KINDERGARTEN x ALL CENTRE
Sister Zo b2b Ma Sha, Sobolik b2b DJ Pitch, Despina b2b enfleshed
Earthly Delights57-38 Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, NYC · Map
This night happened — Fri 28 Feb 2025
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Who was billed6 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
12 of the 15 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Ma Sha and Sobolik — 7 shared bills before that night, first on Fri 13 Oct 2023.
- Sobolik and Despina — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 6 Dec 2024.
- Ma Sha and Despina — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 6 Dec 2024.
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 Earthly Delights, public records, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with Mui Mui, Sheepshead, Saia, none of them here that night
“Ma Sha is a New York-based producer and DJ who has been active in the scene since 2017 when she co-founded event series - now a NYC staple - Kindergarten.”
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Ma Sha is a New York-based producer and DJ who has been active in the scene since 2017 when she co-founded event series - now a NYC staple - Kindergarten. Since then, she established a radio show which alongside the local Kindergarten crew, holds a monthly residency on The Lot Radio, as well as a record label that has won “Best Breakthrough Label” at the 2022 DJ Mag North America Awards. Focusing on cosmic club workouts with wigged-out rhythmic structures, the label “has become an essential outpost for hard-to-define, easy-to-dance-to club music in just two short years” [DJ Mag]; presenting “twisty, rowdy and unpredictable club music rooted in techno from both sides of the Atlantic” [Resident Advisor]. Apart from running Kindergarten Records, Ma Sha is currently focusing on her solo productions to present her take on experimental high-voltage dance music with a debut release coming out soon. However, Ma Sha is not a novice within the realm of production; as she has been active as half of the band Sha Ru who have been on the radar since their debut EP on Sorry Records in 2019, followed by releases on Infinite Machine, Pressure Dome, Progressive Future, Shubzin, Inveterate and of course, Kindergarten Records. Besides running the label, producing and performing domestically and internationally, Ma Sha is also a co-founder of Hone.Social, a free DJing workshop initiative providing a place to learn and practice within a casual and supportive environment.Their RA profile lists Rhythm Section International, Nervous Horizon, Steel City Dance Discs and Kindergarten Records.Recently at Good Room, The Chocolate Factory, Nowadays · often with Verraco, Ayesha, K Wata, none of them here that night
- Techno on 9, Bass Music on 7, Breaks on 4 and House on 4. styles on their catalogued releasesReleased on Clasico Records (2) (2), Fact Mix (1) and Faith Beat (1); their RA profile also lists 3024, All Centre, Kindergarten Records, Early Reflex and 1 more. labels on their catalogued releases and on their RA profile
Recently at Bossa Nova Civic Club, Mood Ring, Earthly Delights · often with Yaya Flows, Eva Loveless, Mui Mui, none of them here that night
Recently at Mood Ring, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with Madjestic Kasual, Ian Kim Judd, Jetty, none of them here that night
- Their RA profile lists Infinite Machine, All Centre and Kindergarten Records.
Recently at Nowadays, Bossa Nova Civic Club, Jupiter Disco · often with Pacha DJ, kyxm, martine, none of them here that night
Recently at Kaleidoscope BK, Trans-Pecos, Nowadays · often with Jetty, Battygyal, Hymn, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Eva Loveless5 with Sobolik and 2 with Despina
- Mui Mui4 with Sister Zo and 3 with Sobolik
- DJ DEADNAME3 with Sister Zo and 1 with enfleshed
- Jetty2 with DJ Pitch and 2 with enfleshed
- Sheepshead3 with Sister Zo and 1 with Despina
- Yaya Flows6 with Sobolik
- Lychee5 with Sobolik
- Mike Servito5 with Sister Zo
how this compares
- Median final count, Fridays at Earthly Delights20
- Middle half finished between10 and 44
- Past Fridays at this venue counted67
The room
Earthly Delights — 367 events and 795 distinct artists since Aug 2024.
Holds about 74.
Who put it on
Kindergarten — 8 events and 28 artists since Oct 2023.