FLOW STATE (CHICAGO) - Sister Zo, DJ DEADNAME, Hot Take, Jack Galactic, Shareen & Friends
Earthly Delights57-38 Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, NYC · Map
This night happened — Sat 8 Feb 2025
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Who was billed5 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
8 of the 10 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Sister Zo and DJ DEADNAME — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Tue 15 Oct 2024.
- Hot Take and Shareen — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 8 Feb 2025.
Who they are
“After getting her start performing at underground poetry events in her hometown, she eventually moved on to playing live beat sets during open mic nights at one of KC's most pivotal queer nightlife institutions of the 21st century, the Uptown Arts Bar.”
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After getting her start performing at underground poetry events in her hometown, she eventually moved on to playing live beat sets during open mic nights at one of KC's most pivotal queer nightlife institutions of the 21st century, the Uptown Arts Bar. Occasionally she'd wander upstairs to Niche, a 100-cap club with a legendary sound system known as the Meta HiFi. There she got her first taste of the sounds of the UK bass continuum and the LA beat scene, with its prominent figureheads like Flying Lotus, Ras G and Shlohmo. Ever the nomad, she would spend her mid-twenties traveling, flitting between cities like New York and LA and the mountainous terrain of the Colorado Rockies. At 26 years old, she left behind a stable career in psychotherapy to pursue her creative dreams. This would lead her back to Niche where a ravenous desire to evolve as an artist connected her with Peter Anthony, aka Coughman, who ran the independent KC collective and label, Intelligent Sound. Soon Anthony encouraged Zo and her friends Mazzy Mann and Lorelei Kretsinger to build a platform of their own. In October 2017, the three of them founded the UN/TUCK queer/trans collective and record label. Over the next two years, they tirelessly built UN/TUCK into an internationally recognized platform, releasing their own music and organizing shows and parties curated specifically for trans and queer people in Kansas City. Under the name BTRFLY, Zo produced her own LA-inspired beats and rapped over them in her sets. As she delved further into the realms of Chicago house, early 2000s UK dubstep, and the hybrid sounds of Hessle Audio, Hyperdub and Idle Hands, she discovered a profound love for DJing and a different kind of production. Now based in Brooklyn, she has made definitive creative statements in 2022, releasing her debut EP, Screw Cheek, on acclaimed UK club label, Scuffed Recordings, and a follow-up EP, Freak Shift, on Martyn's hallowed 3024 imprint, as well as a slew of national bookings at Bunker NY, Texture Detroit, Sole Rehab, clubs like Nowadays, Good Room and Kremwerk, festivals like Slingshot and Honcho Campout and many more on the horizon. It's clear that Zo has solidified her place as an emerging artist firmly in her own lane, with tracks that span the continuum of UK bass and North American techno and house, and mixes that seamlessly capture and defy her genres of interest, blending deep dark percussive bass and broken beat with blistering techno, psychedelic house, east coast club and more.Techno on 24, Bass Music on 22, Breaks on 17 and House on 17. styles on their catalogued releasesReleased on Clasico Records (2) (1), Delusional Records (2) (1) and Grid (6) (1); their RA profile also lists Pineapple Records, 3024, Fever AM, Scuffed Recordings and 1 more. labels on their catalogued releases and on their RA profileRecently at public records, Bossa Nova Civic Club, BASEMENT · often with Mui Mui, Sheepshead, Saia, none of them here that night
“Drawing from a wide range of influences across space, time, and medium, her sets unfold as collages that embrace and sublate the contradiction of It All.”
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Drawing from a wide range of influences across space, time, and medium, her sets unfold as collages that embrace and sublate the contradiction of It All. A resident DJ at Brooklyn’s DIY warehouse party Tossd and one half of Bossa Nova Civic Club’s DAYTONA 500 alongside Eva Loveless, she is firmly rooted in New York—but remains in active dialogue with the American underground, moving fluidly between scenes across the country.Their RA profile lists Framework NY.Recently at Eris, Bossa Nova Civic Club, Mood Ring · often with Eva Loveless, DAYTONA 500, Sevyn Love, none of them here that night
Recently at Elsewhere, Kings Hall - Avant Gardner · often with Glen S, Baroque Hoe, Conduit, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Mui Mui5 with DJ DEADNAME and 4 with Sister Zo
- Eva Loveless16 with DJ DEADNAME
- DAYTONA 50013 with DJ DEADNAME
- Surgery9 with DJ DEADNAME
- Blessing7 with DJ DEADNAME
- Connor Wrong6 with DJ DEADNAME
- Sevyn Love6 with DJ DEADNAME
- DJ Thank You5 with DJ DEADNAME
how this compares
- Median final count, Saturdays at Earthly Delights20
- Middle half finished between7 and 36
- Past Saturdays at this venue counted71
The room
Earthly Delights — 367 events and 795 distinct artists since Aug 2024.
Holds about 74.
Who put it on
Flow State — 1 event and 5 artists since Feb 2025.