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@dani-lehman Live from the Motor City, the hefty sound of a fierce techno DJ who’s making waves in the American scene. Last summer, Dani Lehman completely blew us away with a guest set for the Bunker’s biweekly radio show. The rising selector, who’s bounced between New York, Miami and Los Angeles but currently calls Detroit home, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt why she’s so busy these days — tho...

@jasen-loveland @turiyarrao A pair of rising New York-based producers and DJs beam their sounds out into the world, live with Bryan Kasenic from our NYC studio. This week, Bunker founder Bryan Kasenic sheds some light on two New York-based up-and-comers with deep ties to the party and label. Jasen Loveland (real name: not Jasen Loveland) is something of a mystery, though releases for Interdimensio...

@claywilson One of Bryan Kasenic’s key label artists plays a deep techno DJ set from the studio to help tease the imminent release of his next EP. Clay Wilson has been a part of the Bunker New York label since Bryan Kasenic started releasing music in 2014 – along with the likes of Leisure Muffin and Voices from the Lake, Wilson was one of the first artists to sign to the label. But the Bunker has...

@jeffreysfire The Motor City disco fiend joins Bryan Kasenic to stitch together a set of old-school wonders from Detroit and Chicago. Jeffrey Sfire hails from Detroit and resides there currently, but Chicago looms large in his musical mind. He moved to the Windy City at 18 and got lost in its inimitable dance music, and no matter where DJing has taken him, he’s always returned to it. This episode...

@johnselway @newyorktrax Boris Brenecki and John Selway join label boss Nicole Brenecki and host Bryan Kasenic for a celebration of the rising NYC techno imprint. What is the sound of New York techno? Nicole Brenecki’s New York Trax imprint isn’t trying to offer the be-all end-all statement on the topic, but the label’s name makes sense: New York Trax releases music that is as hard, fast and gritt...

@leisuremuffin The first artist signed to the Bunker New York returns to our NYC studio for an episode dedicated to live performance. Leisure Muffin, AKA Michael Hopkins, has been a part of the Bunker’s extended family for ages. Back in 2014, when the New York techno institution was looking to start a label, it made sense that Hopkins’ music would comprise the first release. Though Hopkins was a v...

@antenes @zhiqi Brooklyn synthesist Antenes and Beijing mover-and-shaker Zhiqi join Bryan Kasenic in our NYC studio for a globe-spanning techno showcase. In a borough heaving with synth manipulators, Brooklyn’s Antenes stands out for her extensive knowledge of electronic music’s nuts and bolts. Her studio is as much a workshop as a place for recording – she makes her own synths and sequencers, oft...

@laurenflax The veteran DJ and producer on her multifaceted career, plus a party-starting DJ set live from our NYC studio. Very few people in house and techno have enjoyed as diverse a career as Brooklyn’s Lauren Flax – a quick perusal of her credits as a producer, remixer and collaborator turns up names such as Sia, Tricky, They Might Be Giants and Le Tigre, along with a range of club artists fro...

@mysteriesofthedeep @wselman @certain-creatures The artists behind the first two releases on Mysteries of the Deep’s newly launched label tease out experimental electronics, live from NYC. Founded in 2011 by Grant Aaron as a platform for ambient music and the rotating cast of DJs who obsess over it, Mysteries of the Deep began as a podcast that’s since evolved into one of New York’s most unique ev...

@imaginary-friend-4 @bhishma-sagar Brooklyn’s techno institution travels to Mumbai for a special broadcast featuring two of the Indian city’s best DJs. Bryan Kasenic typically records his biweekly radio broadcasts a few subway stops from the Bunker’s Brooklyn headquarters; to get to the studio for this edition, he’ll take a couple of long-haul flights to Mumbai. Kasenic is in town to kick off a st...

@mikeservito @cudmore The Brooklyn-based DJs, whose production partnership has resulted in killer dancefloor remixes, join forces live from our NYC studio. Over the last few years, Justin Cudmore and Mike Servito have forged an exceptional partnership. Brooklyn-based DJs with Midwestern roots and a knack for party-starting, they’re often found on the same lineups in New York and farther afield, an...

@tinman The prolific producer, known for his heady explorations of acid tracks, joins Bryan Kasenic in NYC for a DJ set and conversation. Johannes Auvinen, AKA Tin Man, and one-half of the Bunker NY-signed duo Romans, is known in the club world for his Roland-heavy live sets. But anyone who’s ever toured the world with cases of hardware will know they have a way of getting held up in customs, sent...

@cloutier The Detroit-born, Berlin-based techno killer touches down in our New York studio for another laser-focused DJ mix. Eric Cloutier is a record collector with a notoriously bad habit. On a light day, he might spend as much time scouring Discogs and obscure record store email blasts as many of us would in an entire month. On a heavy day – well, it’s probably best not to quantify such things....

