Bryan Kasenic (The Bunker New York) mixes and interviews

Metallic drones oscillate between micro-tones, seeping down into the depths of our conscious minds. Our next guest, Bryan Kasenic, is no stranger to such sonic imagery. Anyone who has dived into the murky world of underground electronic music has undoubtedly come across The Bunker New York, which has established itself as much more than a party thanks to Kasenic's dedicated hard work. Through years of careful curation, renowned events, records, and podcasts, The Bunker has evolved into a community founded on connection through otherworldly music. 

With the launch of the sublabel Going In in 2020, Kasenic decided to promote the realms of long-form music compositions suited for more meditative moments. With 14 releases to date, he has transformed his devotion to alternative musical forms into reality. His Unrush contribution is a palpable display of this passion, turning his prowess as an experienced selector into a ruminative passage of sound that transcends time and space. So tune in, drop out, and let your thoughts dissolve into the ether.

Thanks a lot https://soundcloud.com/thebunkerny

The Bunker NY Bandcamp : https://thebunkerny.bandcamp.com/
Going In Bandcamp: https://goingin.bandcamp.com/
The Bunker NY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebunkerny/

Unrush Bandcamp: https://unrush.bandcamp.com/
Unrush Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_unrush_/

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist & Bandcamp Links follow -->

https://www.dropbox.com/s/21ofxdxg3tuyrux/Tracklist_Bryan%20Kasenic.rtf?dl=0

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060 - Unrushed by Bryan Kasenic

For a good while, I did not think No Way Back would be a streaming event for the second year in a row, but as it became clear that was what was happening, I had to start thinking about this set. This was the opening set of the 36 hour stream, which gave me a lot of space to build things up incredibly slowly. There were a few things I knew I really wanted to include like the DJ Plead, Plastikman off "Consumed", the two Kocmoc tracks, and "Untitled #35" in tribute to Jasen Loveland. The rest was just connecting those dots to make it all work. I recorded this in one take by the stream outside my house in the Hudson Valley. I thought I would have shade for the whole 3 hours but found myself in direct sun halfway through as I started recording later than planned. The sun was sort of melting my brain and made the CDJ displays really hard to see but somehow I think it just added to the vibe. Deeply looking forward to finally reconnecting with everyone in 3D space at Tangent this Memorial Day weekend.
— Bryan Kasenic 

video: https://youtu.be/T0K5-8PcV7Q

Playlist —
Deradoorian - Rite of Birth - Passage to Atzilut (Self Released, 2019)
Various Artists - No. 9 (Fatcat, 1997)
loscil - Lumina (Kranky, 2021)
Christina Chatfield - Concatenate I (Mysteries of the Deep, 2021)
Seefeel -  Utreat (Complete) (Rephlex, 1996)
Sylvia Monnier - Hors Commerce (Seconds Records, 2018)
DJ Plead - RT6 (Boomkat Editions, 2020)
David Morley & Davy Vandegaer - Uninhabitable Zones (Future Past, 2020)
George Cory Todd - Precisionism (rrao remix) (Atlantic Rhythms, 2020)
Zemi17 - Blessings In Red (The Bunker New York, 2021)
Kocmoc - Lunatetris (Sähkö Recordings, 1996)
Pessimist & Karim Maas - A5 (Pessimist Productions, 2019) 
LF58 - Rituale (Astral Industries, 2020)
Plastikman - In Side (M_nus, 1998)
Konduku - Bulutlar (Mantis, 2020)
Yak - Darunia (Version, 2017)
Orm - Astralingua (LW Productions, 2019)
Mike Parker - Living Colossus (Spazio Disponibile, 2020)
BMG - The Needle (Enisslabs, 2020)
Carter Tutti Void - T 3.4 (Conspiracy International, 2019)
Shawn O'Sullivan - Wrest (Psychic Liberation, 2017)
DJ Nobu - Dualism (Bitta, 2019)
Jonathan Kusuma - Energi Hall (Cocktail D'amore, 2019)
Bambounou - Send When You Land (Bambe, 2021)
Erik Luebs - Melting Synthetics (The Bunker New York, 2021)
Iori - Under The Water (Wata Igarashi Remix) (Kynant, 2021)
Forest Drive West - Dualism (Livity Sound, 2021)
Dubspeeka - Kie (Odd / Even, 2020)
Kaap - Razor (De Lichting, 2021)
Jasen Loveland - Untitled #35 (Unreleased, 2021)
DMX Krew - Vicious Bleebz (Super Rhythm Trax, 2019)
Love Letters  - CMB (The Bunker New York, 2019)
Kocmoc - Kosmoska (Sähkö Recordings, 1996)
Further Reductions - More than just a dream (Knekelhuis, 2020)
VC-118A - Spiritual Machines (Delsin, 2021)

