With love for the contrast between beauty and aggression, Kellam Matthews takes dreamy house tracks and dark acid jams and mashes them together to make some eerie results. After picking up DJing when he was 13, his early influence of Drum & Bass has translated into his current sets, playing slowed down breaks over house music. The Brooklyn-based DJ has been putting together the Friendzone! party and radio show since November with friend Maya, aka Octo Octa, with a simple concept, friends and music – “We talked about how we got into DJing and what excited us about it so we kind of have this approach where we envision ourselves as kids playing records in our rooms.” Continue reading →

“I grew up in California. I grew up listening to and buying all kinds of music, much of it exposed to me by older artist friends. I got really into dance music about 10 years ago and moved to Berlin to dynamically immerse myself in the culture for a year before coming back to the States and moving to New York in 2011.

The mix was made in one take using two technics SL-1200s, my warhorse of a mixer, and a bunch of records, no tricks.” – Nathan Harrington

Disco, house, techno, chill-out and leftfield don’t even begin to cover the range of genres Tiago Miranda plays. An accomplished crate-digger, the DJ and producer never plays two sets the same, with new records always filling up his bag. Some might call him eclectic but we call him a legend for always opening our ears to new sounds.

Hailing from Lisbon where he is a weekly resident at Club Lux, Tiago has a laid back intensity that is reflected in the expansive and inquisitive nature of his sets. Raised on good music in his home, turned on to drumming by his older brother, he came to DJ’ing via live music. He has been at it for close to twenty years, and in the last decade added production work to his resume with releases on DFA Records, Public Possession and his own label Interzona13. Continue reading →

Adamczyk is a New York based DJ & producer with a strong affinity towards gritty techno, acid tinged rhythms, and hammer strikes. He is currently most focused Worshippers, his collaboration with fellow producer Marcus Webb.

They will make their Bad Room live debut on 6.24 at the French Kiss presents party. It’s his last hometown set before heading to Berlin to spend the summer writing and living. Grab your tickets to the party here –bit.ly/1TL8dQV

DJ and producer Richard Gamble was born in Memphis and steeped in the rich musical history of his hometown, from the DIY spirit of punk & garage rock in dive bars to the booming 808s and cassette hiss of local underground rap.

Later he moved to New York where he found a new home among Brooklyn’s emergent house and techno scene, founding a monthly night called Lost Soul at the infamous and now-defunct Wreck Room. The residency evolved into a label, Lost Soul Enterprises, and its seventh vinyl offering is his first solo release, the Teeth Like Foil EP. Continue reading →

Ciarra Black is a DJ, producer and co-founder of the No-Tech label based in Brooklyn, NY. She is also a member of noise/industrial/techno projects Appetite (with Jane Chardiet) and Lunch With Carol & Stewart (with J.R. Nelson. Ciarra’s roots of noise and industrial are prominent in her live and DJ sets with an unapologetic love for a pulsating and beat driven dancefloor.

She delivers the 54th Good Room Podcast ahead of her set at French Kiss presents Submission on June 24. The hour mix takes you to a dancefloor where the fog streams through the strobe as you dance to dark synths, heavy bass and space noise. Her podcast contains unreleased music from No-Tech, White Material and Beta Librae as well as a sneak peak at her latest production. Continue reading →

Experimenting with sound, image and movement since he was a kid, it’s no wonder Gavin Russom became a synth wizard. In the early 2000s he became the electronics expert for DFA Records, before joining LCD Soundsystem. His own productions as Black Meteoric Star helped to lay the foundation for the current proliferation of the outsider house, free form electronics and punk/techno hybrids while The Crystal Ark brought avant-pop and Brazilian influences to his analogue sound. In the past year he’s released tracks on L.I.E.S and Curle Recordings and has plans to release an album as Black Meteoric Star on Nation. Over the years he’s also released music as Hail Of Arrows, Knight Skyy and Paper Eyes. Continue reading →

Alan & Andrew Blancato are New York DJ’s who run the mix and party series, A Running Melody (www.ARunningMelody.com). The brothers created the series to showcase some of the most talented underground DJ’s and producers and give them a platform to share some of their influences.

They put together the 52nd Good Room Podcast on the fly with a bunch of records they’ve been playing out lately. You can can see them on the dancefloor on June 10 when they take over the Bad Room at the FIXED party with Iron Galaxy. Tickets available here – bit.ly/1pc3Whz