Playback 0040
Bar Laika224 Greene Ave Brooklyn, New York · Map
Wed 21 Oct 2026 · 6pm → 10pm · 4 hours
free · 21+ · Playback New York ·
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Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, October 21 from 7pm for the fortieth edition of Playback with Solpara.
Lebanese-American musician Solpara moves between experimental music, club culture, and interdisciplinary performance. He began making music as a teenager in early-2000s New York, collaborating with Nicolas Jaar before relocating to Montreal, where he co-founded Booma Collective with Valentin Stip and Oren Ratowsky. After returning to New York in 2015, he released his debut solo EP on Jaar’s Other People imprint, followed by records on Quiet Time and Poland’s Brutaz. His debut album, Melancholy Sabotage, arrived in 2024 with Resident Advisor describing it as “undeniably chic post-punk.”
His most recent work has moved further into interdisciplinary performance and film through an ongoing collaboration with Lebanese-American dancer and experimental animator Cirrus Marlo Sauma (CalArts MFA 26’). Their work includes a series of collaborative performances and Opalescent, Sauma’s forthcoming film, for which Solpara created the soundtrack. His latest endeavor is the ongoing Nour Noir Bayt event series, bringing together SWANA artists through experimental music, techno, and live performance.
Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.
from the promoter’s listing on Resident Advisor
Who they are
“Exploring the sounds of techno, electro, ambient, breaks and post-punk, Solpara is a Lebanese-American producer and DJ born and based in New York City.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Exploring the sounds of techno, electro, ambient, breaks and post-punk, Solpara is a Lebanese-American producer and DJ born and based in New York City. Starting in 2010, after moving to Montreal, he and his friends Oren Ratowsky (aka revlux) and Valentin Stip started the underground event series and record label Booma Collective. Since then he has released music on labels like Other People, Quiet Time, L.P.C - and just recently Poland's Brutaż. Solpara has also been playing live and DJ sets locally and internationally, sharing bills with artists like the Zenker Brothers, Objekt, Marie Davidson, Essaie Pas, Huerco S, Mono Junk, Lee Gamble, Nicolas Jaar, and Via App among others. Notable appearances include Boiler Room NYC, MUTEK Montréal & MUTEK San Francsico, B018 in Beirut, Demi-Monde in Paris and Światło in Warsaw.Their RA profile lists Other People, Booma Collective, Vox Populi Records, L.P.C and 2 more.Recently at Trans-Pecos, Dada, Earthly Delights · often with Sepehr, Sister Zo, Simisola, none of them here on Wednesday
names these artists often play with — not on Wednesday
- Sepehr2 with Solpara
- ARCHANGEL1 with Solpara
- beewack1 with Solpara
- bossy boots1 with Solpara
- DJ Haram1 with Solpara
- DJ Yerba Mate1 with Solpara
- Janus Rose1 with Solpara
- sabrout1 with Solpara
The room
Bar Laika — 21 events and 27 distinct artists since Dec 2023.
Holds about 76.
Who’s putting it on
Playback New York — 20 events and 25 artists since Dec 2023.
Also that night
how this one is connected
- Community Hole — shares 5 artists with this room, Kamran Sadeghi among them.