GROOVY GROOVY x NOCTURNAL MEDICINE — Bobby Beethoven, Kilopatrah Jones & Akanbi + more
TBA - SoHo Manhattan Secret Location, New York City
This night happened — Fri 27 Sep 2024
Press play
Who was billed8 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
- Total Freedom
- next: Paragon, Fri 23 OctKilopatrah Jones
- next: Jupiter Disco, Fri 30 OctAkanbi
- BOBBY BEETHOVEN FKA
- Madison Wada
- Laila Rosen
- cy
- Merritt Juliano
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
25 of the 28 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Total Freedom and BOBBY BEETHOVEN FKA — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Fri 27 Sep 2024.
- Akanbi and Laila Rosen — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 27 Sep 2024.
- Kilopatrah Jones and Akanbi — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 13 Jul 2024.
Who they are
Recently at Artsdistrict Brooklyn, Bossa Nova Civic Club, Paragon · often with Bobby Beethoven, Bobby Beethoven, Daniro, none of them here that night
“Born and raised in Queens, a city dweller and a club kid, Kilopatrah has an innate and superlative gift for transferring energy from the booth to the dance floor—through exciting house, techno, and jungle, and moments that both harken to Sound Factory–era glory days and bring you to sweaty BPMs of the future.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Born and raised in Queens, a city dweller and a club kid, Kilopatrah has an innate and superlative gift for transferring energy from the booth to the dance floor—through exciting house, techno, and jungle, and moments that both harken to Sound Factory–era glory days and bring you to sweaty BPMs of the future. Their sets are palpably personal: The dance floor has always been a powerful platform for expression for Kilo, once as a freeing and connecting space for a quiet house dancer and now as one for moving others like them. When Kilo gets going, you’ll lose sense of the kick drum versus the beat of your own body against the floor. That’s a gift from them to you, and your percussion is a gift back to them. Kilo brings their energetic sass to a monthly Lot Radio residency and to parties with impressive lineups, playing alongside Todd Terry home in New York, at the legendary Movement weekend Club Toilet in Detroit, and for Boiler Room. Their mixes, for series such as Coloring Lessons, Honcho, and Juanita’s, and for spots on Rinse and Refuge, also capture the club at its most euphoric. You’ll step a little harder with Kilopatrah Jones. Words by Sacha MadadianRecently at The Chocolate Factory, Park Avenue Armory, Elsewhere · often with Mike Servito, Dee Diggs, Annie Lew, none of them here that night
“Akanbi is heading a new generation of dedicated ravers in New York City.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Akanbi is heading a new generation of dedicated ravers in New York City. Raised in Lagos, Nigeria, with limited access to the internet but a huge thirst for new music, Akanbi moved to NYC in 2010 and immersed himself head on into every corner of dance music, as a serious dancer and, eventually, a DJ and rave activator. He’s cultivated his unique style of DJing that delivers an intentional blend of freak-out boogie music, sensual rollers, whip-crack bangers, insistent percussion, afrobeat goodness, deep thumping low frequencies & slow-burning experimental descents. In 2014, he started New York City's GROOVY GROOVY party - a judgment-free atmosphere for wild dance floors, spiritual, mental & physical rejuvenation, radical politics, and a dose of undeniably rocking talent. Akanbi has made an impression with visionary sets across the globe at select spaces like Guggenheim Museum, Sustain Release, Nowadays, Dekmantel, Horst, OIL Club Shanghai, WWW Tokyo, Berghain/Panorama Bar, Corsica Studios, Primavera Sound Barcelona et al.Recently at Camp Kennybrook, Nowadays, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with /KATA/, The Large, Ayanna Heaven, none of them here that night
often with LOKA, Jennifer Herrema, Jazzy Romero, none of them here that night
often with Christopher Kinsey, James Kelleher (PRESHOW), none of them here that night
often with Madision Wada, Yaya Flows, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Bobby Beethoven10 with Total Freedom and 4 with Total Freedom
- Yaya Flows3 with Akanbi and 1 with Laila Rosen
- Dee Diggs9 with Kilopatrah Jones
- The Large9 with Akanbi
- Leonce8 with Kilopatrah Jones
- Mike Servito8 with Kilopatrah Jones
- Ron Like Hell8 with Kilopatrah Jones
- Annie Lew7 with Kilopatrah Jones
The room
TBA - SoHo Manhattan Secret Location — 1 event and 8 distinct artists since Sep 2024.
Who put it on
GROOVY GROOVY — 18 events and 62 artists since Sep 2023.