This Friday February 25th we are teaming up with Plan B recordings to bring you a one-off special night at a cozy Brooklyn loft filled with analogue sounds and digital art. Manning the decks will be our favorite deep selector Fred P along with Plan B and Sound Noir DJs. Visual excitement will be provided by a diverse team of our creative friends who were very kind to contribute their artwork and ideas, filling the space with surprises and lights fantastic.
Fred P is the name familiar by now to anyone who likes their dance music lush and emotive. After releasing numerous singles and remixes on revered imprints like Laid, Mule and Underground Quality as well as three albums under the name Black Jazz Consortium on his own label Soul People Music he has become a thought-after DJ representing the new house sound of New York at gigs that take him all across Europe and as far as Australia. Fred’s 3rd album entitled “The Incredible Adventures of Captain P” came out just a couple of months ago, taking us on a trip through his deepest sounds yet – have we got a perfect party for you to experience it!
Plan B is one of the most exciting experimental dance music labels to come out recently from our hometown NY. Run by DJ Spider & Lola, the sound of diverse Plan B releases is united by the infectious offbeat rhythms, unusual samples and often brooding atmospheres. Representing this sound in its most engaging and danceable form will be Lola aka Dakini9 (celebrating her birthday!) and a newcomer to Plan B stable Marshallito – a veteran DJ/producer and a Detroit transplant who worked hard together with us to organize this event and especially to put together the high fidelity sound-system.
Starting out and closing the party will be your friends and resident Sound Noir selectors J Red and Andrey Radovski. Nuff said there:)
Completing your audio-visual experience will be Disco Igloos by Andy Barrett, lazer distortions by Urbarian, artful decorations by M.aD. and video manipulations by our resident visionary Lightwerk.
Introducing Dusty Rhodes with a special live performance.
To receive the address and directions to the loft you have to send RSVP email to adventureloft@gmail.com
Hope to see you there;)
We continue our ongoing collaborations with multimedia artists who’s work looks and feels as stunning as the music of our guest performers. On November 13th we will present you Lumarca by Matt Parker and Albert Hwang who describe it as “a truly volumetric display which allows viewers to see three dimensional images and motion”. Part innovative technology and part dynamic visual artwork, Lumarca is in fact a brand new medium for creative expression.
Big thanks to Matt and Albert for making this happen. Learn more about Lumarca here.
With the next installment of Sound Noir party we are honored to host a release event for the album that will definitely have a strong impact on the electronic music landscape of 2010 and beyond.
Click here for directions and map
Joining us from Berlin for the occasion will be Mr. Roberts himself, who will perform a live set based on his masterwork to be released October 11th on the legendary German minimalist imprint Dial. Using samples of old dusty records, live instrumentation and tracker software run on an antiquated Commodore Amiga, John has created a truly personal and incredibly emotional style of house music – neither an imitation of the classics, nor a bow to the trends, but an independent vision based on one man’s beautiful musical ideas and skills.
Co-starring will be one of the true masters of the original Detroit Beatdown sound. Norm Talley has spent past ten years showing the world that the motor city can create house and disco no less sublime than the techno it’s best known for. Along the way he has released records on such reputable British labels as Third Ear and Sushitech with a strong 12″ for New York’s Thema Records coming out next. Amazingly, this will be his debut New York appearance!
Playing alongside the guests will be residents Lenny Posso, Helping Hands (aka Amaury Arias & Andrey Radovski) and J Red, while our own multimedia wiz Lightwerk sets the mood with his live video manipulations. Completing our vision of the night will be a unique project by a guest visual artist to be announce soon via Twitter. Keep in touch
Next Friday we’re excited to feature, and introduce you to, Jason Eppink’s art installation entitled Twenty-First Century Bonfire.
The Bonfire consists of rescued television sets topped by a protruding matrix of PVC pipe that diffuses live television broadcasts into a shifting array of rich colors and abstract shapes. These heavily-researched and targeted messages of consumption—all provided free of charge by unwitting corporate collaborators—are filtered into abstraction simply by scattering them inside the PVC piping, rendering the process entirely transparent to the curious observer.
