The sixth Good Room Podcast comes from NYC’s Tanja. The Beefcuts and Deepcity resident is known for her innovative sets which bring out joy and movement for anyone listening. She delivers an hour mix of deep sounds for the dancefloor moving through house and techno while keeping it sexy.

She produces under Remove Hyphen making deep acid, industrial, electronica grooves to cocoon room techno, weaving together a musical journey. Her dynamic and rhythmic selections welcome you to the dance floor to celebrate your life, your body, and the possibilities.

Eli Escobar is the quintessential New York City DJ. Over the past ten years he’s built a reputation around his parties as well as his label Night People. With a style based on his diverse tastes, Eli subversively drops his influences and personal favorites into even the most commercial of sets. What Eli brings to the table in his production, through the looking glass of his career is an understanding of music’s sustainability.

Eli shares a mix of old school Chicago jams for the fifth Good Room Podcast. Eli has been a familiar face on the city’s scene for the last two decades as the co-founder of Tiki Disco and Night People NYC. This all-vinyl mix was recorded live at Good Room at Rinsed’s The House that Jackmaster Hater Built.

Andi brings a melange of new wave, post punk, industrial and EBM to the Good Room Podcast. The Good Room regular and the lady behind Synthicide has been DJing around Brooklyn for the past couple of years and hosts the Black Door Radio Show on WFKU.

Tunnel Signs takes us deep into the depths of acid techno and dark disco for the third Good Room Podcast. The Australian, NYC-based DJ premiers a number of unreleased tracks in this hour mix including a D’Marc Cantu remix of his new jam ‘Quarks’, out soon on Have a Killer Time, plus forthcoming tunes on Ancient Future Now and Nein. Continue reading

For the second Good Room Podcast we asked long-time NYC DJ Stewarrt Upchurch to get behind the decks. Stewarrt is one of the city’s top dance record authorities, having worked at A1 and Vinylmania. He’s done a few tracks for Nervous Records and has plans for more releases later this year. He takes us on a soulful journey through house music in this one-hour floor-filler. Continue reading

JKriv and Aaron Dae the Brooklyn duo responsible for helping shape the modern NYC disco sound. Through their label Razor-N-Tape, they’ve put out 30 releases in the past four years, finding some of the best producers from here and across the globe.

Starting a record label was always on the cards for the pair. They’ve spent decades in the scene, both as dancers and DJs, and were brought together out of a mutual love of all things groovy. Continue reading

From the age 13 when his DJ career began, Andy Pry has been picking the tracks in his own way. Andy’s sets lean heavy on future/past classics and toe the line between new disco beats and solid house freaks. Career highlights including one quit job to tour with The Rapture, one shared dressing room with Daft Punk, a residency at the infamous Mr. Black club and the creation of Tiki Disco in 2009.

Good Room is starting its podcast series with one of New York’s favorite parties, Tiki Disco. Resident Andy Pry has compiled a mix of sunny disco gems ahead of the Good Room and Tiki Disco Summer Cruise on July 12.

Identical twin sister duo Jacquelyn & Kathryn Smith (aka Jacky Sommer & DatKat) have been spreading the good sound around NYC since the early 2000s. They started The Analog Soul Show on East Village Radio exploring the deeper, darker side of techno and house with guests like Function to Simbad, Roland Appel, Slam Mode, and Dj Qu.

The show finished in 2009 but the sisters remain tastemakers in the NYC underground scene as well as playing across Europe, exploring the full spectrum of electronic music, from minimal, acid and Detroit techno to electro, dub and D&B. Continue reading

“I want to tap into a higher realm; heaven or god or the universe” – That is Nicuri’s goal when making music. Anyone who has heard the Jersey DJ can assure you that Nicuri will take you to other places when he’s DJing.

Obsessed with music from when he was a kid, DJing and producing was a natural progression for Nicuri. His journey ramped up when he met fellow Jersey DJs DJ Qu and Joey Anderson and became a member of the Exchange Place crew. In the years following he get coveted spots at clubs like Berghain in Berlin  and Concrete in Paris. Continue reading

Name: John Barera
Occupation: DJ, Producer, part time Record Salesman
Hometown: Boston

Tell us about your music…
I aim to make soulful dance music, I am influenced heavily by Detroit techno and I also love house music & disco. This makes up the foundation of my sound, but there are elements of electro, funk, reggae, rock, jazz & r&b as well. Continue reading