On a much awaited return to the nightlife of NYC, The
Martinez Brothers finally made their appearance at Flash Factory this past
weekend. The night kicked off with some
smooth vibes and an undeniably intoxicating groove that filled every crevice of
the room. Being that The Martinez
Brothers are a New York based duo, it is safe to say their fan base showed up
in full force as the venue was packed out by 1AM. With such a full house, no
matter what transpired, the night was bound to be a raging party.
The direction the music went throughout the night felt as
though they were playing it safe. The
entire set, although they were dancing and smiling on stage, seemed like the
artistic expression they possess was kept on a leash rather than being let to
run wild with the creatures of the nightlife.
To this we ask… Has fame suppressed the live creative flow? Or is
touring taking a toll? Despite this they
still managed to impress the crowd with some well known Martinez Brothers
originals as well as some transcendent ID tracks to keep the crowd
guessing.
What: Moogfest Dial-Tones at Ace Hotel New York: Synth Building Workshops, Live Performance, and After Party (door times below)
When: Saturday, February 27, 2017 Youth workshop: 12:30pm Adult workshop: 5:30pm Performance: 9:00pm After-Party: 11:00pm Where: Ace Hotel New York – Liberty Hall 20 West 29th Street Cost: Free Tickets:https://dialtonesnyc.eventbrite.com. Space and seating is limited.
New Yorkers can learn how to build a Moog synthesizer and experience some of New York City’s most vibrant underground electronic music artists, including Patricia, Antenes, Via App, and Bookworms, at Moogfest Dial-Tones, a national series of free workshops, performances, and parties presented in partnership with Ace Hotel. The New York City event will take place at Ace Hotel New York on Saturday, February 27th.
Workshops for children and adults will be offered, giving participants an opportunity to explore the beauty and power of analog circuitry and subtractive synthesis as special guest instructor and Moog Music engineer Amos Gaynes leads the build of a Moog Werkstatt-01 synthesizer.
More than 250 of the world’s most forward-thinking musicians, artists, and technologists – from GZA, Gary Numan, Laurie Anderson and Grimes to virtual-reality pioneer Jaron Lanier, transhumanist visionary Dr. Martine Rothblatt, and cyborg artist Neil Harbisson – are slated to appear at Moogfest 2016, taking place in Durham, NC, May 19-22, 2016. For more on the lineup and programming, visit http://www.moogfest.com/
Dial-Tones is an international event series that offers an exclusive preview of the Moogfest 2016 experience in select cities around the world. Curated by Moogfest, Dial-Tones celebrates the form and frequencies surrounding ambient, drone, and microtonal compositions, as well as the technology behind the art of synthesis.
In each city, Moogfest partners with a local organization to host the children’s workshop as well as Moogfest 2016 artists to curate the live performance portion. In its hometown of Durham, Moogfest partnered with artist Nick Sanborn of Made of Oak / Sylvan Esso and in Los Angeles with Nosaj Thing whose collective featured Shlohmo, Emily Kokal (Warpaint), DJ Dodger Stadium, Teebs & D Tiberio.
Dial-Tones carries on to San Francisco in partnership with Grey Area Art & Technology Center on Saturday, March 5.
Watch excerpts from Moogfest Dial-Tones series featuring Nick Sanborn, Nosaj Thing and Emily Kokan of Warpaint here:
Schedule of Events
12:30 PM: The Youth Workshop
Partnering with Makery NYC, Dial-Tones provides youth with a fun, intensive hands-on educational opportunity. Across just 90 minutes, students will learn synth-basics and walk away inspired. Doors will open at 12:30; the workshop itself at 1:00 PM.
05:30: The Adult Workshop
As the adult workshop is limited to (20) participants, we ask that prospective guests only sign-up if 100% available. All workshop RSVPs will receive an email from Moogfest confirming attendance. Doors will open at 5:30; the workshop itself at 6:00 PM.
Special, limited-offer packages are available:
Werkstatt-01 Synth built in the workshop + Moogfest 2016 GA ticket for $249 (a $450 value)
Werkstatt-01 Synth built in the workshop + Moogfest 2016 VIP ticket for $499 (a $698 value)
09:00 PM: Live Performance
Dial-Tones emphasis on collaborations, improv, and experimentation will be highlighted as Moogfest 2016 artists perform on a custom Dial-Tones sound system composed of 10 synthesizers, a mixer, and an audio-reactive lighting setup created by Moog engineer Amos Gaynes.
Patricia, Antenes, Via App, and Bookworms will first collaborate on an improvisational ambient piece, and then, over the course of an hour listeners will be guided through an evolving drone — an auditory ‘exquisite corpse’ if you will, which is being recorded for later release. Doors will be at 9:00 PM; performances begin at 09:30 PM.
