Who was billed4 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
- next: public records, Fri 23 OctJuana
- Ryan Smith
- next: H0L0, Sat 24 Octwngdu
- next: Dead Letter No. 9, Fri 30 OctRon Like Hell
Set times were not published.
Most of these pairings were meeting for the first time that night.
the pairs that have met
3 of the 6 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Ryan Smith and Ron Like Hell — 36 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 5 Aug 2023.
- Juana and Ron Like Hell — 4 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 2 Dec 2023.
- Juana and Ryan Smith — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 2 Dec 2023.
Who they are
“Juana has enticed crowds all over the world at venues such as Berghain, LuxFrágil, Fabric, Smartbar, Basement, Nowadays, and countless festivals and underground warehouse gigs.”
their own biography
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Juana has enticed crowds all over the world at venues such as Berghain, LuxFrágil, Fabric, Smartbar, Basement, Nowadays, and countless festivals and underground warehouse gigs. She originally hails from the city of Chicago where she cultivated her love for the underground at clubs like Smartbar and The Generator and parties such as Soul in the Hole and Boom Boom Room. She began DJing in roughly 2001 and moved to DC in 2003 where she began hosting weekly live internet radio shows on HandzOnRadio (Baltimore) and Cyberjamz (Tampa) and playing parties in the DC scene, upping her skills alongside her mentor and legendary DJ Sam “the Man” Burns, and at clubs including Red and the DC Sanctuary. Juana started obsessively collecting disco and early house records in the late 90s and eventually developed an undying penchant for straight-ahead techno and deeper, darker shades of first and second-wave Chicago dance music. In the 2010s, Juana made her mark in DC as one of only a handful of techno DJs and a resident of the legendary rave, Sequence, and started regularly touring North and South America and EU. In the 2020s, Juana picked up major momentum, becoming a resident of the renowned rave Unter and making frequent appearances at Basement, Nowadays, and Paragon. She has been a founding member of the DC QT BIPOC collective NOXEEMA JACKSON since 2021, and in 2026, joined the MERGE collective. As a producer, her most recent EP “We Are Everything We Think We're Not” was released in March 2024, and she has also appeared recently on releases from the No Mercy, World Building, and Perimeter Junk labels. She is currently working on more releases, probably until she croaks.Their RA profile lists Bound, Vanity Press Records, ROAMANCE, Trax Only and 1 more.Recently at Paragon, Knockdown Center, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with Ne/Re/A, Auspex, Concrete Husband, 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 Nov · often with Day Thief, T.Wan, Sterling Juan Diaz, none of them here that night
often with Aaron Clark, Clark Price, d'Adhemar, 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, Nowadays · often with Sterling Juan Diaz, Ne/Re/A, Kilopatrah Jones, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Ne/Re/A14 with Juana, 8 with Ron Like Hell and 3 with Ryan Smith
- Concrete Husband9 with Juana, 5 with Ron Like Hell and 2 with Ryan Smith
- Sterling Juan Diaz6 with Ron Like Hell, 2 with Ryan Smith and 1 with wngdu
- Kilopatrah Jones8 with Ron Like Hell and 3 with Ryan Smith
- Juliana Huxtable5 with Juana and 5 with Ron Like Hell
- Boris5 with Juana and 2 with Ryan Smith
- Scotia5 with Ron Like Hell and 2 with Ryan Smith
- Auspex7 with Juana
1,726 said they were going — about like a usual Saturday at BASEMENT.
The room
BASEMENT — 294 events and 630 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Holds about 500.