Who was billed4 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
- Leesh
- next: Dead Letter No. 9, Fri 30 OctRon Like Hell
- next: Paloma in Berlin, Sat 7 NovBézier
- Ryan Smith
Set times were not published.
Most of these pairings were meeting for the first time that night.
the pairs that have met
5 of the 6 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Ron Like Hell and Ryan Smith — 36 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 5 Aug 2023.
Who they are
often with Kush Jones, Max Watts, Loidis, none of them here that night
“Approaching a dj mix as assemblages, Ron Like Hell aligns sound with emotion, focusing on texture to create psychedelic soundscapes, imaginative spaces for comfort and surprise spectators with an unexpected crafty transition.”
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Approaching a dj mix as assemblages, Ron Like Hell aligns sound with emotion, focusing on texture to create psychedelic soundscapes, imaginative spaces for comfort and surprise spectators with an unexpected crafty transition. With 26+ years of making people dance in numerous countries along with years of vinyl shop experience and music promotion, his/their role in the industry is unique and influential. Their latest production, EXALT is their dream come true where Ron selects a personally beloved dj to play solo then close out the night together with a b2b set. EXALT's first guest was Matrixxman in April 2022 at Basement in Ridgewood-Queens, NY. Ron also djs as Wrecked, a music first queer dance party which recently turned 14.House on 1, Alternative Rock on 1 and Indie Rock on 1. styles on their catalogued releasesReleased on Heavenly (1) and Mister Saturday Night Records (1). labels on their catalogued releasesRecently at Paragon, BASEMENT · often with Sterling Juan Diaz, Ne/Re/A, Kilopatrah Jones, none of them here that night
“Bézier is a ripple.”
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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. 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 RA profile lists Dark Entries, HNYTRX, Honey Soundsystem, Cin Cin and 6 more.often with electroponce, BrthrMidnyt, ACID BOGEN, none of them here that night
“Ryan started his ongoing love affair with dancing and dance clubs at a young age.”
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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. 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!Their RA profile lists Central Dogma Records.Last at BASEMENT in Aug · often with Day Thief, T.Wan, Sterling Juan Diaz, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Kilopatrah Jones8 with Ron Like Hell and 3 with Ryan Smith
- Ne/Re/A8 with Ron Like Hell and 3 with Ryan Smith
- Sterling Juan Diaz6 with Ron Like Hell and 2 with Ryan Smith
- Concrete Husband5 with Ron Like Hell and 2 with Ryan Smith
- Scotia5 with Ron Like Hell and 2 with Ryan Smith
- electroponce5 with Bézier
- Juliana Huxtable5 with Ron Like Hell
- BrthrMidnyt4 with Bézier
2,010 said they were going — about like a usual Saturday at BASEMENT.
how this compares
- Median final count, Saturdays at BASEMENT1,868
- Middle half finished between1,512 and 2,298
- Past Saturdays at this venue counted144
The room
BASEMENT — 294 events and 630 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Holds about 500.
Who put it on
WRECKEDnyc — 36 events and 97 artists since Sep 2023.