
Ali Berger
New Jersey-born Ali Berger is a drum machine specialist and low-key US dance music standby, now based in Pittsburgh after spending the 2010s in Boston and Detroit. His catalog of original music runs deep, with over 75 releases on his Trackland label and EPs on imprints like Scissor & Thread, Spectral Sound, and Sequencias, all resulting from a lovingly-cultivated studio approach which respects improvisation as a spiritual practice. Ali brings the same open energy to the DJ booth, blending classic sounds from New York and Chicago with their contemporary continuations, taking in vocals, jack tracks, swinging house cuts and blissed-out techno funk in whatever configuration suits the moment.

Benji B
Having worked tirelessly since first falling in love with Londonʼs club culture at an early age, Benji B stands today as one of the UKʼs most respected broadcasters and DJs. As renowned for his deep, crate-plundering club sets [which take in everything from soulful electronic music to hip hop, house, and beyond] as much as his eclectic, taste-making selections. Alongside his weekly BBC show on Radio 1, Benji has been running his club night Deviation Sessions in London now in its sixth year.

Bradley Zero
Hailing from Peckham via Leeds, Bradley Zero is quickly becoming the tastemaker of his generation. As founder of Rhythm Section, Bradley has carved out a unique role for himself within the vibrant London scene as Resident Club DJ, broadcaster and Label Boss of one of the most exciting new imprints today – Rhythm Section International.

Cosmo
Cosmo is a DJ born and raised in Ohio, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. At a young age, Cosmo was heavily inspired by her mother’s homemade mixtapes and journalism. As a teen, she began digging and collecting her own CDs which helped expose her to her one true love, house. When Cosmo’s behind the decks, she may take stops anywhere from house, tribal, underground hip-hop and gospel. Bringing her funky and vibrant style to the dance floor, her mission is to connect with others through sound.

Dee Diggs
Dee Diggs is a DJ and music producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is unapologetically black, queer, and a lifelong student of the tenets of House Music. She cultivates a dance community of peers and collaborators through her parties named, House of Diggs, usually held at Public Records.
Diggs is undoubtedly one of NYC’s standout DJs bubbling up out of The New School. In her current iteration, she is a recording artist and a busy touring International DJ taking her sound around the world to clubs, festivals and events where the word has gotten out about how Dee’s beautiful blends and signature sounds bring a pleasurable experience for all.
Her sound cuts an arch through dance music’s past and present to convey an interesting melding of sounds: vocal house classics, b-sides that show she did her homework, sensual club edits, soulful realness, sneaky grooves, and passionate thumpers. The sonic spell she mixes up has taken her to Dekmantel Festival, frequenting at Panorama Bar at Berghain multiple times a year, and several Boiler Room festivals around the world.

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DJ Sprinkles
DJ Sprinkles is the deep house DJ persona of Terre Thaemlitz. Career highlights include winning an “underground grammy” for Best DJ of 1991 during his residency at the notorious New York transsexual sex worker club Sally’s II, a three year residency at Tokyo’s Club Module from 2003-2006, and DJ Sprinkles’ “Midtown 120 Blues” winning Resident Advisor’s Best Album of 2009.
Everything else has been pretty much off radar, which makes sense for the kinds of minor and “underground” dance music featured. Sprinkles is unconcerned with mass appeal, and focusses on sniper-sets aimed at a long gone generation of angry and depressed queer HIV/AIDS activists unafraid to cry on the dance floor.

Frank & Tony
Brooklyn-based deep house duo Frank & Tony [PR co-founder Francis Harris and Anthony Collins] have several successful releases under their belt. On their label, Scissor and Thread, they’ve carved a niche in the underground house scene, known for their emotive sound and seamless flow.

gbd
Gianpaolo Dieli (FKASavile) is a non-binary DJ and producer who has been an integral player in the American dance music underground for over a decade. A Michigan native, who began their career in Chicago with a residency at hallowed SmartBar, gbd has built their practice around an effort to create equitable environments, imaginative visions, and disruptive programming. Called “one of the most exciting secrets in US club culture” by Boiler Room, Gianpaolo currently works and resides in Brooklyn, NewYork.

GE-OLOGY
Throughout the career of this B-more born, 80’s NYC-bred Renaissance man, GE-OLOGY has produced songs for a list of famed recording artists; Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, De La Soul & Yukimi Nagano. Later he would release a dance floor monster “Moon Circuitry” feat Mark de Clive-Lowe on Theo Parrish’s esteemed Sound Signature imprint (received in high regard as perhaps one of the top releases of 2015).

Hidden Spheres
Tom Harris, known professionally as Hidden Spheres, has distinguished himself as an esteemed force in the underground music scene. His career began with a groundbreaking release, “The Bloos,” on the well-known Motor City label Moods & Grooves. However, it was his debut EP “Waiting” that truly established him as a prominent figure, earning critical acclaim and securing top spots on numerous end-of-year lists.