@dannydaze The Miami-bred Omnidisc boss brings his deep knowledge of electro and techno to a DJ set live from our NYC studio. Danny Daze (AKA Daniel Gomez) knows electro, techno and the more experimental side of beat-driven electronic music through and through. The producer and DJ has been steeped in all of that music since his youth in Miami, and though he rose to prominence in international DJ c...

@jiovanni-nadal @wnkrs Two of New York’s finest purveyors of boundary-pushing house and techno play live sets from our NYC studio. This edition of the Bunker’s biweekly broadcast from New York features a pair of live sets from the city’s current crop of Queens-based producers. First up is Jiovanni Nadel, AKA J. Albert, a South Florida native and the Exotic Dance Records cofounder and producer whos...

@ithqdetroit @plaslaiko @mikeservito @mentalux @erikadotnet Derek Plaslaiko, Patrick Russell and Mike Servito join BMG, Erika and Amber Gillen in NYC to celebrate the beloved, infamous Detroit rave. A certain kind of music fan will mark the date on their calendar at least a year in advance and travel a far distance just to attend — No Way Back is an event. But anyone who’s been to No Way Back, whi...

@green-machines One of LA’s great contemporary synthesists, the prolific knob-twiddler and collaborator presents a live set from our radio studio. M. Geddes Gengras started releasing music under his own name in 2009, and he’s barely slowed down since. An LA-based synthesizer enthusiast with a fondness for limited-run cassette releases and sprawling, zoned-out jams, Gengras is a key figure of conte...

@lustmord Now in his fourth decade of crafting dark, blistering ambient records, the LA-based producer brings his cavernous sound to our airwaves. The Bunker is known as a techno institution, but the mostly beatless music of Brian “Lustmord” Williams feels especially key to its universe. Dark, abstract, psychedelic and cavernous, Lustmord’s sound has been churning and evolving over the course of m...

@leecurtiss The Visionquest maestro steps into our Los Angeles studio for a DJ set and interview with his old friend Bryan Kasenic. Lee Curtiss and the Bunker’s Bryan Kasenic go way back – Bryan has been booking Curtiss to DJ since the earliest days of the Bunker party on the Lower East Side. The intervening years have taken Curtiss all over the world on the back of his genre-skirting DJ sets and...

@israel-vines A Detroit-rooted artist now based in LA, the Borrowed Languages mastermind and Eye Teeth affiliate plays live from our studio. Israel Vines calls Los Angeles home these days, but his musical mind was formed in America’s twin cities of dance music: Detroit, where he learned the art of raving, and Chicago, where he spent time behind the counter at the famed dance record shop Gramaphone...

@camellalobo The Blackest Ever Black-affiliated purveyor of post-punk and dark wave-infused techno steps into our Los Angeles studio for a DJ set. Camella Lobo’s music as Tropic of Cancer is shrouded in expertly crafted darkness – an odd fit, perhaps, for the sunny locale in which she’s making it. But the sound she’s tapped into – a meeting point between post-punk, synth pop and techno, backed up...

The Brooklyn party and label founder goes solo, presenting a two-hour DJ set of current favorites and upcoming releases. In the nearly 15 years that Bryan Kasenic has been running the Bunker, he’s worn a lot of hats: Promoter, agent, label owner, radio host (obviously). Doing all of the above has forced him to stay at the forefront of new electronic music, and a not-unpleasant byproduct is that he...

@kamekameha The rising Brooklyn DJ and Sublimate resident discusses his next moves and showcases his signature sound. As much as anyone in Brooklyn’s dance music scene, Turtle Bugg is fully immersed in the music. He spends his days tending to the proudly disorganized record stacks at the infamously grimy secondhand shop the Thing, and his off hours DJing across the borough (most notably as a resid...

@itsallhalal @relaxerelaxer Sustain-Release cofounder Aurora Halal and deep techno craftsman Relaxer (formerly Ital) touch down in our NYC studio for gripping DJ sets. Though both have roots in Washington, DC, Aurora Halal and Daniel Martin-McCormick have become indelibly associated with techno in Brooklyn, the borough where they’ve been producing, DJing and throwing parties for the better part of...

@ryancrosson Ahead of a new album with Cesar Merveille, the Visionquest mainstay plays an adventurous DJ set that shows off his experimental side. A Detroit-born DJ and producer who’s logged years in Berlin, London and New York, Ryan Crosson is best known as a member of Visionquest, the label and collective he runs with Lee Curtiss and Shaun Reeves. For anyone who’s pegged Crosson as a purely hous...