Josh Doubles Closing Set at Groove Together 1/24/25 (house)

We produce and promote underground house & and techno parties in Essex County NJ.

We travel this life in search of realizations. Only to discover, it was always within us.

In retrospect, it's clear that Josh couldn't escape his destiny in electronic music. At 8 years old, he purchased his first record, a 45 of Sweet Dreams, and fell in love with the synthesized bass. Fast-forward to now, his DJ style is a polyamorous exploration of a genre-fluid relationship between house, disco, and techno.

Josh's love for music pushed him to learn guitar and trumpet, and he played in a funk band in college. At the same time, he started an electronic music radio show on 91.1 WSPN, and his record collection took off. In 1997, his friend Pete taught him to beat-match and mix records, and the duo founded Triple X Music to produce and promote large warehouse raves in upstate NY until 2001.

Josh then relocated to NYC and reconnected with his college friend Tom. They began a series of weekly outdoor daytime parties under the Williamsburg Bridge at Rock Star Bar. Josh and Tom also began collaborating to produce house and techno music under the name Colorful Language. You can hear more from Josh here: ffm.bio/josh2x

Contact Thomas Hildebrand:  
tehildebrand@gmail.com

BIO:
Thomas Hildebrand's work is based in the foundations of musical thinkers who emphasize the sounds of the physical world as fodder for compositions. Influenced by the ideas of Cage and the like as much as the landscape of modern electronic music, he applies his unique sensibility to an approach which individualizes the vision of the artist – an approach which he makes the most of throughout his tangentially connected musical pursuits. Growing up with an opera singer and a big band arranger running the household afforded Thomas a wealth of education to absorb, and this background certainly seeps into his work, though through extremely subtle maneuvers. Using his relative outsider status in the crowded techno scene as a virtue, Hildebrand is slowly forging his own sound, embracing a variety of interests and sources and making them his own through jangling, moody tracks which hang in the balance between proper club music and personal couch listening. 

Though his current work is predominantly in the minimal techno/microhouse vein, his perspective is shifted by his occasional, yet ongoing collaborations with leftfield hip hop/downtempo groups (Maynframe, Innaverse) and his background as a drummer in rock and funk bands. The fact that Thomas was recently the acting drummer in a heavy metal band is a testament to both his willingness and desire to broach new musical subjects, and the breadth of range and experience which he incorporates into his material. This consistent sense of moving away from his comfort zone helps his work satisfy enough genre conditions to fit, without ever unconditionally adhering to anything – adorning itself in its greatest virtue – adventurousness in not only its perspective on terms like techno or found house, but in the appropriation of his chosen sound sources. Digitally rendering the material culled from trains, key chains and random occurrences into rhythms which fit the 4/4 minimal form, yet are coming from a rock/hip hop/metal/funk drummer mind, helps position Hildebrand's music in a place which is always searching for something else, without losing sight of the matter at hand.

Links to Thomas Hildebrand's releases and remixes:
https://www.beatport.com/artist/thomas-hildebrand/134931
http://www.anticipaterecordings.com/releases/ANT_012/index.php
http://www.beatport.com/release/worthless-bag-ep/880978
http://www.microcosm-music.com/audio/MCOSM1023/index.html
http://www.untitledandafter.com/catalog/untitled-21.htm
http://www.biatchcorp.org/app/webroot/auditoria/
http://www.anticipaterecordings.com/media/audio/summertour_remix_2/index.php