Ballet
Significant Other + LA Timpa (DJ) + Windowseeker + 320 + Blessing
TBA, New York City
This night happened — Sun 29 Sep 2024
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Who was billed5 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
- next: Berlin, Wed 4 NovSignificant Other
- LA Timpa
- Windowseeker
- next: public records, Fri 27 Nov320
- Blessing
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
9 of the 10 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- 320 and Blessing — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Mon 12 Aug 2024.
Who they are
“Significant Other, a UK-born DJ, producer, and curator now based in Berlin, has carved out a distinctive space in the electronic music landscape with his emotionally resonant productions and genre-resistant style of DJing.”
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Significant Other, a UK-born DJ, producer, and curator now based in Berlin, has carved out a distinctive space in the electronic music landscape with his emotionally resonant productions and genre-resistant style of DJing. Consistently operating at the fringes, his creative output is an at times chaotic fusion of the tough and more tender corners of modern dance music. Initially emerging from the Brooklyn underground scene, Significant Other co-founded the prolific NYC event series and record label Club Night Club, cutting his teeth as a covert curatorial presence behind-the-scenes of a new wave of late 2010s Brooklyn dance music. With sporadic releases appearing across a range of acclaimed UK labels, little artist information provided, he emerged from the shadows as an enigmatic figure within the ecosystem of off-kilter dance production. His debut album Residuum arrived via Manchester cult favorite YOUTH in 2021, representing a veiled departure from the club origins of the project. A ghostly, atmospheric full-length grounded in texture and stygian catharsis which revealed a different side to his sound, transposing the tension and release balancing act of dance music onto a listening geared LP format. In the interim years his sound and DJ sets alike have become even harder to define. His work seamlessly blends elements of ambient, dub, and rougher club sonics, creating immersive fugue-state listening experiences that are at once both introspective and dancefloor-ready. The consistently elusive nature of the project has imbued his long discography with a liminal quality, his production and live output alike forever skirting the margins of genre and utility. Over the years he has garnered a cult reputation for his slant on the skudgier, atmospheric ends of contemporary mood-driven electronic music. In 2024 he launched the record label and Berlin event series Pain Management, an anti-dancefloor outlet for outsider sounds spanning spoken word, hellish dub experimentation and avant-garde electronica; ‘body music for restless minds’.Their RA profile lists SPE:C, Youth, Well Street Records, Oscilla Sound and 1 more.Recently at Camp Kennybrook, Mansions, Sugar Hill Disco · often with Eleftheria, Buttechno, Matana Roberts, none of them here that night
often with Chuquimamani-Condori, none of them here that night
often with Alien D, Amelia Holt, deep creep, none of them here that night
“320 strikes a delicate balance pulling deftly from the sounds of the underground while forging a sound uniquely his own.”
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320 strikes a delicate balance pulling deftly from the sounds of the underground while forging a sound uniquely his own. Existing singularly within both the deep listening and club spheres, his sound is deeply personal, introspective, and meticulously self-aware. Hazy ambient worlds develop through contemporary sound design and dubbed-out atmospheres. In club settings, sets take a tactile, stripped-back approach to house and techno, drawing from minimal, dub, and bass aesthetics to drive with clever rhythms and a tech-y cool. A rising curatorial voice in New York, 320 is a co-founder of the ambient/experimental performance series Ballet and an organizer of DURATIONS Festival. He has published mixes and recordings on Living Room, Theory Therapy, co:clear, dublab, and 29Speedway and performed at Nowadays, Public Records, MoMA PS1, kwia, The Lot Radio, Kiosk Radio ++ @childhoodceiling @ballet.newyorkRecently at H0L0, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with Carrier, Baroque Hoe, Brutal Twink, none of them here that night
“maisonblessing.com”
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Recently at Bossa Nova Civic Club, The End · often with DJ DEADNAME, Yves B Golden, Surgery, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- deep creep3 with 320 and 1 with Windowseeker
- Yumi2 with 320 and 1 with Windowseeker
- DJ DEADNAME7 with Blessing
- Baroque Hoe4 with 320
- Bendik Giske3 with Significant Other
- Brutal Twink3 with 320
- Carmen Villain3 with Significant Other
- Carrier3 with 320
The room
TBA — 430 events and 1,429 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Who put it on
Ballet — 13 events and 60 artists since Apr 2024.