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This show isn't happening until March, but I'm DJing and the lineup is so legendary that I can't stop talking about it. Locust, aka downtempo pioneer Mark Van Hoen from the band Seefeel, is headlining the mainstage. Van Hoen's been making spectral, dub-inflected electronic music since the early '90s. It’s a rare treat to catch him playing in New York. Corridos Ketamina is (unsurprisingly) bringing ketamine-addled corridos tumbados posse cuts, twisted into cloud rap and hypnagogic pop. Seeing them open for Joanne Robertson at Nightclub 101 was an evergreen reminder that skipping the opener is the cardinal sin of live music.
The bill coheres around hypnagogic pop and plunderphonics, music that lives in the fog between memory and source material. Niontay's unintelligible, time-stretched samples at their murkiest sound like James Ferraro trying to get a Veeze placement. Car Culture, whose Rest Here was one of my favorite records of 2025, pushes vaporwave, shoegaze, dream pop, and quiet storm beyond their logical conclusions and lands on one of the most beautiful ambient releases in years. Mackeeper is a relatively new project from brothers Miles Cohen and Nick Harwood—think Madlib meets Blur meets Elias Rønnenfelt—and they seem especially primed for cloud-rock stardom. I'll be DJing between sets. No pressure.
The bill coheres around hypnagogic pop and plunderphonics, music that lives in the fog between memory and source material. Niontay's unintelligible, time-stretched samples at their murkiest sound like James Ferraro trying to get a Veeze placement. Car Culture, whose Rest Here was one of my favorite records of 2025, pushes vaporwave, shoegaze, dream pop, and quiet storm beyond their logical conclusions and lands on one of the most beautiful ambient releases in years. Mackeeper is a relatively new project from brothers Miles Cohen and Nick Harwood—think Madlib meets Blur meets Elias Rønnenfelt—and they seem especially primed for cloud-rock stardom. I'll be DJing between sets. No pressure.
Feb 5, 2026