The party’s happening at 47-33 5th St, Long Island City, NY 11101

As you can see from the map below, if you’re coming from Brooklyn, it’s one stop into Queens on the G train, then ~3 blocks from the 21st St station.

From Manhattan you can take the E or V train to 23rd St — Ely Ave, but it’s a bit of a walk and we would recommend hailing a cab instead.

Unfortunately the 7 train is not running Saturday night.

In a car from Manhattan:

• Take the Queensboro Bridge
• Turn right at Thomson Ave
• Left at Jackson Ave
• Right at 48th Ave
• Take a slight right at Vernon Blvd continuing onto 48th Ave
• Finally turn right at 5th Street. The venue is on the right.

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The party starts at 10pm and will go strong well into the morning. We suggest arriving early for the reduced admission of $10 and to catch all the guest performers — Runaway are on at 12:30. It’s $20 after midnight.

Looking forward to seeing you!

After many moons Sound Noir is proud to present the third installment in our podcast series. Have a listen to our resident DJs: Andrey Radovski and Amaury Arias aka Helping Hands.

00:01 - Marcellus Pittman - If The Earth Could Talk - Unirhythm
05:26 - Mo’Joe & Marlow - Look Over Feel (DF’s Obj Drum Tool) - Objektivity
08:17 - Mr. James Barth & A.D. - Above The Skyline - Svek
11:55 - Gene Hunt – Gotta Get Away (Deep In The Box Mix) - Philosophie Music
15:54 - Capracara - King Of The Witches - DFA
17:56 - Oasis - One - FXHE Records
20:42 - Marlon D - Japanese Prayer (Dub Mix) - Strictly Rhythm
24:13 - Swing 52 - The Madness Of It All (Q.U.I. Mix) - Cutting Records
27:00 - DJ Swap - Consequence - Smallville Records
29:40 - Oasis - Seven - FXHE Records
33:29 - Nina Kraviz feat. Raphael M. - FREE - Underground Quality
38:24 - KB Project - Feel It - Elevate
41:41 - Marcellus Pittman - Tom Remix - Unirhythm
44:31 - DJ Qu - Quick Circuit Filler – unreleased promo
47:27 - Theo Parrish - Synthetic Flemm - Sound Signature
50:40 - D5 - Sides Of Space - Delsin
55:25 - Anthony “Shake” Shakir - Arise (Trus’me Remix) - Syncrophone
59:04 - JS-01 - JS-01 - JS
65:22 - The Poor Knight - My Baby Drives Me Home - Cabinet Records

Right click and “Save As”: Helping Hands Podcast

We are also going to celebrate Frank’s birthday

SN party will be DOWNSTAIRS!

Lenny de la Posso (Thema, Sound Noir)
Helping Hands (Sound Noir)
Jacob Redfield (Sound Noir)
Frank Olivo (Tricycle)

Friday, 19 February 2010
10:30pm – 4am
La Zarza: 166 First Ave. (at 10th Street), NYC (map)
FREE

Last summer on June 27th, we came together on a Bushwick rooftop to celebrate the birthdays of Kelly, Andrey and Ray.

After a torrential downpour, the sky opened up and blessed us with double rainbows.

To help remember the event if you were there, and to incite you if you weren’t, we’ve posted photos from the event.

Once again we are proud of the diverse line-up that will unite on one dancefloor the artists who lead the way in their respective genres.

It’s safe to say that Terrence Dixon is one of the originators of Detroit minimal techno. Although not as universally famous as Robert Hood, Terrence released his first works on Utensil Records at the same time as Robert and helped to define the sound that has since travelled across the ocean and mutated sometimes beyond recognition, tied to its roots only by the ethos of getting maximal result by minimal means. Terrence’s compositions are as bent as they get, often with swirls of dark melodies circling the simple but powerful beat. However his DJ sets these days can be pretty far from that. Last summer Terrence played a midnight set at our impromptu rooftop party in Bushwick and surprised everyone with an upbeat house set that was perfect for a hot June night. Something tells us this time we will get to hear his darker late-night side.

You should be familiar with Fred P by now – if you haven’t caught one of his deeper-than-deep DJ sets at the Bunker or House’N'Home, the name Black Jazz Consortium may ring a bell – Fred has been producing records under this moniker for a few years now, and the excellent results include “Structure”, which was featured as one of 2009’s best albums by residentadvisor.net and littlewhiteearbuds.com; as well as recent collaboration with Reagenz (Move D & Jonah Sharp) on Workshop records. We are a bunch of Fred fan-boys (plus one girl) and are very happy to finally feature him at our event.

