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Label Night

TraTraTrax with Ayesha, Nick León, Verraco

Nowadays56-06 Cooper Ave. Ridgewood, NY 11385 · Map

This night happened — Fri 24 May 2024

Nowadays

Press play

Who was billed3 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

2 of the 3 pairings on this bill were first meetings.

  • Nick León and Verraco — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 24 May 2024.

Who they are

  • Ayesha

    New York City · 27 bookings since Sep 2023

    “Ayesha is a key player in Brooklyn's dance music scene, and has become one of NYC's most prominent names when it comes to faster, more-bass heavy sounds in New York.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    Ayesha is a key player in Brooklyn's dance music scene, and has become one of NYC's most prominent names when it comes to faster, more-bass heavy sounds in New York. Her approach to DJing and production blends elements of America's techno underground with leftfield UK sounds and diasporic influences from her Indian heritage, moving across tempos and rhythms with ease. Her music, hypnotic, pulsating and powerful, is as at home at a deep forest festival as it is a sweaty basement or dark nightclub, made with meticulous sound design, spongy textures and alien melodies. She writes tracks with deliberate consideration for how bodies move—and how music moves bodies—which makes her work unusually tactile and physical. "Beautiful things emerge from our care and consistent attention," she says about her work, which she also calls "body over mind." Everyone else calls it brilliant. She's put out music on Scuffed Recordings and Kindergarten Records, the latter of whom released her debut album, Rhythm is Memory, in 2022. DJ Mag called it "a revelation," Resident Advisor a "fierce mission statement" and Mixmag placed her at number two in its list of the 25 Producers Who Defined 2023. Later this year, she'll make her live set debut at MUTEK Festival in Montreal, hinting at an exciting new chapter for a dynamic force in American dance music.
    Their RA profile lists Fever AM, Scuffed Recordings, Femme Culture, Control Freak Records and 2 more.

    Recently at Nowadays, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with Mor Elian, DJ DEADNAME, Ma Sha, none of them here that night

  • Nick León

    Miami · 20 bookings since Aug 2023

    “Nick León’s dystopian club music samples the sounds of Florida’s diverse ecosystem, but his style has varied fearlessly along the way.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    Nick León’s dystopian club music samples the sounds of Florida’s diverse ecosystem, but his style has varied fearlessly along the way. Finding his way into the rap world at a young age, he collaborated with some of the biggest underground rappers in South Florida. He also gravitated early towards the Latin sounds coming out of Puerto Rico and Colombia, and as a self-taught producer and DJ in Miami, he felt compelled to shift his focus to his own work. After pivoting towards textural elements and buried melodies, Nick released a handful of projects, one of them being his Aguacero EP under Mexico’s celebrated NAAFI imprint. It encapsulates the growing anxiety in a city threatened by the very things that help make it beautiful, inviting you to dance through the impending storm of uncertainty ushered in by climate change. As of recent, Nick released his highly anticipated Xtasis EP on TraTraTrax which featured DJ Babatr and remixes by Doctor Jeep and Pearson Sound. He also started 2022 on a high note, claiming a production credit on one of the most well reviewed albums of the year – MOTOMAMI by Rosalía. With coveted spots on Miami’s III Points festival, various film scores, and further production for a slew of artists, Nick León’s hands are full and his music is teeming with real life.
    Their RA profile lists Future Times, Naafi, Kebrada, TraTraTrax and 2 more.

    Recently at Nowadays, The End, Paragon · often with upsammy, Devon Rexi meets John T. Gast, GЯEG, none of them here that night

  • Verraco

    Colombia · 9 bookings since Feb 2024

    “"In the daring sonic fiction of JP López, the Medellín artist collides in his productions and DJ sets techno, latin-influenced tribal, hyper-electronica, carefully crafted IDM and cutting-edge dembow-bass technology with both intensity and precision.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    "In the daring sonic fiction of JP López, the Medellín artist collides in his productions and DJ sets techno, latin-influenced tribal, hyper-electronica, carefully crafted IDM and cutting-edge dembow-bass technology with both intensity and precision. Verraco is also one of the heads behind the groundbreaking TraTraTrax, label that has become a key platform for Latinx sound explorers in recent years. With the future classic Escándaloo EP on VOAM out in Summer 2023, RA and Crack Magazine lauded the record as one of the best of the year. In 2024, the Colombian artist's debut on Bristol's stalwart Timedance with 'Breathe... Godspeed' was unanimously acclaimed by the press, with the EP being awarded Pitchfork Best New Music, described by renowned journalist Philip Sherburne as "an essential record for the vanguard of dance music". In 2025, he signed with the legendary UK label XL Recordings for a three-tracker EP. In addition to having important recurring appearances at clubs and festivals such as Dekmantel, Berghain or Berlin Atonal, Verraco also launched his own party in Bogotá also called Escándaloo, which has been sold out on all occasions and has brought to his country for the first time the likes of Skee Mask, Batu, Pariah, Livwutang among others." ~ Outer Agency.
    Their RA profile lists XL Recordings, Timedance, Voam and TraTraTrax.

    Last at public records in Feb · often with Berghain, Pariah, Gabrielle Kwarteng, none of them here that night

names these artists often play with — not that night
  • Ma Sha3 with Ayesha and 2 with Verraco
  • Berghain5 with Verraco
  • DJ DEADNAME3 with Ayesha
  • Maara3 with Ayesha
  • Mor Elian3 with Ayesha
  • ABADIR2 with Nick León
  • Altinbas2 with Verraco
  • Baby Leo2 with Ayesha
760 said they were going — about like a usual Friday at Nowadays.
how this compares
  • Median final count, Fridays at Nowadays716
  • Middle half finished between421 and 1,032
  • Past Fridays at this venue counted159

The room

Nowadays — 804 events and 1,369 distinct artists since Aug 2023.

Most-tagged here: Techno (22), Bass (21), House (15), Club (6) and Electro (6). genre tags on this room’s listings

Artist photos: Resident Advisor, event 1897875.

Attending counts, venue records and co-billing history: adrift’s record of New York City events.

Quoted passages are the promoter’s or the artist’s own words, unedited.