DJ Sprinkles + DJ Aakmael / Bézier / DJ Wawa
public records233 Butler St, Brooklyn, NY 11217 · Map
This night happened — Sat 4 Nov 2023
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Who was billed4 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
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.
- DJ Sprinkles and DJ Aakmael — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 4 Nov 2023.
Who they are
- Their RA profile lists Mule Musiq, Crème Organization, Field Records, Ojo de Apolo and 2 more.
often with Frank & Tony, Eden Aurelius, Abby Echiverri, 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.Last at BASEMENT in Sep · often with electroponce, BrthrMidnyt, ACID BOGEN, none of them here that night
“DJ Wawa has been sprinkling magic on New York City’s vibrant underground techno scene for a few years now, watching it flourish from the center of the dancefloor.”
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DJ Wawa has been sprinkling magic on New York City’s vibrant underground techno scene for a few years now, watching it flourish from the center of the dancefloor. They’re a regular fixture at the city’s best parties, and a familiar voice on Twitter, uplifting the “loose international queer and QTPOC techno underground that puts love for music first”.Their RA profile lists Local Action and Sorry Records.Last at SILO in Aug · often with Willow, deep creep, Rey Colino, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- electroponce5 with Bézier
- BrthrMidnyt4 with Bézier
- Frank & Tony3 with DJ Sprinkles
- Abby Echiverri2 with DJ Sprinkles
- ACID BOGEN2 with Bézier
- cristian zanotti2 with Bézier
- Eden Aurelius2 with DJ Sprinkles
- Francis Harris2 with DJ Sprinkles
313 said they were going — busier than a usual Saturday at public records.
how this compares
- Median final count, Saturdays at public records197
- Middle half finished between109 and 312
- Past Saturdays at this venue counted191
The room
public records — 766 events and 1,571 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Holds about 300.
Most-tagged here: Techno (19), House (17), Deep House (11), Experimental (5) and Tech House (4). genre tags on this room’s listings