PROJECT NOWHERE 2024: NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN SOUL CLAP & DANCE OFF w/ DJ JONATHAN TOUBIN
Schedule
Fri Oct 04 2024 at 11:59 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Garrison | Toronto, ON
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Project Nowhere presents ꩜NIGHT 2 AFTERPARTY
NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF
feat. DJ JONATHAN TOUBIN
Fri Oct 4 @ The Garrison
12AM - 4AM
**FREE**
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Juxtaposing raw, wild, and atypical original 7-inch vinyl sides by unsung artists on the beat for today's dance floor since 2006, Jonathan Toubin's unconventional nightly approach to rotating vintage rock and soul music has carved out a unique space in contemporary culture and influenced scores of DJs and dance parties everywhere. Spinning over 3000 gigs on five continents over the last eighteen years at hundreds of nightclubs, live music venues, museums, parks, art spaces, all-ages warehouses, afterhours, rock concerts, and dozens of major music festivals, Toubin is also internationally recognized for persistently throwing the some of the world’s most popular, prolific, and distinctive events since 2006 under his New York Night Train moniker (Soul Clap & Dance-Off, The Haunted Hop, and a cornucopia of legendary extravaganzas). His revolutionary dance parties don’t only feature his own DJing but also often include visuals, dancers, performance, and live appearances by the likes of Roky Erickson, Shannon and The Clams, Irma Thomas, Thee Oh Sees, Big Freedia, Joe Bataan Orchestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Black Lips, Kool Keith, The Mummies, David Johansen, The Make-Up, The Spits, and a diversity of acts from across the spectrum of musical excellence. Toubin has turned his platters at live concerts by everyone from Jack White to Kendrick Lamar to LCD Soundsystem to Patti Smith Group. He’s the first contemporary DJ with compilations on the iconic Norton Records imprint - with five sold-out internationally released volumes of his Souvenirs of the Soul Clap LP series. His party mission has recently broadened beyond DJing and throwing parties with the inception of nightclubs TV Eye and 96 Tears and the Shady Spex sunglasses brand.
Jonathan Toubin and his NY Night Train parties have been the subject of features in Rolling Stone, Village Voice, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Pitchfork, BBC World Service, VICE, Interview, Huffington Post, Interview, The New Yorker and many other prestigious international publications.
“This 45 hoarder made soul music fun again with his Soul Clap & Dance Off parties, where five-hour sets of rare grooves and B-sides provided a fleshy alternative to the club scene’s industrial snarl. Instead of bucking the trends of American pop music for some underground alternative, Toubin has made his name by embracing pop’s connective tissue, tracing the rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll of the nineteen-fifties and sixties.” (The New Yorker)
“The most-liked man in the soul music scene” (Rolling Stone)
“Jonathan is pretty much the only DJ we actually like.” (VICE Magazine)
“Particularly chic… one of the most popular spinners in Williamsburg and the founder of the New York Night Train dance parties. His fare is already cleaner and more appreciative of American pop music history than much of the rest.” (The New York Times)
After New Yorkers voted Jonathan Toubin “BEST DJ” in the 2014 Village Voice Reader’s Poll, in 2015 critics awarded him the city’s “BEST DJ” in the 60th anniversary “BEST OF NYC” issue. Toubin made history as the first DJ to win both honors in consecutive years: “We might live in an EDM world, but Jonathan Toubin has no truck with today’s musical whims. Since 2007, Toubin’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off has brought throwback pizzazz and retro cool to New York’s late-night underground. Culled from an endless array of long-forgotten Sixties soul singles, Soul Clap is pure musical dynamite, the kind of after-hours party that exposes today’s iTunes-bred, press-play DJs for their relative lack of roots and ingenuity. No fist-bumps or atomic bass drops here; instead, Toubin lovingly crafts five-hour sets that bring lost chestnuts from the likes of Vernon Harrell and the Blendells into clearer focus for a new generation of dance enthusiasts. You can try to put your moves to better use, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find more cathartic, sweatier fun elsewhere in the city.” (The Village Voice)
This event is 19+
About Project Nowhere:
Project Nowhere returns for a second year to Toronto’s west end on OCT 3-5, 2024. The lineup features a cosmic array of underground legends, modern vanguards, and exciting up-and-coming talent from Toronto and beyond.
3-Day passes are available now: https://link.dice.fm/q838f4d357bb
IG: @projectnowherefest
https://www.projectnowhere.org/
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Where is it happening?
The Garrison, 1197 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1X3, Canada,Toronto, OntarioEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