International Anthem [Live]
International Anthem is a Chicago-born recording company that produces and promotes progressive media. Founded in 2014, the IARC label has grown to embody a global community of like-minded artists, musicians, and cultural workers dedicated to craft as a means of discovering truth and celebrating humanity. Starting in 2022, the label has been in residency at Public Records, co-presenting more than a dozen shows including: Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, Alabaster DePlume, Anteloper, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, Anna Butterss and more.

Jan Jelinek [Live]
Jan Jelinek’s works translate popular music sources into abstract textures. Rather than using traditional instruments, he constructs collages out of tiny sound particles. Since 2000, he has released material under both his own name and various pseudonyms (incl. Ursula Bogner). His many collaborations include projects with Sven-Åke Johansson, Sarah Morris and Masayoshi Fujita. In 2007, together with Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler, he founded the improvisation trio Groupshow, and in 2008 he established the Faitiche label as a publishing platform for his own experiments, for collaborations, and for works by musician friends. Since 2012, he has been writing and producing experimental radio plays for public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) that explore fictional identities and soundscapes.

Jenifa Mayanja
Raw artistry, excellence and pure love can best describe Ugandan-born Jenifa Mayanja’s aesthetic as a DJ, producer, music artist and educator. Deeply entrenched in the underground deep house music scene for more than 25 years, Jenifa Mayanja staked her claim in New York and paid her dues the old-fashioned way. Throughout the course of her career, Ms. Mayanja’s profile has maintained a coveted underground buzz earning her a revered place in the house community and a reputation for being an innovative, fearless and respected musical ambassador for house music culture and for women in the music business.

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Justin Cudmore
Justin Cudmore is a Brooklyn-based producer, DJ, creator of the Balance resident party at BASEMENT [est. 2019] in New York and Revival at Public Records with Hue Hallums, and runs Major Records with The Carry Nation and Mike Servito.
Justin’s sound is defined by snaking acid lines, whip smart drums and offbeat rave melodies that have resonated with DJs and dancers from Detroit to Berlin. He has been featured in mixes for series such as Beats In Space, Truants, MixMag, Phantasy and The Bunker New York’s long-running podcast.

Louise Chen
Half Taiwanese-half French, Louise Chen founded the Girls Girls Girls night at Social Club in 2012 inviting acts like Kelela, Sampha, Jackmaster, Moxie, Ikonika, Lil Silva, etc. always aiming to bring together live performers and club culture. Through her NTS shows she gets to explore her love of collecting soul, disco, gospel, and early house records as well as the sample-heavy naughty club bangers that have made up the Girls Girls Girls DNA sound.

Lovie
Connecting the mind, to the body, to the soul, Lovie’s sets inspire the warmest, most community-minded dance floors you’ll find in New York.
For four years Lovie’s Lot radio residency—now being offered as one of the station’s few weekly shows—has thumbed through the intimate corners of her music collection. Her diligence to the craft, musical curiosity, and deep focus on the listening experience has earned her a spot on Mixmag’s Top 25 Breakthrough DJs of 2024, as well as a coveted residency at Brooklyn club public records. She saunters through slow-groove disco, dusty ’70s funk, and sumptuous house music, all spun with the patience and musicality associated with the East Coast house tradition. Lovie’s studied archival work paired with deep emotional wisdom makes for honey-sweet dance floor memories you’ll want to replay again and again.

Love Injection
Love Injection is variously known as a publication, a radioshow, a DJ partnership, production duo, and arecord label. Co-founded by Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele in 2015 as a monthly print fanzine, LoveInjection’s continued multi-faceted expansion and evolution reflects the ongoing process of celebrating people and culture, seeking to fill in the gaps of dance music and nightlife culture’s untold stories and histories, and bring new perspectives to familiar ones.
The pair host the Love Injection radio show on NYC’s beloved online radio institution, The Lot Radio, on the air every Saturday morning since February 2016. This sonic extension of Love Injection the print fanzine provides the duo, and their occasional esteemed guest hosts, the latitude to explore sounds unrestricted by the demands of the nocturnal dancefloor. The newest branch of the Love Injection family tree is its record label, Love Injection Records. Conceptually, the label lives and operates with similarly fluid aesthetics, with one foot in the dance world and one outside of it.
Counter to the modern trend of increasingly short DJ sets that leave little room for texture and nuance, Barbie and Paul’s preferred mode of DJing is the all-nighter—an extended journey with a beginning, middle, and end.

