GROOVY GROOVY Nonstop
Gavsborg, Baalti, DJ Noir, DJ SWISHA, KATA, Lechuga Zafiro, NVST
Nowadays56-06 Cooper Ave. Ridgewood, NY 11385 · Map
This night happened — Sat 15 Aug · 10pm → 3pm Sun
$20+ · 21+ · GROOVY GROOVY and Nowadays ·
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Who was billed8 artists
In the order they were set to play.
- 22:00 – 00:00next: Jupiter Disco, Sat 14 Nov/KATA/
- 00:00 – 02:00Gavsborg
- 02:00 – 04:00NVST
- 04:00 – 06:00Lechuga Zafiro
- 06:00 – 09:00next: Jupiter Disco, Fri 30 OctAkanbi
- 09:00 – 12:00Baalti
- 12:00 – 15:00DJ Noir
- 12:00 – 15:00next: Paragon, Sat 31 OctDJ SWISHA
the pairs that have met
23 of the 28 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- /KATA/ and Akanbi — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Thu 29 May 2025.
- Gavsborg and Lechuga Zafiro — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
- NVST and Lechuga Zafiro — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
- Gavsborg and NVST — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
- Akanbi and DJ SWISHA — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 22 Feb 2025.
Good to know
- “RSVP is $10 before 11pm and $15 before midnight.”
- “We stop taking RSVPs at 6pm on the day of the party.”
- “Nonstop tickets are divided by entry time. You must arrive during the hours listed on your ticket.”
access and the fine print — 1 more line
- “The wheelchair entrance to our indoor space is in the driveway, which is the access point most commonly used to enter Nowadays.”
Nowadays once again returns to Planet Groovy, as the celebrated party series heats up its sexy rhythmic melting pot for a full takeover at this week’s Nonstop.
The night begins with KATA, a sonic adept whose wide range covers everything from syncopated percussion to soulful R&B merged with blissed-out drum n’ bass.
Uncompromising Jamaican dancehall experimentalist Gavsborg covers the midnight hours in a cloud of ever-shifting rhythms, combining soundsystem sensibilities with hip-shaking traditions of world percussion. NVST emerges at the midnight hour, the Swiss DJ and producer crunching distorted bass drums underfoot with textural low-end steppers and dark, ethereal vocals. And in the wee hours of morning, Lechuga Zafiro conjures his distinctive brand of chaotic latin percussion, with beats that feel like they’re constructed from the scrap metal of a crashed alien spaceship.
On Sunday, Groovy Groovy founder Akanbi leads us in morning prayer, greeting the sun with his always-spiritual and unfiltered African groovescape. Baalti keeps the room moving with high-energy club heaters, showcasing the trailblazing New York duo’s knack for infectious percussion and southeast asian pop fusions. We crash back down to Earth at maximum velocity as LA’s queen of juke DJ Noir joins forces with New York club staple DJ SWISHA, blasting through with one final bout of booty-lifting, high-tempo turbulence.
from the promoter’s listing on Resident Advisor
Who they are
Recently at Le Bain, Bossa Nova Civic Club, Mood Ring · often with Lexicon, Fugitive Artifact, Marco Neves, none of them here that night
- Their RA profile lists Cassette Blair.
often with Marylou, MBODJ, Baba Sy, none of them here that night
“Swiss DJ and producer NVST emerged from Lausanne’s free party and illegal rave circuits, a background that continues to shape a physical, high-tension approach to club music.”
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Swiss DJ and producer NVST emerged from Lausanne’s free party and illegal rave circuits, a background that continues to shape a physical, high-tension approach to club music. Her sets move through breakbeat, techno, acid and industrial without settling, driven by a sharp sense of structure and rupture, where intensity builds, collapses and reconfigures in real time. Rather than navigating genres, NVST works the dancefloor as a space of friction and release, balancing precision with instability. This approach has taken her from underground scenes to major platforms, with performances at venues and festivals such as Atonal, Garage Noord, Dekmantel, Horst Arts & Music, Positive Education, Rewire, Fiber and Montreux Jazz Festival. Touring extensively across Europe, Asia and Latin America, she continues to expand her reach internationally, with a first run of shows in Brazil in 2026 and upcoming North American appearances including Nowadays in New York and MUTEK Montréal. She holds a residency at C12 in Brussels and is part of the extended Tresor family in Berlin, while maintaining a regular presence on the airwaves with radio residencies on Kiosk Radio and Rinse FM. Alongside her DJ practice, NVST has developed a body of recorded work across multiple formats, including several solo and alias releases on labels such as Tresor, Dekmantel, Fabric Records, SSPB, Les Disques Magnétiques and Maloca. Her productions reflect the same tension as her sets, combining raw rhythmic structures with a controlled sense of space and progression, In parallel, she has been progressively shifting toward live and hybrid formats. Through projects such as Drift Institute and Sixsixsevenfortyseven, she explores audiovisual performance as an extension of her club work, currently culminating in the development of her first solo live show in collaboration with visual artist Mika Oki. This new phase extends her practice beyond the DJ booth, opening up new ways of shaping sound, space and perception. Across club performances, broadcasts and live formats, NVST builds a practice rooted in DIY culture while continuously pushing toward more complex and immersive forms.Their RA profile lists Tresor, Dekmantel, 777 Recordings, Lurid Music and 6 more.often with GLOBUS, TRESOR, Rafush, none of them here that night
“His two EPs, 2015’s Aequs Nyama (Salviatek) and 2018’s Testigo (NAAFI), garnered support from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Resident Advisor, FACT Magazine , Björk, Kode 9 and more.”