11:00 PM: Dial-Tones After Party
Into the later hours we pick-up the pace with Via App and Patricia performing live, as Bookworms (L.I.E.S.) rounds out the party with a DJ set. We’re going to be dancing late, a cash bar curated by The Breslin Bar and Dining Room will be open, and the vibes will be great inside Liberty Hall at Ace Hotel New York.
FEATURED ARTIST: Patricia Patricia is the project of Chicago born and now NYC-based producer Max Ravitz. Max’s own sense of hardware based techno performance is part of a broader generation of artists making non-glossy, gritty, and unforgiving rhythms. The Patricia sound certainly has roots in acid and mid-western techno, but has a tinge of it’s own. It’s smokey, visceral, and keeps the body moving.
FEATURED ARTIST: Via App Dylan Scheer (Via App) is a producer and performing artist based in Queens. She sculpts and collages her synthesized sound with audio samples from a wide range of user-upload sites, field recordings, and popular culture to create a confused, dynamic narrative. Her work references an amalgam of club music throughout history, while refusing to adhere to any categorizable style.
FEATURED ARTIST: Antenes New York-based DJ, producer and electronics artist Antenes (Lori Napoleon) operates a laboratory of self-made sequencers and synthesizers using vintage telephone equipment built in the name of sonic and spatial exploration.
UPCOMING DIAL-TONES EVENTS @ ACE HOTEL San Francisco: 3/5
Purchase your Moogfest 2016 tickets here. General Admission, VIP and Engineer VIP passes available.
Techweek, the nation’s leading traveling
technology festival, has finalized its New York schedule. The 3rd annual
Techweek New York is sponsored by LOFT, a leader in outsourcing for
hyper growth. Techweek New York will showcase key influencers leading
conversations about trends in innovation and growth across the tech
landscape in New York and elsewhere. Notable names include: Al Roker
(CEO, Roker Entertainment, Inc), Gary Vaynerchuk (Founder/CEO,
VaynerMedia), Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (Co-Founder/CEO, GLAMSQUAD) and
Alex Chung (Founder/CEO, Giphy). Panel session topics will include Urban
Innovation, Health and Lifestyle, The Art of Storytelling,
Unconventional and still Unexploited Marketing Tactics, among others.
“With around 80 speakers this year, we’re
excited to feature some of the best leaders and innovators in the New
York technology community,” said Techweek CEO Katy Lynch. “We’re also
capping the number of startups participating in Launch competition at
55. We’re extremely excited about the participants and thrilled to be
awarding the winner $50,000 in prizes.”
The week will feature a wide range of events,
including the Launch startup competition, Hiring Fair, Hackathon, Food
Truck Face-Off, an expo floor, and speaking sessions with leaders in the
tech community.
NYC WEEKEND PARTY ROUNDUP (JULY 16, 2014) – Lavo NYC, Verboten, Webster Hall, The Bounce Boat & Marquee NY has all of your party needs covered this weekend. Whose dancefloor will you be gracing?
(Mysteryland USA Main Stage | Photo Credit: Pearcy Proper)
Over Memorial Day weekend, ID&T presented the debut stateside edition of Mysteryland USA at the beautiful grounds of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, site of the legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival With a clear focus on culture, art, talent, creativity and sustainability, the festival took visitors to an inspiring and mysterious world where anything is possible.
“We at Mysteryland and ID&T / SFX were honored to be the first multi-day camping festival in 45 years to share the beauty and musical legacy of Bethel Woods with our fans. We learned a lot from this first year’s organization and together with the incredible team at Bethel Woods, including local law enforcement and contractors, we were able to accomplish a very successful event. We plan on conducting a comprehensive review of all operations and logistics with all of the stakeholders in the upcoming weeks to better, improve all processes. It’s needless to say that our aim is to return to Bethel Woods, and it would be our privilege and honor to be able to present Mysteryland USA each year at this amazing site. Many thanks to all the fans, artists and crew that helped create such an amazing debut in the USA,” says Jeroen Jansen, Creative Director at ID&T and Mysteryland.
The festival offered its guests a creative journey, combining music with theatre, movies, interactive installation art, street performers and spectacular shows at bizarre decorated stages throughout the grounds. To create this amazing spectacle, the festival organizers collaborated with a wide range of people from all over the world including the Sin Salida creative collective from Amsterdam, Lucent Dossier from Los Angeles, The Wishing Trea sculpture (which will travel to Holland and Chile) by Kate Raudenbusch from New York and Dadara from Amsterdam. From the warm, analog sounds of Sunday School’s Vinyl-Only stage to the harder sounds of Q-Dance, Mysteryland USA brought a diverse palette of sound to its attendees providing an array of niche styles and sub-genres. Keeping true to its roots of being a truly sustainable festival, Mysteryland USA sourced local participation and interaction, with attention on the surroundings and community – as well as sustainable projects – during and after.
“Mysteryland USA was an undeniable success not only for Bethel Woods but also our local community,” says Darlene Fedun, Chief Executive Officer, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. “We are proud to have had the opportunity to share the beauty of our site and its surroundings with a new generation of music and arts enthusiasts who, in turn, shared with us their positive energy, contagious enthusiasm, and true respect for the Woodstock spirit.”