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IT.podcast.s11e14: Bryan Kasenic at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2021

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.
More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Steffi @ Kiosk Radio 03.09.2022

Stefan Goldmann — guest session
Monday, April 3, 2023, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

https://www.dublab.com/schedule/110750/stefan-goldmann-guest-session

"This mix is a continuation of a set I played at the Berlin Philharmonic in February. The tracklist is somewhat different, but the idea very similar: I was looking to integrate some scattered individual incidents across two decades of electronic music into multidimensional dialogues with some precursors and oddly fitting acoustic works since the 1970s. So this is how you get a Speedy J track from 2000 into two musical exchanges at once – with Tony Williams Lifetime and Nana Vasconcelos on one side, and the rhythms of Ena and DB1 on the other. Or Barry Altschul with Jeff Mills, and Source Direct with Michael Ranta."

Stefan Goldmann – Dublab LA guest session, 3 april 2023

Read our interview with @ithqdetroit member Erika and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/EriPod

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Groove Podcast 381 - Erika

A live recording from final day of rural festival in 2023 in the mountain by Terrence Dixon.
It was a long-awaited debut in Japan, with a clear sound that matched the Void sound system very well.

Terrence has just released a new album this July.
Hit at https://terrencedixonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/edge-of-the-visible-universe

@terrencedixon

Terrence Dixon at rural2023

This hybrid DJ / Live Set was recorded in a yurt structure at the Freerotation Festival in Wales. This time my idea for the set was to take us all much further out, much deeper inside than the set from last year. A more disembodied experience. 

As I had done last year, I sat on the floor in front of the speakers to perform instead of behind them as a DJ normally does. This greatly enhanced my feeling of experiencing the set with the audience, dissolving the usual performer / audience divide. 
Below is the list of tracks that I played in addition to live improvisation using a eurorack modular system.

Many thanks to Steevio, the whole Freerotation crew and everyone who experienced it there with me.


Lars Von Trier - Intro from Europa
Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings - Crossing the Line - Tibetan Bells III
Delia Derbyshire - Running - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Hydraulic Regime Vibrates Within - Journey from Anywhere
Coil - Copal - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Such Is Life - Time To Tell
Coil - Die Wölfe Kommen Zurück - Black Light District
William S. Burroughs - The Cat Inside: Excerpts - The Best Of William Burroughs
Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music - Weaving
Coil - Bism - Worship The Glitch
Delia Derbyshire - Colour - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Long Distance Poison - Signal I (Drew McDowall Remix) - Gleise Translations
Coil - Caged Birds - Worship The Glitch
Coil - Magnetic North - Winter Solstice
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb - Selected Ambient Works, Volume II
Coil - We Have Always Been Here - Worship The Glitch
Jo Johnson - Long Shadow (Anthony Child remix)
Rapoon - We Danced Like Sticks - The Kirghiz Light
Alessandro Cortini - Resta - Forse 1
Delia Derbyshire - Falling - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Open Interval 1 - Journey from Anywhere
Rapoon - Dala - The Kirghiz Light
Coil - Ended - Worship The Glitch

Surgeon (ambient set) at Freerotation 2014

Berlin-based Resom’s meandering electronics have guested the Bassiani Podcast a couple of times, here she gets lost in thought once more for Zenaari Mix 005. This one’s far from a wool-gathering exercise, her selection and mixing are deep, provocative, and wonderfully percipient, little else to expect from someone whose path has encompassed so many different areas. Her work confidently mines a wealth of experience across club residencies and activism, and delivers results that are a pure joy to witness. This one covers every base, from softly gliding synths to slightly more controlled percussive meditations, an exploration of heterogeneous bleeps and ruminant echoes, a dreamy IDM waltz that's worth its weight in silicon.

