Veronica Vasicka + Marie Davidson [DJ] / Justin Miller + Jacques Renault

Who they are

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  Veronica Vasicka

  New York City · 20 bookings since Aug 2023

  “Veronica Vasicka is a NYC native: a photographer, musician, DJ and founder of the epic record label and on-line music resource Minimal Wave.”

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  Veronica Vasicka is a NYC native: a photographer, musician, DJ and founder of the epic record label and on-line music resource Minimal Wave. As one of the founding members of East Village Radio, she managed the station during its pirate days and began collecting obscure and long forgotten gems that fell somewhere between the Cold Wave, Post-Punk, Industrial and Synth-pop genres. Not knowing what to classify these bands as, she coined the genre Minimal Wave and set up the website www.minimalwave.com as an online resource to share her finds with the rest of the world. The response to the website was huge and shortly after its launch, Veronica began tracking these artists down and re-issuing their work on the Minimal Wave label. Most of these bands recorded extremely limited copies of their work in their basements and shared their work with the world via John Peel's radio show and a handful of underground music mailings. The music released on the label ranges stripped down, D.I.Y. synth-pop to pioneering industrial electronics. In addition to running Minimal Wave, Veronica launched the Cititrax in 2008 (www.minimalwave.com/releases/cititrax) label as way to expose newer synth-based acts. She DJs monthly in her hometown, New York City, and around the world, as well as having hosted a weekly radio show from 6-8pm ET on East Village Radio for 10 years. She now hosts a monthly show on Red Bull Radio called This Side of Nowhere. She has curated and released over 100 albums now, amongst them were two highly lauded compilations: The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volumes 1 and 2 which were picked up, released and distributed by Stones Throw Records. Veronica's DJ sets range from raw, danceable industrial electronic to cold wave fused with mutant house and underground techno. She likes to tell a story when spinning and to teach the crowd about the roots of electronic music. She has a fantastic talent for synthesizing her influences into an unforgettable night of dancing. Select mixes can be heard here: Resident Advisor #663 https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=663 Boiler Room (Dekmantel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYkHPNs1d0 Boiler Room (Santiago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9kOO-xS4w Beats in Space 923 https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/923/ Beats in Space 519 https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/519/ Mixmag in Session https://soundcloud.com/mixmag-1/in-session-veronica-vasicka Dekmantel 072 https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dekmantel-podcast-072-veronica-vasicka XLR8R, http://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2015/07/xlr8r-podcast-396-veronica-vasicka-dekmantel-festival-2015-edition/ LN-CC Boutique, https://soundcloud.com/ln-cc/ln-cc-store-mix-033-veronica Dazed And Confused, http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/13016/1/exclusive-veronica-vasicka-mix I.D. Magazine http://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/id-mix-final-veronica-vasicka, Noise In My Head http://www.noiseinmyhead.com.au/2013/02/170213-w-veronica-vasicka New York Times feature: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/fashion/talking-with-veronica-vasicka-founder-of-minimal-wave.html Veronica has DJ'd events for Art Basel, MoMA, MoMA P.S. 1, Miu Miu, Calvin Klein, Surface To Air, Agnes B, and 22/4 Hommes Femmes. She also played these festivals: Sonar, Primavera, Atonal, Simple Things, Dekmantel (Amsterdam and Sao Paolo), Cynetart, Mutek, Movement, Sustain Release, as well as numerous club nights in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Miami, Tokyo, Kobe, Tbilisi, London, Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, Rome, Milan, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Malmö, Helsinki, Bucharest, Athens, Moscow, Mexico City, Santiago, Medellin, Bogota, Manchester, Bristol, Belfast and Glasgow. Veronica has been featured in various notable publications such as The New York Times, Interview Magazine, Dazed & Confused, I.D. Magazine, Vice, Elle, Electronic, Revel In New York, New York Magazine, and Time Out New York. http://www.minimalwave.com https://www.facebook.com/minimalwaverecords http://www.twitter.com/minimal_wave http://www.instagram.com/minimalwave
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  Their RA profile lists Downwards and Minimal Wave.

  Recently at Good Room, public records, Paragon · often with Andi, S4M23, Sam Clarke, none of them here that night

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  Marie Davidson

  Montreal, Canada · 10 bookings since Dec 2023

  “Marie Davidson has always gone against the grain.”

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  Marie Davidson has always gone against the grain. The French-Canadian producer’s first four albums established her as a transgressive force in dance music, with her 2014 debut Perte d'identité (Loss of identity) laying the foundations of organic electronics and introspective storytelling that she would continue to build upon. Each release probed her “dualistic” relationship to nightlife while becoming increasingly saturated in its abundance of sounds, from Detroit techno to Italo disco, finally reaching a fever pitch on 2018’s Polaris Music Prize-nominated Working Class Woman. Putting the pitfalls of club culture and her own fractured identity under a withering satirical lens, Working Class Woman doesn’t wrestle with the existential as much as fling it around the dancefloor. After that, 2020’s Renegade Breakdown broke the mould entirely. With “a will to explore other styles of music,” Davidson formed a band with her husband and longtime collaborator Pierre Guerineau (also her counterpart in the duo Essaie Pas) and producer Asaël Robitaille. A deeply collaborative project, the trio wrote a slate of experimental pop songs inspired by records they would play at living-room afterparties – jazz classics, French chanson, electronica – on which Davidson sang for the first time. Four years and a pandemic later, Davidson’s sixth studio album, City of Clowns, marks a return to the club – but not as you know it. The techno thump and scathing spoken-word delivery of Working Class Woman resurface at points, but the pop structures and melodic sensibilities of Renegade Breakdown also remain. It’s a “strange” sonic blend even by Davidson’s own standards. “It’s definitely linking back to what I was doing pre-pandemic, but with a bit of an evolution,” she says. “I didn't want to just repeat myself.” The sound and the spirit of the album are shaped, too, by the fact that Davidson has a new antagonist. This time it’s not club culture that’s coming for her sense of self, it’s Big Tech.
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  Their RA profile lists Ninja Tune, Cititrax, DEEWEE and Holodeck Records.

  often with Andi, Jubilee, Xeno & Oaklander, none of them here that night

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  Justin Miller

  New York City · 9 bookings since Aug 2023

  “From his early days as a manager for DFA Records to becoming a seasoned, globally respected selector, Justin has been behind the scenes in the creation of some of electronic music’s most vital household names.”

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  From his early days as a manager for DFA Records to becoming a seasoned, globally respected selector, Justin has been behind the scenes in the creation of some of electronic music’s most vital household names. Well over a decade touring clubs and festivals around the world has placed him at the heart of a vibrant global community and allowed him unrivaled access to a wealth of rare music. Below all this lies the no-nonsense, punk rock attitude that famously characterizes New York culture. Throughout his career, Justin has successfully muted much of the scene’s background noise to avoid trends and focus only on the music that inspires him most. It is this uncompromising and discerning taste that guides Justin’s selections, as he aims to create an intimate and memorable experience in any space.
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  Their RA profile lists DFA Records and HAKT Recordings.

  Last at public records in Aug · often with Josh Steers, Matisa, Tomás Urquieta, none of them here that night

• Jacques Renault

  5 bookings since Oct 2023

  Last at Elsewhere in Oct · often with Toshiya Kawasaki, Kuniyuki, aka-Sol, none of them here that night