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@batuuk

A Bristol DJ and producer on the bleeding edge of techno and bass joins Bryan Kasenic in our NYC studio.

Bristol has long been a center for bass music in various forms. But these days, as the UK city’s DJs and producers have taken in fresh influences and helped the style mutate, “low end” is just the starting point. Whether it’s house, techno or otherwise, the city’s electronic music is some of the most inventive anywhere. This week on The Bunker NY, host Bryan Kasenic will be joined in the studio by Timedance boss Batu for a DJ set and interview. If you’ve caught his sets either online or in clubs, then you’ll know to expect: An exploration of genres, tempos and textures that’s wonderfully difficult to pin down.

@further-reductions

Shawn O’Sullivan and Katie Rose bring their collaborative project to our NYC studio, featuring a back-to-back DJ set and interview.

Shawn and Katie O’Sullivan’s Further Reductions project is as difficult to pin down as it is easy to enjoy. Of a piece with the noise-imbued techno Shawn has recorded for such labels as the Corner, Avian and L.I.E.S., the duo operates from a similar deep knowledge of both dance music and experimental electronic contingents, while allowing space for a subtle brush with songwriting. As a live act, they’ve played at just about every party worth mentioning in New York, including appearances at the Bunker. That makes them long overdue to join Bryan Kasenic for a broadcast from our studio. They’ll remedy that on the show this week, stopping in for a back-to-back DJ set and interview.

@scallywag

@richardgamble

The Brooklyn DJs behind the massive Fourth World party discuss what’s in store for 2018 and go back-to-back, live from our NYC studio.

The phrase “fourth world” gets thrown around a lot in outer-limits musical contexts. But in the context of electronic music in New York, it’s come to mean something very particular: An absolutely massive, once-a-year summit for the city’s best DJs and live performers. This weekend, Fourth World will stage its 2018 edition, featuring dozens of acts over the course of 18 hours in the wilds of Bushwick. Simply put, it’s going to be insane. The Bunker’s Bryan Kasenic will perform this year, and he’s invited organizers R. Gamble and DJ Scallywag to join him for a back-to-back DJ set and discussion of what’s become one of the city’s most cherished traditions.

@echiverri

On the eve of her first release for the Bunker New York, the inventive Queens producer plays genre-defying live and DJ sets from our studio.

Abby Echiverri is as immersed in the particulars of sound as anyone featured on the Bunker’s biweekly broadcast — as an audio engineer, she’s built custom studio and DJ equipment, helped maintain James Murphy and 2ManyDJs’ wildly high-spec Despacio soundsystem, run the Funktion One rig at Brooklyn’s Output club and worked on loads of other projects that delve into the science of sound. Despite all of that experience surrounding music production, she’s just now getting around to releasing her first record, the Ab Initio EP on the Bunker New York. Here she joins Bryan Kasenic in our NYC studio for a pair of exploratory sets – one live, one DJ’d – and an interview that fleshes out Echiverri’s unique take on electronic music.

The Brooklyn party and label’s mastermind plays a broadcast-length DJ set chock full of brand-new and forthcoming tracks.

Bryan Kasenic’s biweekly radio broadcast from our NYC studio is typically a showcase for Bunker-affiliated artists, plus favorites and up-and-comers from New York’s underground and beyond. Occasionally though, he’ll roll up to the studio solo to present music that’s been on heavy rotation in his club sets. This week, Bryan puts an emphasis on forthcoming Bunker New York releases, many of which haven’t yet been played anywhere else. Tune in for music from the likes of Marco Shuttle, Clay Wilson, Wata Igarashi and Forma.

@lag

A key Serbian voice in furiously hard techno touches down in the NYC studio to DJ and talk shop.

Milos Martinov, AKA Lag, grew up on punk and studied classical music, but these days the Serbian producer and DJ is dedicated to techno. His sound certainly isn’t for the faint of heart – he likes to play around around 140 BPM, which puts him on the far end of the intensity scale. But across releases for in-the-know labels like Mord and Sect, he’s made sprinting, hard-edged techno that sounds effortless. Lag was recently in New York under the auspices of Exit Festival, his home country’s famed electronic music event — there was a special edition of the Bunker in Brooklyn in honor of its involvement in Exit’s No Sleep Novi Sad Stage this year. Joining us in our NYC studio, Lag gives Bunker boss Bryan Kasenic an overview of his musical life, and DJ sets touching on all sides of his sound.

The chameleonic Michigan producer and DJ (and Red Bull Radio host) spends an evening in the mix with Bryan Kasenic, live from Detroit.

Each month on his Red Bull Radio show Preset, Ypsilanti’s Todd Osborn chooses a musical subgenre – often one of his own making – and fully inhabits it, like the cataloguing of Motown backing tracks or dorm-room-era Def Jam cuts. It speaks to Todd’s dextrous mind and openness to killer sounds from across the spectrum, which have made him a unique figure in Midwestern music since the ’90s. He’s released on Aphex Twin’s revered Rephlex imprint, acted as one of the biggest drum & bass and jungle heads stateside, released sun-dappled dance music as Osborne – and all that feels like it’s barely scratching the surface. When he joins his friend and Bunker founder Bryan Kasenic for a live broadcast Detroit in advance of Movement 2018, he’ll only have an hour to show us how he does it, but we have no doubt it’ll be special.

@deepisdeep

The Detroiter behind releases for FXHE and Echcord untangles his deep, dubby sound, live from our studio in the Motor City.

It’s hard to separate Luke Hess’s music from two of his key influences: A lifetime spent in the Detroit metro area and a lifelong interest in science and technology (he has a background in mathematics and engineering). Those influences give his techno productions an expansive, lab-experiment feel, while never losing the raw punch and soul of great club tracks. For this broadcast from our Detroit studio ahead of Movement 2018, Bunker founder Bryan Kasenic has invited Hess to come in for a DJ set and to talk through both his techno history and some upcoming projects.

@vpatricola

One of Detroit’s busiest local boosters drops by to DJ and give an insider’s take on what’s shaking in the Motor City.

Vincent Patricola’s involvement in Detroit music stretches back some two decades. Since picking up turntables in the mid-’90s, he’s held down numerous DJ residencies, hosted FM radio, played the main stage at earlier iterations of Movement in ‘04 and ‘05, published a print magazine and worked at the Ferndale location of the storied shop Record Time. When the economy collapsed in the late aughts and he needed a reboot, Patricola left for New York, but as of 2015 he’s back in Detroit and once again dedicated to local music. These days, he’s DJing one residency or another nearly every night of the week, and he’s relaunched his magazine, Detroit Electronic Quarterly, which is releasing a new issue this week in advance of Movement. As part of his week of broadcasts ahead of the festival, the Bunker’s Bryan Kasenic will host Patricola live in our Detroit studio to hear more about the year-round scene here and his role within it, and he’ll drop a DJ set.

An on-the-rise name on techno lineups across the US, the TV Lounge resident joins Bryan Kasenic live from Detroit.

Loren hails from the Motor City, but you’ll see her name on lineups in Miami, Chicago, New York and Washington, DC, to name a few places she’s played over the last year. She’s made a name for herself in large part through her residency at TV Lounge, a Detroit club at the center of the city’s dance music scene (and it’s a heaving afterparty venue during Movement as well), but she also plays across the city and has her hand in projects like the Lobos label and the DJ and production persona Elvee, where she explores more harder-edged sounds than the considered techno she’s best known for. On this special edition of the Bunker NY live from Detroit, Loren will step up to the decks and get us up to speed on her busy schedule.