New York Modular Society 7th Anniversary
The Sultan Room234 Starr St. Brooklyn, NY 11237 · Map
This night happened — Mon 5 Oct · 7pm → 10pm
21+ · crew called self ·
Press play
Who was billed6 artists
In the order they were set to play.
- 19:305ToK3
- 20:30Ben The Glorious Bastard
- 21:00Crew Called Self
- 21:30Todd Sines
- 19:00 Nicky Bagels
- 20:00 Dngrhndz
Most of these pairings were meeting for the first time that night.
the pairs that have met
12 of the 15 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- 5ToK3 and Crew Called Self — 3 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 20 Sep 2023.
- 5ToK3 and Ben The Glorious Bastard — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 28 Sep 2024.
- Ben The Glorious Bastard and Crew Called Self — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 28 Sep 2024.
Who they are
Recently at KEYBAR, The Canvas · often with DBL_BBL, @Boyyota+Nomae, SEV1, none of them here that night
Recently at Bitter End NYC · often with Dngrhndz, As.dB, Cable Management, none of them here that night
“Crew Called Self is a live electro/techno performer and DJ”
their own biography
Recently at The Sultan Room, KEYBAR, Earthly Delights · often with KANZE, DBL_BBL, Jesse Juno, none of them here that night
“Inspired by early electro-pop and hip-hop like Art of Noise, Herbie Hancock & Whodini, Todd Sines began creating music in the late 80’s, ranging from post-punk and industrial to techno and house.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Inspired by early electro-pop and hip-hop like Art of Noise, Herbie Hancock & Whodini, Todd Sines began creating music in the late 80’s, ranging from post-punk and industrial to techno and house. He swapped his bass for an analogue synth in 1991, and thus began a lifelong gearlust of all things tactile and analogue. While at The Ohio State University, he was the last student to study modular synthesis under former Stockhausen student Dr. Thomas Wells, the author of the seminal 1981 study "The Technique of Electronic Music" (Schirmer Books) [who helped him launch Analogue Heaven, the world’s first analogue synthesis focused electronic mailing list, 23 years and running.] His experimental yet melodic techno and stripped-down house music caught the ear of Carl Craig and Daniel Bell, who helped him release records on the Planet E, 7th City and Peacefrog labels in the mid '90s. Over the last two decades he’s worked with and remixed Yoko Ono, Alexander Robotnick, Robert Owens, Paul Randolph, and Sal Principato of Liquid Liquid, while his globetrotting live performances and DJ gigs have been featured in art spaces like MoMA PS1, Creative Time, the Wexner Center for the Arts; festivals like Movement, Roskilde, and Sonar, and clubs like London's Fabric and Berlin's Berghain, Panorama Bar, and Tresor. Twenty-plus years into his career, his recording studio still features a nearly all-analogue hardware environment, with tape machines, sequencers, synthesizers, and many DIY / home-brewed instruments, all the better to help him conjure a future-thinking sound from times past. From the flat fields of Ohio to the concrete jungle of New York, Todd Sines' environments; real and virtual, have served as inspiration for his unique, hybrid sound. His post punk, industrial, and hip-hop upbringings, filtered through an obsession with analogue and early digital technology, resulted in stripped down electronic funk; before minimal was mnml - it was just effective. Through his techno band, Body Release, with key Ohio players Titonton Duvanté, Charles Noel [Archetyp] and Mike Szewczyk, they dabbled in early rave sounds before embarking on their own paths. Todd's introduction in early 1993 to Detroit's Carl Craig and Daniel Bell resulted in seminal releases with Peacefrog, Planet E and 7th City by year end. Catching the ear of Richie Hawtin, "boiling point" was featured on his debut mix CD in 1995 on Mixmag. Soon after, releases on Andy Vaz's Background Records and Titonton's own Residual brought his sound to house and techno aficionados worldwide. Since his move to New York in 2003, he's worked with a variety of other artists, including !!!, Death in Vegas, Liquid Liquid's Sal Principato and Apollo Heights; he's remixed Alexander Robotnick, Paul Randolph, Robert Owens, Moonstarr, Adam Marshall, Lanoiraude and more. With his new material with Natacha Labelle on Frankie, he pushes the boundaries of house music, and with the resurrection of his .xtrak alias on YORE, his return to jackin' minimal funk reminds people of where it all started. His new studio will yield another layer to his established track record, now forging new trajectories in post-punk, no-wave and experimental indie rock.Techno on 45, Minimal on 30, Tech House on 21 and House on 18. styles on their catalogued releasesReleased on Bogen Konzept Recordings (1) and HELIC.AL (1); their RA profile also lists Peacefrog, Sunday Best, Frankie Rec, Planet E and 6 more. labels on their catalogued releases and on their RA profileRecently at Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with NOTFORTV, Sugar, Max Watts, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- DBL_BBL3 with 5ToK3 and 2 with Crew Called Self
- Cable Management2 with 5ToK3 and 1 with Ben The Glorious Bastard
- KANZE2 with Crew Called Self and 1 with 5ToK3
- Jack Tonelli1 with 5ToK3 and 1 with Crew Called Self
- Jesse Juno2 with Crew Called Self
- @bobi and Fliko1 with Crew Called Self
- @Boyyota+Nomae1 with 5ToK3
- Aqeel Aadam Sound1 with Ben The Glorious Bastard
The room
The Sultan Room — 369 events and 771 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Holds about 250.
Most-tagged here: House (9), Dancehall (4), Afrobeats (3), Hip-Hop (3) and Pop (3). genre tags on this room’s listings
Who put it on
crew called self — 2 events and 8 artists since Aug 2026.
Also that night
- MMF Society Open DecksThe Rose — also tagged techno, with house too.
- Dead Inside Society 6 Year Anniversary with Khadija, motiv-a, ZaniasBossa Nova Civic Club — also tagged techno, with ebm too.
- The Hella Sketchy X Kudu: Floor Space, Dune Machine, Erin WajufosHart Bar — also tagged techno, with ambient too.
how these 3 are connected
- MMF Society Open Decks — RA tags both listings techno — and that one also house.
- Dead Inside Society 6 Year Anniversary with Khadija, motiv-a, Zanias — RA tags both listings techno — and that one also ebm.
- The Hella Sketchy X Kudu: Floor Space, Dune Machine, Erin Wajufos — RA tags both listings techno — and that one also ambient.