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Akanbi

51 listings in 19 named rooms, over the last three years · one ahead · 293 following on RA

also plays Berlin — 1 night

Akanbi is heading a new generation of dedicated ravers in New York City. Raised in Lagos, Nigeria, with limited access to the internet but a huge thirst for new music, Akanbi moved to NYC in 2010 and immersed himself head on into every corner of dance music, as a serious dancer and, eventually, a DJ and rave activator. He’s cultivated his unique style of DJing that delivers an intentional blend of freak-out boogie music, sensual rollers, whip-crack bangers, insistent percussion, afrobeat goodness, deep thumping low frequencies & slow-burning experimental descents. In 2014, he started New York City's GROOVY GROOVY party - a judgment-free atmosphere for wild dance floors, spiritual, mental & physical rejuvenation, radical politics, and a dose of undeniably rocking talent. Akanbi has made an impression with visionary sets across the globe at select spaces like Guggenheim Museum, Sustain Release, Nowadays, Dekmantel, Horst, OIL Club Shanghai, WWW Tokyo, Berghain/Panorama Bar, Corsica Studios, Primavera Sound Barcelona et al.

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The nights

2026

2025 — 19 nights
2024 — 15 nights
2023 — 9 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

Once each: Judson Memorial Church, La Plaza Cultural, Apollo Studio, Mood Ring, Paragon, Jupiter Disco, Camp Kennybrook, Avant Gardner, Trans-Pecos, Eavesdrop, H0L0 and Xpizza. 14 of the 52 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.

  • The Largeacross six rooms · Sep 2023 – Sep 20258 nights
  • DJ Temporaryan unnamed room ×2, Nowadays ×2 · Nov 2023 – Feb 20254 nights
  • Ayanna HeavenBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Honey's ×1, and 1 more room · Aug 2024 – Oct 2026 · together again Fri 30 Oct3 nights
  • /KATA/Bossa Nova Civic Club ×2, Nowadays ×1 · May 2025 – Aug 20263 nights
  • Yaya Flowsan unnamed room ×3 · Aug 2025 – Sep 20253 nights
  • Yogican unnamed room ×3 · Nov 2023 – Apr 20253 nights
  • Lycheean unnamed room ×1, public records ×1 · Apr 2025 – Jan 20262 nights
  • Laila Rosenan unnamed room ×2 · Sep 2024 – Sep 20252 nights
5 more, 2 nights each
  • chukiBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Honey's ×1 · Nov 2023 – Sep 20252 nights
  • Joni DJHoney's ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Oct 2024 – Sep 20252 nights
  • JettyBossa Nova Civic Club ×2 · Nov 2023 – May 20252 nights
  • anuBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Feb 20252 nights
  • Simiseaan unnamed room ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Sep 2023 – Jul 20242 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.