Planetarium Season Finale Night One
Justin Carter and Rena Anakwe
TBA, New York City
This night happened — Fri 3 May 2024
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Who was billed2 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
This was a crew, not a first meeting.
the pairs that have met
All 1 pairing on this bill had shared a bill before.
- Justin Carter and Rena Anakwe — 5 shared bills before that night, first on Fri 3 May 2024.
Who they are
“His practices of space making and music are intertwined, aligning to create moments for community and catharsis.”
their own biography
the whole biography
His practices of space making and music are intertwined, aligning to create moments for community and catharsis. Among his tools are turntables, his voice and records that create either vast, detailed scenes in the mind, the deep urge to move the body, or both. In his early teens, Justin started playing guitar and spending his nights at underground shows at makeshift venues in his small town in the southwest of Virginia. Arriving in NYC in the late 90s, he started performing at and organizing events in the early Brooklyn DIY scene, starting to DJ in 2003. He soon became a resident DJ, booking person and the label manager at Nublu and the Music Director and a resident DJ at APT, two of the last bastions of underground dance music in the wake of 9/11 and the 90s culture wars. Between 2009 and 2011, Justin and fellow DJ Eamon Harkin started Mister Saturday Night and Mister Sunday, parties that happened mostly in friends’ loft spaces and back yards. In 2015, spurred by a need for more permanent space for their own parties as well as a desire to create space for the larger nightlife community, they opened Nowadays. Justin runs and regularly performs at a series called Planetarium, an event where people bring pillows, blankets and sleeping bags, lie in silence and listen deeply to music. He also co-owns Mister Saturday Night Records, a label that's released music and mixes by Suso Saiz, Esteban Adame, CCL, Anthony Naples, Musclecars, Avalon Emerson, Rena Anakwe and Floating Points. As a musician, Justin has released an album of solo material called "The Leaves Fall" (2017) as well as collaborative EPs with The Twilite Tone and Move D. He also performed in the Chorus of Poets conducted by the late downtown experimental jazz musician Butch Morris.House on 9, Disco on 3, Deep House on 4 and Techno on 3. styles on their catalogued releasesReleased on !K7 Records (1), Electric Minds (1) and Mister Saturday Night Records (1). labels on their catalogued releasesLast at Nowadays in Apr · often with Eamon Harkin, Chee Shimizu, Carlos Niño, none of them here that night
often with DJ Lita, Carlos Niño, A Space for Sound, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Zach Cowie5 with Justin Carter and 1 with Rena Anakwe
- Carlos Niño4 with Justin Carter and 1 with Rena Anakwe
- Sarah Davachi3 with Justin Carter and 1 with Rena Anakwe
- Gee Dee2 with Justin Carter and 1 with Rena Anakwe
- Infinity Machine2 with Justin Carter and 1 with Rena Anakwe
- Juan Maclean2 with Justin Carter and 1 with Rena Anakwe
- Purelink2 with Justin Carter and 1 with Rena Anakwe
- Eamon Harkin61 with Justin Carter
Sound
House and Deep House.
styles on the acts’ catalogued releases183 said they were going.
The room
TBA — 430 events and 1,429 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Most-tagged here: House (9), R&B (8), Techno (7), Club (6) and Reggaeton (4). genre tags on this room’s listings
Who put it on
Mister Sunday — 130 events and 115 artists since Aug 2023.
Planetarium — 30 events and 32 artists since Sep 2023.