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Groovanauts Party @ Remote Lounge
DJs:
Ben Lost
Dany Veltri
George Macys
Joe Papeo
$3 beers 10pm-12am
Remote is located at 327 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd Streets on the border of two lower Manhattan neighborhoods: the East Village and Noho. It's a short strut, saunter, or stroll from SoHo, the Lower East Side, the West Village and the Flatiron District.
Nearby Subway stops:
- the 6 at Bleecker
- the F and V at Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Avenue
- the B and D at Broadway-Lafayette
- the N and R to 8th Street or to Prince Street
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BEN LOST:
"YOUNG PARISIANS feat BEN LOST - Jump The Next Train" is currently burning up the charts!
Ben's musical career began in the early 90's playing in a local rock band called Candi-Snatch. A few years later the band (then known as Charlie) had secured themselves a record deal with London Records offshoot, Laurel.
During this time Ben discovered the pleasures of playing other people's records and began playing at various bars and clubs, experimenting with anything from Hip Hop and Electro to Ska and Punk.
It wasn't until a night out in 1997 at local club 'bubble', that Ben fully appreciated the effect of dance music - especially the new sound of Trance that was making waves at the time. Tracks like Cafe Del Mar, Greece 2000 and Perfect Motion introduced Ben to a melodic yet funky side of house music that really appealed to him.
After a brief spell in the limelight, the band disbanded in 1999 leaving Ben free to move to London to work at Pinnacle Distributions dance department. It was at this point that Ben really got into clubbing, spending time at The Gallery (Turnmills) and Gatecrasher (Sheffield), and being heavily influenced by sets from DJ's such as Paul Oakenfold, Dave Seaman and Paul Van Dyk.
After 2 years at Pinnacle, Ben moved to the A&R department at Hooj with a view to establishing Hooj's Trance offshoot Lost Language. During his time there, Ben A&Red over 30 releases (and still counting) including tracks such as Solar Stone's 'Solar Coaster' and 'Seven Cities', Accadia's 'Blind Visions', Energy 52's Cafe Del Mar and Lustrals' Broken.
As the Lost Language label has grown, so has Bens profile as a DJ - and in the past year it has earnt him bookings at both The Gallery and Gatecrasher - and taken him DJing around the world, including Japan, Israel, Finland, Germany and the US.
Ben's sound is reflective of the records released on Lost Language. Melodic, well produced, and always with an element of funk. He also continues with his singing and song writing with London based act Ashtrax (www.ashtrax.com), with the track Digital Reason getting licensed to Paul Van Dyk's Politics of Dancing album and the Ministry Of Sound Annual 2003.
Dany Veltri and George Macys:
Dany Veltri and George Macys will always consider themselves fans of EDM above anything else. Before ever knowing what a DJ did, these native east coasters spent every possible moment at clubs soaking in as much music as they possible could. It was this passion for the music that inspired them to start DJ?ing. Theor style blends tribal, tech and progressive house with elements of trance and breaks. Not limited to genres, Dany and George hold themselves to only one rule ? if you love it, play it.
Having spun at 340, Alphabet Lounge, Happy Ending, Hook, Sullivan Room, Seho, and Voodoo Lounge in 2004, 2005 promises to be a busy year as Dany Veltri and George Macys start a new monthly residency at Remote Lounge NYC, where thet will be playing alongside the likes of Steve Gerrard, Ben Lost and DC?s EMC Crew.
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Remote Lounge:
Remote is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an everchanging roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists.
Telepresence
Controlled Entropy Ventures (CEV), the developers of Remote, describe the lounge as a "telepresence" environment. The appeal inherent in this seemingly contradictory concept has been noted by a number of techno-sociologists working in fields like video-conferencing and Virtual Reality. At Remote, all of the cameras within the lounge are controllable by the bar patrons themselves, who can view the output of the different cameras at custom-designed Cocktail Consoles?. The Cocktail Consoles? also allow customers to then remotely pan and tilt any camera they are viewing using a joystick. Patrons therefore"spy" on other patrons and will be "spied" on in return. The cameras act as the "remote eyeballs," or the visual prosthetics, of the bar customers. This distortion of the usual way in which people interact, at the same time more (virtually) intimate and (physically) remote then typical bar encounters, is at the core of the fun to be had using the gadgets at Remote.
Rather than focus on the "Big Brother" association with the surveillance technology that has been co-opted and adapted to use in the lounge, CEV founders point out that their version of telepresence is used to very different ends then traditional surveillance implementations. First of all, access to the system is mutual, bilateral and consensual - nobody gets to violate anyone else's privacy in a manner that they would not be subject to themselves. Secondly, the environment is designed to encourage exploration, experimentation and human interaction rather than to control or protect people or property.
Design
The "telepresence" capability, along with the retro-future stylings of the Cocktail Consoles? themselves, evokes a 1960s vision of the future - part Jetsons, part 2001 A Space . Furthermore, TV screens over the bar and along the walls pick up random camera channels to create a richly textured funhouse mirror effect, where the physical arrangement of the lounge itself and the people in it are fractured and re-presented in a complex, constantly-changing, multilayered way.