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1. Doltz    - Sayu (Mareena & JakoJako Remix)
2. Planet Love - 9.14
3. Bana Haffar - totally alive and totally invisible
4. Sockethead - Still Life II
5. Spacetime Continuum & Its Own Infinite Flower - Seance
6. Insync vs Mysteron - Human Loop
7. Aphex Twin - Jynweythek
8. Claude Young - Fukui Morning
9. µ-Ziq - Burnt Orange
10. Mittland och Leo - Ascona    Optimists
11. Black Point - Give Up
12. Upsammy - A Picture Of U
13. GMarie    - Somerleyton
14. Brain Entertainment Laboratory - Kunda-Ki
15. Jonny Nash & Lindsay Todd - A Series Of Small Frogs
16. Junior Boys - Samba on Sama
17. µ-Ziq - Asda
18. Lowtec    - A 2
19. Mathilde Nobel - Some
20. Anushka Chkheidze - Through The Window

Zenaari Mix 005 - Resom

Bryan Kasenic's Sunday set at Paral·lel Festival in Port del Comte, 2023.

Bryan Kasenic @ Paral·lel 2023

RSVP: https://attendium.com/invitations/1b15de59-ca51-46f0-bdec-16640814064a

Cult party turned record label The Bunker is posting up at Output this Saturday, bringing along Matrixxman and Delft head honcho La-4a as the night's headliners. (The latter will also be making his New York City debut.) Also on the lineup is Alessandro Cortini, who is apparently "a synth hero to the founders of both The Bunker New York and Delft," and who will kick things off with a rare live set... 
https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/the-bunkers-bryan-kasenic-drops-mix-ahead-of-matrixxman-gig-this-saturday

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Bryan Kasenic - The Bunker New York Spring Preview Mix

Scion (Peter Kuschnereit aka Substance and René  Löwe aka Vainqueur) Basic Channel (Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus) 

Basic Channel - Scion ‎Mix - Tresor 200

Recorded in LA for Alex Pelly's show 'Pellyvision' on Dublab Radio.

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DJ mix for Dublab Radio - 22.10.16

Bryan Kasenic is an American dj, promoter and the founder of well-known The Bunker New York label. The Bunker New York began as a party, grew up into a record label, and has become a collaborative community, fostered by founder and curator Bryan Kasenic since it’s launch in 2003. The label unites diverse sounds from across the electronic music spectrum, connecting the dots between house, techno, experimental sounds, and much more. 

Bryan Kasenic delivers 60 minutes of murky and dynamic mix with a lots of twists and turns. In this hour-long set, recorded especially for Bassiani, he traipses through energetic techno, electro, breakbeat and leftfield aesthetic. Without high tempos and tensions throughout the mix, Kasenic perfectly creates dynamicity and intensity, that makes his sonic adventure very special and unique.

BRYAN KASENIC: ამერიკელი DJ და პრომოუტერი, მის სახელს უკავშირდება The Bunker New York-ის შექმნა და განვითარება. Bryan-ის სეტებში საუკეთესოდ აისახება მისი თავდადება და სიყვარული იმ მუსიკისა და ჟღერადობის მიმართ, რომელსაც ის სხვადასხვა მიმართულებით ანვითარებდა ქალაქ ნიუ-იორკში.
The Bunker New York 2013 წელს, ბრუკლინში, Bryan Kasenic-ის მიერ დაარსებული ლეიბლი, რომელიც ნიუ-იორკის ერთ-ერთი ყველაზე ცნობილი და გამორჩეული ელექტრონული მუსიკის ფართების სერიის გაგრძელებაა. The Bunker New York-ის ღამეები 2003 წელს შეიქმნა, რის მერეც ქალაქის ტექნო სცენის განსხვავებული, ექსპერიმენტული განზომილებების აღმოჩენა დაიწყო და საკუთარი მძიმე, უცნაური, პროვოკაციული ჟღერადობა ჩამოაყალიბა. The Bunker NY-ი, როგორც ლეიბლი, გარკვეულად წინა 10 წლის რეფლექსიას წარმოადგენს, დაგროვილი გამოცდილება და იდეები სტუდიურ ჩანაწერებში გადმოაქვს.

