Curators
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David “Dave 1” Macklovitch
David “Dave 1” Macklovitch is a performer/producer/dj/art director and 1/2 of the NYC-by-way-of Montreal electrofunk group Chromeo with Patrick “P-Thugg” Gemayel. Macklovitch and Gemayel also run their own label Juliet Records (Dave was also a co-founder of the Fool’s Gold label) which has an excellent new site. Dave is the brother of dj/producer/Fool’s Gold co-founder Alain “A-Trak” Macklovitch. Together, they perform as The Brothers Macklovitch.
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Dean Kissick
Dean Kissick is a writer and the New York editor of Spike Art Magazine, where he publishes his monthly column The Downward Spiral about “art and culture in years of mass hysteria.” He also writes for other publications including the New York Times, Civilization, and the LOEWE Fanzine, and has recently published short fiction in Heavy Traffic magazine. He also organizes exhibits and pops up on cool Substacks like Blackbird Spyplane and Perfectly Imperfect to drop gems.
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Derrick Gee
Derrick Gee is a radio host, podcaster, and music tastemaker (or TikTok influencer) who shares music, hi‐fi reviews, and other musings with hundreds of thousands of followers in an affable, unpretentious way. His bio notes that he worked for a decade in TV, moved to London, worked at Mixcloud, served as an NTS resident (2016–2020), worked at a record label, and is now back in Sydney.
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Dwayne Parris
Dwayne Parris is a producer, DJ, and label owner whose creative evolution reflects a decade inside the rarified world of UK club music. With an experimental ear honed at crucial parties (he would go to FWD>> alone early on, just to listen), labels (an A&R role at Tempa), and record shops (a stint at Black Market), the Hackney‐born artist has cultivated a genre‐fluid style that plugs sound system pressure into misty dubscapes, pulsating house and fragments of pop glitz. He’s played globally at venues like Fabric, Glastonbury Festival, Contact (Tokyo) and the Laurel Halo‐curated Mode festival, and after recording EPs for labels such as The Trilogy Tapes, Idle Hands, Wisdom Teeth, Peach Discs, and Hemlock, he launched Can You Feel The Sun in 2019 as an outlet for his productions, alongside Berlin‐based counterpart AKA British DJ/producer Call Super.
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Elijah
Elijah is a Writer and DJ with 15 years deep in the independent music and arts sector in London, spanning artist and label management, event production, and creative direction. He writes about creative work on Instagram with a project called 'Yellow Squares' that has developed into visual installations, an album, a forthcoming book and a lecture series that has had editions all over the world. He is a contributor to The Guardian, co-founded the influential Grime record label Butterz (2010-2021), and held a residency on Rinse FM from 2008-2014.
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Emile Mosseri
As an Oscar and GRAMMY award‐nominated singer, songwriter, and composer, Emile Mosseri’s talent has been shared with myriad songwriters and directors. He transitioned from playing in bands in New York City to working as a composer for film scores while also establishing himself as a performing artist. His recent sophomore album, 'trying to be Born', produced by collaborator Bobby Krlic, underscores his blend of cinematic collaboration and personal expression.
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Eothen Alapatt
Eothen Alapatt (known to many as “Egon”) is celebrated for his eclectic and extreme musical taste. With roots in Connecticut, he blends a passion for vintage records, fine wine, and even New England pizza into his work. As the force behind the influential Now-Again label—a key player in the 2000s reissue movement—and through his hands‐on collaborations (including work with Madlib), Eothen curates playlists that capture both the spirit of musical history and the pure enthusiasm of discovery.
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Eric Demby
Bed-Stuy-based Eric Demby was born into a community of Maine back-to-the-landers. Demby co-founded Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg in 2008, which followed a career as an electronic music and hip-hop journalist and then political speechwriter. In 1999 he co-founded Legalize Dancing NYC, launching a movement that eventually overturned the Cabaret Law, which impeded nightlife culture since 1926. He produced the reissue of hammer-dulcimerist Dorothy Carter’s 1976 debut LP, Troubadour, in 2024, and is currently at work on a screenplay centered around Carter, Constance Demby, and Bob Rutman’s pioneering avant-garde New Age community.
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Fred Thomas
Fred Thomas is a Michigan performer and songwriter (and producer, mixer, writer, label-runner, zine maker, etc.) who has headed up dozens of bands and projects, including indie acts like Saturday Looks Good To Me and Failed Flowers on labels such as Polyvinyl, Type, and K Records. He has been a prominent figure in his local music scene since his early days at the famed Encore Records in Ann Arbor, and his enthusiasm for music is both infectious and enduring.
