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12.27.16

Love is the Message Benefit

We’re saying goodbye to 2016 by sharing some love on the dancefloor. Twelve NYC DJs are donating their time for the Love is the Message Benefit on 12.30 with all proceeds going to the Trevor Project and the International Refugee Assistance Project.

The all-star line up includes DFA Records’ Holy Ghost!, Tiki Disco’s Eli Escobar, Hip Hop legend Stretch Armstrong, NYC hero Justin Strauss, Le Tigre’s JD Samson and a live performance from former Hercules & The Love Affair singer Nomi Ruiz.

When: December 30 from 10pm Continue reading →

10.21.16

Good Talk with K-HAND

Don’t think of K-HAND as just another Detroit-based producer, or DJ. Think of her instead as one of the city’s best, as bold as that thought may seem. She has devoted more than two decades to working crowds into techno dance frenzy, reading crowds and seducing them, one track after another, until she has it at her mercy.

K-HAND stands alongside Detroit’s elite as an internationally recognized veteran of the legendary Detroit Techno scene. Her latest releases are some of hottest music coming out of Detroit on Acacia Recordings and Nina Kraviz’s Label ???? (English: Trip). Continue reading →

10.11.16

Good Talk with A Guy Called Gerald + Podcast

The Manchester scene in the late 80s radiated from the Hacienda. It was a place which grew to be a breeding ground for the likes of Laurent Garnier and Chemical Brothers and in the Summer of Love the Hacienda had a theme tune called Voodoo Ray. It was A Guy Called Gerald’s first release in 1988 and became a seminal classic that put British house music firmly on the map. Continue reading →

10.11.16

Good Room Podcast 070 – Ari Frank

Driven by a synergy of his French roots, his Chicago home base and neighboring Detroit, Ari presents an approach to music that is both multifaceted and abstract. A member of Chicago’s Tied Collective, Ari leads his listeners through a narrative of sound, comfortable oscillating between seductive minimal techno and driving house.

Ari has put together a mix of abstract floorfillers to get you in the dancing mood ahead of his set at the mnmlktchn party in the Bad Room on October 13.

You can grab your tickets here – bit.ly/2crI3HC

10.11.16

Good Room Podcast 069 – K-HAND

Don’t think of @khand as just another Detroit-based producer, or DJ. Think of her instead as one of the city’s best, as bold as that thought may seem. She has devoted more than two decades to working crowds into techno dance frenzy, reading crowds and seducing them, one track after another, until she has it at her mercy.Her latest releases are some of hottest music coming out of Detroit on Acacia Recordings and Nina Kraviz’s Label трип (English: Trip).

Playing at Good Room for the first time on October 21, K-HAND has put together a mix that will make you yearn for the dancefloor featuring rhythmic house and upbeat vocal tracks with a touch of that soul sound that Detroit is so well known for. Grab your tickets for the party here – bit.ly/2cryURk

09.20.16

Good Room Podcast 067 – Jen Orlando

Jen Orlando is a co-founder of Remedy, the left-leaning Brooklyn-based events at the forefront of artist bookings such as Claude Young and Zenker Brothers, and NY debuts, including Recondite, Drvg Cvltvre, and Marsman.

Her style combines deep, lush melodies with dense rhythms for cerebral and emotive sets. Her Good Room Podcast brings together the raw underground sound of the past and present through dark techno, distorted acid and jangled house. Continue reading →

09.16.16

Good Talk with DJ Aakmael + Podcast

DJ Aakmael is all about preserving that deep, underground sound. Since he started making noise in 2004 he has some of the deepest and rawest house tracks of today’s Deep House scene, back before Deep House was a thing.

From his first record, ‘Unexposed Evolutionz EP’ on Bumpin’ City Records, to his projects on labels like Unified Records, Uzuri, Real Tone/Earthrumental, and his own imprint Unxpozd Entertainment, His mixes contain the perfect blend of smooth vocal tracks as well as hard hitting deep house instrumentals – which is just what we like at Good Room. Continue reading →