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His two EPs, 2015’s Aequs Nyama (Salviatek) and 2018’s Testigo (NAAFI), garnered support from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Resident Advisor, FACT Magazine , Björk, Kode 9 and more. Since then, Zafiro has collaborated with Matmos and Linn da Quebrada, and has remixed for artists on SVBKVLT and TraTraTrax. He has extensively explored in the area of field recording and sound design, working for Splice, Mubert and artist Catarina Miranda to create sample packs and soundtracks based on his own recordings of objects, animals and natural soundscapes. Zafiro is a skillful DJ with a playful disregard for genre consistency. He’s made mixes for platforms like NTS, Mutek, i-D and Noisey, has toured as a DJ throughout Asia, Europe, South and North America and has played in festivals like Sonar, Unsound, Primavera Sound. Lechuga is currently hosting a radio show in NTS 1 focused on Latin American dance music and field recording experiments. His upcoming album Desde los oídos de un sapo (TraTraTrax) has already received positive reviews from specialized press. “It’s sorta the club music equivalent of poetry, a music that focuses on suggestion and detail, rather than overall narrative” Colin Joyce “Uruguay’s Lechuga Zafiro has become a relentless force for South American music in recent years. He has taken regional sounds of the continent to the global stage.” Tayyab Amin,The Guardian Text by Nina PosnerTheir RA profile lists Naafi and TraTraTrax.Recently at Earthly Delights, Bossa Nova Civic Club, Paragon · often with upsammy, livwutang, Berghain, none of them here that night
“Akanbi is heading a new generation of dedicated ravers in New York City.”
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Akanbi is heading a new generation of dedicated ravers in New York City. Raised in Lagos, Nigeria, with limited access to the internet but a huge thirst for new music, Akanbi moved to NYC in 2010 and immersed himself head on into every corner of dance music, as a serious dancer and, eventually, a DJ and rave activator. He’s cultivated his unique style of DJing that delivers an intentional blend of freak-out boogie music, sensual rollers, whip-crack bangers, insistent percussion, afrobeat goodness, deep thumping low frequencies & slow-burning experimental descents. In 2014, he started New York City's GROOVY GROOVY party - a judgment-free atmosphere for wild dance floors, spiritual, mental & physical rejuvenation, radical politics, and a dose of undeniably rocking talent. Akanbi has made an impression with visionary sets across the globe at select spaces like Guggenheim Museum, Sustain Release, Nowadays, Dekmantel, Horst, OIL Club Shanghai, WWW Tokyo, Berghain/Panorama Bar, Corsica Studios, Primavera Sound Barcelona et al.Recently at La Plaza Cultural, Apollo Studio, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with The Large, Ayanna Heaven, Yaya Flows, none of them here that night
“Their highly percussive and rhythm-driven sound effortlessly blends UK-influenced club music with sounds rooted in their Indian identities.”
their own biography
Their RA profile lists Steel City Dance Discs, all my thoughts and Krunk Kulture.Recently at 99 Scott Ave, 314 Scholes, Good Room · often with rrao, Arushi Jain, Enayet, none of them here that night
- Their RA profile lists JUKE BOUNCE WERK.
Recently at Bossa Nova Civic Club, public records · often with DJ Roc, Mz 313, JAE JBW, none of them here that night
“Juke Bounce Werk crew member and Fool's Gold Records signee.”
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Juke Bounce Werk crew member and Fool's Gold Records signee. Born in Philadelphia, raised in Los Angeles and currently based in New York City.Reggaeton on 2, UK Garage on 2, Deep Techno on 2 and Gqom on 2. styles on their catalogued releasesTheir RA profile lists Moveltraxx, Trax Couture, Dome of Doom and JUKE BOUNCE WERK.Recently at Bossa Nova Civic Club, Signal, Paragon · often with AceMo, Kush Jones, shekdash, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Niklas Bildstein Zaar2 with Lechuga Zafiro and 2 with NVST
- Kush Jones10 with DJ SWISHA
- The Large9 with Akanbi
- Marco Neves8 with /KATA/
- AceMo7 with DJ SWISHA
- Lexicon7 with /KATA/
- MoMA Ready6 with DJ SWISHA
- Tlim Shug6 with /KATA/
how this compares
- Median final count, Saturdays at Nowadays1,183
- Middle half finished between554 and 1,707
- Past Saturdays at this venue counted185
- Counted321 on Fri 31 Jul, 865 on Wed 12 Aug
The room
Nowadays — 804 events and 1,369 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Who put it on
GROOVY GROOVY — 18 events and 62 artists since Sep 2023.
Also that night
- Pressure: Kevin Saunderson, Joey Beltram, DAY/DEM + MERGEParagon — that room books a lot of the same DJs as this one.
- GE-OLOGY / Tom of England, Hiatt dB / Renata Do Vallepublic records — that room books a lot of the same DJs as this one.
- Happy Hour: High VoltageBossa Nova Civic Club — that room books a lot of the same DJs as this one.
how these 3 are connected
- Pressure: Kevin Saunderson, Joey Beltram, DAY/DEM + MERGE — shares 326 artists with this room, Shyboi among them.
- GE-OLOGY / Tom of England, Hiatt dB / Renata Do Valle — shares 400 artists with this room, Lovie among them.
- Happy Hour: High Voltage — shares 462 artists with this room, Justin Carter among them.