DJs:
Ben Lost
Dany Veltri
George Macys
Joe Papeo
$3 beers 10pm-12am
Remote is located at 327 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd Streets on the border of two lower Manhattan neighborhoods: the East Village and Noho. It's a short strut, saunter, or stroll from SoHo, the Lower East Side, the West Village and the Flatiron District.
Nearby Subway stops:
- the 6 at Bleecker
- the F and V at Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Avenue
- the B and D at Broadway-Lafayette
- the N and R to 8th Street or to Prince Street
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BEN LOST:
"YOUNG PARISIANS feat BEN LOST - Jump The Next Train" is currently burning up the charts!
Ben's musical career began in the early 90's playing in a local rock band called Candi-Snatch. A few years later the band (then known as Charlie) had secured themselves a record deal with London Records offshoot, Laurel.
During this time Ben discovered the pleasures of playing other people's records and began playing at various bars and clubs, experimenting with anything from Hip Hop and Electro to Ska and Punk.
It wasn't until a night out in 1997 at local club 'bubble', that Ben fully appreciated the effect of dance music - especially the new sound of Trance that was making waves at the time. Tracks like Cafe Del Mar, Greece 2000 and Perfect Motion introduced Ben to a melodic yet funky side of house music that really appealed to him.
After a brief spell in the limelight, the band disbanded in 1999 leaving Ben free to move to London to work at Pinnacle Distributions dance department. It was at this point that Ben really got into clubbing, spending time at The Gallery (Turnmills) and Gatecrasher (Sheffield), and being heavily influenced by sets from DJ's such as Paul Oakenfold, Dave Seaman and Paul Van Dyk.
After 2 years at Pinnacle, Ben moved to the A&R department at Hooj with a view to establishing Hooj's Trance offshoot Lost Language. During his time there, Ben A&Red over 30 releases (and still counting) including tracks such as Solar Stone's 'Solar Coaster' and 'Seven Cities', Accadia's 'Blind Visions', Energy 52's Cafe Del Mar and Lustrals' Broken.
As the Lost Language label has grown, so has Bens profile as a DJ - and in the past year it has earnt him bookings at both The Gallery and Gatecrasher - and taken him DJing around the world, including Japan, Israel, Finland, Germany and the US.
Ben's sound is reflective of the records released on Lost Language. Melodic, well produced, and always with an element of funk. He also continues with his singing and song writing with London based act Ashtrax (www.ashtrax.com), with the track Digital Reason getting licensed to Paul Van Dyk's Politics of Dancing album and the Ministry Of Sound Annual 2003.
Dany Veltri and George Macys:
Dany Veltri and George Macys will always consider themselves fans of EDM above anything else. Before ever knowing what a DJ did, these native east coasters spent every possible moment at clubs soaking in as much music as they possible could. It was this passion for the music that inspired them to start DJ?ing. Theor style blends tribal, tech and progressive house with elements of trance and breaks. Not limited to genres, Dany and George hold themselves to only one rule ? if you love it, play it.
Having spun at 340, Alphabet Lounge, Happy Ending, Hook, Sullivan Room, Seho, and Voodoo Lounge in 2004, 2005 promises to be a busy year as Dany Veltri and George Macys start a new monthly residency at Remote Lounge NYC, where thet will be playing alongside the likes of Steve Gerrard, Ben Lost and DC?s EMC Crew.
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Remote Lounge:
Remote is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an everchanging roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists.
Telepresence
Controlled Entropy Ventures (CEV), the developers of Remote, describe the lounge as a "telepresence" environment. The appeal inherent in this seemingly contradictory concept has been noted by a number of techno-sociologists working in fields like video-conferencing and Virtual Reality. At Remote, all of the cameras within the lounge are controllable by the bar patrons themselves, who can view the output of the different cameras at custom-designed Cocktail Consoles?. The Cocktail Consoles? also allow customers to then remotely pan and tilt any camera they are viewing using a joystick. Patrons therefore"spy" on other patrons and will be "spied" on in return. The cameras act as the "remote eyeballs," or the visual prosthetics, of the bar customers. This distortion of the usual way in which people interact, at the same time more (virtually) intimate and (physically) remote then typical bar encounters, is at the core of the fun to be had using the gadgets at Remote.
Rather than focus on the "Big Brother" association with the surveillance technology that has been co-opted and adapted to use in the lounge, CEV founders point out that their version of telepresence is used to very different ends then traditional surveillance implementations. First of all, access to the system is mutual, bilateral and consensual - nobody gets to violate anyone else's privacy in a manner that they would not be subject to themselves. Secondly, the environment is designed to encourage exploration, experimentation and human interaction rather than to control or protect people or property.
Design
The "telepresence" capability, along with the retro-future stylings of the Cocktail Consoles? themselves, evokes a 1960s vision of the future - part Jetsons, part 2001 A Space . Furthermore, TV screens over the bar and along the walls pick up random camera channels to create a richly textured funhouse mirror effect, where the physical arrangement of the lounge itself and the people in it are fractured and re-presented in a complex, constantly-changing, multilayered way.
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