Dating back to 1993, Mysteryland is now the world’s longest-running dance festival with the first international edition of Mysteryland held in Chile in 2011. Mysteryland Holland will return for its 21st year in Haarlemmermeer on August 24th, 2014 with 18 stages and more than 350 musical and creative acts. Tickets available via Mysteryland.nl. Mysteryland Chile will celebrate its 4th anniversary set in the beautiful Chilean backdrop of the Andes on December 19, 20 and 21, 2014 with pre-sales beginning on June 2 at 11AM CLT via Mysteryland.cl.
Yesterday is history. Today is a gift. Tomorrow is a mystery.
(Holy Ground Campsite | Photo Credit: Andrew Rauner)
(Mysteryland USA Festival Attendees | Photo Credit: Pearcy Proper)
(Aerial view of Mysteryland USA | Photo Credit: Joey Timmer)
This Saturday, April 12, Tiësto’s Musical Freedom Records presents its first NYC showcase at Brite Nites @ Webster Hall. Emerging dance music stars Dzeko & Torres, Baggi Begovic and MOTi will hit the Webster Hall stage to celebrate the first anniversary of the popular Brite Nites dance party. Judging from past events, you never know who’s gonna pop up at a Brite Nites party as a surprise guest. Get ready to go Maximal Crazy.
Dzeko & Torres have fast made a name for themselves with a string of eclectic remixes for artists ranging from Of Monsters and Men and Animal Kingdom to Trey Songz and Chuckie. One of their latest remixes, a collaboration with Tiësto on John Martin’s “Anywhere For You,” is currently cranking in the sets of some of the worlds biggest DJs. Still buzzing off the experience of being invited on stage at the Ultra Music Festival by their mentor Tiësto, Dzeko & Torres are looking forward to tearing down Webster Hall with their NYC fans!
Listen to Kiesza “Hideaway (Dzeko & Torres Remix)” here
Baggi Begovic makes his Webster Hall debut at Brite Nites’ first anniversary celebration. This stop is one of many on Begovic’s “Baggage Claim Tour” that culminates next month at EDC New York. Musically, on April 4, Begovic released “I Know U” (Musical Freedom) that follows the smash “Sleep Till I Get Home” (both tracks in collaboration with Team Bastian). Begovic currently hosts “Baggage Claim” on Sirius XM Club Life Radio, which is also available as a free podcast on iTunes.
Listen to the latest episode of “Baggage Claim” here
While only a few months into 2014, it’s already been has been a big year for MOTi. His recent release, "Don’t Go Lose It,” reached as high as #4 on the Beatport progressive house charts while, in addition to his own solo slot, Tiësto invited him onstage at Ultra Music Festival for the world premiere of their massive new collaboration. MOTi is clearly and quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the dance music community.
The time is now! World’s biggest DJ, Armin van Buuren, at long last brings his epic, five-hour “ARMIN ONLY INTENSE” world tour Stateside, kicking-off April 11th at New York’s Madison Square Garden. This never-before-seen spectacle features Armin leading the world’s biggest dance party from his custom-made 76-foot-wide DJ booth along with a troupe of acrobats, dancers, live singers and musicians set to bleeding-edge visuals, pyrotechnics…and much more.
Said Armin, “Unlike today, now that it’s all based on short sets and quick highlights, it used to be all about the long sets, the musical trips. That’s what Armin Only is based on – to take the clubbers on a [five]-plus hour journey into music. Through the Armin Only Intense shows, I can tell them the full story of my Intense album – in fact of everything I’d like to say.”
Swedish DJ/producer Adrian Lux played an amazing set at Pacha NYC Friday night. Toward the beginning he played his most well-known Grammy Award nominated track “Teenage Crime”. Then soon after Mark Knight’s “Your Love”. He efficaciously mixed a wide range of electronic dance music genres including progressive, electro, and even deep house. The crowd went insane when he dropped “Reload” by Sebastian Ingrosso and Tommy Trash. Party goers were pretty much bouncing up and down to the beats. They had so much energy the entire night. He played some of my favorite tracks from last year including “ I AM” by Axwell and Sick Individuals ft. Taylr Rene and “Got a Feeling” by Josh Butler (Bontan Remix Pleasurekraft Edit). He mixed in more of his own music as well including the classic track “Wild Child” with Marcus Schossow ft. JJ (Mysto & Pizzi and Moeiz remix). The remix definitely gives it a fresh new sound. One of the highlights of his set would definitely have to be the innovative mashup of “No Good” by Fedde le Grand, Sultan and Ned Shepard and “Legacy” by Nicky Romero and Krewella (“No Good” vs “Legacy”). Adrian thoroughly entertained us all even towards the end when he played Alesso’s remix of One Republic’s “If I lose myself.”
WE OWN THE NITE NYC 