Mixes

* FULL INTERVIEW: https://boltingbits.com/mixed-by-eamon-harkin/

Eamon Harkin, 1/2 of Mister Saturday Night Records and Nowadays in Brooklyn, is a stalwart of NYC nightlife. Ahead of the release on his new EP for Fixed Rhythms, he’s put together a whopper mix that takes aim at a return to the dancefloor. Similar to his forthcoming EP, the mix is full of tunes that manifest sentimentality, collective joy, and healing. To quote the label, “If you do find yourself on a reopened dance floor, you may end up shedding a joyful tear.” Let’s have a good cry together.

Additionally, as is customary for the Bolting Bits ‘Mixed By’ series, Eamon’s been kind enough to answer a few of our questions.

INTERVIEW.

MIXED BY/ Eamon Harkin

A live recording from Mister Sunday on August 4th this year. Eamon played solo from beginning to end as Justin took a weekend off and we caught the whole set on tape. Here it is unedited just as it happened, clocking in at almost 5 hours. We hope you like it. Eamon is happy to respond to any track ID requests if he can remember what the tracks are!

P.S. Justin played the next Mister Sunday on Aug 11 solo but recording issues meant his set was not captured. We'll aim to get a solo set up from Mister Carter in the near future.

Eamon Harkin live from Mister Sunday, August 4th 2013 (5 Hour Set)

Four days ago, we capped off a season of parties that, at one point, we weren’t sure would ever happen. Mister Sunday was our first return to the dance floor after lockdown, and it remained, week in and week out, a source of joy and rejuvenation in the last six months’ roller coaster of reopening.

This mix was recorded at the finale of Mister Sunday’s outdoor season, with Nowadays founding resident DJs and Mister Sunday dons Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter tearing through rough-and-ready industrial, propulsive New York soulful house, bubbling big room techno, boisterous rave tracks, acid melters, Italo jams, jazz dance and all kinds of other cathartic sounds.

An extended four-hour version of the mix is up on the Patreon for all supporters. You can download and listen to the whole shebang right now if you’re a subscriber. If you’re not, it’s just $5/month, which gets you access to a huge archive of mixes, classes and other goodies, as well as early access to party announcements.

www.patreon.com/nowadaysnyc

Thanks to James, Lorna, Gareth, Krissy, Chris, Kristin, Jada, Nowadays security, Nowadays bar staff, the safer space team and the crew in the food truck for seeing us through. And thanks to you for showing up and giving it back on the dance floor. It takes all of us together to make it happen.

Nowadays Live and Direct 012 - Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin

Crisp house and dubbed out bliss from New York.

Interview and download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_EamonHarkin

XLR8R Podcast

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XLR8R Podcast 781: Eamon Harkin

Juanita's Mix 84 with Eamon Harkin @eamonharkin

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. Professionally a DJ, music producer and night club operator. More broadly a dad, husband, brother and son.

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene?
A. Almost 20 years. I landed in NY in November 2003.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. It contains tracks and songs from my main musical outlets for playing music to an audience - Planetarium, Mister Saturday Night and Mister Sunday. Emotionally it straddles the line between fear and hope.

Juanita's Mix 084: Eamon Harkin

Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin live at Mister Sunday in Industry City on Sunday, July 20. Completely independent of the mixing desk, this set was captured by a microphone perched in a tree just off the dancefloor.

Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin: Live From Mister Sunday, July 20, 2014

@eamonharkin and Justin Carter recorded live from Nowadays on October 29th 2023.

In early 2009, Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter launched @mistersaturdaynight. The party formed the roots of what would eventually become the beloved nightspot @nowadaysnyc, a “by us, for us” club that’s become a community hub for NYC’s nightlifers. Following the release of a sprawling box-set to mark the party’s 15th anniversary, Harkin, Carter and a few of the compilation’s featured artists filled us in on what makes Mister Saturday Night so special.

Read the feature: https://djmag.com/features/mister-saturday-night-15-years-new-york-party-nowadays-eamon-harkin-justin-carter

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Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter, live from Nowadays (October 2023)

A rare radio show appearance from one half of Mister Saturday Night.

http://www.instagram.com/mistereamonharkin

Eamon Harkin (Mister Saturday Night) @ The Lot Radio 04-12-2024

No one does a party quite like Mister Saturday Night.

Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin started the party – which soon developed a Sunday afternoon accompaniment, Mister Sunday – back in 2008, and it soon developed a reputation as one of the city’s most fun parties. “Fun” might feel like it downplays Carter and Harkin’s attention to detail – the pair are famous for their meticulous approach to organising parties, an attitude seen in a recent feature for XLR8R on setting up soundsystems, and they certainly don’t half-arse any aspects of the night – but with more smug, dull house nights than ever taking place worldwide, Mister Saturday stands out for its unpretentious, good times attitude.

