Artists > Bryan Kasenic
Gigs
Jan 04 - The Bunker, BrooklynJan 27 - Sub Club, Glasgow
Feb 08 - Corsica Studios, London
Feb 09 - Panorama Bar, Berlin
Mar 15 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Mar 23 - Public Works, SF
Apr 05 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Apr 06 - Smart Bar, Chicago
Apr 12 - BNCC, Brooklyn
Apr 18 - Chelsea 525 Loft, NYC
May 04 - RBMA at The Bunker, Brooklyn
May 25 - CLR, Detroit
May 26 - No Way Back, Detroit
May 31 - Wreck Room, Brooklyn
Jun 01 - Smart Bar, Chicago
Jun 07 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Jun 08 - The Bunker / GAFFTA, SF
SHORT BIO:
Bryan Kasenic (pka Spinoza) is known in the electronic music world for
throwing many incredible parties, playing adventurous DJ sets, and
starting Beyond, his own booking agency. The past few years have seen
Bryan take his infamous Brooklyn-based party, The Bunker, to Panorama
Bar in Berlin, Corsica Studios in London, Unsound Festival in Krakow,
Communikey Festival in Boulder, Decibel Festival in Seattle, Smartbar
in Chicago, GAFFTA in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and of
course Detroit. The Bunker celebrated it's tenth anniversary in
January 2013.
LONG BIO:
Bryan Kasenic (aka Spinoza) is known in the electronic
music world for founding The Bunker, playing adventurous
DJ sets, launching an influential newsletter, and starting Beyond Booking.
Although Bryan's peaktime sets consist mostly of
techno and house, he loves all music, and has a past that cannot be
pinned down to just one genre. He
started DJing in 1996, playing psychedelic soundscapes in chillout
rooms and on college radio shows (Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, and New
York University). Slowly but surely, he began to play more dancefloor friendly sets that incorporated his interest in the deeper spaces you can go to in the chillout room.
Bryan is also known for his many other
roles in the electronic music scene. As a free service to the community, he began publishing
Beyond NYC Events, a weekly email newsletter, in 1997. The
newsletter became an influential way to promote interesting under-the-radar
electronic music events to a large fan base in New York. In 2001,
Kasenic oversaw the booking of all of the promoters at Openair, a DJ
lounge in the East Village that quickly gained recognition for its
forward-thinking music programming. At Openair, one of the promoters
he worked with was Magda, who brought in techno luminaries like Zip,
Daniel Bell, and John Tejada to play at her first residency in New
York City. From 2000 to 2005, Spinoza helped DJ Olive and Jameson
run The Agriculture, a record label dedicated to bringing homegrown
laptop dub to the masses.
Bryan has thrown a ton of parties and weeklies in New York City,
including a 5-year stint at Halcyon with the Undercity weekly. He
has put most of his energy into The Bunker since January 2003, eventually
turning it into the premier techno weekly in North America, which morphed into a bigger monthly party in 2009. In
2005, he started doing all the booking for the Wolf + Lamb Marcy Hotel in
Williamsburg, helping to almost instantly transform it into the hottest
after-hours spot New York City had seen in many years. Kasenic
went on to curate and help throw many larger warehouse and loft
parties with Wolf + Lamb. In 2008, he founded the House-n-Home loft party series with Anthony Parasole, which hosted many legendary loft parties at 12-turn-13 over the course of a year.
Through the Beyond Booking Agency, Kasenic has helped build the electronic music scene nationally by booking
his friends and allies in other North American cities. As he has become busier with other projects, he reduced the Beyond roster to just The Bunker residents (Derek Plaslaiko, Eric Cloutier, Mike Servito, and himself) and a few friends, but continues to assist guest artists coming through The Bunker to connect with the right people in other cities.
Bryan produced three events for the inaugural Unsound Festival New York in February 2010, and followed with more in 2011 and 2012. Unsound, Poland's most forward-thinking music festival, brought a bold and uniquely modern program of music to Kraków for seven years before producing a New York edition. Every Unsound Festival edition of The Bunker was highly successful, presenting a cross section of some of the most interesting (and sadly most under represented) electronic music artists from Eastern Europe and the US.
While Kasenic has played lots of big clubs
like Panorama Bar, Twilo, Tunnel, and Vinyl/Arc, he honestly prefers
small intimate rooms. He
has DJed at big parties in New York for PS1 Warm Up, Resolute, Rhythmism, Madagascar Institute, Chengwin,
Soundlab, Multipolyomni (at the Kitchen), Rubulad, Complacent, theDanger,
the Lunatarium, and NYC Burningman Decompression. He's also appeared in Berlin (Panorama Bar, Watergate, Tresor), Krakow & Warsaw (Unsound Festival), Seattle (Decibel Festival), Boulder (Communikey Festival), Chicago (Smart Bar, Sonotheque), Detroit (No Way Back, Oslo), Philadelphia (Rizumu, Inciting), Boston, Denver, Pittsburgh, and Montreal.
2013 is looking bright for Bryan. In addition to their New York events, The Bunker will continue a residency collaboration with GAFFTA at Monarch in San Francisco, and launch a new residency at Smart Bar in Chicago. After a sucessful first gig at Panorama Bar in September 2012 alongside The Bunker residents Derek Plaslaiko and Eric Cloutier, Bryan was asked back in February and is building a European tour around that date.
