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Kim Ann Foxman has had quite the career. The Hawaii born artist and DJ, shot to fame as a vocalist for Hercules and the Love Affair and has since continued her rise to become one of New York’s finest DJs and a prolific producer in her own right. As a producer, Foxman delivers catchy hooks and haunting melodies, and is also celebrated for beguiling and original vocals.

This year Foxman started her Firehouse residency at Good Room which has grown from strength to strength. As well as playing with heroes like Ellen Allien and Jennifer Cardini, the residency has given Foxman a place to explore different sounds whilst still captivating the dancefloor.

With her next Firehouse residency going down on August 19, we invited Foxman to get behind the decks for the Good Room Podcast. For our 100th edition she’s taking us on an hour long journey through electro, breaks, house and beyond. You can catch her on the dancfloor doing an extended set at Good Room on the 19th with L.Sangre.

Steve Mizek & Savile stand in the ranks of a resurgent underground in American dance music. So close you might call them brothers, the pair co-manage Argot and Tasteful Nudes, the former of which focuses on North American-based artists, while Nudes’ roster explores more international talent.

As DJs, they cover a breadth of genres and moods, priding themselves on an open-ended approach to selection that flouts expectation. Endlessly challenging one another to push beyond their comfort zones, you might hear a ballroom classic flirting with 90’s Synewave, or a sly pop hit nestled against a Chicago jack track.

The pair put together a mix for the 99th Good Room Podcast which will takes in all aspects of the dancefloor experience. You can hear them live in the Bad Room on August 18th where they’ll be playing all night long.

Michel Amato, aka The Hacker, has a long and varied career in music. From his early begins in a new wave band to his work with Miss Kitten and releases on International Deejays Gigolos, and creating the electro-clash craze, he’s had a far reaching influence on the electronic music world.

In 2015, Michel began a new project called Amato. Influenced by early EBM, German techno and new wave, he began producing tracks under his new moniker. The first one to be released, called Physique, came out on the Minimal Wave offshoot Cititrax Tracks Volume One EP and was a dancefloor success. His debut solo EP entitled Le Desordre et La Nuit was released last year, integrating his love of the new wave to form four EBM tinged techno funk hits.

This podcast was recorded live at Good Room on 06.23.17 at the Cititrax party.

Brooklyn-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Heidi Sabertooth has a serious love for hardware. She’s been creating her unique brand of avant electronics since 2012 and she shares it with the world on her Newtown Radio show Deep Dive.

She’s put together an all vinyl set for the 96th Good Room Podcast featuring some experimental grooves with a sense of humor.

Working Women is a project rooted in elaboration, uncertainty, and persistence. They believe that all who identify as women are working women. This music is for them.

Working Women are headlining in the Bad Room on July 2 and will be joined by Will Dimaggio and Mike Bloom. Tickets are $15 via Resident Advisor.

Mira Fahrenheit’s sound draws from all corners of the dance music world to create a lively, upbeat, and unconventional experience for her listeners. Fahrenheit’s offbeat style brings together the playfully goofy and the sassy sexiness she has always loved about her favorite dance floor experiences.

The Brooklynite has delivered an hour mix of her favorites that one can’t help but dance to for the Good Room Podcast. You can catch her on the dancefloor with Classixx on June 17. Tickets are available via Resident Advisor.

Crimes of the Future’s Scott Fraser along with Joe Hart play freaky body music for late nights and dark dancefloors. Bringing together house, acid and new beat, the boys have put together and a mix of funky joints for 94th Good Room Podcast. They’re bringing their much loved Body Hammer party to New York for the first time in an exclusive appearance at Good Room on June 3 at the Beats in Space party with Tim Sweeney and Prins Thomas. Tickets available via Resident Advisor.

Cloy runs the vinyl imprint Green Village alongside Em-Et and Hilla. Founded in 2014 the Jersey City-based label has put out releases from the likes of DJ Spider, Franklin De Costa, Nicuri, Dakini9, Etch and many more. This 45-minute mix features cuts from the likes of El-B, Corrupted Cru, Artful Dodger, Ossie, Facta and a forthcoming bit from their next release, Village Elders 002 (GV008).

Cloy makes his Good Room debut on June 2nd, sharing the Bad Room with Hops (Version/Hard Wax) and Shy Eyez (Bossa, Noods Radio). Tickets are available via Resident Advisor.

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Fringe Society is new project by the artist formally known as Quell. Musically it veers exactly towards where the name suggests; the left and darker side of electronic music with influences from the grey areas between musical styles and genres, while at the same being a very synthesizer based project exploring the different additive and subtractive synthesis methods.

Upcoming releases on Wrong Era, Slow Motion’s international sister label and Lyon’s Hard Fist, along with a collaborative new project with Julian Grefe of Pink Skull under the name of Russian Chandeliers, the first EP that will be coming out on Samo Records. The mix includes forgotten classics, unreleased upcoming Fringe Society material and is pretty indicative of what to be expected from one of his sets.

He’s playing with Samo Records founder Facets in the Bad Room on 05.27 at the GlitterballNYC party. Tickets via Resident Advisor.

The 91st Good Room Podcast comes to us care of Brooklyn’s Katie Rex & Ana Lola Roman, who will be taking us on a trip to the dark side of electronic music.

Inspired by the classic sounds of Detroit & Chicago as well as the hammering influence of EBM and invigorating sounds of dance music’s contemporaries, Katie Rex curates a unique blend of dark acid bass lines with club inspired drum patterns into harsh industrial.

A reverent polymath, Ana Lola Roman is an accomplished producer, performer, and DJ that never fails to deliver Industrial-Dance, Italo-Electro, Acid, EBM, and at times, glamorously dark Trance and Ambient Symphonic Techno.

The women are taking over the Bad Room all night long for some badass techno and late-night sounds on 05.25. Tickets available via Resident Advisor.