Photos: Discovery on May 12, 2012, with Free Magic, Faso, MK, and James Friedman at Loreley in...
Last night at Discovery at Santos Party House in the basement, the kids Free Magic , Faso, and also Ruth of Famous Friends were joined by special guest D.J.'s Sergio Santos and Boris Werner for a very house-centric affair, with the fog machines blasting, weird painted mannequin forms all around and tons of great dancing happening. It was also a celebration of the passing birthdays of Ruth, Damon Jablons and a late one for us here at THE CULTURE OF ME and you know what that means? Dessert, that's what. So [...]
This Saturday, Discovery celebrates its two year anniversary at Santos Party House with a fantastic line-up featuring DJ Harvey and Kyle Hall, sure to inspire some serious moves on the dancefloor. DJ Harvey's sound can be described as a mix of classics with fresh house, an approach which led him to star at nights such as ‘New Hard Left’ and ‘Moist’ at Ministry Of Sound in the nineties. He has made his name through DJing, scratching and especially re-editing, often together with Gerry Rooney on the now legendary Black Cock label. “I was aware of [...]
This Saturday Discovery is back in the basement of Santos Party House after a short stint last month in the upstairs of the venue, with special guest D.J. sets from the excellent Kid Color and Eddie C and residents VDRK and Free Magic will be kicking things off and wrapping things up in high style as usual. Entry is free before midnight with your RSVP , and $10 after. We'll see you guys there. Godspeed!
Lumberjack house (trademark reserved by Joel Fowler aka Free Magic) maestro Jus-Ed is coming to downtown NYC tomorrow night for the next episode of the monthly Discovery party happening at Santos Party House, starting at the stroke of 11pm. Joining him are residents VDRK and the aforementioned Free Magic, all throwing around the best, biggest... Read More
Our favorite monthly party in New York City, the disco and house adventure Discovery, is back next Saturday night at Santos Party House, and joining residents VDRK and Free Magic are the kids from around the same way, Lloydski and Benguin. The party is free with RSVP before 12 midnight and it's $10 at the [...]
The 2010 iteration of the esteemed Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival (BEMF) is entering its third year and, while summer is usually the season for it to happen, the gang at Famous Friends and Mean Red have decided to forgo the sunshine for the pre-Christmas date of December 18. Conveniently located on North 6th Street in [...]
For the fifth and final night of CMJ 2010 this past Saturday, some chose to hang at Brooklyn Bowl for #Offline and see Kanye West surprise all but the Fool's Gold family for a post-"Runaway" performance, some trudged through the day only to go to the surprise Jelly-helmed Shank after hours or maybe at the [...]
Once again the team at Famous Friends have gone ahead and put together one of the radder, more varied line-up's this year for the 2010 CMJ Music Marathon. Pulling in a partnership with the booking agency AM Only, the FF crew have secured an all-night affair at Le Poisson Rouge, featuring live acts like Body [...]
Tomorrow, for free y'all, the Discovery party is happening again, only this time, it's all going down in lovely Brooklyn at Public Assembly. Slated to appear at the soiree (alongside residents VDRK and Free Magic) is one half of Flosstradamus, Autobot, as well as Kid Color. RSVP now for free entry all night here. Also [...]
My review of MY most anticipated album release today, Magnetic Man's S/T debut that is, will have to wait 'til tomorrow, BUT there's no need for tears people, here's a nice dubstep release from the other side of the pond instead. Yeah. The last couple of months you have seen great dubstep remixes over here from Chicago's Jeremy Davis aka. Young Live (of Starters DJ's) and here he give you a whole damn EP stuffed with great cuts, for free. As you might now, he's take on Sky Ferreira's 'Animal' cover earned the #1-spot of Most [...]
Never Leave Brooklyn sent us over the deets on Famous Friends & LOVATRON Discovery Party . Check them below. ---------- DISCOVERY w/ MARCOS CABRAL & BAD DECISION RSVP FOR FREE ENTRY: http://www.adiscoparty.com • • • • • • • • • Free before Midnight w/ RSVP at http://www.adiscoparty.com/ * $7 Door Saturday, August 14th Santos Party House (Basement) Map: http://tr.im/Ga83 Doors 11pm With (Super) Special Guests: [...]
At another great party at the pop-up World Cup takeover storefront dubbed the Puma Social Club, this past Friday evening was hosted by the kids in our family, Famous Friends and featured guests from the wondrous Fool's Gold record label. Featuring DJ sets from VDRK and OCD Automatic, Nick Catchdubs (co-owner of Fool's Gold) and [...]
108 is great! After the most shittiest of shitshow weeks, I got home last night to find an unmarked, no-return address envelope with a slightly heavier than normal package inside. Someone mailed back my stolen wallet! A bit of faith is restored in humankind...and a ton of bits are below in return. (Plus it's an "early dismissal" work day and Monday is observed for the holiday...so we don't gotta come back to work for what seems like [...]
Joining forces this summer, on July 2, only at the Puma Social Club, the greatest pop-up venue the South Street Seaport has seen since, well, since forever, the kids at Fool's Gold Records and Brooklyn dance party destroyers Famous Friends and Discovery are coming to take your brothers and sisters to the dance floor. With [...]
It's pretty insane to be a 21-year-old producer who has an Encyclopedia Brown-like knowledge and awareness of certain things. In this case, as we discuss Brooklyn's VDRK, we're mainly discussing funk, soul and disco cuts, all of which seem to...
Featuring a guest set from the Vancouver disco house kid U-Tern alongside the residents of the best party in NYC every month, VDRK and Free Magic, Discovery came this past Saturday night and it was a rad, rad time. It...
For this month's edition of the best basement party ever created, Discovery at the venerable Santos Party House, we were all celebrating the birthday for Discovery/Famous Friends resident DJ VDRK, who played his own set of disco hits with his...
We aren't getting ahead of ourselves at all with this claim: Discovery, the monthly disco house party that whips the Santos Party House basement up in funky breaks and tremendous hooks, is the best party in New York City right...
A free, unofficial party at this year's SXSW festival in Austin that's filled to the gills with a day of music and DJ sets, food trucks, free tea and all bar proceeds going to a charity that reaches out to...
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