Millie McKee
Multi-disciplinary artist, record collector and DJ, Millie McKee is known for playing all things deep, spiritual and psychedelic; ranging from dub, jazz & rock, to down-tempo, house, and further afield. A devoted record collector for well over 10 years, and manager of the highly regarded Hidden Sounds record store in London, she owns a deeply impressive knowledge and feeling for music beyond her years.
As a DJ, she responds to her environment in a myriad of ways, with subtlety and sensitivity, travelling through unknown lands, places and feelings with sharp intuition to people and her natural surroundings. She plays anywhere from 6-hour deep listening sessions, to some of the most renowned club nights and festivals around the world. In the past few years she has graced Waking Life, Lost Village, Glastonbury, We Out Here, Piña Festival, Pikes, Pickle Factory, ION Festival, Secretsundaze, The Jazz Cafe and many other underground festivals and intimate parties.

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Salamanda [Live]
Salamanda is the Seoul-based leftfield ambient duo of Uman Therma (Sala) and Yetsuby (Manda). Their live sets are designed as meditations into the world of dreams and imagination. Therma’s and Yetsuby’s full-length albums on Good Morning Tapes, Small Méasures, and Human Pitch have garnered international praise for their signature contemplative and polyrhythmic melodies.

Shawn Dub
Shawn Dub is a seasoned DJ and collector with deep crates. Hailing from Long Beach, California, He moved to NYC a few years ago after a stint in the Bay Area where he was a vital member of the underground scene. Today he resides in Brooklyn, and actively spins around the city as part of I Love Vinyl, a crew which also includes other notorious diggers like Amir Abdullah , DJ Scribe,OP! & Jon Oliver.

Simone De Kunovich
Active in the music and fashion business for more than a decade, Simone de Kunovich is associated with some of Milan’s most iconic parties and clubs. His eclectic selection and unconventional taste made him one of the key figures in the local scene as well as an active DJ internationally, with gigs in Berlin, Tel Aviv, Bangkok, New York, Paris, London, and more.

Sinéad
Sinéad’s sound is pure intuitive groove—a rush that captures a house-heavy, energetic, and hypnotic beat, bouncing between dreamy femme melodies and saturated basslines.
Rooted in her native San Francisco upbringing and rich Irish/Iranian heritage, Sinéad brings vintage and contemporary selections spanning 2000’s tech flavors from the West Coast, while embracing a breadth of late 90’s UK rhythms.
Sinéad is a resident of New York’s public records, a striking relationship that’s forged a series of shows spotlighting female and queer voices in dance music. Europe and Britain have also taken note, with previous tours stopping at Manchester’s The White Hotel, Leeds’ Wire, London’s Fabric, Edinburgh’s Sneaky Petes and Paris’ Djoon amongst others. If it’s mixes, multiple transmissions for NTS Radio and The Lot Radio showcase that feeling best. While evidence of live dancefloor action can be parsed from her set at 2024’s Love International and a mix for Italy’s Polifonic Podcast.
2025 see the continuation of her public records residency, alongside multiple tours of Europe and UK. Undoubtedly, next year will provide a further platform for her to champion the sounds she loves.

Timmy Regisford
Timmy Regisford, born in Trinidad, is a pioneering DJ, producer, and founder of NYC’s iconic Club Shelter. Known for shaping soulful house music, he has collaborated with legends like Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Womack, and Patti LaBelle. A former A&R exec at Motown and MCA, he signed acts like Guy and Johnny Gill. His productions and remixes have left a lasting impact on the global dance music scene.

Umfang
Discwoman co-founder Umfang was born in the Bronx, grew up in Kansas, and has been living in Brooklyn since 2010. She holds a monthly residency in Technofeminism at Bossa Nova Civic Club focusing on emerging talent. She enjoys playing with people’s expectations of how a techno set can be defined. Her amorphous polyrhythmic productions have been most recently released on Ninja Tune.

Vlada
‘Spinning around’ is a definition relevant both to her records and lifestyle – Berlin- based Vlada remains Moscow-attached. More then 15 years of deep dive into worldwide electronic scene resulted in residency in Arma17 and Mutabor club as well as curation of Spell and dreamslesssweet events as a co-founder.
The freedom of music coming out of its aerial nature was transfused to her since childhood. Vlada started academic piano education at the age of six and can’t stop this lifetime affair. Growing up around Jazz and Funk melodies from father’s record- player tinged her tune with warm and deep colors and on top raised the affection to vinyl aesthetics and digging.
The interruption of conventional boundaries in all the senses was empowered by constant traveling. It immersed her perception into different cultural peculiarities and taught to juggle with meanings and styles. Vlada aims to represent eclectic manner where any genre features seem to eliminate and morph to a special type of unity. Yet sensitive and feminine her power is brave enough to give a chance to new unexpected outcomes of improvisation.

Willow
The highly talented Manchester DJ and producer who broke onto the scene with her debut track ‘feel me’ on workshop and has been carving her name out and gaining notoriety ever since. Her inimitable sets give an insight into her vast collection of records, showcasing eclectic selections which span house, broken beat, techno and beyond. Willow has become a staple at some of the best clubs and festivals around the world, playing at the likes of Robert Johnson, Panorama Bar, Blitz, Houghton and DC-10.