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Future Black Fusion: Clairaudience & MUSCLECARS

Dead Letter No. 963 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11249 · Map

This night happened — Sat 19 Apr 2025

Dead Letter No 9 and Samir Hall

Press play

Who was billed6 artists

In the order the promoter listed them.

Set times were not published.

None of these artists had shared a bill before that night.

Who they are

  • Anthony Nicholson

    2 bookings since May 2024

    Recently at Dead Letter No. 9 · often with Willy Soul, Phil Mill, Rapha, none of them here that night

  • MUSCLECARS

    New York City · 43 bookings since Aug 2023

    “Native to New York, musclecars is a DJ / Producer duo consisting of Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    Native to New York, musclecars is a DJ / Producer duo consisting of Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield. As musicians, they equally share an admiration for the art form. Their desire to blend genres and express their appreciation for music is focused around their community- the end goal is to bring people together. Through a regular stream of high quality mixes and multiple outstanding releases, they’re constantly turning heads in underground circles. In 2018 they launched ‘Coloring Lessons’, a party that was aimed to add value to their city’s nightlife culture. While the party and sound is not genre specific, it is heavily focused around house, disco, jazz, and soul, embracing the musical elements of their black and brown ancestors. The monthly party's intention is to bring New York City's dance music scene back to what it was during the golden era of NY nightlife. They aim to spread the music that has been influential to them, and share it with a younger generation of their peers. In 2020 the pair launched the label Coloring Lessons Records. The label, like the party, is intended on building up artists from their city and beyond, with the sound indicative of the Coloring Lessons ethos- which is sharing music created and inspired by their ancestors of color, and teaching younger generations about the roots of this music.
    House on 20, Deep House on 18, Broken Beat on 3 and Future Jazz on 3. styles on their catalogued releases
    Released on Brownswood Recordings (1), Love Injection Records (3) (1) and Luaka Bop (1); their RA profile also lists BBE and Toucan Sounds. labels on their catalogued releases and on their RA profile

    Recently at H0L0, Nowadays, Black Flamingo · often with Toribio, Love Injection, moe., none of them here that night

  • Marcus Logan

    5 bookings since Sep 2023

    Recently at public records, Elsewhere · often with L3Ni, Seb Hall, Gaspar Muniz, none of them here that night

  • Jeff Brown

    2 bookings since Apr 2025

  • Maurice Bernstein

    4 bookings since Oct 2023

    Recently at Xanadu, H0L0, public records · often with Willy Soul, Nickodemus, La Lulu, none of them here that night

names these artists often play with — not that night
  • Willy Soul2 with Maurice Bernstein and 1 with Anthony Nicholson
  • Toribio6 with MUSCLECARS
  • Lakuti5 with MUSCLECARS
  • Love Injection5 with MUSCLECARS
  • Tama Sumo5 with MUSCLECARS
  • Ron Trent4 with MUSCLECARS
  • DJ Spinna3 with MUSCLECARS
  • Cameron Da Dj2 with MUSCLECARS
81 said they were going — busier than a usual Saturday at Dead Letter No. 9.
how this compares
  • Median final count, Saturdays at Dead Letter No. 961
  • Middle half finished between31 and 102
  • Past Saturdays at this venue counted110

The room

Dead Letter No. 9 — 366 events and 816 distinct artists since Oct 2023.

Holds about 150.

Most-tagged here: House (26), Electro (11), Techno (8), Acid (5) and Electronica (5). genre tags on this room’s listings

Who put it on

Samir Hall — 10 events and 37 artists since Sep 2024.

Artist photos: Resident Advisor, event 2142825.

Attending counts, venue and promoter records, co-billing history, release styles and release labels: adrift’s record of New York City events.

Quoted passages are the promoter’s or the artist’s own words, unedited.