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Ryan Smith

38 listings in 2 named rooms, over the last three years · 344 following on RA

Ryan started his ongoing love affair with dancing and dance clubs at a young age. But it wasn’t until moving to New York in 2006 that he took his love of the music in the direction of DJing and promoting. Noting that many of the city’s gay dance clubs were playing surprisingly homogenous music, Ryan was inspired to push that envelope. Combining forces with DJ Ron Like Hell, Ryan started DJing at “Rocket,” a party night they collaborated on at Hose in the East Village that became popular for its distinctive mix of classic and forward-thinking house and disco. Later he co-conceived and DJ’d the Soffitta70 parties at the Public Assembly Loft in Williamsburg, combining house and techno music with psychedelic art, and drawing a vibrant and eclectic young dance crowd. The sound Ryan and Ron created for these parties caught the attention of Catz ‘n Dogz, and Electronic Music Bears, and Honey Soundsystem leading to the duo's tailoring exclusive podcasts for all of them.

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Ryan’s penchant for soulful rhythms with a decidedly forward edge soon brought him DJ gigs in San Francisco (with Honey Soundsystem), DC at U Street Music Hall, in London (Dalston Superstore with the legendary Optimo and Vogue Fabrics with Severino, and Club Butt w/ Butt Magazine and Boris of Berghain), and in Berlin (Cocktail D’amore) as well as one of New York’s most popular dance clubs and parties, from the main floor of the legendary Saint At Large Black Party to Santos Party House and nights such as the legendary Bunker, the cutting-edge techno night in Brooklyn.

As a DJ, Ryan continues pushing the dance music envelope with sweat-inducing rhythms at his latest ventures, “Wrecked,” at National Underground in New York. He’s also expanding his creative parameters as one of the founding partners of Discaire, a queer-run record label based out of NYC, San Francisco and London and booking some of the worlds most sought after underground DJ’s. And of course he keeps pushing the hip-moving musical parameters of New York’s dance clubs!

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Records out on Central Dogma Records. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

2026

2025 — 13 nights
2024 — 10 nights
2023 — 5 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
  • BASEMENTa standing night, most Saturdays · Aug 2023 – Oct 202637 nights

Once each: Knockdown Center.

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.

  • Ron Like HellBASEMENT ×36 · Aug 2023 – Oct 202636 nights
  • Day ThiefBASEMENT ×3 · Sep 2024 – Apr 20263 nights
  • T.WanBASEMENT ×2 · Oct 2025 – Oct 20262 nights
  • Sterling Juan DiazBASEMENT ×2 · May 2025 – Aug 20262 nights
  • Jason KendigBASEMENT ×2 · Feb 2025 – Jul 20262 nights
  • Mary YuzovskayaBASEMENT ×2 · May 2024 – Jun 20262 nights
  • ScotiaBASEMENT ×2 · Aug 2024 – Jun 20262 nights
  • Ne/Re/ABASEMENT ×2 · May 2024 – Feb 20262 nights
9 more, 2 nights each
  • Paul FleetwoodBASEMENT ×2 · Dec 2024 – Feb 20262 nights
  • CoraBASEMENT ×2 · Apr 2025 – Nov 20252 nights
  • Kilopatrah JonesBASEMENT ×2 · Apr 2024 – Sep 20252 nights
  • Clarisa KimskiiBASEMENT ×2 · Jul 2024 – Aug 20252 nights
  • LeonceBASEMENT ×2 · Apr 2024 – Aug 20252 nights
  • JuanaBASEMENT ×2 · Dec 2023 – Jun 20252 nights
  • LakutiBASEMENT ×2 · May 2024 – Jun 20252 nights
  • Tama SumoBASEMENT ×2 · May 2024 – Jun 20252 nights
  • BudinoBASEMENT ×2 · Jul 2024 – Mar 20252 nights

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