Artists > DJ Spinoza
Upcoming Gigs
Dec 31 - Blood & Thunder II, BrooklynJan 09 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Jan 13 - GO! at APT, NYC
Jan 17 - House-N-Home, Brooklyn
Jan 31 - Less, NYC
Feb 06 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Feb 20 - House-N-Home, Brooklyn
Mar 01 - Bar 13, NYC
Mar 13 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Mar 21 - Sonotheque, Chicago
Apr 03 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Apr 05 - House-N-Home, Brooklyn
Apr 10 - Winkle, NYC
Apr 17 - Communikey, Boulder
May 01 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
May 09 - House-N-Home, Brooklyn
May 22 - Oslo, Detroit
May 24 - No Way Back, Detroit
Jun 05 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Jun 27 - House-N-Home, Brooklyn
Jul 03 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Bryan Kasenic (aka Spinoza) is known in the electronic
music world for throwing many successful parties, playing adventurous
DJ sets, launching an influential newsletter, and starting Beyond,
his own booking agency.
Although Spinoza has been playing tons of
techno lately, 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 became more obsessed
with all forms of dance music, and at this point spins techno in New
York City at least once a week, mainly at his own Bunker party.
Spinoza is also known for his many other
roles in the electronic music scene. As a free service to the community, he has been publishing
the weekly email newsletter Beyond NYC Events, since 1997. The
newsletter has become 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.
Spinoza 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. In
2005, he started doing all the booking for the Wolf + Lamb space in
Williamsburg, helping to almost instantly transform it into the hottest
after-hours spot New York City has seen in many years. Spinoza
has gone on to curate and help throw many larger warehouse and loft
parties with Wolf + Lamb, proving that the New York City techno scene
has a lot more life to it than the boring parties in bottle-service
clubs might lead you to believe.
Kasenic’s latest endeavor is the Beyond Booking Agency. He
is helping to build the electronic music scene nationally by booking
his friends and allies in other North American cities. His initial
roster includes Daniel Bell, Bruno Pronsato, Ryan Crosson,
Deadbeat, [a]pendics.shuffle, Lee Curtiss, Someone Else, and Derek
Plaslaiko.
While Spinoza has played lots of big clubs
like Tresor (Berlin), Twilo, Tunnel, and Vinyl/Arc, he honestly prefers
small intimate rooms. He
has DJed at big parties in New York for the Madagascar Institute, Chengwin,
Soundlab, Multipolyomni (at the Kitchen), Rubulad, Compacent, theDanger,
the Lunatarium, Topsy, NYC Burningman, and PS1 Warm Up. He's
spun at way too many little parties at bars and lounges to remember,
but some include: Openair, Halcyon, Orchard Bar (Soundlab), Luxx, Baktun,
the Cooler, Filter 14, and Passerby.
Spinoza will very likely spin at your warehouse, club, bar, lounge,
rooftop, bubble, loft, apartment, or street event if your heart is
in the right place and you ask him nicely.
