Dr. Rubinstein + Ultrathem / Prosumer + A lana / Veronica Vasicka
public records233 Butler St, Brooklyn, NY 11217 · Map
This night happened — Fri 31 Oct 2025
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Who was billed5 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
“Acid Doctor from Berlin”
their own biography
Their RA profile lists Uppers and Downers.Recently at BASEMENT, The Chocolate Factory, Paragon · often with VINVAR, Juliana Huxtable, Supergloss, none of them here that night
Recently at Knockdown Center, Paragon, BASEMENT · often with Volvox, Juliana Huxtable, Concrete Husband, none of them here that night
“„The craze about the music...“ ...the man called Prosumer is besotted with it.”
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„The craze about the music...“ ...the man called Prosumer is besotted with it. Since Achim Brandenburg heartily grabbed the microphone under this moniker in 2005 for Frankfurt’s then undisputed Label Playhouse, he showed that lasciviousness, a fever for Chicago’s Jack flavour and consciousness of tradition aren’t necessarily bound to a time and a place. Vision, passion and knowledge make Prosumer a guardian of house music history and one of the formative artists, influential DJs and important producers of our days. While deriving his name from Alvin Toffler’s techno sci-fi-bible The Third Wave (producing and consuming at the same time), Prosumer lives up to his name. With more than a decade of Hard-Wax-Record-Store-enculturation on the clock (first in Saarbrucken, then Berlin), he spent countless nights in clubs, days looking for music and years refining his art and becoming in line with the “big three”. This is not a reference to Detroit’s car companies, but the city’s musical heritage that – together with the Big Apple and the Windy city – laid the foundation for techno and house builds with the Big Apple and the Windy City. Prosumer oscillates between these poles. That holds true for his productions, which are affected by references and historical vertexes, but never feel to be out of time or place. An album with Murat Tepeli and collaborations with Tama Sumo expand his discography for labels like the aforementioned Playhouse, Running Back or Swayzak’s 240 Volts. On the other hand – and that might be far more important – this is exemplary for his DJ work since the mid-nineties. Prosumer connects the tracks and songs of this music’s golden age with the worthwhile pieces and developments of today. Accordingly to that special feeling which is so hard to couch, he gets engaged in it from tip to toe – and so does his audience. Proved by his mission as one of the residents in Berlin’s influential club institution, on his official mix CD for that place that describes his spectrum of sound perfectly and by this certain magic that travels with and in him everywhere. „Through his body and through his veins...“Their RA profile lists Simple Records, Playhouse, Diamonds & Pearls, Ostgut Ton and 2 more.Recently at Signal, HK Hall, H0L0 · often with Gene On Earth, Chris Cruse, Grace Sands, none of them here that night
“house music vinyl deejay in brooklyn new york”
their own biography
Recently at Moondog Hifi, Jupiter Disco, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with Unique Devices, Dee Diggs, Nita Aviance, none of them here that night
“Veronica Vasicka is a NYC native: a photographer, musician, DJ and founder of the epic record label and on-line music resource Minimal Wave.”
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Veronica Vasicka is a NYC native: a photographer, musician, DJ and founder of the epic record label and on-line music resource Minimal Wave. As one of the founding members of East Village Radio, she managed the station during its pirate days and began collecting obscure and long forgotten gems that fell somewhere between the Cold Wave, Post-Punk, Industrial and Synth-pop genres. Not knowing what to classify these bands as, she coined the genre Minimal Wave and set up the website www.minimalwave.com as an online resource to share her finds with the rest of the world. The response to the website was huge and shortly after its launch, Veronica began tracking these artists down and re-issuing their work on the Minimal Wave label. Most of these bands recorded extremely limited copies of their work in their basements and shared their work with the world via John Peel's radio show and a handful of underground music mailings. The music released on the label ranges stripped down, D.I.Y. synth-pop to pioneering industrial electronics. In addition to running Minimal Wave, Veronica launched the Cititrax in 2008 (www.minimalwave.com/releases/cititrax) label as way to expose newer synth-based acts. She DJs monthly in her hometown, New York City, and around the world, as well as having hosted a weekly radio show from 6-8pm ET on East Village Radio for 10 years. She now hosts a monthly show on Red Bull Radio called This Side of Nowhere. She has curated and released over 100 albums now, amongst them were two highly lauded compilations: The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volumes 1 and 2 which were picked up, released and distributed by Stones Throw Records. Veronica's DJ sets range from raw, danceable industrial electronic to cold wave fused with mutant house and underground techno. She likes to tell a story when spinning and to teach the crowd about the roots of electronic music. She has a fantastic talent for synthesizing her influences into an unforgettable night of dancing. Select mixes can be heard here: Resident Advisor #663 https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=663 Boiler Room (Dekmantel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYkHPNs1d0 Boiler Room (Santiago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9kOO-xS4w Beats in Space 923 https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/923/ Beats in Space 519 https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/519/ Mixmag in Session https://soundcloud.com/mixmag-1/in-session-veronica-vasicka Dekmantel 072 https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dekmantel-podcast-072-veronica-vasicka XLR8R, http://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2015/07/xlr8r-podcast-396-veronica-vasicka-dekmantel-festival-2015-edition/ LN-CC Boutique, https://soundcloud.com/ln-cc/ln-cc-store-mix-033-veronica Dazed And Confused, http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/13016/1/exclusive-veronica-vasicka-mix I.D. Magazine http://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/id-mix-final-veronica-vasicka, Noise In My Head http://www.noiseinmyhead.com.au/2013/02/170213-w-veronica-vasicka New York Times feature: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/fashion/talking-with-veronica-vasicka-founder-of-minimal-wave.html Veronica has DJ'd events for Art Basel, MoMA, MoMA P.S. 1, Miu Miu, Calvin Klein, Surface To Air, Agnes B, and 22/4 Hommes Femmes. She also played these festivals: Sonar, Primavera, Atonal, Simple Things, Dekmantel (Amsterdam and Sao Paolo), Cynetart, Mutek, Movement, Sustain Release, as well as numerous club nights in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Miami, Tokyo, Kobe, Tbilisi, London, Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, Rome, Milan, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Malmö, Helsinki, Bucharest, Athens, Moscow, Mexico City, Santiago, Medellin, Bogota, Manchester, Bristol, Belfast and Glasgow. Veronica has been featured in various notable publications such as The New York Times, Interview Magazine, Dazed & Confused, I.D. Magazine, Vice, Elle, Electronic, Revel In New York, New York Magazine, and Time Out New York. http://www.minimalwave.com https://www.facebook.com/minimalwaverecords http://www.twitter.com/minimal_wave http://www.instagram.com/minimalwaveTheir RA profile lists Downwards and Minimal Wave.Recently at Good Room, Nowadays, Musica Club NYC · often with Andi, S4M23, Sam Clarke, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Juliana Huxtable4 with Dr. Rubinstein and 2 with Ultrathem
- Dee Diggs3 with A lana and 1 with Ultrathem
- S4M232 with A lana and 2 with Veronica Vasicka
- Rose Kourts1 with Ultrathem and 1 with Veronica Vasicka
- Unique Devices6 with A lana
- DJ Christmas4 with A lana
- Shaun J. Wright4 with Dr. Rubinstein
- Andi3 with Veronica Vasicka
683 said they were going — much busier than a usual Friday at public records.
how this compares
- Median final count, Fridays at public records173
- Middle half finished between97 and 260
- Past Fridays at this venue counted180
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