Bézier
also plays Berlin — 14 nights
Bézier is a ripple. Bézier is a synth-organic proto-techno trip: an analog vision of club-floor futures, a journey of kinetic movement through embodied sound.
You might know Robert Yang from Berlin, his home base since 2018, where you'll find him disseminating the electric catechism in places like Zur Klappe, a former subway toilet transformed into an underground nightclub. Or you might know him from his previous home, San Francisco, where he spent 14 years as a core member of the queer DJ collective Honey Soundsystem. Yang and the Honey crew threw a party every Sunday night for five years in a row—that's 260 parties, but who's counting?—and toured the globe, while running an eponymous record label that released music by Patrick Cowley, Octo Octa, Vin Sol, and beyond. Or you might know him simply as Bézier, the alias through which he's issued a dozen-plus records of livewire dance music crafted from rippled synths, crackling drums, and a songwriter's knack.
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Bézier's sound is the product of a lifelong obsession with electronic music. Experiments with MIDI on the family computer and DIY synth repair exposed Yang to synthesis at an early age. That led to a teenage obsession with Autechre and Björk, among others, and undergraduate courses in computer music. Finally came the accumulation of gear, vintage and modern, that powers Yang's sound design. Today, Bézier's tracks are tighter, more focused, and more dialed-in than ever. That's the result of the confidence Yang has earned as a producer and artist—the ability to pay attention to the things that matter and ignore what doesn't.
These days, Bézier is back in the studio and at work on his own record label: Körperspannung, or K-SPAN for short. The phrase is German for "body tension"—a phrase Yang's partner Lennard, aka Len.Leo, would use to remind Yang to embody himself as an independent gay Asian musician, to stay strong, to be proud. That sums up the label's ethos: a celebration of creative electronic expression from within the gay community, and a home for music that steps outside the box and blurs the lines.
After over 15 years in the game, that's Bézier's ethos, too. All you need to do is listen.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on Dark Entries, HNYTRX, Honey Soundsystem, Cin Cin, Me Me Me, Snap Crackle & Pop, Public Release, miv., Trax Only and Körperspannung. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Fri 26 JunSignalfirst time · Signal NYC
- Sat 2 MayTBA - Doll Quarry, BushwickKay Gabriel
2024 — 2 nights
- Sat 13 Jul 2024BASEMENTtheir 2nd night · basement ny
- Fri 7 Jun 2024Softee Paradisefirst time · Mizz Softee
2023 — 2 nights
- Sat 4 Nov 2023public recordsfirst time
- Sat 23 Sep 2023BASEMENTfirst time · WRECKEDnyc, basement ny
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.
- BASEMENTSep 2023 – Jul 20242 nights
Once each: Signal, Softee Paradise and public records. One of the 6 listings never named a room, and is not counted as one.
Who they play with
Six nights on the books, and no name on more than one of them.
- Sat 23 Sep 2023Leesh · Ron Like Hell · Ryan Smith
- Sat 4 Nov 2023DJ Sprinkles · DJ Aakmael · DJ Wawa
- Fri 7 Jun 2024Pure Immanence · Mutualism · Henry Chow · Tristan Dufrene
- Sat 13 Jul 2024UVB · Mareena · Auspex · Devoye · Whodat
- Sat 2 May 2026Will Automagic · Madre Guía · TT · RYKER · Mother Daughter Dance · Visqueen
- Fri 26 Jun 2026MCMLXXXV · Makadsi · Chris Cruse · Concrete Husband · Dangerous Rose · Manu Miran · Signal Pride
28 people have stood on one of these bills; none has stood on two.
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography and the labels are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.