For more information about Jason and his work head over to http://jasoneppink.com/
After a series of loft and warehouse events we are bringing the next installment of our party to the Littlefield art space. This time the night will light up to the sounds of Toronto’s visionary Basic Soul Unit (marking his debut in New York), as well as city’s own dance-floor incendiary and frequent DFA collaborator Brennan Green, joined by the residents Lenny de la Posso, Helping Hands and J Red. Augmenting the aural experience will be the enigmatic glow of “Twenty First Century Bonfire” by Jason Eppink, along with flowing video and slide projections by Mechaneyes and Ruby Gold.
Lots more information for you after the jump: Read more
Hello!
We are starting a whole new season of events that would feature a carefully chosen selection of our favorite artists – both well known and as-of-yet relatively obscure. As the spotlight of our parties will be first and foremost on the guest performers, we invite you to kick the series off with a free party helmed by our distinguished residents Lenny, Hands and Jacob. Come celebrate with us in the cozy basement of LaZarza – one of the very few smaller venues that live up to our sound standards. This one is on us and open to everyone:)
We are also going to celebrate Frank’s birthday
SN party will be DOWNSTAIRS!
Lenny de la Posso (Thema, Sound Noir)
Helping Hands (Sound Noir)
Jacob Redfield (Sound Noir)
Frank Olivo (Tricycle)
Friday, 19 February 2010
10:30pm – 4am
La Zarza: 166 First Ave. (at 10th Street), NYC (map)
FREE
Once again we are proud of the diverse line-up that will unite on one dancefloor the artists who lead the way in their respective genres.
Hello again!
This Saturday night Sound Noir DJs are playing at Essential – a Manhattan loft happening, which is both an art show and a dance party – everybody wins! Featured will be pictorial and sculpted works from over 50 artists, NY based performers, body painters and live musicians. The party side will feature Cesare vs Disorder of London, Sound Noir residents Lenny de la Posso and Helping Hands, plus several other NY DJs. The location is 56 Walker Street between Broadway and Church St in Tribeca and the timeframe is 4pm Saturday till 1pm Sunday.
You can find out more on Facebook.
And you can buy presale tickets on RA.
Also watch out for the next season of Sound Noir events starting late February!
Signup for the reduced list is now closed. $20 cover at the door. See you tonight!
Hello, we are back!
This time we want to give summer sunshine another chance, without letting go of our favorite dark night.
2 of the most unique US producers/DJs out there will be playing with us day and night.
For the past few years Dave Aju from San Francisco has been walking the line between weird and wonderful by the way of jazzy with his productions – which has rightfully landed him on the mischievous Parisian label Circus Company and led to the very famous Luciano remix of “Crazy Place” – a single taken from Aju’s conceptual album pieced together entirely of vocal samples. Take that acapella-haters! Fear not though his set will include much more than vocalizing:) http://www.myspace.com/daveaju
Kris Wadsworth on his part churns out some of the most distinct and powerful tracks coming from Detroit these days. At just 24 years of age he has mastered his native town’s gritty sound and infused it with a dose of subdued beauty that made them so popular with just about every deep DJ and quality labels like Swiss Morris/Audio, French Adults Only and German Poker Flat. Unlike many of the newly converted pseudo-D producers Kris forgoes all the dross and instead concentrates on extra-tough beats supplemented by melodic depth charges to make for tracks that seem to hit you in the sub-conscious. I could go on and on as Kris really made some of my favorite tracks of this and last years but let the music do the talking, hit the link. http://www.myspace.com/thedepthsof
The latest awesome addition to the line-up is Montreal resident MOSSA. Both his classical/jazz music training and his early obsession with hard-core is showing in his daring electronic compositions that have been released on such influential labels as Cynosure, Mo’s Ferry and Circus Company. First and foremost a DJ, his sets are bursting with energy and sounds that are anything but predictable. http://mossamusic.free.fr/
Our own NYC-town will be represented by Anton Esteban – resident DJ of the 5-year-strong disco/leftfield party No Ordinary Monkey. After experiencing their amazing dance-out last Sunday in WBurg’s Grand Ferry Park we are looking forward to hearing more of that magical psychodelic goodness from Anton’s crate. You’d better be prepared to traverse the outer space! http://www.noordinarymonkey.com/
Residents Lenny de la Posso of Thema ( http://www.neoday.net ) and Helping Hands will be present in high spirits to further define the Sound of Noir.
$10 on the list; $20 at the door
We would like to see you there, dancing;)
