BACK ROOM:
Speedy J (Electric Deluxe / Mute / Warp / Plus8 | Rotterdam)
EXTENDED 8 HOUR SET!!!

FRONT ROOM: KISS & TELL PRESENTS SEZE’S 35TH B-DAY BASH
Neurotic Drum Band aka John Selway & Ulysses (Wurst | NYC)
Nick Chacona (Moodmusic / Hector Works / Statra | Brooklyn)
John Roberts (Dial / Laid | Berlin) live
Bethany Benzur (Kiss & Tell | Brooklyn)

Public Assembly
70 North 6th Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Map)
10PM – 6AM  21+

This January 8, for The Bunker 7 Year Anniversary, the crew at Beyond Booking decided to go all out and do something kind of crazy they’ve been attempting to pull off for years. They’re turning over the back room to Speedy J for the entire eight hours of the party. To help balance the insanity that will occur in the back room, They’ve invited their sister party, Kiss & Tell, to present Bunker hostess and photographer Seze’s Birthday Party in the front room. In addition to a stellar lineup, Seze will be presenting a slide show of her extensive archive of party photos from The Bunker.

Jochem Paap, better known as Speedy J, has been making his mark on techno for as long as he’s been making it. In the early 90′s, he played a critical role in shaping what became the sound of Plus 8 with dancefloor monsters such as Pullover and Evolution. After two albums that were more geared towards the dancefloor, he started going out on a limb a bit more with the LP’s Public Energy No. 1 and A Shocking Hobby. While those album’s were more sonic and textured and maybe a bit more experimental, they proved what Jochem was capable of in the studio, and turned out to be some of the more interesting stuff out there. Moving on, he started to take things back to the dancefloor crafting four-to-the-floor techno, while still maintaining what he’d learned previously, again forging new sonic ground. It’s really hard to pin his sound down. His performances are unmatched by nearly anyone. His tastes are so broad, and he just seems to know how to bring it all together. Which is why he has been awarded the entire night for his set at The Bunker 7 Year Anniversary: a rare treat. It is surely going to blow some minds.

John Selway and Ulysses are no strangers to The Bunker. They’ve played together as Neurotic Drum Band at one of The Bunker’s infamous 303 Acid parties, and also made the only live appearance of their career at The Bunker. These days, they rarely perform together, as both of them have busy schedules balancing family with career. Their recent 12″ on Wurst went to number one on the Juno charts, which is no small feat. Tonight, they will likely be playing lots of the party jams and forgotten classic club records that help define the somewhat un-definable Kiss & Tell sound.

It’s nearly impossible to pin down Nick Chacona‘s genre, but you can definitely pin down his vibe: a f@#king good time. Much of his productions are based around space disco sounds with heavy dub influences, but that’s not at all where he draws the line. His discography just keeps growing and growing with releases on Moodmusic, 2020 Vision, Ben Watt’s Buzzin Fly, Saw, Dogtown, Bearfunk, and the inaugural release for Prins Thomas’s Internasjonal, not to mention a very extensive remix list that includes one for our own Adultnapper’s Footnotes label. His extremely versatile DJ sets have gained his high regard across the US from NY to San Francisco, as well as Brazil, Germany, Spain, Poland, Romania, Belgium, Sweden, Serbia, Holland, and the UK. You never know what you’re going to get out of him, save for what we already mentioned above: an extremely good time!

2009 was a big year for John Roberts. He started gaining a lot more attention for not only his ridiculously good EP’s, but for his live shows as well. You may recall him kicking off the year by DESTROYING the front room at Bunker’s anniversary party last year. Since then, he has been playing shows all over the globe and quickly gaining a ton of notoriety for them. 2010 will see the release of his first full length. Expect John to do what he does best: wreck shop with some of the deepest house music imaginable.

Bethany Benzur is Kiss & Tell’s resident disco encyclopedia and vinyl purist from Georgia. Recently emigrating to the Big Apple, Bethany has been ruling the dancefloor at Kiss & Tell parties with her Southern charm. The DJ nerds are regularly awed by her selections of raunchy electro, glamorous dark disco, and soulful street funk.