
DAY/DEM
During their university years, DAY/DEM spearheaded DIY music events in Gainesville, FL, revitalizing the electronic music scene in the north Florida town. By throwing renegade events in storage units, record stores, and detached garages, the artist’s impact reverberated heavily throughout the community. Gatherings like these are where their love for the craft of music curation first sprouted as they turned these local spaces into sanctuaries for a tribe of music lovers.
The electro savant now thrives in the unknown, wielding the power of selection and taste to transform dance floors at venues like Nowadays, Paragon, and Mansions in New York City, continuously molding their creative identity rooted in acid, dub techno, minimal and house. Their emotive presence aligns powerfully with artists they’ve opened for such as Dutch techno experimentalist Spekki Webu of Mirror Zone and Belgian pathfinder Rey Colino behind Kalahari Oyster Cult. Their musical palette is further revealed through productions via Compost Discs, Starry Records, and various self-releases.
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DAY/DEM is dynamic, intuitive, and creatively restless, quickly becoming a name that resonates far beyond the decks.
Words by Dazion Prosser
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
The nights
2026
- Sun 30 AugBossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 6th night · Candela
- Sat 15 AugParagontheir 3rd night
- Sat 11 JulParagontheir 2nd night
- Fri 26 JunBossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 5th night · The Sapphic Party
- Sat 20 JunNowadaysfirst time
- Fri 19 JunMood Ringfirst time · Malcolm XL
- Fri 27 MarBossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 4th night · DJ Sour
2025 — 7 nights
- Fri 19 Sep 2025Paragonfirst time
- Sat 23 Aug 2025Bossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 3rd night
- Sat 28 Jun 2025Mansionsfirst time · Mansions Bar
- Fri 27 Jun 2025Bossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 2nd night · The Sapphic Party
- Wed 11 Jun 2025Pianostheir 2nd night · DAY/DEM
- Wed 7 May 2025Pianosfirst time
- Mon 17 Feb 2025Bossa Nova Civic Clubfirst time · The Sapphic Party
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.
- Bossa Nova Civic ClubFeb 2025 – Aug 20266 nights
- ParagonSep 2025 – Aug 20263 nights
- PianosMay 2025 – Jun 20252 nights
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.
- Madre GuíaBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Pianos ×1 · Feb 2025 – May 20252 nights
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.