Runaway, a collaborative project of Marcos Cabral and Jaques Renault, has become more and more prominent on the music radar in the past few years. While one of them was influenced by styles as diverse as classical music, post-punk, drum’n'bass and disco, the other was playing Chicago house, latin freestyle and producing minimal techno for the famous Trapez imprint. After meeting in NY and informing each others musical tastes for a few years, they released their first collaboration on local Wurst Edits – right off the bat the tracks were featured in mixes by disco biggies Glimmers and Lindstrom, while ‘08 bomb “Brooklyn Club Jam” was so powerful it just had to be released on both DFA and Rekids. The past year has been extremely productive for the duo, with an international tour, releases coming out on Japan’s excellent Mule Musiq, among other labels, and the founding of their own brand new imprint On The Prowl. After hearing Marcos play a great opening set for Rick Wade at our May party, we are excited to experience the combined output of Runaway as DJs.

As always our residents Lenny de la Posso and Helping Hands will represent the signature sound of Noir, while in the opening hours Mike Minogue will be playing a set consisting of disco, jazz and funk gems.

This Saturday night Sound Noir DJs are playing at Essential – a Manhattan loft happening, which is both an art show and a dance party – everybody wins! Featured will be pictorial and sculpted works from over 50 artists, NY based performers, body painters and live musicians. The party side will feature Cesare vs Disorder of London, Sound Noir residents Lenny de la Posso and Helping Hands, plus several other NY DJs. The location is 56 Walker Street between Broadway and Church St in Tribeca and the timeframe is 4pm Saturday till 1pm Sunday.

You can find out more on Facebook.

And you can buy presale tickets on RA.

Also watch out for the next season of Sound Noir events starting late February!

Fall Into Place… by delaposso

Hello, we are back!

This time we want to give summer sunshine another chance, without letting go of our favorite dark night.

2 of the most unique US producers/DJs out there will be playing with us day and night.

For the past few years Dave Aju from San Francisco has been walking the line between weird and wonderful by the way of jazzy with his productions – which has rightfully landed him on the mischievous Parisian label Circus Company and led to the very famous Luciano remix of “Crazy Place” – a single taken from Aju’s conceptual album pieced together entirely of vocal samples. Take that acapella-haters! Fear not though his set will include much more than vocalizing:) http://www.myspace.com/daveaju

Kris Wadsworth on his part churns out some of the most distinct and powerful tracks coming from Detroit these days. At just 24 years of age he has mastered his native town’s gritty sound and infused it with a dose of subdued beauty that made them so popular with just about every deep DJ and quality labels like Swiss Morris/Audio, French Adults Only and German Poker Flat. Unlike many of the newly converted pseudo-D producers Kris forgoes all the dross and instead concentrates on extra-tough beats supplemented by melodic depth charges to make for tracks that seem to hit you in the sub-conscious. I could go on and on as Kris really made some of my favorite tracks of this and last years but let the music do the talking, hit the link. http://www.myspace.com/thedepthsof

The latest awesome addition to the line-up is Montreal resident MOSSA. Both his classical/jazz music training and his early obsession with hard-core is showing in his daring electronic compositions that have been released on such influential labels as Cynosure, Mo’s Ferry and Circus Company. First and foremost a DJ, his sets are bursting with energy and sounds that are anything but predictable. http://mossamusic.free.fr/

Our own NYC-town will be represented by Anton Esteban – resident DJ of the 5-year-strong disco/leftfield party No Ordinary Monkey. After experiencing their amazing dance-out last Sunday in WBurg’s Grand Ferry Park we are looking forward to hearing more of that magical psychodelic goodness from Anton’s crate. You’d better be prepared to traverse the outer space! http://www.noordinarymonkey.com/

Residents Lenny de la Posso of Thema ( http://www.neoday.net ) and Helping Hands will be present in high spirits to further define the Sound of Noir.

$10 on the list; $20 at the door

We would like to see you there, dancing;)

If you are reading this then consider yourself invited. This is on quite a short notice but hope to see you there nevertheless;)

250 Moore St rooftop
3pm – 1am
FREE / BYOB
L to Morhan Ave

Summer is here and we’re still living off where we left each other. So we might have been a little sunstruck and are posting these pictures from our second party just now. We’ve pulled together images from several photographers and want to finally share them with you.

Have a look!