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Second Contact

43 listings in 17 named rooms, over the last three years · 3 ahead

also plays Berlin — 1 night

Second Contact is a New York City–based DJ and collaborator whose driving force behind the decks feels like seduction through control. His practice lives in the charged space between discipline and abandon, shaped by a shared dialogue and individual instinct. Moving fluidly between downtempo, dark wave, EBM, and progressive trance, his sets unfold in long, deliberate arcs that privilege tension, texture, and trust.

Rather than overwhelm a room, Second Contact cultivates atmosphere. His selections linger, tease, and breathe, inviting dancers inward while leaving space for unpredictability. This same sensibility extends beyond the decks, ruled by a deep desire to cultivate community, draw inspiration from the unlikeliest of places, and build something from nothing through exchange rather than ego. His approach favors intimacy over spectacle and curiosity over dominance; his DJ sets result in a physical, quietly sinister, and visceral atmosphere designed not to command attention but to hold space and engage in play.

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Stepping away from any spectacle, Second Contact plays with the uninhibited, open-minded queerdos and freaks; an intimate tremble that demands total surrender from those who’d rather be lost in the secret than found in the light.

Second Contact believes the most powerful moments on a dance floor come from anticipation. His approach is rooted in restraint, timing, and emotional intelligence, letting desire accumulate before release. His sets ask for patience and, in turn, reward surrender; slowly, but surely, creating spaces where dancers feel held, challenged, and quietly undone.

Over the past few years, Second Contact has become a familiar presence in New York City’s most respected rooms, including Nowadays, Mansions, Nightmoves, Bossa Nova Civic Club, and Good Room.

Internationally, his sound has carried to adventurous and discerning dance floors across Europe and beyond, including Sameheads, Salon des Amateurs, Post Bar, as well as scenes in Tbilisi, Georgia and Mexico City, where he operates in the high-stakes gap between discipline and abandon for the those who celebrate openness and risk and welcome the pursuit of creativity and expression instead of the easily digestible and familiar.

As Honey Trap mainstay and resident, he shapes the cadence with a patient hand whether setting the tone at the opening doors or driving the final hours at close. His sound at Honey Trap leans into the series’ core–synth lust, hot tracks–bringing the dancefloor into a place of shared trust and communal rapture.

Second Contact’s long-form sensibility extends naturally into radio with his guest mixes appearing on well-regarded The Lot Radio, Kiosk Radio, and Mutant Radio.

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The nights

46 listings across 45 nights — one date in December 2023 carries two listings, and both are here.

2026

2025 — 17 nights
2024 — 8 nights
2023 — 6 listings

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
3 more rooms they have played twice or more

Once each: feedbk, La Plaza Cultural, Danger Danger, public records, Jupiter Disco and Million Goods. Five of the 46 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.

  • Amelia Holtacross 14 rooms · Aug 2023 – Dec 2026 · together again Fri 18 Dec26 nights
  • 98dotsacross five rooms · Oct 2023 – Dec 20255 nights
  • Miles MercerSignal ×2, and 2 more rooms · Nov 2025 – Aug 20264 nights
  • Elena Colombiacross four rooms · Jun 2024 – May 20254 nights
  • SimicSignal ×2, Good Room ×1 · Mar 2026 – Aug 20263 nights
  • Kuriloan unnamed room ×1, Bossa Nova Civic Club ×1, and 1 more room · May 2024 – Nov 20253 nights
  • Meilgaardenan unnamed room ×1, feedbk ×1 · Sep 2025 – Oct 20262 nights
  • Rose KourtsGood Room ×1, Signal ×1 · Mar 2026 – Aug 20262 nights
3 more, 2 nights each
  • KlipdaggaJupiter Disco ×1, Xpizza ×1 · Dec 2023 – Jun 20252 nights
  • Justin StraussHoney's ×1, Night Club 101 ×1 · Feb 2025 – May 20252 nights
  • Mika OkiBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Xpizza ×1 · Aug 20232 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.