Brooklyn stood up TALL this weekend, braving the frigid Winter night to show up in droves to support Dark Disco at the Music Hall of Williamsburg this past Friday night.  The bill featured sets from from Nosaj Thing, Mary Anne Hobbs, Toro Y Moi, and Dirty South Joe, as well as some additional sensory stimuli in the form of visual projections, aerial gymnastics, and light painting.

Caught the tail end of Toro Y Moi's opening DJ set as the club began to fill up in anticipation for the night ahead.


Nosaj Thing was up next and performed his highly touted live A/V set, taking the stage just before midnight and captivating the audience almost immediately with his intro.  The visual show, put together by the extremely talented duo of Adam Guzman and Julia Tsao was a welcome enhancement to the live set and never detracted away from the music being performed.  The ethos of 'less is more' perhaps has never been executed so perfectly in terms of live A/V performances.


His set clocked in at little under an hour and featured renditions of originals such as 'Fog', 'IOIO', and 'Aquarium' as well as some of the phenomenal remix work he's become known for with refixes of Portishead and Busta Rhymes.  As the crowd urged him on for one more tune, the unmistakeable opening notes of 'Gin & Juice' blasted over the PA much to the jubilation of the packed dancefloor.

As aerial gymnasts took to the stage during the equipment changeover, it was time to sneak down to the bar to grab one final drink to nurse during Mary Anne's set.


As snow left travel from the UK in shambles over the weekend, a determined MAH toughed it out through a seven-hour layover to make it to BKLYN in time for her 1am set.  She did not disappoint, starting her set off with Braiden's phenomenal release 'The Alps' out now on Doldrums.  Her expansive set then weaved through a selection of brand new UKFunky and House, the names of which eluded even some of the most stringent trainspotters.


She also found time to work in some grime from Newham Generals, 4x4 bassline from Shinobi, as well as debuting some brand new Photek material.  Perhaps the most Rawkus (see what I did there?) crowd reaction of the night came with the drop and mandatory rewind of Pharoahe Monch.


The night capped off with a set from Philly's Dirty South Joe, flanked to each side by Go-Go dancers.  Is there any rap a capella that DOESN'T sound good when mashed up with 'WUT'?!

Big up MeanRed for putting together another great night of music, Marjana from HiFi Cartel for the pics, Mitch, Chris, MAH, and everyone else who was in the place.