BASSIANI პოდკასტისთვის Bryan Kasenic-ის კონტრიბუცია არის ბნელი, დინამიური და ძალიან ეკლექტური მიქსი, რომელშიც საკმარისად ვხვდებით მოულოდნელობებს და საინტერესო დრამატურგიულ გადაწყვეტილებებს. ნიუ-იორკელი არტისტის და The Bunker New York-ის დამფუძნებლის ერთ საათიანი სეტი მოიცავს ტექნოს, ელექტროს, ბრეიქბითის და ლეფთფილდ ესთეტიკისთვის დამახასიათებელი კომპოზიციების განსაკუთრებულ სინთეზს. მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ არტისტი არ ცდილობს მიქსის სტრუქტურა ერთ კონკრეტულ ტემპს დაუქვემდებაროს, Kasenic-ის ჩანაწერი მაინც საკმაოდ ინტენსიური და ენერგიულია, რაც პოდკასტის ამ სერიას ნამდვილად განსაკუთრებულს ხდის.

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A veteran of the rave circuit, Patrick’ Russell's sets are a testament to his legacy, knowledge and excellent tastes, taking him from house, techno IDM, acid and noise. A recap to a summer day in August with his recording from Dekmantel Festival 2018.

Dekmantel Festival 2018

Patrick Russell at Dekmantel Festival 2018

"I have been tasked many times with opening No Way Back. It's quite fun to play with the energy in the room as it goes from empty and chill to full and heaving over the course of my set. This year was obviously very different with NWB being a stream where my set started at noon instead of 11pm. I had been quarantining upstate for months with my friend Otis Mass (Massive Original), and we decided to pair his visuals to my set to do something special with the format. Without any real pressure to get a dancefloor moving, I decided to start things off very slowly and build things up for Mike Servito's set. It is always an honor to be a part of No Way Back, and this year was no different. I was quite impressed with how well the stream managed to translate the energy of what I feel is the world's best party." — Bryan Kasenic @thebunkerny

video: https://youtu.be/kUk4Csnl6aw

Head - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (Buddah, 1970)
Monolake - Gobi. The Long Edit 2020 (Monolake, 2020)
Octo Octa - Hallway Visions (Air Texture VII, 2020)
Donato Dozzy - Let It God (Enisslab, 2020)
Agonis - Eternal Silence (Enisslab, 2020)
RETREAT - Form#9 (Patience Records, 2020)
Jo Johnson - there is no there there (self released, 2020)
J.F. Burma - Tourmaline (Mysteries of the Deep, 2020)
Caterina Barbieri - Clessidra (Enisslab, 2020)
Wata Igarashi - Las Ventanas Abiertas (Enisslab, 2020)
Lack - Machine Club (Livity Sound, 2020)
De Leon - B1 (Mana, 2018)
Redshape - A New Home (Delsin, 2019)
Loop LF - You Wouldn't Understand (Well Street, 2018)
Erik Luebs - (forthcoming The Bunker NY, 2020)
Forest Drive West - Invisible (Mantis, 2020)
Human Space Machine - Rebirth (ÆX, 2019)
Valentino Mora - Hualien (Spazio Disponibile, 2018)
natural/electronic.system. - Marea (Mantis, 2020)
M33 - Reforger 75 (LW Productions, 2020)
Erik Luebs - (forthcoming The Bunker NY, 2020)
Craft - Pursuit of Passage (Monday Off, 2019)
Nathan Surreal - Trunk (ÆX, 2019)
Haruka / Erik Luebs - (unreleased)  
Pizzaboy - Just Stop It (The Bunker New York, 2020)
Maximilian Schneider - K5V (LW Productions, 2020)
Tristan Arp - Double Exposure (Human Pitch, 2018)
Stefan Goldmann - panamax (Macro, 2020)
Cassegrain - Clear Sights (Arcing Seas, 2019)
Newworldaquarium - Trespassers (Delsin, 2000)
Specimen X - Transmission 3 (LW Productions, 2019)
Wata Igarashi - Turbulance (Omnidisc, 2020)
Abby Echiverri - Isospin (Infinite Refractions, 2020)
Radioactive Man - Uranium (Rotters Golf Club, 2000)

IT.podcast.s09e06: Bryan Kasenic at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

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20 years ago Bryan Kasenic started The Bunker New York as an event series on New York's then-gritty Lower East Side. In 2014 he created a record label to provide an outlet for the work of friends, party-goers and visiting artists. Over the years, The Bunker NY has grown into an established institution which is well known for its steady output of high quality releases and its reputation as one of North America’s finest event series. 

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bookings: - michelle@thebunkerny.com

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