Nonstop: Underground Resistance, Shyboi, Shinedoe, Mike Dearborn, Gladstone Deluxe, DAY/DEM

Careening us through the tactical sonics wing of America’s Black radical dancefloor tradition, this Nonstop extends Nowadays’s Juneteenth celebrations well into the weekend and beyond, activating a potent formation of heavy-hitting artists who represent the historical legacy, protracted future, and incendiary impact of experimental Black electronics today. Sizzling from the start, our journey begins with the club debut of Florida-born New York-based DJ, event producer, and founder of The Sapphic Party, DAY/DEM. Cutting their teeth throwing DIY events and renegades in unconventional locations like storage units, record stores, and detached garages, DAY/DEM played a key role revitalizing the local underground electronic music scene in Gainesville, Florida, before bringing their talents to NYC, where they push a dynamic blend of acid house, dub techno, minimal, electro, and hypnotic groove selected with the intuitive, emotionally resonant flair of a tried and true community organizer. NYC-based DJ, artist, academic, experimental percussionist, and radical technologist Gladstone Deluxe takes us into tomorrow, offering a live set drawn from his research into the conceptechnics of rhythm, exploring how electronic music in performance can rhythmatically entrain and catalyze the collective social embodiment and amplification of radical, oftentimes stifled, conceptual and political orientations. His experimental approach towards composition and interface design marks a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic, emitting a highly cerebral yet undeniably body-focused Afrofuturist sound that blends robotic electro, dub-inflected house, and deep percussive techno into highly effective tools for socio-sonic experimentation. Criss-crossing the Black Atlantic, Amsterdam-born Nigerian DJ, producer, and label founder for both Intacto and Music That Moves (MTM Records), Shinedoe weaves captivating sets that articulate the tough, sleek, muscular functionality of contemporary European techno with the soulful, machinic warmth of early Detroit and Chicago pioneers, all commingled with sonic influence stemming from her Nigerian roots. Shinedoe’s sets prove that techno was always already and will assuredly continue to be a transatlantic conversation triangulating Blackness, mobilization, and collective joy. A key player in the history of this conversation, Mike Dearborn takes us to daybreak. A legendary figure in Chicago’s techno history, Dearborn emerged from the city’s 90s rave era with a raw, propulsive, uncompromisingly rough-and-tumble signature sound that draws together relentless Detroit techno, gritty industrial aesthetics, lysergic 303 basslines, and the jackin' rhythms of Chicago house. Releasing on influential labels on both sides of the pond, including Warehouse/Muzique Records, Chicago Trax, Djax-Up-Beats, Tresor, and his own Majesty Recordings, Dearborn’s productions and performances alike connect the dots between the historical legacy of Chicago’s Black electronic music tradition and a contemporary global rave underground rooted in rhythm and rebellion. No stranger to helming Nonstop’s morning shift witching hour, Jamaican-born Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary myth and legend Shyboi brings her arsenal of Black radical sonic weaponry to the floor. Above all else, Shyboi catalyzes sonic disruption—as a creative positioned between Caribbean and American culture, she uses sound to interrogate ideas of identity, notions of power, perceived histories, and the entanglements that arise as these topics become synthesized in performance. Mirroring her diverse spread of conceptual interests, her bag is equally powerful, unorthodox, provocative, and strategically far-reaching, culling global Black and queer takes on techno, breakbeat, rave, hip-hop, kuduro, ambient, ballroom, bubbling, and beyond, into an unpredictable, unclockable sonic force to be reckoned with. Making their triumphant return to the floor, second-wave Detroit techno originators Underground Resistance—the fiercely independent, fearlessly political, radically anti-corporate label, live act, and production collective first formed by Mike Banks and Jeff Mills in 1989—round out the festivities with an extended set of raw, unfiltered, disruptive transmissions from the frontlines of post-industrial sonic warfare. Forwarding a sound that, over the decades, has come to include grinding industrial funk, space-age minimalism, hardcore rave bombs, punishing acid tests, and uncompromising yet uplifting futuristic soul, the collective’s manifesto was (in)famously circulated in the liner notes of the UK release of their 1992 album Revolution for Change, and should always be allowed to speak for itself. “Underground Resistance is a label for a movement. A movement that wants change by sonic revolution. We urge you to join the resistance and help us combat the mediocre audio and visual programming that is being fed to the inhabitants of Earth, this programming is stagnating the minds of the people; building a wall between races and preventing world peace. It is this wall we are going to smash. By using the untapped energy potential of sound we are going to destroy this wall much the same as certain frequencies shatter glass. […] We urge all brothers and sisters of the underground to create and transmit their tones and frequencies no matter how so called primitive their equipment may be. Transmit these tones and wreak havoc on the programmers! Long live the underground…” /// RSVP is $10 before 11pm and $15 before midnight. An RSVP is good for one person. If you're bringing friends, please have them RSVP here as well. We stop taking RSVPs at 6pm on the day of the party. In order to receive the RSVP discount, you must be at the ticket desk by the cutoff time and not just in line. It's wise to arrive early to make sure you're not standing in line when the time comes. An RSVP does not guarantee entry. Sometimes parties do sell out, so if you want to be sure you'll get in, it's best to grab a ticket in advance. /// Entry is at the discretion of our door staff. Online purchases are limited to four tickets maximum per person. If tickets are sold out here, we always hold a good amount at the door. We will do our best to admit those without tickets but entrance is not guaranteed. Nonstop tickets are divided by entry time. You must arrive during the hours listed on your ticket. For example, if you buy a "10PM–4AM" ticket, you must get here between 10pm and 4am. After you've arrived during your designated time window, you can stay as long as you'd like, so long as you abide by our safer space policy (more on that below). You're also welcome to come and go as you please. Re-entry is based on capacity and is not guaranteed. Nonstop attendees can attend Mister Sunday in the backyard starting at 3 pm without buying a separate ticket, and Nonstop re-entry is honored during Mister Sunday. Violence, non-consensual touching, racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, ageist or other discriminatory language, and leering are not allowed within our walls or in our back yard. If someone says or does something to make you feel uncomfortable while you’re here, let us know. /// Accessibility: The wheelchair entrance to our indoor space is in the driveway, which is the access point most commonly used to enter Nowadays. During parties the driveway gate is locked, so please ask staff at the street entrance for assistance with entry. All of our bathrooms are gender-neutral. There is one accessible stall indoors. Just ask any Nowadays staff member for the key, and they can show you the way. During parties, seating is available both on and off the dance floor. While we don’t have a dedicated quiet space indoors during parties, the booths next to coat check are a little quieter, and the deck and back yard a little quieter than that. Most nighttime parties include the use of strobe lights and water based haze.