As The Bunker continues to grow significantly, many of you have expressed a desire to turn back the clock to the good ole days when the party was weekly at subTonic for 100 people or so. We miss those days as well, so in 2011 we launched a new series of events called The Bunker Limited. For The Bunker Limited, we bring a ridiculous sound system into a very small space, and limit attendance to 150. Last year we said goodbye to Public Assembly and the small loft space above it that housed The Bunker Limited. In 2014 we relaunched The Bunker Limited in a new art space we could not be more excited to be a part of, Trans Pecos. There will be no guestlist for The Bunker Limited, the only way we can pull this off in a space this small is if everyone pays. The sets at these events are not recorded, and absolutely no photography is allowed inside.
Tonight we present Objekt, who played a stunning DJ set at The Bunker's RBMA event in 2013, and has put out some of our favorite records of the past few years. The Bunker New York recording artist Leisure Muffin will treat us to his ever evolving live set. Zemi17 also joins us, playing a live set of insect/gamelan techno to preview his upcoming 12" on The Bunker New York. Bryan Kasenic opens the night.
OBJEKT ((Objekt, Hessle Audio | Berlin)
Adventures in machine music built to make subs rattle and feet wiggle; a convoluted mess of elektrology and teknology, 3-step, bass-core, post windmill, proto-minimal wankstep, gondola, shithouse, acid wonk, ambient gabber, no more, no less.
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/keinobjekt
LEISURE MUFFIN (The Bunker New York | Philadelphia)
eisure Muffin’s modern take on kosmische music is not easy to pin down. Influences and reference points are extraordinarily wide-ranged, but include early Warp (Seefeel, Autechre, and Aphex), Drexciya, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, Coil, and Perrey and Kingsley. He was also deeply influenced by the sound of The Bunker (and other) dancefloors. A former audio engineering educator, Hopkins has a mastery of both Ableton Live and modular synthesizers. After drooling over, and even borrowing some key pieces of gear from Sarah Lawrence College and Charles Cohen’s studio over the years, the recent advent of more affordable modular equipment meant that he finally has a dream setup of his own.
“The fact that modular synths have become affordable now has really helped,” he says. “I always wanted to be writing using that stuff and after waiting for a really long time, I finally have the kind of setup I always dreamed of.”
It makes sense that someone with Leisure Muffin’s broad tastes makes music that is hard to classify. When most people tell you that they love all forms of music, further examination of their claim usually leads to disappointment. This isn't the case for Leisure Muffin. If you join him for tea, you could end up listening to an accordion record as easily as you might hear electronic music. He spent most of his life working in some of the best and worst record stores in the USA, for the pure joy of being able to hear new sounds every day (before the internet put all music at everyone’s fingertips). If you talk to him you might hear about the pleasures of attending the symphony after eating a pot brownie or how you should listen to African Juju records from the 1930s. .
"I don't know what to call it--I really just make the kind of stuff that I want to hear,” he says. “And honestly, if I didn't love dancing and playing at dance parties so much, I'd probably just be locked in a room somewhere torturing synthesizers or playing boring whale sound guitar solos for hours. Actually, I suppose I do a fair amount of that anyway. Maybe that's why it's taken me almost 20 years to actually release something that anybody is interested in putting out."
In the mid-90's, he was playing shows in clubs in the Lower East Side (Den of Thieves, Unity Gain, Tonic) when he was too young to drink. He pulled off a lot of great sets over the following years and built a reputation as a live electronic performer during an era when that was far less common. Live recordings of both his solo sets and his duos with Charles Cohen made the rounds among good friends (including The Bunker New York bossman Bryan Kasenic), but finishing a studio record had, until now, eluded him.
With the encouragement of Kasenic and The Bunker New York family, Leisure Muffin finally managed to finish an EP in the studio, and we couldn’t be happier with the results.
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/leisuremuffin
ZEMI17 (The Bunker New York | Brooklyn)
Zemi17 is an musical project created by composer and sculptor Aaron Taylor Kuffner in 1997. Zemi in Japanese means cicada. The 17 references the 17-year lifecycle of the periodical cicadas found in the northeast of the United States. From 1997 – 2002 Kuffner was a prolific producer of underground and outlaw events in New York, playing DJ sets with turntables wired through augmented guitar petals and live sets on the MPC 2000. He was the cofounder of the Ransom Corp, and a member of the Blackkat Sound System, Havoc Sound system, and Amoeba Technology often working with Complacent Nation. In 2002 Kuffner moved to Berlin to produce a multi-media art festival and compose for an experimental theater group before moving to Indonesia and immersing himself in the study of Gamelan. Kuffner returned to New York in 2007 after a 4 year hiatus from electronic music and became the resident DJ for The Danger and self produced an album called “The Back Door to Wisma Langit (Hotel Sky)” made entirely of samples he had gathered in Indonesia reconstituted into techno. Over the next 4 years Kuffner would regularly perform DJ and live sets derived from the Wisma Langit material in the Brooklyn warehouse party scene.
A twist of fate would change Zemi17's trajectory in Brooklyn's budding EDM scene. In the beginning of 2008 after an artist residency with Eric Singer at the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) Kuffner co-created the Gamelatron (the world's first fully robotic gamelan orchestra) as a side project to Zemi17. Over the next 6 years The Gamelatron would come to completely consume his artistic and musical production, spending months in the shop hand crafting sonic kinetic sculptures into site specific acoustic sound installations he would end up showing all over the world, from the Smithsonian Institute to Fuji Rock, at galleries and festivals across Asia, Europe, Russia and North America.
Zemi17.com
BRYAN KASENIC (The Bunker New York | Brooklyn)
Bryan Kasenic (pka Spinoza) is known in the electronic music world for throwing The Bunker, playing adventurous DJ sets, and starting Beyond, his own booking agency. The past few years have seen Bryan take his infamous Brooklyn-based party, The Bunker, to Panorama Bar in Berlin, Corsica Studios in London, Unsound Festival in Krakow, Communikey Festival in Boulder, Decibel Festival in Seattle, Smartbar in Chicago, GAFFTA in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and of course Detroit. In January 2014, The Bunker celebrated it's 11th Anniversary and launched a record label.
TheBunkerNY.com
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