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Félicia Atkinson
Félicia Atkinson is a French electro‐acoustic composer and visual artist whose work creates a sonic ecology by blending human voices with field recordings, MIDI instrumentation, and brief, essayistic phrases in both French and English. Living on the Normandy coast, she has been performing since the early 2000s, collaborating with artists like Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Chris Watson, and others. She also co-runs Shelter Press, a label known for its innovative approach to merging music with contemporary art, dance, and poetry.
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Geoff Rickly
Geoff Rickly is the lead singer and songwriter of bands such as Thursday, United Nations, and No Devotion. He surprised many by releasing a novel this year called Someone Who Isn’t Me, published by the upstart Rose Books. His autofiction work blends a memoir of his struggles with addiction and recovery with his natural gift for writing, offering a candid look at the complexities of self-discovery and change.
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Greg Mendez
Greg Mendez is a Philadelphia-based songwriter known for his songs of “quiet, lo-fi urgency.” His self-titled album is out now via Forged Artifacts and Devil Town Tapes, and he has a plethora of earlier work and demos on his Bandcamp.
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Haruka Hirata
Haruka Hirata is the co-founder and creative director of the Tokyo independent record shop Big Love Records. She is also an ikebana (traditional Japanese flower arranging) artist with a degree from the Sogetsu School and is now studying art and design at Kuwasawa Design School. Born in Tokyo, and spending her childhood in Greece, she aims to connect diverse communities seeking unknown new experiences. Her creation expands from sculpting, translation, DJ, and exhibition curation to zines, and she also works as a coordinator of the concept shop GR8.
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Hobey Echlin
Hobey Echlin is a writer, musician, and DJ—credited with penning the first-ever review of a Ghostly release in 1999 after being introduced by the late David “Disco D” Shayman.
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House Shoes
When he’s not calling out racists and bigots and getting thrown off Instagram for it, House Shoes (AKA Michael Buchanan) is a full‐time ‘motivator’ for hip‑hop artists and producers—a stalwart for the sample‐based sounds he’s dedicated his life to promoting. His biggest discovery was J Dilla (then Jay Dee), and he’s championed talents like Danny Brown, Guilty Simpson, Roc Marciano, Quelle Chris, and Mach Hommy before they were widely known. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2006, he has DJ’d in over 40 countries, hosted a sometimes‐weekly radio show (Magic), and, since 2013, released over 80 projects through his record label, Street Corner Music.
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Hrishikesh Hirway
Hrishikesh Hirway is a singer/songwriter/producer and the creator and host of Song Exploder, an award-winning podcast and Netflix series that deconstructs the creative process behind hit songs. His work, including his recent EP 'Rooms I Used to Call My Own' with collaborations from artists like Jay Som, Yo-Yo Ma, and John Congleton, reflects his deep passion for music and his longstanding support for innovative sounds.
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Hua Hsu
Hua Hsu is an author, a teacher at Vassar College, a staff writer at the New Yorker, and apparently, a time traveler. Hua's Instagram gives you a sense of how his mind works, pulling moments and inspiration from all lanes, past and present. There are the vintage rap press photos (a common affliction), the stacks of books that line his desk(s), and the shots of his family life. He is in many places at once, but seemingly emotionally present, which makes his writing sing. This playlist shares that same wanderlust. It's got a calm confidence, traipsing across decades and genres, in a fashion that that is hard to beat.
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Ian Kim Judd
Ian Kim Judd is a DJ currently based in New York City. He is a longtime NTS resident and runs a label called OST. He’s also a Front-end developer at Nina Protocol (which just launched its iOS app). As Ian would say, “Hearing is believing.”
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Jace Clayton
Jace Clayton (DJ /rupture) sees the connections between culture and music in a way no one else quite does, establishing himself as an in-demand writer, producer, DJ, and artist for over 20 years. He burst onto the scene with his groundbreaking 2001 mixtape, Gold Teeth Thief, which redefined DJ culture by blending diverse genres and exploring the intersection of technology and art. His work—ranging from thoughtful interviews and writing to innovative music curation—demonstrates a deep commitment to understanding how music activates communities in a global, digital age.
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Jacques Greene
Jacques Greene is the artist name of Montréal-born DJ and producer Philippe Aubin-Dionne. Known for his emotive live sets and skillful remixes—with credits working on tracks by Radiohead, Flume, MorMor, and Kllo—he blends his background as a former graphic designer with collaborative projects in fashion (such as with Givenchy and Rad Hourani) and art institutions like London’s Tate Modern. Affable and down-to-earth, he’s equally comfortable taking a ribbing in person as he is showcasing his creative innovations through his music.
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