DJ STEPDAD, Soler System, 3 People
Jupiter Disco1237 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237 · Map
This night happened — Sun 9 Aug · 7pm → 2am Mon
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Who was billed3 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
1 of the 3 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- DJ STEPDAD and Soler System — 4 shared bills before that night, first on Tue 23 Apr 2024.
- DJ STEPDAD and 3 People — 3 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 18 Dec 2024.
Good to know
- “Free all night”
- “If you see or experience anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, please alert one of our team members and we will coordinate a resolution immediately.”
- “Don't worry, we always have re-entry.”
DJ STEPDAD, 3 People, and Soler System take the booth at Jupiter Disco. Expect a night that touches on everything from trippy house to raucous club to spoken word mutations.
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Jupiter Disco is a safe space for all. Our most important goal is to ensure everyone who steps into our space feels welcome and safe. In order to achieve this goal, it's mission critical that everyone approaches each other with respect. That means everyone.
We are passionate about bringing people together and building connections between participants in and adjacent to our community. Go ahead and say hi to someone new while you're here with us!
We encourage everyone to be present and interface with the physical elements around you while you're with us, so we ask that you please limit your phone use throughout the space.
Phone screen and camera lights can also be distracting, so please be mindful of the brightness and the length of time you use those lights, if at all.
If you intend to smoke (anything), please take a break outside and take a few steps down the block. Don't worry, we always have re-entry.
the rest of the promoter’s listing — 2 more paragraphs
Free all night
If you see or experience anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, please alert one of our team members and we will coordinate a resolution immediately.
from the promoter’s listing on Resident Advisor
Who they are
“Whatever your thoughts are on artists with goofy monikers, Ted Davis (aka DJ STEPDAD) has likely heard them before.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Whatever your thoughts are on artists with goofy monikers, Ted Davis (aka DJ STEPDAD) has likely heard them before. In line with Davis’s worldview at large, the name of the dance project is as much an act of lighthearted sincerity as it is a reflection of his unbothered sense of humor. Initially a product of the short-lived lo-fi house boom and its endless cheekily-named producers, DJ STEPDAD began in 2018—around the same time Davis started hosting scrappy living room raves out of dingy college houses in Orange County. Reconnecting with a childhood friend over beers and Serato that winter break, the conversation turned to all the support Davis’s stepdad, Mike, had given his musical pursuits over the years. The name DJ STEPDAD had a ring to it, and was decided then and there as a quasi-tribute. Aside from the 2019 EP, for my stepchildren vol. 1, and the occasional stand-alone single, DJ STEPDAD remained a fleeting party trick while Davis relocated to Los Angeles in the early throes of the pandemic. Quickly becoming a respected critical voice in ambient music, Davis was netting bylines with his favorite publications while his own music fell into stasis. Lacking a sense of community in the SoCal sprawl, it didn’t take Davis long to find what he had been missing after relocating to New York in 2022. Within weeks of moving, DJ STEPDAD was playing sets on The Lot Radio, and building friendships with formative electronic influences. The coastal shift and refocus on music would come to shape time to figure things out, Davis’s forthcoming EP and proper reintroduction to the project. Named after a 1970s expression signaling a couple heading for divorce, time to figure things out fittingly finds Davis rebuilding his relationship with DJ STEPDAD. Between properly learning how to DJ ahead of travel dates for the first time, and having mixes featured on NTS and Dublab, the result is an inward-gazing collection of tracks that capture Davis’s confidence being built in real time. Nowhere is that clearer than on EP opener “heaven’s on fire,” which challenges what any DJ STEPDAD track has sounded like before it. Giving the beloved Radio Dept. single a deep house rework, the cover centers Davis’s vocals on a track for the first time under a woozy, autotuned sheen. Not letting time to figure things out become an isolated affair, Davis recruited college rave co-host Alex Conradt for time to figure things out’s artwork and enlisted Doom Trip Records label head Zac Emerson (Panda Bear, Maral) for mastering duties. “dads can’t step” and “she took the kids” stay committed to the divorced dad bit, but a move towards higher fidelity, along with Emerson’s mastering handiwork, have allowed DJ STEPDAD’s fog-enveloped production to soar. Closing with the restless, pop-sampling highlight “bad vibes,” time to figure things out sounds, if anything, like an artist that figured it out. [Tim Gagnon]Recently at Eavesdrop, Night Club 101, Elsewhere · often with Mole, M Wagner, Salvataggio, none of them here that night
Recently at Night Club 101, Rash, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with Salvataggio, Reid Golden, Eva Loveless, none of them here that night
Recently at Rash · often with Alien D, Ben Seretan, Gardener, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Alien D3 with DJ STEPDAD and 1 with 3 People
- Reid Golden2 with DJ STEPDAD and 2 with Soler System
- Ben Seretan2 with DJ STEPDAD and 1 with 3 People
- M Wagner2 with DJ STEPDAD and 1 with 3 People
- Mole2 with DJ STEPDAD and 1 with Soler System
- Salvataggio1 with DJ STEPDAD and 1 with Soler System
- Post-Geography4 with DJ STEPDAD
- Eva Loveless3 with Soler System
how this compares
- Median final count, Sundays at Jupiter Disco22
- Middle half finished between12 and 41
- Past Sundays at this venue counted135
- Counted7 on Fri 31 Jul, 22 on Wed 12 Aug
The room
Jupiter Disco — 928 events and 1,468 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Also that night
- KineticsBossa Nova Civic Club — Eva Loveless and Soler System keep turning up on the same bills.
- Dominican Day AfterpartyMood Ring — that room books a lot of the same DJs as this one.
how these 2 are connected
- Kinetics — Eva Loveless and Soler System have shared 3 bills; Eva Loveless is on that bill and Soler System is on this one.
- Dominican Day Afterparty — shares 411 artists with this room, sola system among them.