-new all-live studio recordings, translated through his modern club approach, garnering nearly 1.5 million plays for the lead single Souvenirs. J has a slew of new music forthcoming later this year and into 2022, including a release Dam Swindle’s Heist Recordings, Razor-N-Tape, and Glitterbox.

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A purveyor of all things outer-national, JKriv has nurtured a long-standing love affair with the music of Brazil which he realized through his 2017 Férias ’77 LP compilation of reworks on Razor-N- Tape, his 2019 Aguaxirê EP on Detroit’s Rocksteady Disco, and multiple releases on Brazilian Mareh Festival’s label Barefoot Beats. He has remixed African artists for renowned labels Soundway and Africa Seven, and 80s French pop for label Pardonnez-Nous, and both classic and current Afro/Latin sounds for Razor-N-Tape. His music has garnered support from all quarters of club and radio DJs, such as Derrick Carter, Disclosure, Andrew Weatherall, Louie Vega, Kenny Dope, Mark Farina, BBC Radio 1’s Pete Tong and BB6’s Craig Charles, among many others.

Like his productions, JKriv’s DJ sets showcase his deep and diverse taste, weaving eclectic disco, house, and offbeat selections together seamlessly, always with an ear for groove and harmony, and an eye to the dance floor. As a founding member and resident DJ of Hot Honey Sundays, JKriv helped lead the most buzz-worthy new party of Brooklyn’s incredible comeback summer of 2021, growing a 2000+ devoted weekly following of dancers and a formidable social media presence. J has performed live and DJ’d in over 30 countries and in nearly every state in the continental US, sharing bills with Todd Terje, Tony Humphries, Dimitri From Paris, Joey Negro, and made his smashing debut at the Defected Croatia festival this past summer.

A foundational member of the live disco band Escort, J has co-written/produced songs, and toured as bassist/guitarist with the group at Coachella, Sasquatch Festival, Electric Forest and innumerable club gigs around the world, as well as a original founding member and former bass player for the groundbreaking live-house group Tortured Soul. JKriv’s talents as a tastemaker extend beyond the studio and DJ booth, as co-owner of respected Brooklyn record label Razor-N-Tape. RNT now boasts a nearly 100-release-deep catalog that has garnered support and spins from some of the biggest names in modern club and radio, and is one of the most respected and consistent current independent dance music labels.

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Records out on Z Records, Disco Deviance, Discovery Recordings, Razor-N-Tape, Deep&Disco Recordings, Soundway Records, Heist Recordings, Classic Music Company, Glitterbox and Nocturnal Hazard. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

2026

2025 — 19 nights
2024 — 16 nights
2023 — 13 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
2 more rooms they have played twice or more

Once each: Roberta's, Dead Letter No. 9, MAD Radio NYC, Xanadu, Public Roof, Earthly Delights, Good Bar, Outer Heaven, House of Yes, The Meadows, Jupiter Disco and The Sultan Room. Two of the 56 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.

  • Aaron DaeGood Room ×5, public records ×5, and 5 more rooms · Sep 2023 – Oct 202615 nights
  • DisgonutsGood Room ×5, and 3 more rooms · Oct 2023 – May 20269 nights
  • Peter Matsonpublic records ×5, and 2 more rooms · Nov 2023 – Oct 20267 nights
  • Jason Lindnerpublic records ×4, Good Room ×2 · Feb 2024 – Oct 20266 nights
  • Domenicapublic records ×4, Dead Letter No. 9 ×1 · Apr 2024 – Oct 20265 nights
  • Jim Orsopublic records ×4 · Feb 2024 – Oct 20264 nights
  • Miss Aliciaacross four rooms · Sep 2023 – Oct 20264 nights
  • Olatunji Ojorepublic records ×4 · Feb 2024 – Oct 20264 nights
14 more, 2 to 4 nights each
  • Underground Systemacross four rooms · Jan 2025 – Jul 20254 nights
  • Brandon Markell Holmespublic records ×3 · Feb 2024 – Oct 20263 nights
  • Keytaropublic records ×3 · Feb 2024 – Oct 20263 nights
  • Miss GypsyEarthly Delights ×1, Good Room ×1, and 1 more room · Mar 2025 – Oct 20263 nights
  • beewackpublic records ×2, Good Room ×1 · Oct 2023 – Sep 20253 nights
  • The Phenomenal Handclap BandGood Room ×2, public records ×1 · Mar 2024 – Apr 20253 nights
  • Razor-N-TapeElsewhere ×1, public records ×1, and 1 more room · Sep 2023 – Apr 20243 nights
  • Gaspar Munizan unnamed room ×1, H0L0 ×1 · Apr 2024 – May 20262 nights
  • Sasha Crushan unnamed room ×1, public records ×1 · Apr 2025 – May 20262 nights
  • Sunny Cheebapublic records ×2 · Jun 2024 – Dec 20252 nights
  • Stuart Bogiepublic records ×2 · Feb 2024 – Oct 20242 nights
  • DaisybelleJolene Sound Room Brooklyn ×1, Le Bain ×1 · Aug 2023 – Sep 20242 nights
  • MegatronicGood Room ×1, public records ×1 · Apr 2024 – Sep 20242 nights
  • Motel ClubGood Room ×1, Jupiter Disco ×1 · Sep 2023 – Oct 20232 nights

On record

57 of the 99 are remixes.

91 more, back to 2011

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.