As well as running one hell of a clubnight, Carter and Harkin have shown a smart ear for A&R in recent years, launching their Mister Saturday Night label with Anthony Naples’ breakthrough record Mad Disrespect (its title recently picked as one of FACT’s 100 tracks of the last half-decade), and housing music by Boya, Gunner Haslam, Dark Sky and more on the label.

This year, they compiled their label work so far with the Brothers and Sisters compilation, and followed it with their “own musical statement”, a live-recorded mix titled Weekends and Beginnings. Their FACT mix is a companion piece to Weekends and Beginnings, 18 tracks pulled live from the same session.

FACT Mix 476 - Eamon Harkin & Justin Carter (Dec '14)

Excited to share the recording of a 3hr set live from Waking Life festival in Portugal from earlier this summer. This set is one of my favorites of the year, full of ‘Mister’ anthems for a fresh audience and 2024 favorites that have been working a treat on home soil at Nowadays

Truth be told I hadn’t heard too much about the festival before receiving the invite to come play and so travelled to Portugal with an open mind and a managed expectation. What I experienced was one of the most fulfilling festival experiences I’ve ever had as a DJ or punter. There was joy, freedom, mischief and a sense of acceptance in the air which I quickly felt and rode as best I could for the next 3 hours. 

Major props to the folks working hard to produce and preserve a truly special vibe in a truly magical location. 

- Eamon Harkin (@eamonharkin)

Eamon Harkin at Waking Life - June 21st 2024

Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin live at Industry City on the opening day of 2015's outdoor Mister Sunday season, May 24th. This is two recordings combined into one – one direct from the mixer and one from a microphone perched in a tree just off the dancefloor.

Justin Carter & Eamon Harkin: Live From Mister Sunday, May 24th, 2015

Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter back to back at the opening Sunday of Mister Sunday's 2025 season. May 11, 2025. "We wanna see this every week."

Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin at Mister Sunday, May 11, 2025

Eamon Harkin recorded live at Industry City playing solo all day long while Justin Carter manned the tables at Mister Sunday in London. As has become customary, this is two recordings combined into one – one direct from the mixer and one from a microphone perched in a tree just off the dancefloor.

Eamon Harkin: Four Hours from Mister Sunday, June 14th, 2015

Tracklist and download available here: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/mister-saturday-night-episode-002/#/video

Mister Saturday Night Episode 002

As we polish our skates for a very special RBxBR date at the L.A. roller disco this Thursday, Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin [@mistersaturdaynight] have served up an hour’s worth of tunes fit for a disco king.

Download + full tracklist: boilerroom.tv/ray-ban/rbxbr010

Tracklist + Download

Mister Roller Disco Mix - Ray Ban x Boiler Room 010

This year, while the world as a whole seemed crazier than it has in our lifetimes, in our little corner, it was more beautiful than ever. We continue to feel blessed by the community that surrounds Mister Sunday and Nowadays as a whole, and we continue to be pleasantly dumbfounded that we get to spend our lives immersed in music and creating spaces for people to come together.

Before we close the door on the year, we wanted to share a little more music with you. This is the last two hours from the booth at Contact in Tokyo on Sunday, November 3, 2019. The vibe was special, and the tunes were flowing. We hope you have as much fun listening as we did playing. Big love for now and 2020. Happy New Year.

-Eamon and Justin

Last Two Hours In Tokyo

What is the role of white DJ playing the music born from black people? That’s a question that has been sitting with me in the days since the passing of George Floyd and the conversations I’m listening to and taking part of as dance music wrestles with it’s existential future. 

It’s an uncomfortable question but a vital conversation and one I’m going to strive to stay open within and contribute to. For any white DJ who steps up to play this music it’s critical that we do so in an ethical, educated and conscious way.

I was recently asked to record a mix for the online edition of the Celtronic festival, which was celebrating it’s 20th year. I decided to make a mix from music from the black artists whose music I collected and cherished over the years. Celtronic is based in Derry, Ireland where I was born and grew up. It’s an almost exclusively white community and the audience at the festival is fervent and young, so I hope this mix serves to lead a few curious listeners towards a deeper exploration of the roots of dance music. It features excerpts from a talk by Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility at the beginning and end.

Reflect & Seek To Do Something Different - A Mix For Celtronic 2020

Coastal Cast ~ Eamon Harkin

Eamon Harkin solo on The Lot Radio playing ambient, dub, drum & bass, 90s techno, punk funk plus upcoming material from Mister Saturday Night Records.

Eamon Harkin on The Lot Radio October 22nd 2020

Eamon Harkin back for another solo show on The Lot Radio playing Whale Songs to 90s Trance, Belgian New Beat to Weatherall plus some upcoming material on Mister Saturday Night Records.

Mister Saturday Night with Eamon Harkin @ The Lot Radio 02-17-2021

Mister Sunday, Mister Saturday Night, Planetarium & Nowadays. NYC.