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halcyon and dailysession.com present
The Bandwagon
with master of ceremonies
Taimur Agha (BLK|Market Membership / halcyon | Brooklyn)
and guest
Neurotic Drum Band aka Ulysses & John Selway (Wurst | NYC)
Webcast LIVE from halcyon the shoppe
Wednesday May 26th | 7-9pm EST time
tune in on dailysession.com
or hitch your horse at 57 Pearl Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn
COVER: FREE EVENT
About Neurotic Drum Band
As the “Neurotic Drum Band,” Elliot Taub and John Selway combine their formidable talents to make dance music fun again, mixing elements of classic House, Italo Disco, Techno, and random audio weirdness into a genre-defying mish-mash that both excites the ears and tickles the fancy.
Elliot, known for his recordings as “Ulysses”, got his start DJing with his unintentionally pioneering Electronic Dance Music radio show on his college radio station, WTUL, New Orleans, in 1991. After returning to his hometown of New York City he made his mark putting together events that helped foment the festering Electro revival, with shows by artists like Adult, Miss Kitten & The Hacker, I-F and Arthur Baker.
While working at NY’s legendary Temple Records he began producing the music that fit his eclectic mindset, and has since created a body of work that is notable for the manner in which all styles of dance music get melded together to one uncompromising whole. Some early records include Techno on Detroit’s Teknotika label, Electro Disco party jams on Germany’s Lasergun Records, and deep house on Chicago’s seminal Guidance imprint. More recent work includes some off-kilter Minimal Techno-Pop of Cologne’s MBF, and chugging Disco grooves on Wurst, as well as a nu-disco inspired collaboration with Thugfucker’s Holmar Filipsson.
The DC-born, NYC-based producer and DJ John Selway has left his mark on countless styles. Like Elliot, he’s defined by none of them, remaining devoted to his own multi-faceted muse.
John is best known for the ecstatic rush of “Total Departure,” his top-selling single with partner in crime Christian Smith, and for CSM, his long-running deep tech-house and minimal label. But Selway’s roots run deeper than most. He helped spark the late-‘90s electro scene at the helm of Serotonin Records; he worked with deep-house luminaries Deep Dish in their early days; he produced hard, acid-laced techno as Disintegrator and mind-bending trance tracks as Koenig Cylinders with Oliver Chesler (aka The Horrorist); and he produced remixes with living legend Carl Cox.
In addition to the NDB John collaborates relentlessly with artists like his longtime friend Abe Duque, and his CSM label partner Dave Turov. Selway’s own productions and remixes are darkly glittering, gleefully syncopated dance tracks that effortlessly straddle the techno/house divide, sounding as good in headphones as they do at 115 dBs on the dancefloor.
About The Bandwagon
The Bandwagon is halcyon’s All New Old-Timey Record Review and Talent Show! Each and every Two hour ride on The Bandwagon begins with halcyon the shoppe’s own high-flying Techno honcho in a poncho… the mysterious and often delirious Taimur Agha of BLK|Market Membership! Thrill to Taimur’s death-defying DJ feats as he balances beats live without a net on the www in his round up of the latest and greatest ear-catching, ground-shaking musical marvels from the far corners of the globe. Then, turn your attention to the center ring for The Bandwagon’s main attraction!… Direct from the far off nether regions of Brooklyn we bring you an astonishing cavalcade of talent never before assembled on one program – musical magicians, masterful minstrels and mystifying midi-freaks alike will be unveiled to your shock and awe with in-depth interviews and exclusive featured performances.
The Bandwagon
The Bandwagon departs from halcyon the shoppe at 7pm on alternating Wednesdays. Hop on board at 57 Pearl St. in Dumbo, Brooklyn or crank that newfangled internet radiola up to dailysession.com to tune in from afar. Don’t be left out – join The Bandwagon today on facebook. If you should fall off The Bandwagon… fear not, downloadable / stream-on-demand archives and podcast versions of The Bandwagon are now live on dailysession.com and halcyondigi.com!
Upcoming Appearances on The Bandwagon
012 Wed May 26th NEUROTIC DRUM BAND aka Ulysses & John Selway (Wurst | NYC)
013 Wed June 9th CRAIG RICHARDS (Fabric | Brooklyn)
014 Wed June 23 ADULTNAPPER (Poker Flat/Ransome Note - Brooklyn)
015 Wed July 7th RUNAWAY aka Jacques Renault & Marcos Cabral
016 Wed July 21st BRENNAN GREEN (Chinatown/Modal | NYC)
Past shows on The Bandwagon – all shows available for download here: http://bit.ly/bandwagon_archive
001 – Wed Jan 6th DENNIS RODGERS (Robots | New York) | TAIMUR AGHA
002 – Wed Jan 20th DJ SPINOZA (The Bunker | Brooklyn) | TAIMUR AGHA
003 – Wed Feb 10th TAIMUR AGHA special 2hr. solo set
004 – Wed Feb 17th READE TRUTH (Planet E / White Label | New York) | TAIMUR AGHA
005 – Wed March 3rd ALEXI DELANO (AD LTD / Clink | Brooklyn) | TAIMUR AGHA
006 – Wed March 10 BILL PATRICK (Robots – Berlin | NY) | TAIMUR AGHA
007 – Wed March 17 TAIMUR & FAHAD (Blkmarket Membership | NY) | TAIMUR AGHA
008 – Wed March 31st NICK CHACONA (Hector Works | NYC) | TAIMUR AGHA
009 Wed April 14th DENNIS DESANTIS (Kanzelramt / Cocoon | NYC) | TAIMUR AGHA
010 Wed April 28th WILLIE GRAFF (Circus Company / Cielo | New York- Spain) | TAIMUR AGHA
011 Wed May 12th TAIMUR AGHA
