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Breaks and Bounce

Jade4 Stuyvesant Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221 · Map

This night happened — Fri 23 Aug 2024

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Who was billed4 artists

In the order the promoter listed them.

Set times were not published.

Most of these artists had shared a bill before that night.
the pairs that have met

1 of the 6 pairings on this bill were first meetings.

  • Rajah Betta and Jordi — 5 shared bills before that night, first on Sun 4 Aug 2024.
  • Rajah Betta and Gigi — 3 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 12 Jun 2024.
  • Gigi and DEV — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Fri 23 Aug 2024.
  • Rajah Betta and DEV — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 23 Aug 2024.
  • Jordi and Gigi — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sun 4 Aug 2024.

Who they are

  • Rajah Betta

    Mumbai, India · 30 bookings since Dec 2023

    “Bombay born.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    Bombay born. Brooklyn made. Creating a scene. Jack-of-all-trades-instrumentalist, host of Betta Sounds, DJ and Producer. Experimenting with button-pushing, production and mashups circa 2000s. Booked across the NYC circuit at The Lot Radio, Elsewhere, Le Bain, House of Yes, Mansions, Mood Ring, Rash, Purgatory, Alphaville, Jade, Mad Tropical, Hell Phone +more. Host of the radio show Betta Sounds on Newtown Radio. Loves playing Breaks, Experimental and Obscure Electronica, Indie Dance and Delicious Desi Stuff (strictly delicious). Typically books concert tickets before checking if the show is in the same country or not.
    Bass Music on 1, Breaks on 1 and Techno on 1. styles on their catalogued releases
    Their RA profile lists Self-released.

    Recently at House of Yes, Sleepwalk, Telephone · often with Choo Choo, Squibs, Castillonaire, none of them here that night

  • Jordi

    14 bookings since Jun 2024 · Queens open-decks circuit

    Recently at Sleepwalk, Telephone, Rambow Studios · often with Choo Choo, Talk Shivi, Varoon, none of them here that night

  • Gigi

    Texas · 20 bookings since Dec 2023

    “Gi Gi is a producer and DJ drawn to the porous edges of electronic music, where atmosphere and motion sit in constant negotiation.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    Gi Gi is a producer and DJ drawn to the porous edges of electronic music, where atmosphere and motion sit in constant negotiation. His productions unfold refractively, assembling fragments of sampled rhythm and texture into forms that resist settling in one place for long. Depending on how they’re encountered, traces of chillout drift, shoegaze haze, dub pressure, and slow-burn psychedelia come into focus, though never fully resolving into any one lineage. What anchors the work is a careful sense of tension: rhythm that never pushes too hard, ambience that never drifts too far. Even at its most diffused, there’s always a pulse underneath, a quality that links his music less to genre than a lineage of producers interested in suspension, repetition, and tonal pressure. That same sensibility carries into his DJ sets, where weightier grooves, ambient passages, and hypnotic transitions are handled with equal patience. The result is a sound that can inhabit smoke-filled clubs, improvised listening spaces, and festival rooms without changing its internal logic. His releases span Mood Hut (CA), Good Morning Tapes (AUS), Quiet Time (USA), and INDEX:Records (UK), alongside appearances on NTS, The Lot Radio, Refuge Worldwide, and Kiosk Radio. While rooted in a shifting international network of DIY spaces, he’s also appeared at Public Records, Miscellania, and Ormside Projects, sharing bills with artists including Huerco S., ML Buch, PLO Man, RAMZi, Laraaji, and Perila.
    Their RA profile lists Quiet Time, Ways Inner Pass, INDEX: Records and Good Morning Tapes.

    Recently at Telephone, Mansions, Mood Ring · often with Baroque Hoe, adobeprincess, Very J, none of them here that night

  • DEV

    New York City · 15 bookings since Jun 2024

    ““It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Last at Superior Ingredients in Jun · often with GGPS, @ flacko, Fire Aux, none of them here that night

names these artists often play with — not that night
  • Choo Choo5 with Rajah Betta and 4 with Jordi
  • Varoon3 with Jordi and 2 with Rajah Betta
  • Lovelydaze3 with Jordi and 1 with Rajah Betta
  • Sam Valle2 with Jordi and 2 with Rajah Betta
  • GGPS6 with DEV
  • Castillonaire3 with Rajah Betta
  • Squibs3 with Rajah Betta
  • Talk Shivi3 with Jordi

The room

Jade — 221 events and 569 distinct artists since Aug 2023.

Most-tagged here: Club (7) and Techno (5). genre tags on this room’s listings

Artist photos: Resident Advisor, event 1992817.

Venue records, co-billing history, scene names and release styles: adrift’s record of New York City events.

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