L.I.E.S Night

Who they are

• Ron Morelli

  4 bookings since Oct 2023

  Last at Good Room in Oct 2023 · often with Scott Zacharias, Sweater On Polo, Toribio, none of them here that night

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

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  Anthony Parasole

  New York City · 18 bookings since Sep 2023

  “Anthony Parasole should need no introduction to newer or longer-standing dancers of the New York Deep House and Techno scenes.”

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  Anthony Parasole should need no introduction to newer or longer-standing dancers of the New York Deep House and Techno scenes. A longtime employee of halcyon, friend of Levon Vincent and his partner in Deconstruct Music, and a prominent figure with the underground House and Techno resurgence of NYC, Anthony’s acute selections won our ears right away, and he hasn’t let go since. Known for the deepest sounds of Techno and House and for gracing dance floors home and abroad from Shelter to Berghain. Anthony had a breakout year in 2012 with his track “TYSON" featured on the highly acclaimed Fabric 63 mixed by Levon Vincent, and that year he also launched his new label, The Corner. The first release "Tri-State" by DJ Qu & Nor'easter sold out worldwide. "Atlantic Ave" by Anthony Parasole & Phil Moffa followed, receiving critically acclaimed reviews from multiple online magazines in 2012. Then 2013 marked the fast rise of The Corner in techno dominance as the releases came out with much anticipation and highly recommended reviews. This resulted with The Corner landing on many year-end lists including Resident Advisor’s Top Labels of the Year, ranked at #8. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Anthony Parasole has had a lifelong love affair with electronic music. Listening to radio shows playing the early dance tracks from New York, Chicago, Detroit, and beyond, really perked up his ears. His earliest experiences at the New York clubs and Storm Raves blew his mind wide open. Not content to just be another club kid, Anthony began scouring record stores for all of his favorite tracks from the early 90′s to the present day. Parasole is also huge into hip-hop. His engulfment in this gritty New York street music and culture is an influence on his style to this day, not only in his music but in the entire artistic aesthetic of his labels. From 2003-2007, Anthony was a House and Techno buyer at the Halcyon record store. Through Halcyon, a real pillar of the scene in NYC, Parasole made many contacts, and naturally started an event series called “New Jack City” at the great APT with his co-workers at Halcyon, bringing in many cutting-edge talents from the Tri-state area. This party really increased Anthony’s exposure in New York, and led to many gigs at bigger clubs including Pacha NYC & Shelter amongst many other venues. He then launched "Deconstruct Music” record label with his partner Levon Vincent. DEC-01 “Invisible Bitchslap” by Levon Vincent sold out in 1 week, and immediately put the label on the map and had Hardwax and other influential stores clamoring for more! Parasole also founded the once famed House-N-Home loft-party series with partner Bryan Kasenic of The Bunker. House-N-Home left a everlasting mark and a blueprint in the NYC warehouse/loft scene. Now Anthony has had productions out on his own labels, The Corner & Deconstruct, as well as for Marcel Dettmann’s mighty techno imprint MDR. Parasole’s EP “Off The Grid” sold out in a few weeks. Following this, Anthony joined Ostgut Ton bookings in December 2013, and their label tapped him to do a remix Marcel Dettmann’s “Seduction”. They then released “My Block” which is Parasole’s first EP for Ostgut Ton. Parasole then made the progression to resident at Berghain and thru this platform he began shaping his sound and technique, pushing his deep, raw, driving, rhythmic, percussive, and mesmerizing sound that club-goers have come to know and love. Then soon after Anthony became resident at Output in his home town Brooklyn, NY and he continues to consistently challenge dancefloors worldwide.
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  Their RA profile lists Ostgut Ton, Delsin, Marcel Dettmann Records, Deconstruct Music and 3 more.

  Recently at Paragon, H0L0, public records · often with KYRUH, Samuel Fish, KXAH, none of them here that night

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  Tom of England

  London, United Kingdom · 11 bookings since Sep 2023

  “Tom of England cut his teeth with Tonka Sound System, alongside fellow auteur DJ Harvey.”

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  Tom of England cut his teeth with Tonka Sound System, alongside fellow auteur DJ Harvey. That was a long time ago. Since then he started and left A.R.E. WEAPONS, introduced sound-system culture to San Francisco with The Wicked Crew, threw some of the most legendary NYC parties under the name Rub N Tug, released a bunch of amazing music under a shit load of alias's and most importantly got us waved with the mescal he has been importing from his familia in Mexico. All aboard.
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  Their RA profile lists Whatever We Want, Rough Trade, L.I.E.S., The Trilogy Tapes and 1 more.

  Last at Good Room in Sep 2023 · often with Paul Nickerson, Ge-ology, Jonny Romero, none of them here that night