Artists > DJ Spinoza
Audio
Sets
Unsound Podcast Oct 2009
Percussionlab Mix Nov 2009
Afterhours at Ari's March 2007
Proton Radio Mix 2007 2010 Gigs
Jan 08 - The Bunker, BrooklynJan 16 - Inciting, Philadelphia
Feb 05 - Unsound Festival, Brooklyn
Mar 05 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Mar 13 - The Compound, SF
Apr 02 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Apr 08 - Love, NYC
Apr 17 - Communikey, Boulder
May 07 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
2009 Gigs
Jan 09 - The Bunker, BrooklynJan 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
Aug 01 - House-N-Home, Brooklyn
Aug 07 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Sep 04 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Sep 12 - House-N-Home, Brooklyn
Sep 24 - Sweatbox, Seattle
Oct 02 - Bunker, Brooklyn
Oct 07 - Watergate, Berlin
Oct 09 - SQ Klub, Poznan, Poland
Oct 10 - Klub 55, Warsaw , Poland
Oct 23 - Unsound, Krakow, Poland
Nov 06 - Bunker, Brooklyn
Dec 04 - Bunker, Brooklyn
Dec 31 - Blood & Thunder IV, 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 Booking,
his own booking agency.
Although Spinoza has been playing tons of
techno and house 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 plays dance music in New
York City at least twice a month, mainly at his own Bunker parties.
Spinoza 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.
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, 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. Spinoza
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 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, and himself), but continues to assist guest artists coming through The Bunker to connect with the right people in other cities.
Bryan's latest endeavor was producing three events for the inaugural Unsound Festival New York in February 2010. Unsound, Poland's most adventurous music festival, brought a bold and uniquely modern program of music to Kraków for seven years before producing a New York edition. The three Bunker Unsound events were highly succesful, 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 Spinoza has played lots of big clubs
like Tresor, 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 (Watergate), Krakow & Warsaw (Unsound Festival), Seattle (Decibel Festival), Boulder (Communikey Festival), Chicago (Sonotheque), Detroit (Oslo), Philadelphia (Rizumu), Boston, Pittsburgh, and Montreal.
