
Adam X
also plays Berlin — 4 nights
Adam X’s illustrious music career first came about in 1990 in Brooklyn, NYC where he was born and raised. His earliest productions were released during this period and he soon gained momentum as one of the most adept DJ’s on the global underground techno scene.
Alongside pioneer and brother Frankie Bones he also opened the doors of Groove Records in Brooklyn as America’s first true outlet for underground electronic music with a direct focus on the techno genre. The Groove Records team would also take part in organizing the first techno events to ever take place in NYC, including the legendary Storm Rave that started in 1991. Storm Rave was the first all-techno warehouse parties organized on the East Coast of America and the line-ups included many up-and-coming artists who would go on to become global techno cult figures.
The Sonic Groove label was born in 1995 at the upgraded Manhattan location of the shop ( also having changed name from Groove Records to Sonic Groove during the transition ). Adam continues to operate the label in an exemplary and innovative way with over 100 releases to date. Primarily a vinyl focused label and including digital distribution, the discography’s current core roster is a mix of EBM and Industrial legends Monolith, Orphx, Rhys Fulber, and Fixmer / McCarthy as well as modern day techno heavyweights Dasha Rush, The Panacea, Blush Response and Max Durante.
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A unique perspective and acute knowledge of the music can be recognized in his DJ and live sets which have always retained a unique sense of an un-compromised approach to the dance floor, keeping with the sanctity of breaking new boundaries in sound and evolving with an edge of genre defiance and auditory cross-pollination. Adam’s approach facilitated acid techno’s dominance in the early to mid nineties and he nearly single handedly put the Industrial and EBM Techno cross-over genres on the contemporary map.
His Traversable Wormhole, ADMX-71, The Secret Initiative, Mass-X-Odus and X-Crashed side-projects along with his collaboration with co-conspirator U.K. based artist Perc with their project AX&P, have all strongly impacted the most discerning audiences.
Adam X has also released his own work on his seminal imprint as well as releases on some of the most essential labels to exist both past and present such as, Wax Trax!, Direct Drive, Magnetic North, Peacefrog, Drop Bass Network, CLR, Hands Productions as well as preeminent contemporary labels Aufnahme + Wiedergabe, L.I.E.S and Hospital Productions.
Adam currently resides in the electronic music capital of the world Berlin, Germany. With unparalleled dedication his activities never cease as he continues his individual tradition of operating on every vital level from label activity to organizing events in the legendary Tresor club and performing in the some of the worlds most credible venues which he has been doing since the early 90’s. Adam X Is a true force whose contribution has reached far into bringing the future forward for electronic music.
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Records out on Reclaim Your City and Traxxmen. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Fri 16 OctRefugetheir 2nd night · Refuge NYC
- Fri 1 MayRefugefirst time · Refuge NYC
- Fri 13 MarParagontheir 3rd night
- Thu 29 JanSignaltheir 2nd night · Signal NYC
2025 — 5 nights
- Thu 27 Nov 2025Bossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 5th night
- Thu 2 Oct 2025Signalfirst time · Crossroads, Signal NYC
- Fri 15 Aug 2025The Woodshopfirst time · Distort The 909, The 909 Collective
- Sat 26 Apr 2025Bossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 4th night
- Thu 6 Feb 2025H0L0first time · H0L0 NYC, Samo
2024 — 3 nights
- Thu 28 Nov 2024Bossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 3rd night
- Sat 16 Nov 2024Paragontheir 2nd night
- Sun 26 May 2024Bossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 2nd night
2023 — 2 nights
- Sat 16 Dec 2023Paragonfirst time
- Sat 4 Nov 2023Bossa Nova Civic Clubfirst 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.
- Bossa Nova Civic ClubNov 2023 – Nov 20255 nights
- ParagonDec 2023 – Mar 20263 nights
- RefugeMay 2026 – Oct 20262 nights
- SignalOct 2025 – Jan 20262 nights
Once each: The Woodshop and H0L0.
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.
- cottonParagon ×1, Refuge ×1 · Mar 2026 – Oct 20262 nights
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