The First Dance at Nowadays and the Outdoor Finale

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First off, thank you.

We had a great run at Industry City, and more specifically, we had a great last party there. Thanks for braving the cold and dancing with us. It meant a lot to us.

Now, we’re looking forward to a bright future (and a warmer Sunday!). Our last hurrah of the outdoor season is the first hurrah of many at Nowadays, our very own place, built by us with Mister Sunday specifically in mind. (Take note of the springy dancefloor that’s even bigger than the one we had at Industry City!)

Tickets for this Sunday’s party are here, and if you wanna see the Nowadays dancefloor in action, check our last Boiler Room episode.

Looking forward to showing you the place in action, and we’re looking forward to getting down with you one more time in the great outdoors before the winter sets in.

The Last Dance at Industry City

See you on the dancefloor.

All The Albums: A Playlist For You

FullSizeRenderThis Sunday, we’re doing our last ever party at Industry City. Each week of this outdoor Mister Sunday season, Eamon and Justin (and on two occasions, their guests, Duane Harriott and JD Twitch) opened proceedings with an entire album. We’ve made a playlist of all the albums we could find on Spotify (only six of them weren’t there – good job Spotify!), including the album that Justin’s playing this Sunday to open the last dance at Industry City, Jaga Jazzist’s What We Must.

Here’s the playlist:

And here’s the full list of albums, along with the date the guys played them:

May 24 // RL Burnside, First Recordings
May 31 // Ernest Ranglin, Jamaica Jazz
June 7 // Salvatore, Tempo
June 14 // Meta Meta, Metal Metal
June 21 // Mr. Shortstuff and big Joe Williams, Introducing Mr. Shortstuff
June 28 // Four Tet, Morning/Evening
July 5 // Daedelus, Invention
July 12 // Terry Callier, Speak Your Peace
July 19 // Spoon, Kill The Moonlight
July 26 // Milton Wright, Friends and Buddies
August 2 // Outkast, ATLiens
August 9 // Reg King, Reg King
August 16 // Spiritualized, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
August 23 // Spiritualized, Pure Phase
August 30 // The History of Jazz, Volume 3: Then Came Swing
September // Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Fetch
September // Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Shahen-Shah
September 20 // Upsetters, Super Ape
September 27 // Battle Trance, Palace of Wind
October 4 // Joseph Spence, Good Morning Mr. Walker
October 11 // Rhys Chatham, An Angel Moves Too Fast To See
October 18 // Jaga Jazzist, What We Must

Eamon Harkin’s Album of the Week: An Angel Moves Too Fast To See by Rhys Chatham

This week Eamon will be opening the Mister by playing Rhys Chatham’s ‘An Angel Moves Too Fast To See,’ in full, right as we open the doors at 3pm. This classic record captures Chatham’s dual influences and love of rock and classical minimalism, in a record that was pivotal to the pre-Giuliani downtown art and music scene. Come early to be mesmerized!

JD Twitch’s Album of the Week: Super Ape by The Upsetters

upsettersEvery week of this outdoor Mister Sunday season, the party begins with the airing of an entire album. This week our special guest, JD Twitch, a Glasgow resident who is one of our favorite DJs in the world, selects. He’s chosen Super Ape by The Upsetters. This is what he has to say about it.

At the first hint of summer, one of the records I most want to hear is Super Ape by The Upsetters, the 1976 Lee “Scratch” Perry album recorded at the height of his powers. This summer in Scotland summer pretty much went awol, but I’m optimistic I’ll get to experience a bit of a late summer in New York, so I chose this perennial favourite of mine. While the entire album is bathed in a murky dread, there is an inherent golden warmth to it. Familiar rhythms are revisited and reworked with chanting vocals, distant melodicas and mystical flutes rising up in the mix. It is a gentle ride that leaves me feeling as if I am wrapped in cotton wool. It also holds off on giving away all its joys too soon with side two in particular being just about a perfect side of music. I’ve never heard this played on a proper sound system so am very much looking forward to spending forty minutes basking in its sonic rays of light.