Nativesun
His eclectic and versatile knowledge of club music and reputation of blending House, Techno, Jersey, Baltimore Club, UK Funky, Footwork, Amapiano, and Jungle/Drum & Bass in the same set have led to performances at Nowadays and Dweller Fest while collaborating with a buffet of musicians including Kelela, DJ Lag, Ari Lennox and more.
In 2021, Nativesun launched the Black Rave Culture project with fellow D.C. friends Amal and James Bangura, which led to two critically-acclaimed album releases and appearances at Sustain Release, Slingshot Festival North Carolina and Boiler Room D.C. all in the same year. As a DJ known to be in multiple places at once, Nativesun remains on a mission to bring communities together, move bodies and redefine club music wherever he is.
"If there’s a reason you can hear how fluidly one of DMV’s favorite native sons, [Nativesun], moves from style to style on the mixer and the beats, it’s because he long ago internalized the diversity of local D.C. music culture." - Afropunk
The rest of it — two more paragraphs
"Call it an edit, a remix, a refix, whatever fits: When a DJ chops a song into bits just to reassemble it, you’re being offered a window into how this person hears the world, or maybe even a glimpse of their consciousness. In [Nativesun]’s busy head space, things feel vast, intimate, metaphysical and multidirectional. Machine rhythms crumple like gum wrappers and sheets of corrugated steel. Human voices blare like angel choirs and car alarms. The beats tend to punch, the melodies tend to tickle, but everything keeps changing position, including your body parts, and that’s called dancing." - The Washington Post
"Nativesun is one-third of Black Rave Culture, who put out a varied, excellent full-length on HAUS of ALTR earlier this year." - Resident Advisor
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Records out on Big Dada and HAUS of ALTR. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Sat 19 SepElsewherefirst time
- Sat 27 JunFriends & Loverstheir 5th night · QUENCH NYC
2025 — 4 nights
- Sat 8 Nov 2025SILOfirst time · DESCENDANTS
- Sun 27 Jul 2025Bossa Nova Civic Clubfirst time
- Wed 18 Jun 2025Le Bainfirst time · Le Bain at The Standard
- Sun 4 May 2025Mansionsfirst time · Mansions Bar
2024 — 5 nights
- Sat 2 Nov 2024Friends & Loverstheir 4th night
- Sun 16 Jun 2024public recordsfirst time
- Sat 30 Mar 2024Friends & Loverstheir 3rd night
- Sat 10 Feb 2024Black Flamingofirst time
- Sat 27 Jan 2024Friends & Loverstheir 2nd night
2023 — 2 nights
- Sat 7 Oct 2023Friends & Loversfirst time
- Thu 24 Aug 2023Nowadaysfirst time
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.
- Friends & LoversOct 2023 – Jun 20265 nights
Once each: Elsewhere, SILO, Bossa Nova Civic Club, Le Bain, Mansions, public records, Black Flamingo and Nowadays.
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.
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.