Conditioner x Ballet
DORIS, Madeline Stepien, nudo, Sigyumi, Torus
Nowadays56-06 Cooper Ave. Ridgewood, NY 11385 · Map
This night happened — Thu 13 Mar 2025
Ballet, Mystic Stylez and Nowadays
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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
13 of the 15 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Significant Other and Torus — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Thu 13 Mar 2025.
- Significant Other and Yumi — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 28 Oct 2023.
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.”
their own biography
the whole biography
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 Nowadays, Camp Kennybrook, Mansions · often with Eleftheria, Buttechno, Matana Roberts, none of them here that night
Recently at Bossa Nova Civic Club, public records, Good Room · often with Hank Jackson, 320, DJ Healthy, none of them here that night
Recently at Elsewhere · often with Ludwig Wandinger, Yves B Golden, presents "Chilling Bambino, none of them here that night
often with Loidis, Juliana Huxtable, A.M.P, none of them here that night
Recently at MoMA PS1, Mood Ring · often with Dj Sliink, Johanna Constantine, Ben Bondy, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Eleftheria3 with Significant Other and 1 with Torus
- Hank Jackson5 with Yumi
- DJ Healthy4 with Yumi
- Bendik Giske3 with Significant Other
- Carmen Villain3 with Significant Other
- DjRUM3 with Significant Other
- John T. Gast3 with Significant Other
- Laenz3 with Yumi
how this compares
- Median final count, Thursdays at Nowadays196
- Middle half finished between88 and 401
- Past Thursdays at this venue counted146
The room
Nowadays — 804 events and 1,369 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Who put it on
Ballet — 13 events and 60 artists since Apr 2024.
Mystic Stylez — 24 events and 94 artists since Oct 2023.