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Pleasure Jams

23 listings in 4 named rooms, over the last three years

Three is the magic number. And as the name would suggest, the New York DJ collective of Stewey Decimal, Allie Bell and Marosy - aka Pleasure Jams - have been dispensing their positivity-forward brand of danceable pleasures all over NYC and the world since 2015.

Allie Bell and Marosy - New Englanders turned New Yorkers - first came together in their native Burlington, Vermont in the late aughts over mutual love of the new genre “nu-disco”, classics and house music in a place that, despite its rich musical history, lacked a home for what they wanted to dance to.

So they built one.

Beginning in 2008 Marosy and three other local DJs started a party in the small, hippie enclave of Burlington as Bonjour-Hi, with guest appearances by many of the musical mainstays of the time, like The Juan MacLean, Lunice and Ninjasonik. Allie Bell would eventually join the collective, and the seeds were planted.

At the turn of the decade, the trio would eventually find themselves in New York City for their own reasons. Allie Bell and Stewey Decimal - who first met in 2003 - reconnected after over a decade and found out that they had both fallen in love with dance music on their own. Thus, with all the pieces in place, Pleasure Jams was born.

The rest of it — two more paragraphs

Pleasure Jams (the party) has grown from their original home - a small bar in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, to primetime slots in some of the best rooms in New York City. The party has played host to top tier DJs such as Nancy Whang, Fouk, Razor-N-Tape, Joe Corti, Jacques Renault, Tom Noble - and the list goes on. Today, Pleasure Jams are residents at NYC’s newest nightlife behemoth, Elsewhere, but make regular appearances at the raver favorites: Good Room, Jupiter Disco and Bossa Nova Civic Club.

Most recently, they have put themselves on the map in an unconventional, but timely way, by organizing a series of online-only Digital Dance Party fundraisers to benefit the same clubs that they call home. Their efforts landed them back to back mentions in The New York Times and Time Magazine.

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

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The nights

2026

2025 — 9 nights
2024 — 7 nights
2023 — 1 night

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: Chatroom at Elsewhere and LeFrak Center at Lakeside. Two of the 23 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.

Allie Bell, Marosy and Stewey Decimal have stood on 1, 1 and 3 of these bills. They are the three people Pleasure Jams is, so they are named here rather than counted as company. — their aliases on Resident Advisor

  • Rose The GuyJupiter Disco ×3 · Jan 2025 – Aug 20253 nights
  • Laila AmiraGood Room ×3 · Mar 2024 – Nov 20243 nights
  • Busy BodyJupiter Disco ×2 · Jul 2025 – Jul 20262 nights
  • Miss Aliciaan unnamed room ×1, Good Room ×1 · Sep 2024 – Mar 20262 nights
  • Horse OperaJupiter Disco ×2 · Jun 2025 – Nov 20252 nights
  • Unfurl Earlan unnamed room ×1, Jupiter Disco ×1 · May 2025 – Aug 20252 nights
  • Party DadJupiter Disco ×1, LeFrak Center at Lakeside ×1 · Jun 2024 – Jul 20252 nights
  • Fever DreamGood Room ×2 · Jan 2024 – Nov 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.